Geoff James Nugent was born on the 14th February, 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a stand-up comedian and actor well known under the stage name Jim Jefferies, and for his narrative style of humour in which black humour and sexual humour play an important role as well as issues such as alcoholism, drug abuse, religion, sexuality among others. Jim Jefferies has been accumulating his net worth being active in show business since 2007.
How rich is the comedian? It has been reported by sources that the outright size of Jim Jefferies net worth is as much as $1.5 million.
Jim Jefferies Net Worth $1.5 Million
Jim Jefferies first achieved notoriety when during a performance at the Comedy Store in Manchester he was attacked on stage. Later, he focused on this attack by including a video recording of the attack with his appearance in a future show. This performance has been released on DVD “Contraband” (2008), but prior to this, he released the comedy special “Jim Jeffries: Hell Bound: Live at The Comedy Store London” (2008).
Jefferies has appeared at a number of various comedy festivals, among them the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Montreal Comedy Festival (Just for Laughs), the South African Comedy Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals and Glastonbury Festival. He has been a guest on panel shows such as “Never Mind the Buzzcocks”, “Have I Got News for You”, “The Heaven and Earth Show” and” 8 Out of 10 Cats”. In addition to these, he has made appearances on “The World Stands Up”, “Comedy Blue” and “Edinburgh and Beyond Comedy Central” as well as on radio at BBC “Radio 5 Live”. There is no doubt that all the above mentioned appearances have added sums to the total size of Jim Jefferies net worth.
Furthermore, Jefferies in co-operation with his colleague and friend Eddie Ifft ran the podcast entitled “Jim and Eddie Talkin’ Shit”; the recorded at home Podcast appeared twice a week, but in December 2012, Jefferies left the podcast because of work on the television series “Legit”, the series on FX premiere running to a second season to February 2014. He then played in the Australian low-budget film “Me and My Mates vs. the Zombie Apocalypse” along-side the Australian comedians Greg Fleet and Alex Williamson, and released in 2015. Additionally, he was a guest star in an episode of the television series “Bad Judge” (2014).
Finally, in the personal life of the comedian, together with his partner actress Kate Luyben he has a son. Jefferies lived for eight years in Kentish Town, but moved to Los Angeles, where he lives now. He is an atheist, and discussed this in its programs. He also advocates stricter gun control. Jim Jefferies is an avid fan of Fulham F.C., the football club in England, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.
