Jim Jefferies could be dragged into court by a cop -- correction, The Cop from the Village People -- all because Jim referred to "Y.M.C.A." as a gay anthem ... TMZ has learned.
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00:00The resurgence of YMCA. Obviously, as President Trump used the song throughout his campaign,
00:08doing the dance, getting lots of people doing that dance. Obviously, we've spoken to Victor
00:15Willis, who is the cop from the Village People. He's excited that the song is living on this way,
00:22right? And that is more popular than... But he has a gripe. He's got a major gripe about
00:27what people think about this song. And not only does he have a gripe about it, he's actually
00:33ready to sue over it and has now threatened to sue comedian Jim Jeffries because Jim...
00:40Because it's fun to play in an LA courtroom. Yeah. Is that the remix?
00:46That's the remix. Well, Jim was on his podcast last month and was talking about what he saw as
00:54the irony of Donald Trump's followers and fans being fans of YMCA. It's the language he used
01:05that has now gotten him threatened with a lawsuit. This is what Jim said.
01:09The Village People, like what they've done for a buck, right? Let's be honest. What is the YMCA
01:16song about? It's about... It's about... It's getting... A hostel? It's showers in a hostel,
01:21right? When you're a young man who's being kicked out of your home, there's a place you can go. I
01:25said, young man, when you're short on your... And everyone, all these right-wing people are
01:29dancing around to basically a song about bumming in the shower. Now, they're five gay guys of
01:36different races. Yeah. And they're like, they just... They shouldn't typically be voting for
01:41Trump, right? But that's their payday. They're back in the charts. They're making a lot of money
01:45again. They get to do a big concert. So they've sold their soul a little bit. Well, Victor Willis,
01:49by the way, for the record, is not gay. Not gay, right. I don't know about the other members,
01:54but... Right. And he's had a gripe over this for a long time, saying YMCA is not a gay anthem.
01:59I will just tell you, as somebody who grew up in the 70s when this song was huge,
02:08in certain places, it was a gay anthem. Yeah. I mean, it was taken that way. And it was that way
02:14for a lot of gay community. But Victor said now in this letter that his wife and manager,
02:20Karen Willis, has fired off to Jim Jeffries, said, you are now on the clock. You've got 10 days
02:27to retract this, make an apology, or we're going to take legal action. I have a serious question.
02:33Has there ever been a more litigious music group than the Village People? It seems like whenever
02:38we talk about them, it's always because they're sending seasoned assists to different people.
02:42They did this with Donald Trump for a while until they started to embrace him because their
02:48numbers were going up. And now they're going after Jim Jeffries. And I would understand if
02:52they were mad if he maybe made this joke at like a Netflix special or some big event,
02:57but he's doing this on his podcast. And I'm sure his podcast gets good
03:01listenership. But at the same time, it's not like everyone's talking about it.
03:06Hello, everyone. I'm Candace Cooper from Scottsdale, Arizona. I have to agree with
03:11Jim Jeffries on this one. We all deserve a pass. The outfits say different. I mean.
03:20I don't know what you're talking about. We have no idea what you mean.
03:24No clue. Go back to that video.
03:26Well, you know, where was this shot? It looks like San Francisco. I'm just
03:31looking at the billboards behind them. Oh, anyway. Anyway, moving on. By the way,
03:38for what it's worth, the threat seems to work because we're told that Jim Jeffries
03:42plans to apologize. By the way,
03:44I've been listening to YMCA nonstop for the last two weeks. Okay. Weirdly, just on Friday,
03:50you guys are playing during commercial break. She was over here just like playing it.