
Jim Jefferies performs this 70-minute stand-up special before a London crowd. He looks back at being broke and becoming famous. He also talks about raising his young son and living with depression. He tells stories about a sex-tape threat and a paid party for Mariah Carey and other stars. The tone is loud, filthy, personal, and built around long stories rather than a single plot.
The special includes a long attack on Donald Trump's comments about grabbing women. Jefferies compares Trump's treatment of women with the punishment of Kevin Spacey, and he supports tighter gun rules. He also jokes about Brexit, immigration, health care, coal jobs, and religious rules. The set mentions gay men and uses jokes about deaf people, but these are crude comic bits rather than a queer or diversity-centered story. These political and social ideas are easy to notice, but they support the jokes instead of replacing his personal stories.
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These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now.
Woke representation / casting
Not present. The special has one credited performer, Jim Jefferies. It has no ensemble casting or identity-focused casting message.
0%
Woke political dialogue
Jefferies spends a long section mocking Donald Trump's remarks about grabbing women. He supports tighter gun rules after a mass shooting. He also jokes about Brexit, immigration, health care, and coal jobs. The political material returns several times, but the set is not built as an activist speech.
42%
Identity-driven story themes
The special repeatedly discusses sex, consent, and the behavior of powerful men. Jefferies presents Trump's claim about grabbing women as unacceptable conduct, even while keeping the material crude. He also makes jokes about gay men and deaf people, but he does not build a story around their identity. His main subject is his own life, career, parenting, and depression.
30%
Western institutional / cultural critique
Jefferies compares the punishment of Kevin Spacey with the lack of punishment for Trump after sexual claims. He mocks the idea that fame lets men touch women without asking. He supports tighter gun rules and attacks Brexit choices, anti-immigrant talk, coal nostalgia, and some religious ideas. These targets repeat across the set, but the jokes stay inside personal stories.
39%
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant. The title is an original stand-up special. It does not adapt established characters, source material, or real historical events.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Several Rotten Tomatoes audience comments call the special politically charged or say Jefferies has gone lefty political. These viewers object to the political tone, not to a diversity or identity campaign. The comments are few, and no major title-specific anti-woke controversy was found.
14%
Creator track record context
Jim Jefferies has a cached woke score of 58/100 because his work often uses political and social commentary. Scott Zabielski has a cached score of 10/100 and little evidence of identity activism. The combined context adds some political weight, but the special remains a stand-up set.
35%
Production