February 21, 2024 • 10 mins
The 1% Club is back on the tele so Clairsy & Lisa had a chat to host Jim Jeffries about the show and why you don't need a high I.Q to be on it plus his time at WAAPA as a musical theatre student.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There're one Percent Club that returns seven thirty tonight on
Channel seven and it's host, comedian and host Jim Jeffries
is with us the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Jim Jim, good morning. Thank you for having me, Thank
you for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm very happy to be here. A big fan of Perth.
Yeah yeah, Perth. Yes, I'm trying to get the North
Sinny Bears to move to Perth.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, I'm all Perth.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Up, keep working on it. It's Wednesdays. I might be
like Wednesday Night company night at the Brass Monkey.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You can do that again? Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
My gig man Wednesday Night the Brass Monkey, and they'd
pay I think eighty Australian dollars and I was bloody
happy to have It's all right gigs.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I met a comedian called Gary Who, who was a
comic at the time.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, and Gary Gary who did the Brass Monkey and
I did it with him, and then afterwards.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
He went, do you want to go do all the
gold mining towns?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
And so I went out to like Calgooley and all
that with him, and I quit Universe.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I quit university that day. I got in the car with.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Him and thought, oh, that's a better journey and I
went out and you know, you know how I love
about Bluddy that the towns, the country towns in Australia.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You go out to a real rough bar.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
In Cowgooli and there'll be a topless woman behind the bar,
a skimpy that's a distinctly Australian thing.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's not a strip club, it's not anything.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, it's just a topless woman that stands behind the
bar and pours point pints.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And do you think to yourself, why do we do that?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And I figured it out because without her it's a
gay bar.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Without her, without the.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Breast being in the corner, it's just a whole lot
of cowboys standing around. So it's a nice little bit
of Australia and a big fan.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Of course, of course it legitimizes it. You know, you
can get your hair cut by a topless woman.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, I'm thinking about that. The eye levelness.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
When you're get in your bed, she'd be in the chair,
you'd be in the chair, she'd be behind you.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, you have to keep and you're not allowed to
turn your head because you have to keep your head still.
You wouldn't be able to see anything that's a terrible idea.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know, the best thing is the best thing would
be to cut a topless woman's hair.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That way, you get something and you get right. That's that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, it's my business idea trademark there, my sister's trademark.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That mate, make sure that my ideas get the copy.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right Now, we want to talk about the one percent Club.
It's about logic and common sense. Do you find Jim
that common sense is something you either have or you don't,
or you might have it in degrees.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I think you have it in degrees, and I think
you have it for certain subjects and not for other things.
I'm hopeless at the one percent Club. I always feel
mean that I'm ripping into the people who are getting
the questions wrong because I.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Very rarely make it over the fifty percent question.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And I've been told the questions before we go on air,
and i still can't figure them out.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I wouldn't I wouldn't do that well.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And I've got like lots of friends that I'm like, hey,
you should come on the show or whatever, and people
get very scared or we were even talking about the
idea of maybe having a celebrity episode. The audience was
you know, I said, what about that for an idea?
And we looked into it, and people don't want to
come on because they're worried. That's the that's the brilliant
(03:19):
thing about the one percent.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
It doesn't it's not about what you know, it's how
you think.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Right, So so look, look, dumbs dumb, stupid, stupid, smart, smart,
I've never.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Done an IQ test. Stupid is I think I don't
want to find out I'm an idiot? You know, but
if I did an IQ.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Test, ah, yeah, but if you pay for an IQ test,
you're already an idiot.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's the line. And they asked for ten bucks. That's
already answered that question.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
That's rival by getting you tea leagues, bet I reckon, Jim.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
May you.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Sometimes I wonder at how people can function on a
day to day basis when you hear some of the
answers that they be fourced.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well, I look, okay, So I had my IQ when
I was like a kid, I had attention DEVS order
and then I had an autism test and other they
did my They did my IQ and I was over
one hundred and twenty, right, and I feel stupid every day? Well,
you know, they reckon the average IQ of a human
is one hundred, and they reckon that one in fifty
(04:18):
percent of the population as an IQ under ninety. If
you took thirty IQ points every day, I feel stupid.
