Episode 217 - Jim Jefferies

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Jim Jefferies joins the table to sing the praises of Aussie bread. He delves into his mom’s cooking and sounding like your parents. Jim talks Australian TV, where all swear words are allowed after 9pm. Jim and Tom talk ovations, bombing, and life touring the world. Jim shares the backstory behind changing his name when he became a stand up comedian and discusses all different kinds of sobriety.

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About Jim:

Jefferies has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals, and Glastonbury Festival. He has also performed routines on The World Stands Up, Comedy Blue and Edinburgh and Beyond for Comedy Central. Following the release of his Netflix special Freedumb in July 2016, he began The Unusual Punishment Tour with all-new material, and filmed his new special This Is Me Now at the Hammersmith Apollo in London in January 2018. On 17 December 2018, he completed his Night Talker Tour with the final performance in Melbourne. At the 2019 Just for Laughs festival, in Montreal, he was honored as Stand-up Comedian of the Year. April 2024 saw Jefferies start his Give 'Em What They Want tour in South Africa,[19] moving on to Australia in August. In September and October 2024, while Jefferies is in Canada, he will be joined by Jimmy Carr for what is being billed as The Charm Offensive Tour.

About Tom:

Tom Papa, a celebrated stand-up comedian with over 20 years in the industry, has made significant strides in film, television, radio, podcasts, and live performances. Notably, he's a regular on "The Joe Rogan Experience" and various late-night TV shows. Papa's literary skills are evident in his books “We’re All In This Together” and "You’re Doing Great!: And Other Reasons To Stay Alive," a collection of essays, and "Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas," a comedic look at family life. His latest stand-up specials are “Tom Papa: What A Day!” and "Tom Papa: You’re Doing Great!" on Netflix. Beyond comedy, Papa's engagements extend to hosting "What A Joke With Papa And Fortune" on SiriusXM and appearing on NPR's "Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me." His love for baking led to hosting the Food Network series "Baked." As an actor, he's worked with notable figures like Rob Zombie and Steven Soderbergh and has appeared in several films and TV shows, including the HBO film "Behind the Candelabra." Additionally, Papa has contributed as a writer to projects like "Bee Movie" and various TV series. Residing in Los Angeles with his family, Papa continues to balance his professional life with personal interests like baking.

Get in touch with or go see Tom live on stage! Radio, Podcasts and more: https://linktr.ee/tompapa/ Website - http://tompapa.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tompapa Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/tompapa Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comediantompapa #TomPapa #breakingbreadwithTomPapa

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0:00.0	Every time you say in America I'm two years over three years over four years
0:03.8	so good for you.
0:05.9	Having a secret in two years.
0:07.1	Well, you should.
0:08.1	Well, hopefully you're not, you know, it hasn't done too much already.
0:11.1	Maybe, yeah.
0:12.4	It may have been too late. It's breaking bread. So what's your
0:17.8	complaint about the bread? I don't I'm I I grew up in Australia where I believe has the best bread in the world.
0:24.1	I truly and not like you can have good loaves of bread that someone bakes for you in
0:29.5	America, I don't know stuff but just a standard bog- loaf of white wonder white whatever the equivalent
0:34.6	there is supermarket fantastic really fantastic yeah and it's it mushes down as you bite
0:41.1	into it the bite may can see the bite. American bread
0:44.8	pops back up with its additives and sugar to come up as an
0:49.4	optimism and spring. But my wife started making bread like this because she's British and she has the same complaint.
0:54.6	Now so I moved to, I lived in Australia obviously and then I moved to Britain for eight or ten years.
1:01.8	The last two years I was going back and forth here.
1:04.0	And I was complaining about the British bread then as well.
1:08.0	And now I would kill for British bread.
1:10.0	Because you're finding shipbread here.
1:13.0	It's just like, you buy like a hot dog bun at like,
1:16.0	like Whole Foods and it's really, unless you microwave it or steam it,
1:20.0	it's, I got these hot dog rolls in the supermarket and they're like Hawaiian they're like at the Hawaiian bun thing.
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