-I only thought Tyler Perry
got a standing ovation. That's very sweet of you. -No, they love you.
Yeah. -I love you, too.
We love you. Welcome back. -Tyler Perry is actually
my son's favorite comedian. -He is?
-He is, yeah. My son loves big, large women who bash people over the head
and yell at them. I swear to you,
I said to him once, I said,
"Are you funny like daddy?" He goes, "No,
I'm funny like Madea. [ Laughter ] -He's the greatest, right?
-Ah, he's all right. I'll -- I'll keep him. -[ Laughs ] "I'll keep him." No, not your son. Tyler Perry. -Yeah.
That's what I'm talking about. -Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're a very, very busy man. It's a very great show,
"The Jim Jefferies show." But you're also doing standup
all over the place as well. So you're very -- do you have
a favorite spot to do? -I don't think that comedy
is different town to town. I think audiences are the same.
Funny is funny. But, like,
My favorite place to play just for fun, Vegas. Yeah. -Oh, really?
-I love Vegas! Love Vegas! -Where do you play in Vegas? -I now play at the Mirage. I used to play
at the Hard Rock. One time I was at the Hard Rock,
and did this thing, it was like a 5,000 seat
sort of room, this rock club. And they said to me --
my show started at 8:00, and they said you have
to be off stage by 9:30. Now, I have opening acts,
my show is an hour 40, So was like, "I can't do it."
I can't be off by 9:30." They go,
"There's a band on after you." And I said, "I don't give a F
what band is on after me. I'm the main thing of the night.
I don't care. The band can wait." They went, "It's Guns N' Roses." And I went, "All right,
I'll be off by 9:30." Right? [ Laughter ]
-Exactly. -Anyway, so I'm on stage,
people paid good money so I'm trying to act
like my show is running a bit longer than it is. So when I get to like
the hour 20 mark, I'm checking my watch like,
Oh, I've got to be off. I've got to be off. Oh, I'll
give you 10 more minutes. I'll give you 10 more minutes."
I was lying. I was going to finish on time, and then I said a joke like,
Ah, [bleep] It's not like Axl Rose
has ever left me waiting for a gig." Right? 'Cause is renownedly
always late. -Notorious.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. -Afterwards, I get off stage, I get back
to the dressing room. Now there's
an NHL hockey player. I won't say who he is,
but he just won the Stanley Cup that year
and he was partying. He was backstage with a bag
of magic mushrooms. And I -- [ Laughter ] I don't know
if they test good. 'cause it can't be
performance-enhancing, surely. [ Laughter ] He think he's playing NFL,
throwing a pick -Yeah, he has no idea
what he's doing. -So I just took a handful
of mushrooms and ate those, as you do. I was already drunk,
and then afterwards, because I'm a good guy, right? I took photos with all my fans,
right. So there was a lineup of about
400 people taking photos. At about the 30 minute mark,
the mushrooms kicked in, and my fans started to look like
a bunch of lizards. And so I was like,
"No, no, I can't. I ca-- I can't be doing this
any more." -Nah, I can't do this. I'm done. -They was like,
Jim stopped signing. I was like scared
and I ran away into a corner. Anyway,
I took some more mushrooms... -Geez, this is bad advice. -And they may or may not
have been cocaine because there always is.
There was a lot -- there was a lot of [bleep]
going on, Jimmy. -Yeah, yeah. Okay. -So -- so later on... [ Laughter ] I get invited up to this party
in someone's suite. I go up, and there's just
like women having sex on the bar, there's
just people having sex, people doing drugs openly
and stuff like that, lizards mostly doing drugs. And I'm walking --
I'm walking around just spaced out
out of me head just talking to a pole
or something. I'm not sure. And then this big guy
comes up to me and go, "Mr. Rose wants
to speak to you." Right?
And I'm like -- 'Cause the Guns N' Roses concert
already finished. I've been up at this party
for a while. I get taken into a room,
and Axl Rose is sitting on the edge of the bed,
and I walk in mashed out of my head. And I sit down.
There's Axl Rose. He goes, "Hey, um..." 'Cause he does that -- he still
sort of have that switch. [ Laughter ] -He's -- he's snaking you. -I'm still cool, right? But -- but he's sort of... He comes out, and I sit next
to him on the bed. And I'm trying to do
that thing that you do when you're drunk
and you come home and your parents
ask if you're drunk. You're like, "No, I'm good. I'm good." I'm good." So I sat down next
to Axl Rose like this. And he goes, "Hey, man,
not a lot of people know that I'm a comedy enthusiast." He said comedy enthusiast. Who says that?
-Fantastic. I love this. -But he's a comedy enthusiast. And he goes -- he goes, "I watched your show
this evening. It was really great.
I really enjoyed it. But it's being completely
overblown about how many times I showed up late for gigs."
Right? He was offended
by me teasing him. And I just became like a child. And I went,
"No offense meant, Mr. Rose. I'm sorry, Mr. Rose."
-Mr. Rose? -Yeah. To be honest,
there was a lot of drugs. It just could have been
a red-headed girl. I'm not sure. Anyway... You never met Axl Rose at all. -I don't know.
I don't know. But I apologized,
"Sorry, Mr. Rose. Won't happen again,
Mr. Rose. Sorry." And then as I went --
I said can I have a photo? His bodyguard goes, "Mr. Rose
doesn't take photos." I said I'm so sorry. Then I went to leave,
then Axl Rose went, "Yeah, come on,
we can have a photo. And I think we have the photo. -Here it is. -That's a guy holding
his [bleep] together. That's what that is. [ Cheers and applause ] That's -- [ Laughs ] -Wow! Wow! That is unbelievable.
Unbelievable. -And not well. Those red eyes
aren't from the camera. That's legitimate red eye
problem I got going there. -You have red eyeballs. Dude, congrats.
Season 2 starts Tuesday. Are you excited about this?
-We're excited. We've already filmed the field
pieces and stuff like that. We're getting back
to talking about Donald Trump doing stupid tweets, you know. That job is pretty much
the same, right. -Yeah.
-It's pretty much the same. -You do a great job, man. -Except I don't get Cookie
on my show. At no stage does Cookie
was walk out. -Exactly, yeah. Exactly. We get Coo-
Taraji comes on our show. -Yeah.
-She's not on your show. -I'm sitting backstage
feeling confident, going, "I can beat Tyler Perry. I've got a good story
about Axl Rose. Everything is going to be fine." Then I went, "Ah [bleep]
he's got Cookie." [ Laughter ] I can't --
I can't beat Cookie. -Can't beat Cookie, no
-Can't beat Cookie.
hate to be the one to ruin the party but according to this tweet this story happened in May 2014 so I guess it would actually have been a Blackhawk
Narc
Yeah... I'm pretty sure that this happened like 4 years ago. My guess is that it was a certain LA King' s goalie...
Could have been Beau. He needed a hobby during his many, many stints on IR, so he could have decided that mushrooms were a good way to pass the time.
Tried to find a news article or something putting one of our guys there and didn’t come up with anything...