Every day someone says something and I'm not computing it
at all.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm just like, if you took it, like.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A quarter of my brain out and just ripped it away,
I'd be a moron. And that's half the population. So
that's why this quiz is so good. If we don't
have those, if we just had a room for a
smart people, that show would be hopeless. Yeah, I think
about the one percent club is you get to watch
it and go, I'm smarter than that bloke. And that's
(04:51):
me I'm talking about, not even the contestants, because if
you watch me read out the question, Oh geez, there's
some clunky reads in there. I would practiced it before
I come out. I'm so dyslexic. I can't host the chase.
Up on the chase.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I can't do the chase because the chase has.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
A speed round. I'd never get through it. I'd be like,
what race horse was that past.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Meant to pass?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We were talking before about how you when you lived
in Perth, you went to Whopper, you were studying musical
theater at Whopper. Are there any what would have been
the dream musical theater parts you would have loved to
have had back in the day.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I would have liked to have played the woman in
Miss Side Gone. But it gets beautiful now. You can't
do those?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Or can you? It's gone for the circle? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I can imagine you in Book of Mormon, brother Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That doesn't take a lot of dancing. I couldn't anything
like that. The Elephant Man, then I reckon I'd be
a good Fagan. I reckon, just steal a bit of
stuff Robin Hood what I Crook.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Gave away, or do all that. Yeah, yeah, right, I
could do Fagan. I could do. And what else could
I do? I could probably do the Artful Dodger. If
it was an interpretation of the musical where there was
just a forty seven year old man hanging out with
a whole of a ten year old pickpockets, then I
could definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Just don't Shage canceled pretty quick.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, he's a modern day version, Yeah, of.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
The musical about how about Oklahoma? Make you go there?
Would you do a bit of hug Jackman and do Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I could do Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If it changed his name from Curly to Receding, then
I could definitely do the part of Oklahoma is dead
for all the musical theaters listening to this right now.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That was a killer joke. That was great. That was great.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
He's knocked it out of the part with the fringe
on top.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's talk about reviews for a second, because you have
to have a pretty thick skin when you're a comedian.
And in twenty seventeen, the Hollywood Reporter branded you a
great stand up displaying almost belligerent common sense.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Then two years.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Later The garden A Guardian called you a filthy comic
who show mixed sex and excrement with tedious misogyny.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Ah row, yeah, I'll tell you what that blake. That's
Brian something Earl.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He's been He's been reviewing me for fifteen years and
the reviews have not gotten.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Better every downhill. There's no one on earth he hates
me more than that man. Yet my pr kids are
giving him free tickets.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I was gonna say, keeps going.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
John, stop giving this Blake tickets.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
There's no joke that's about to turn around for this
fellow ladies more than that. But I will take that
if you're if you're able to mix what did he
say excrements sex and excrement with sex and extrement excrement together.
He said, experience, that's how sex goes. Anyway, that was
(08:11):
that was an anal sex joke.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I don't know if it really with all the listeners.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Maybe the music let you explain that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
If you laughed, I would have bailed out because you
haven't got a camera on. That's deliberatey, which is bewildered
that guys on the one percent. Actually that's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Throw that combo in.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, yeah, it is a reputation, Jim, because they produced
exec producer did say, have you got the button ready?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I said, what are you talking about? It's Jim's it professional?
And I didn't swear.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Did I know? Jump has been implications? You're good implied.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
There's always there's always an editor of the one Percent
Club that could go on at eleven o'clock at night.
You know, I just do that show and they just
edit in what they can edit in, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Late a second, you know one Percent after dark, I
tell you what.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I tell you what. It's given me a whole new
audience I got.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I got like people in there because the older people
like the quiz shows as well. So people say, my
dad's generation. My dad's enjoyed because it's the first time
any of his mates.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Have known who I am. So I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You know, I can't walk down the street in a
nursing with their frames with the tennis balls on the end.
