Jim Jeffries is the epitomy of an insult-first-ask-questions-later, sex obsessed, self destructive Ozzy comic. Even more outrageous than even Brendan Burns, when he isn't causing havoc on Danny Wallace's Xfm show, he's gracing the late night post-watershed slot to entertain Glastonbury's Cabaret tent. With a reputation like that Such Small Portions couldn't resist vaulting the barriers to catch up with the comic backstage.

SSP: That was a harsh audience, I felt.
Jim J: There was no-one out there. And it was noisy. I couldn’t hear any laughs. I couldn’t hear nothing.

SSP: Yeah, you can hear the Jazz World stage the whole time. But people were laughing. Anyway - is this your first Glastonbury?
Jim J: Ha! (laughs) I’m going to smoke in here. Don’t tell anyone.

SSP: Your secret is safe with me. So is it always like this at Glastonbury?
Jim J: It’s a mixed bag. I’ve had less, I’ve had more, you can’t police it.

SSP: I suppose timing-wise, you’re up against the headliners this year, so that’s not great.
Jim J: No, last year was like that - headlining’s a disadvantage because everyone’s sort of fading off, you know? Six is probably the best gig. Before the big bands are on.

SSP: Yeah, eleven thirty’s hardly the best time for watching comedy, is it?
Jim J: No, you want to see Kings of Leon at night. You don’t want to see me. I understand that. I wouldn’t want to see me. There’s better bands on.

SSP: So why the angry-sad approach to comedy?
Jim J: You say angry-sad approach, but listen, every comic in the world tells the jokes they want to hear, you know. It’s your sense of humour. I want to hear angry, abusive shit, you know? It’s what I want to listen to.

SSP: The egg joke - you’ve had enough of that one, have you? You seemed a bit pissed off when the audience requested it.
J: It’s dead to me.

SSP: It’s a good joke...
Jim J: It’s all right. Didn’t go down that well tonight though.

SSP: It did. You just can’t hear shit from the stage.
Jim J: I get that a lot, though, man. The fucking egg joke. It’s like I’ve got one big hit single. And YouTube’s done that to me.

SSP: How do you feel about the YouTube thing?
Jim J: I dunno. It sells tickets. Look, I don’t put anything up myself, people do it for me, so it’s no work on my part.

SSP: Pretty good.
Jim J: Yeah, I don’t care, I don’t give a fuck.

SSP: You’re a bit of an internet celebrity through that. My housemate’s obsessed with it. Do you worry about that or is it better than not being?
Jim J: I’d like to be a TV and movie celebrity one day, but I’ll take internet celebrity for now. More people have the internet. Actually that’s crap, more people have TVs. Forget that.

SSP: So did you put any of your Fringe stuff out there or is there different stuff for the fringe?
Jim J: there’s a lot of Fringe stuff there - the the stuff about me not being able to come, oldest man in Rwanda, that stuff - it’s about fifty-fifty.

SSP: And how long were you actually in Amsterdam?
Jim J: Just two weeks. Gigging. Club called Tumour in the basement of the Hilton.

SSP: And I have to ask - how much of the egg story is actually true?
Jim J: It’s completely true, except it was three hours not three days. Oh, and it was only one chopstick. For some reason it’s funnier with two - “to widen the hole”.

SSP: So go on - if you could give any advice to an Aussie who’s in Amsterdam with an egg up his colon, what would you say?
Jim J: The thing is, I’ve had lots of medics come up to me and say that once you’ve got something up your arse you can’t get it back out, it’s impossible. I said to one proctologist that the reason you think that is because anyone who gets something out of their arse never tells you. “You’d never guess what I did! I’m all right now, but...”

SSP: Sorry to flog on about this joke, but it’s clearly your big hit...
Jim J: Yeah, it’s done all right for me. When I’m short of material I sometimes try shoving other things up my arse as well.

SSP: On stage or before you go on?
Jim J: Oh, before I go on. Some things you like to keep things private.

SSP: You’re there with a cucumber, that sort of thing... anyway. So where are you performing at the Edinburgh Fringe?
Jim J: Every night at nine at the Big Upside-Down Cow, Underbelly, and what I’ve written is very good and I’m very optimistic about the stuff I haven’t thought about yet.

SSP: So what are you up to this weekend?
Jim J: Getting fucked. I took drugs the moment I got off stage. They were waiting for me at the bottom. That’s actually true.

Jim Jeffries will be appearing at the Udderbelly at Edinburgh Fringe thoughout the whole of August.