"I would advise you not to go to work tomorrow and try to retell my jokes," an amused Jim Jefferies told his Brisbane audience near the end of a mammoth two hour set at the Entertainment Centre on Monday night.

Setting aside the irony, this particular joke involved a knife and the possible mechanics of a post-show orgy involving all 7000 of the mostly male Boondall crowd.

Jim Jefferies has built an army of loyal, mostly male fans. Credit:Theresa Ambrose

It was as unapologetically crude and coarse as Jefferies' devotees would have hoped, and it brought the show back full circle to a theme of the laconic expat punching down as much as punching up - with an audience that seemed altogether too eager to join in.

Jefferies began his set with 10 minutes of rape jokes, perhaps not too unexpectedly given the hydra-like resurgence of the old "Can rape jokes be funny?" question at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.