Sorry to hear you lost your mom Jim

The sad thing about food addictions, compared to heroine, alcohol etc, is that food addicts still need to eat

This feels like his old stand up, hope he does more segments like this.

Sorry you lost you mom, Jim. I loved this segment and I'm glad you're back.

I think a clearer answer is that shaming/insulting/harassing people for being fat _is_ bad, but the common problem on the opposite end where people pretend being fat is normal or healthy is _also_ bad. There's definitely a middle ground to be found. I've seen plenty of people take it so far that they try shaming people for _not_ being fat, just to feel better about themselves.

I picked a very wrong video for my smoke break before bed. Yikes!

There are two extremes in this spectrum. On one hand, there's fat shaming. On the other hand, there's fat acceptance. Both are not okay. Ideally, we shouldn't shame each other. Still, we definitely should NOT just "accept" destructive habits like it's all good either.

4:35 "they are real and they are spectacular"

Thank you JIM as a recovering cocaine and H addict with over 3 years sober , I Thank God drugs weren't socially acceptable but if they were, chances are it would have taken me 30 years to quit instead of 2

4:36 Thank you so much cameraman!!

#UnpopularOpinion America need to stop waging war.

we shouldn'T shame, but we should definetly not celebrate and promote overweight, just so th food industrie can move even more sugars, salts and whatnots.

Camera Two: "I have the BEST audience cut away shot at 4:36! Just trust me!"

You made me almost drop my cigarette in awe that you said everything I need to quit.

I really wanted to see the vote on the last question... :(

I'm really sorry about your mum, man. I loved your view point and voice on everything...including this. Respects, ❤

Props to the camera person for 4:36

The fat shaming argument seems disingenuous. I don't think most people making 'fat shaming' comments are actually trying to help anyone. It seems like an argument made after the fact to justify poor behavior. Judge: "Did you pitch a brick through the plaintiff's window?" Defendant: "Yes, but the window frame was old and not triple pane. I was trying to motivate the plaintiff to replace it for the sake of the planet." Bullshit Detector: "BEEP BEEP BEEP"

I'm sorry to hear about Jim's mother, and I agree it is a very real medical condition. But again, I stand by James' point of view--we shouldn't be shaming anyone. Jim already said it himself, they are already ashamed of themselves, we don't need to make it worse. And that's the problem. It's a serious issue people should be asking for help about, but the shame is so heavy, people don't even want to admit the problem in the first place. Addiction needs to be treated like an illness or disorder because it is one. And not to be pedantic, but being overweight is slightly different to other addictions, in that it's the most physically obvious, and there's just... no way hiding it lmao.

Perfect weight between Corden and Maher and also the perfect balanced accent difference between the two.

Except James Cordon's point was completely different. Fat Shaming doesn't work and often it leads to further overeating and/or depression. Also, Bill completely ignored the science behind it. There's context to being fat and a whole lot of people gain weight because of medications and genetics.

Perhaps you shouldn't shame someone for being fat as generally overeating is a coping mechanism to deal with other issues and you basically just chase them back to their coping mechanism when you rip into them

4:41 you know she has experience lol

4:36 HOW CAN Y’ALL MISS THAT

Sounds good, Jim. As long as I don't have to stop drinking.

The guy in the audience at 3:36 looked so genuinely happy, it made my day.

Thank you camera man! You're the real American hero. 😉

5:55 Was watching this outside and heard some shout YES! Across the street to someone else.🤣😂

4:36 Jesus... God... almighty... heavenly father... this is gorgeous

That Notre Dame bit was so true ^^

4:35 my eyes have been blessed

Jim jefferies is like an intellectual drunk. Funny yet witty and direct

Ironically, smoking and taking drugs reduces fat overwelmingly. Also, it is very common for people to start eating as pigs when they leave cigarettes or drugs.

4:34 let's take a moment to appreciate the cameraman excellent work

He starts off saying, "You don't think smokers feel like shit when they light up?" This argument would seem to imply that shame is felt inherently by all addicts -- at least by those with a decent penchant for introspection. Then he completely negates that by saying fat people shouldn't get a pass on the shame game, which would imply that the solution to already feeling ashamed is...more shame, just from other people, I suppose? Weird logic there. I get there's such a thing as good-natured ribbing, but I think looking at it from a standpoint of comedy isn't the same as looking at if on a day-to-day basis. In a comedy setting, you get a bit of leeway because everyone's there under the understanding that what's being said is meant to be humorous -- even when it falls flat. However, using a national TV program to tell ordinary people they should go out of their way to target people they know with unprompted, shameful harassment because they're having problems with eating (or for any addiction) doesn't just show a lack of empathy, it's counterproductive. These are people who are already relying on a substance, at least in some degree, to help them cope with stress, anxiety, and depression. Relentlessly calling them out on that: 1) is antagonistic, and doesn't inspire them to take your words to heart, and; 2) causes them to spiral deeper into those psychological issues that fuel their dependence, making them prone to _worse_ behavior, not better. Think about it -- if someone already "eats their feelings", and that's causing them to struggle to maintain a healthy lifestyle, the solution isn't to purposefully give them _more_ negative feelings. There are ways to bring up an addiction with tact. Interventions are structured in particular ways for good reason. Every addict _does_ subconsciously know they're ruining their lives, but being a dick to them for it doesn't really help them decide to commit to the difficult changes they need to make. It's incredibly rare someone breaks an addiction out of spite alone.