I'm there, very popular.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You're the man. I didn't they had a.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Toe ball on a frame or the tennis ball on
its tennis ball demo.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
They love me well.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The one Percent Club returns tonight seven thirty on seven
lovely to chat to you the.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Catch up mate.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Thanks for having me, and we're glad that you're really
popular with eighty the deads.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, very nice. Thanks Jim,
There're one Percent Club that returns seven thirty tonight on
Channel seven and it's host, comedian and host Jim Jeffries
is with us the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Jim Jim, good morning. Thank you for having me, Thank
you for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm very happy to be here. A big fan of Perth.
Yeah yeah, Perth. Yes, I'm trying to get the North
Sinny Bears to move to Perth.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, I'm all Perth.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Up, keep working on it. It's Wednesdays. I might be
like Wednesday Night company night at the Brass Monkey.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You can do that again? Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
My gig man Wednesday Night the Brass Monkey, and they'd
pay I think eighty Australian dollars and I was bloody
happy to have It's all right gigs.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I met a comedian called Gary Who, who was a
comic at the time.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, and Gary Gary who did the Brass Monkey and
I did it with him, and then afterwards.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
He went, do you want to go do all the
gold mining towns?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
And so I went out to like Calgooley and all
that with him, and I quit Universe.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I quit university that day. I got in the car with.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Him and thought, oh, that's a better journey and I
went out and you know, you know how I love
about Bluddy that the towns, the country towns in Australia.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You go out to a real rough bar.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
In Cowgooli and there'll be a topless woman behind the bar,
a skimpy that's a distinctly Australian thing.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's not a strip club, it's not anything.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, it's just a topless woman that stands behind the
bar and pours point pints.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And do you think to yourself, why do we do that?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And I figured it out because without her it's a
gay bar.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Without her, without the.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Breast being in the corner, it's just a whole lot
of cowboys standing around. So it's a nice little bit
of Australia and a big fan.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Of course, of course it legitimizes it. You know, you
can get your hair cut by a topless woman.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, I'm thinking about that. The eye levelness.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
When you're get in your bed, she'd be in the chair,
you'd be in the chair, she'd be behind you.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, you have to keep and you're not allowed to
turn your head because you have to keep your head still.
You wouldn't be able to see anything that's a terrible idea.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know, the best thing is the best thing would
be to cut a topless woman's hair.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That way, you get something and you get right. That's that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, it's my business idea trademark there, my sister's trademark.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That mate, make sure that my ideas get the copy.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right Now, we want to talk about the one percent Club.
It's about logic and common sense. Do you find Jim
that common sense is something you either have or you don't,
or you might have it in degrees.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I think you have it in degrees, and I think
you have it for certain subjects and not for other things.
I'm hopeless at the one percent Club. I always feel
mean that I'm ripping into the people who are getting
the questions wrong because I.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Very rarely make it over the fifty percent question.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And I've been told the questions before we go on air,
and i still can't figure them out.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I wouldn't I wouldn't do that well.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And I've got like lots of friends that I'm like, hey,
you should come on the show or whatever, and people
get very scared or we were even talking about the
idea of maybe having a celebrity episode. The audience was
you know, I said, what about that for an idea?
And we looked into it, and people don't want to
come on because they're worried. That's the that's the brilliant
(03:19):
thing about the one percent.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
It doesn't it's not about what you know, it's how
you think.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Right, So so look, look, dumbs dumb, stupid, stupid, smart, smart,
I've never.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Done an IQ test. Stupid is I think I don't
want to find out I'm an idiot? You know, but
if I did an IQ.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Test, ah, yeah, but if you pay for an IQ test,
you're already an idiot.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's the line. And they asked for ten bucks. That's
already answered that question.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
That's rival by getting you tea leagues, bet I reckon, Jim.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
May you.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Sometimes I wonder at how people can function on a
day to day basis when you hear some of the
answers that they be fourced.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well, I look, okay, So I had my IQ when
I was like a kid, I had attention DEVS order
and then I had an autism test and other they
did my They did my IQ and I was over
one hundred and twenty, right, and I feel stupid every day? Well,
you know, they reckon the average IQ of a human
is one hundred, and they reckon that one in fifty
(04:18):
percent of the population as an IQ under ninety. If
you took thirty IQ points every day, I feel stupid.
