| Celebrated Name: | Jim Jefferies |
|---|---|
| Real Name/Full Name: | Geoff James Nugent |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 47 years old |
| Birth Date: | 14 February 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality: | American, Australian |
| Height: | 1.77 m |
| Weight: | 72 kg |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Wife/Spouse (Name): | No |
| Children: | Yes (Hank Jefferies) |
| Dating/Girlfriend (Name): |
N/A |
| Profession: | Australian-American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, and writer |
| Net Worth in 2024: | $6 million |
| Last Updated: | November 2024 |
Jim Jefferies, the most popular stand-up comedian. This, however, may seem like an understatement by many, considering how well his “The Jim Jefferies Show” had been doing on the Comedy Central channel in 2017. This is not even counting the 2016 Netflix hit Freedumb or his 2017 The Unusual Punishment Tour. While he is making his viewers laugh, he is the one who is laughing his way to the bank.
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Early Life
Jim Jefferies real full name is Geoff James Nugent. He was born on 14 February 1977 in Australia in Sydney. He was born into a not so affluent family, and his father was a carpenter while his mother worked as a teacher.
Jim spent his childhood in Sydney. Later, he enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, which is at Perth. He studied classical music and theatre, but never completed the course.
He began doing his own stand-up comedy show, having moved to Sydney. He followed up his acts in the UK. He also changed the spellings of his surname from Jeffries to Jefferies.
Personal life
He had a well-known affair with Kate Luyben, which lasted for years. She was an actress, and they had a child in 2012, whom they called Hank.
Being an atheist, Jefferies does not subscribe to any religion nor believes in the existence of God, which makes his funny acts all the more hilarious.
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on 14 February 1977, Jim Jefferies is 47 years old as of today’s date 24th November 2024. His height is 1.77 m tall, and his weight is 72 kg.
Career
Jim started performed comedy acts, ever since he was a student and later a drop-out from the institute at Perth. However, it was in the UK where he became famous. He gained instant fame at Manchester in 2007, during a live performance on the stage. The viewers attached him, perhaps feeling offended by his atheism or black humor, or the lines he spoke did not go well with the crowd.
The shrewd comedian in him, made him use this incident in his next acts. He used the recorded footage of the onstage attack, in his 2008 show Contraband. Later next year, he made his debut in HBO and became very popular in the US. I Swear to God became the talk of the town.
The festivals in which he performed include those at Edinburg, Melbourne, Reading, Leeds, and the Glastonbury; not to mention Just for Laughs and International Comedy Festival. For Comedy Central TV, he has performed in ‘The World Stands Up,’ ‘Comedy Blue’, and ‘Edinburgh and Beyond.’
He co-hosted ‘Jim and Eddie Talkin’ Shit,’ a podcast that ran from 2010 to 2012. His TV comedy series Legit ran for two seasons in 2013 and 2014. ‘Me and My Mates vs. the Zombie Apocalypse’ was an Australian film he starred in 2014.
Jefferies has also appeared on BBC radio shows like British comedy programs Opie and Anthony, and Fighting Talk, besides several others, including the US, shows The Green Room with Paul Provenza.
After his successful Jim Jefferies show of 2017, 2018 will see his comedy Hammersmith Apollo, which will be shot in London.
Awards & Achievements
It might come as a surprise that a prolific comedian like Jim Jefferies has not been honored with an award of substance, despite his commercial success. However, he has a long way to go, and his best is yet to come.
Net Worth & Salary of Jim Jefferies in 2024
As of November 2024, Jim Jefferies has an estimated net worth of more than $6 million, as revealed by some celebrity websites. He has had his earnings from the comedy shows he has worked on since the beginning of his successful career in 2017. His annual income has been steadily rising over the years, from about $0.3 million in 2011. Besides the TV shows, he also does live shows for select gatherings for undisclosed amounts of money. He has also worked in films and radio shows, besides lucrative work contracts with Netflix and comedy central.
Jim Jefferies is one of those rare Australians who are into comedies and have made it big in the UK and the USA. Perhaps his daredevil attitude and being an atheist adds punch to his no-holds-barred comedy. He loves to make fun and ridicule the conservative social mores and has infused elements of black humor as well as social concerns like religion, sexuality, drugs, and alcoholism.