09/20/2024

Australian comic Jim Jefferies has fired back at American stand-up Jerry Seinfeld after the sitcom star lobbed a thinly-veiled ‘threat’ at him on home turf.

Seinfeld, 70, was onstage at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena in June when his set was disrupted by a pro-Palestinian heckler. 

In response, the TV star sarcastically claimed the heckler had ‘solved’ the humanitarian crisis, before drawing an analogy between the Israel–Hamas war in Gaza and Australia’s chequered history of treatment of First Nations people.

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