Jim Jefferies: Intolerant

Compared to his early work, which I found genuinely funny, this felt very mainstream and safe.

He drops a couple of C words here and there, but even that felt forced, as if he was trying to stay 'edgy'.

It's a decent standup special, but I didn't laugh quite as much as I did during some of his previous shows. Jokes complaining about a different generation are kind of dull for me personally, and that goes for older generations complaining about younger ones and younger generations complaining about older ones. He didn't really bring anything new or fresh to the table in this regard, in my opinion. The stuff about comedic boundaries changing was genuinely insightful and well done though, as it is something that the world is dealing with and trying to balance at the moment. Overall it's a decent way to kill an hour, but I was still a tiny bit disappointed.

For a netflix special, this is well above the average. But for Jim, it's arguably his least funny special. He still has the hilarious delivery, but the jokes were weak and far between, most were actually just stories that didn't even lead to a punchline.

I don't know what happened there, I suppose netflix did what netflix does best and ordered him to scrap all edgy humor, so good ol' Jim tried to rely on safe stories... But yeah, pretty disappointing... Still worth watching though.

And what was with the airplane peanut allergy bit? We all know it was basically a recycled Ricky Gervais bit, except your version wasn't even funny. Is it so hard to tell an original joke? This special only has like nine jokes, surely they could've all been original.... It's not enough you steal jokes from Stanhope, now Gervais too. Have you become the male Amy Shumer now? Cause it increasingly feels like it.

A great improvement on his last comedy special, Intolerant is mostly more gigglesome than laugh-out-loud funny, but it's constructed and delivered far, far better than much of his recent work. And the bits about the mystery of women's lotions and millennials being the bigots of the future are both very well done.

I don't know about these purists here that say this is sub-par Jefferies, to me, this was funny all along, which is what a stand-up is supposed to be.. I loved it! Ps: I got the hots for Jim, so maybe I'm just too partial to like him.