Every day someone says something and I'm not computing it
at all.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm just like, if you took it, like.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A quarter of my brain out and just ripped it away,
I'd be a moron. And that's half the population. So
that's why this quiz is so good. If we don't
have those, if we just had a room for a
smart people, that show would be hopeless. Yeah, I think
about the one percent club is you get to watch
it and go, I'm smarter than that bloke. And that's
(04:51):
me I'm talking about, not even the contestants, because if
you watch me read out the question, Oh geez, there's
some clunky reads in there. I would practiced it before
I come out. I'm so dyslexic. I can't host the chase.
Up on the chase.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I can't do the chase because the chase has.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
A speed round. I'd never get through it. I'd be like,
what race horse was that past.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Meant to pass?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We were talking before about how you when you lived
in Perth, you went to Whopper, you were studying musical
theater at Whopper. Are there any what would have been
the dream musical theater parts you would have loved to
have had back in the day.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I would have liked to have played the woman in
Miss Side Gone. But it gets beautiful now. You can't
do those?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Or can you? It's gone for the circle? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I can imagine you in Book of Mormon, brother Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That doesn't take a lot of dancing. I couldn't anything
like that. The Elephant Man, then I reckon I'd be
a good Fagan. I reckon, just steal a bit of
stuff Robin Hood what I Crook.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Gave away, or do all that. Yeah, yeah, right, I
could do Fagan. I could do. And what else could
I do? I could probably do the Artful Dodger. If
it was an interpretation of the musical where there was
just a forty seven year old man hanging out with
a whole of a ten year old pickpockets, then I
could definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Just don't Shage canceled pretty quick.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, he's a modern day version, Yeah, of.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
The musical about how about Oklahoma? Make you go there?
Would you do a bit of hug Jackman and do Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I could do Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If it changed his name from Curly to Receding, then
I could definitely do the part of Oklahoma is dead
for all the musical theaters listening to this right now.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That was a killer joke. That was great. That was great.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
He's knocked it out of the part with the fringe
on top.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let's talk about reviews for a second, because you have
to have a pretty thick skin when you're a comedian.
And in twenty seventeen, the Hollywood Reporter branded you a
great stand up displaying almost belligerent common sense.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Then two years.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Later The garden A Guardian called you a filthy comic
who show mixed sex and excrement with tedious misogyny.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Ah row, yeah, I'll tell you what that blake. That's
Brian something Earl.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He's been He's been reviewing me for fifteen years and
the reviews have not gotten.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Better every downhill. There's no one on earth he hates
me more than that man. Yet my pr kids are
giving him free tickets.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I was gonna say, keeps going.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
John, stop giving this Blake tickets.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
There's no joke that's about to turn around for this
fellow ladies more than that. But I will take that
if you're if you're able to mix what did he
say excrements sex and excrement with sex and extrement excrement together.
He said, experience, that's how sex goes. Anyway, that was
(08:11):
that was an anal sex joke.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I don't know if it really with all the listeners.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Maybe the music let you explain that.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
If you laughed, I would have bailed out because you
haven't got a camera on. That's deliberatey, which is bewildered
that guys on the one percent. Actually that's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Throw that combo in.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, yeah, it is a reputation, Jim, because they produced
exec producer did say, have you got the button ready?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I said, what are you talking about? It's Jim's it professional?
And I didn't swear.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Did I know? Jump has been implications? You're good implied.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
There's always there's always an editor of the one Percent
Club that could go on at eleven o'clock at night.
You know, I just do that show and they just
edit in what they can edit in, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Late a second, you know one Percent after dark, I
tell you what.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I tell you what. It's given me a whole new
audience I got.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I got like people in there because the older people
like the quiz shows as well. So people say, my
dad's generation. My dad's enjoyed because it's the first time
any of his mates.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Have known who I am. So I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You know, I can't walk down the street in a
nursing with their frames with the tennis balls on the end.
I'm there, very popular.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You're the man. I didn't they had a.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Toe ball on a frame or the tennis ball on
its tennis ball demo.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
They love me well.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The one Percent Club returns tonight seven thirty on seven
lovely to chat to you the.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Catch up mate.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Thanks for having me, and we're glad that you're really
popular with eighty the deads.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, very nice. Thanks Jim,
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