Bare

Jim Jefferies found his American audience by explaining to them why their gun laws make no sense. The Australian comedian spends a massive, meticulously structured chunk of this hour picking apart the Second Amendment, comparing the Sandy Hook aftermath to Australia’s 1996 buyback program, and systematically shooting down every standard argument for civilian firearms. It is a defining piece of stand-up that relies on basic logic disguised as belligerence.

Filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, the set arrived in 2014 just as his FX series Legit was wrapping up its two-season run. The crowd is rowdy, cheering through his transgressive material about cocaine binges, waiting outside emergency rooms to hit on off-duty nurses, and attempting to establish a holiday dedicated to anal sex. It is an aggressive, highly profane hour of comedy.

The gun control segment is what turned the release into a massive hit. The clip earned millions of views online and shifted his public image from a shock comic to a political commentator, eventually leading to his own late-night television show.