Chose the wrong video to watch while having a morning smoke. 😂😂😂love you Jeff

Stop drinking? Hahahahaha, that was a good one!

Addiction is not a free choice. Shaming is pointless as a means to end addiction, in fact it worsens it, read up. Addiction is always a symptom of some other problem, shit life mostly. To fix it, the underlying thing needs to be addressed as well as the destructive behaviour. Otherwise, it will always resurge, being a known solution for other problems in the mind of the addicted.

"With missionary, you can fall asleep inside the person. Which is nice!" 😆

Food isn’t an addiction just like any other addiction. We have to eat food every day while trying to maintain a complicated balance between too little and too much. It would be like if you were in a relationship with an abusive person, but you weren’t allowed to leave completely. Instead you had to spend one hour a day with them for the rest of your life. 😖😖😖

Here's the difference between a food addiction and other addictions. With drugs, alcohol or tobacco you can hope to quit. How many alcoholics could stay sober if they had to have just one drink every day? Or former smokers just one cigarette a day?

How would fatshaming ever make anything better? Research shows people who are repeatedly told they are fat are more likely to PUT ON WEIGHT. Other kinds of addictions are partly seen as kind of cool. Food is the drug of the responsible people. But smokers, drinkers, and cocaine addicts are seen as partying, cool, risk-taking people. Policies against things that cause overweight is a good idea. But do you think that your mum would have weighted less if she had experienced more ridicule and hate?

As a fat fuck who had a grandmother who thought she was helping by micromanaging my food, staring at me and shaking her head during dinner, asking if I was SURE I wanted that much peanut butter on my sandwich, and calling me TTT as a term of endearment (Two Ton Tessie)... all when I was about 160 lbs which ISN'T FAT... allow me to say that fat shaming only makes it worse. Just like nagging someone who smokes or drinks. These devices are typically a symptom of terrible abuses, severe anxiety and depression. What happens when you stress someone out who has PTSD, anxiety, or depression? It makes it worse. Years later and I'm now 250 lbs. (after being 280 lbs, losing over 100 lbs over 3.5 yrs, then having menopause cause all that to do a U-ey and bring me back to 250.) I'd give anything to be 160 lbs again. Or to have a beautiful woman who is around 160-180. A bit of padding is beautiful to me. And BTW, I don't eat much! If I eat 2 meals a day, that's a lot for me. I don't have much of an appetite, I have severe nausea and vomiting issues, I suffer from severe to very severe chronic daily pain, and I'm disabled with a truckload of disorders and illnesses. I'm so sick now that I can't really take care of myself anymore. But I need to be fat shamed, right? That'll fix my issue, I'm sure. Honestly, how are we supposed to know which people have caused their own fatness and which are disabled or sick and cannot help it? How about we stop being DICKS to each other and look at others as humans who suffer just like we do and need some compassion and help. --- But we all know that isn't going to happen because we take too much joy in schadenfreude. I'm not bitching about Jim's opinion. We all have those. I just want to present another perspective, that's all.

I fully agree with eating being an addiction. The problem is you cant give up eating. You cant go cold turkey. Its also really hard to get away from sugars when you dont have time to make everything from scratch.

Now this is the Jim Jefferies that I know and love! Thought we lost you!

Ive got this small pouch on the bottom of my tummy and I hate it. Some say its healthy but where is the line? Doesnt help there are only two sections of grocery stores. That small healthy food part that smells like rice and dirt and everthing else that makes you fat...

The moment he mentioned his mom, I was really waiting for a polio joke lol.

It's not about **feeling** shame.... it's about **being** shamed. If you are actively shaming someone ABOUT ANYTHING.... YOU ARE A BULLY! The proper way to deal with an "addiction" is to remove the shame already felt so the individual can be put on track towards healing. You don't "shame" people into a better, healthier life, ffs!

"I'd like to weigh in". Go to your room, young man.

Any Jim Jeffries segment always makes my day. Bloody hilarious.

I was literally lighting a cigarette when he said that...

Hey Jim. Sorry to hear about your mother. My mother passed away in April. She also had problems with her weight her entire life. When I was 9 she got gastric bypass after a high risk pregnancy with my little brother. She dropped the weight, but as a consequence of carrying it for more than 30 years she had permanent back problems and was disabled the last 10 years of her life. She had a heart attack. She was 50. She’ll never get to meet her grandchildren, or even know their names. Or her daughter and son in laws. She got gastric bypass so she could see my little brother grow up. She got to see him hit 15. I’m sorry for your loss; you’re still wrong on this issue. One difference between food addiction and any other type of addiction is that any other addiction is allowed to be private. Nobody can look at you and know you’re a gambler. Nobody can look at you and know you do coke. Nobody can look at you and know you’re an alcoholic. Nobody can look at you and know you pop pills. There are plenty of functional addicts out there, as I’m sure you can attest. But, anybody can assume that if you’re fat it’s because of a lack of self control and not some underlying psychological or internal medicine issue. Unlike other addictions we’ve worked to destigmatize, being fat is still seen as a character flaw that you can be shamed out of. The other difference between food addiction and any other type of addiction is this: with the exception of dependence (you’d need medical intervention to quit, or risk dying) you don’t need to use the substances you abuse to SURVIVE. Food addicts don’t get the luxury of cutting all “food users” out of their life to prevent temptation. Food addicts can’t not serve food at their wedding so that they won’t be tempted. Fat shaming isn’t about food addiction or concern for a persons health. It’s about looking at a person and expecting them to fit the status quo. Plenty of recovered anorexics could tell you that. To quote one “when you’re average size and you starve yourself; it’s a dire medical problem that needs to be addressed, but if you’re overweight and you starve yourself? You’re a success story.” Besides that, we’ve made an effort in addiction rehab to stop shaming addicts because the literature has proven it doesn’t work; why should overeating be any different? We’ve been trying to shame people out of having mental illnesses for centuries: it doesn’t work. If you’re going to claim fat shaming is about food addiction, follow that logic - they’re addicts, they should be treated with compassion. All of this aside, bariatric doctors and obesity epidemiologists all agree: being fat is not usually within a persons control. If you want to argue against their research, be my guest, but don’t sit here and act like fat shaming or any kind of shaming for addiction of any kind is some kind of moral imperative for our society. The experts disagree with you, and as someone who didn’t kill themselves thanks to modern mental health care: I trust them more than I trust you.

Talk about a hard job he went from talking about his mom dying and her not seeing her grandson to joking about old people dying... I couldn't do it.

Excellent bit of stand up to kick off with, felt like old Jim was back. Was nice to see!

Food addiction would be comparable to drug addiction if we didn't need to eat, overeating was illegal, selling unhealthy food was illegal, "bad" food wasn't readily available and advertised everywhere. A cocaine addict doesn't need to resist overdosing at every meal, holiday, wedding, funeral and social event.

The thing about weight loss is it's too easy to compare to other addictions. If only it were as simple as reducing your food in take. That's real rich coming from the people it works for, try being the people it doesn't work for. It's maddening and infuriating because it feels like a hopeless effort until you just give up and accept your situation. Not saying to stay fat but there is only so much a person can do. The point is everyone is different and pigeon holing people isn't at all fair. Start with how the BMI is a load of bullshit and go from there. My cholesterol has been high my entire life and I know I eat clean and I work out 5 times a week for an hour minimum. I can't lose weight. I am not going to give up though, I just need to figure out what works for me.

What Bill Mahar meant (in my opinion) is that nowadays there are ppl like Tess Holiday who tries to make light of obesity. Saying extremely obese ppl can be fit is like saying smoking weed is cool. Its dangerous.

Thanks for keepin it real, Jim!!

Being overweight is sometimes a symptom of other problems, and not overeating. It's one thing to shame someone, but quite another to shame someone for false reasons.

So no distinction between 'be ashamed' and 'being shamed by others'? M*kay ;)

So can and should we shame stupid people?

was it a cole robinson the snake diet guy reference at 3:07 lmao

Glad to see you Jim :D God bless you!

The thing is study after study has shown shaming doesn’t do a good job helping people recover from any type of addiction.

I have a feeling that the "tall" writer looked a bit uneasy when he heard his joke out loud.

I hope this is going to be an actual regular segment, I love this game!

04:35 NICE! :D

Today, before the Seattle game, I'm going to order a Double Impossible Whopper w/ Cheese. And Bacon. What this says about me as a person: I like cows enough to eat them less, but love pigs enough to eat them more.

Fast food is a big contributor along with snack foods.

After losing weight, I tell those shallow people who think they care about "my health" and "complimenting me saying - Oh you must value yourself now" - I now respond with honesty "It is nice to finally realize who you really are on the inside - so I thank you for exposing your shallowness. Let's be real - I was once thin and I still suffered from health problems and when I was put on pharmaceutical drugs, I gained weight. Those friends I had who "cared" dropped off like flies, and then when they came back upon losing weight, I never forgot their behavior and while I forgive them, I realized that I don't need their shallowness in my life anymore, and until they repent, I simply brush them off and move on. Since then losing weight, I have never smoking, don't do drinking, not overeating, eat healthy food in appropriate portions, and yet I still ended up developing kidney disease, gastroparesis, and developed exercise-induced cardiomyopathy (yes, that is an actual thing and it did result from WEIGHT LOSS and doing exercise) and sure enough, those people dropped off like the flies they are and as with all trash, they get brushed off and I keep moving on. ^_^ I was unhealthy when thin and that is the politically incorrect and unpopular truth!

If people were truly happy, addictions would be fewer.

I hate myself for smoking. I even work in a mortuary. I see what happens to lungs and hearts and brains and bodies when you smoke!! Yet im addicted to it like its a lifeline.

You are right. I do need to stop smoking. It's been difficult trying to quit. But it's not about me, just gunna have to do it.

Amazing as ever :D

Fun fact: Notre Dame Cathedral is exclusively used by, but NOT owned by the Roman Catholic Church. Under French law it is state property. While that means that the renovations for the building are paid for by taxpayers, all other expenses on upkeep and operations are the responsibility of the Church which in France does NOT get subsidies/tax breaks! In France there are less than one hundred churches with such privileges extended to the Catholic Church. In France all worship places must be open to all the public and has severe restrictions on displays of religion outside them. Basically in France the law is: they'll safeguard your rights to freedom of religion inside the walls of your church as long as you leave the outside world alone!

4:35 for the guys

This show should have never been canceled. Miss you Jim.

The cocaine line was priceless lol

More of them! :D

People seem to not know the difference, but not fat-shaming does not equal to accepting their bad habits For example: Fat-shaming: "God you're so fat, maybe if you didn't stuff your face with burgers you would be pretty." Not-Fat-Shaming: "I have been worried about you lately. I know you struggle with your weight, it's hard keeping weight off. Have you talked to a nutritionist about improving your diet?" Some fat-people might still get offended by the Not-fat-shaming option, since they have probably been fat-shamed through their whole life so now they are insecure about their fatness. (And they might be a bit in denial) Also. The key to giving constructive feedback is to not get the other person's defenses up since it will only cause harm.

There is an old African saying: When an old man dies, a library burns down. Old people should be respected, Jim. Treasured. Like your mum. My condolences to you.

Great video!! ❤️👏🏻

*me watching it with a cigarette in my hand * Yea.. You tell them!

4:37 holy ****

I was waiting for the one audience member to laugh and go awkwardly quiet as everyone stares at him for laughing when hes talking about his mum.

I would flip that script on the way the questions are framed. For one, not that sad when old person dies? No, wording should be, it is sadder when a young person dies.

As always, well thought out. I pray you write most of your material

4:36 you can't tell me your not thankful to me

What other addiction requires, in 100% of cases, you to continue participating in it for survival?

So sorry for your loss, Jim. Great to have you back, mate.

Hilarious, dude , your a riot. Love your programming

I beat my addiction to food last week. Very proud of this accomplishment. I should be dead by Monday

Ahhh, death wasnt that bad, when she was young, she had polio. Sorry for your loss Jim

Shaming doesnt help the vast majority of those who are overweight. This also doesn't recognize the fact that fat disorders exist and in a society of shaming those who are obese, people with these diseases are often ignored and told they are "non-compliant" despite all their efforts to lose weight. Misdiagnosed and accused of being liars is super common. This isnt about being ashamed, it is about the usefulness of verbal abuse towards people you judge by appearances alone. Its abusive. Its hurtful and it's not okay in any circumstance. Lipedema, Lymphedema and Dercums are real diseases and they aren't that uncommon.

4:36 HOLY MOLY

I'm all for not shaming any addict. For any vice. Drugs, alcohol, smoking, being fat. None of it.

Nothing makes me laugh harder than a Jim Jeffreys religion rant.

Camera tries to show us at 3:55, but prevails at 4:36. Thank you sir

There is a difference between the addictions you can completely stop drugs, alcohol and tobacco and live a healthy life. You can't completely stop food and live. Plus there are so many reasons for obesity that have nothing to do with over eating. Living in a country without free healthcare, deceptive food labels, bad education, poverty, medical issues mental illness, etc . Stacking the deck against some one and then shaming them is messed up.

Thank you, Jim. American society is not kind to anyone who doesn't fit the Barbie Doll stereotype. Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity are just as damaging to humans as other fallacies. This is why we must have a more biopscyhosocial view of the human condition as our genes, mind and socialization mold us into the people we are. Also, it would help if more people had access to medical procedures that can augment their weight so people have the motivation to do as they should if they want to elongate their life span or just live with less pain and worry.