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Jim Gaffigan Traces His Style of Comedy Back to a Childhood Trip to Europe

By Jim Gaffigan May 1, 2024

I’ve been traveling the world doing stand-up for years, and my comedy is often about the cultural differences between places—and I recently realized that this probably all stems from a trip my family took to Europe when I was 8. I’m the youngest of six kids, and in 1974, for reasons none of us understood, my parents abruptly decided to take all of us, plus our aunt, on a huge trip to Europe, meaning Denmark, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Greece… I don’t even know where else. It was such an eye-opener that I never really got over it.

When you’re that tiny, you barely understand your own culture, which in my case was a Midwest where ethnic dining meant going to an Italian restaurant and ordering the ziti instead of spaghetti. But from our very first day, which was in Scotland, I remember feeling that everything was just so strange. Like, seeing Greyfriars Bobby, which is this big statue of a dog in an ancient graveyard in Edinburgh, and thinking, A dog? In a graveyard? Why? And every morning getting to have hot chocolate with breakfast, which to me was a dream.

I have all of these incredible memories that are so vivid and that ended up being these direction signs. It showed me, at a crucial moment, that this is a big world, and there’s a lot of different people with different points of view, and that even similarities can be deceiving.

At one point, we were in Copenhagen, visiting Tivoli Gardens, and I was doing that little-kid thing where you trail along behind everyone else in your own little world. In this case, I was totally obsessed with this hot dog my parents had purchased me, which had mustard and these amazing dried onions and was so delicious, and I was enjoying it intensely as I followed this line of blond people in cardigans. At a certain point, my parents turned around to look at me … and they weren’t my parents. And I looked around and realized that everyone was blond and had on a cardigan.

From there, my memory flashes to a store on the Greek isle of Rhodes, where my teenage sister had found a T-shirt she liked, and the store clerk—this woman in her 60s—said, “You should try it on,” and before my sister could ask about a changing room, the clerk literally grabbed my sister’s T-shirt, ripped it off her, and put the other T-shirt on her, while my sister just stood there stunned. I remember thinking, Wow, they really do things differently here! A bit later, on a sort of low-budget cruise ship in the Mediterranean, I saw someone wearing a thong for the first time—and I mean a man. A man who was cutting a woman’s hair, right there on the deck of this boat. You have to understand, the thong didn’t really make it to America until maybe the 1980s, so as an 8-year-old I was like, This is insane!

Every experience I had was flavored by this awareness of cultural difference. At some point, someone had a birthday celebration where no one sang “Happy Birthday” or even said “Happy Birthday.” Or, it’s Fourth of July, and I’m like, Hmm, I bet they wouldn’t do Fourth of July. I just loved thinking about that.

Much later, when I was 30, I got a commercial gig that shot in London. I went over there with two other Americans, and one woman with us was complaining the entire time—like, “Oh my God, the food’s so weird here, it’s awful,” and I thought, How could you complain? Isn’t it kind of interesting that it’s different? It made me think of that first trip, when we visited an Italian winery, and I was really thirsty and asked for a water, and they gave us sparkling water.

To a thirsty 8-year-old, that was the equivalent of thinking you’re biting into a Hershey’s bar and having it be baking chocolate. The great irony now is that this is all I drink, so maybe it was like a gateway drug. Maybe the whole trip was.

Actor and comedian Jim Gaffigan is performing two shows at this month’s Netflix Is a Joke Fest in Los Angeles. You can also catch him on his national Barely Alive Tour and in the new films Greedy People and Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story .

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JAMES GAFFIGAN

“ Gaffigan is one of the rising stars of his generation. ”

“ Gaffigan and his ensemble, which plays with rich tone and a winning sense of dialogue, bring terrific purpose and style. Gaffigan and the LSO do themselves proud. ”

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Recognized worldwide for his natural ease and extraordinary collaborative spirit, American conductor James Gaffigan has attracted international attention for his prowess as a conductor of both symphony orchestras and opera. The mutual trust he builds with artists empowers them to cultivate the highest art possible. 

Gaffigan is uniquely positioned with Music Directorships at two international opera houses. He is the General Music Director of Komische Oper Berlin, a post that commences this 2023/2024 season, and is in his third season as Music Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, where he led widely acclaimed productions of Wozzeck, La Bohème and Tristan und Isolde . He additionally serves as Music Director of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra, where he champions the education of promising young musicians. The 2022/23 season marked Gaffigan’s final season as Principal Guest Conductor of both the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera. In 2021, Gaffigan finished his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, a position he held for 10 years, where he raised the orchestra’s international profile with highly successful recordings and tours abroad.

Gaffigan is in high demand with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout North America and Europe. In the 2023/24 season, he returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony, where he leads a concert production of Cavalleria Rusticana . In Summer 2023, Gaffigan leads the Metropolitan Opera in their production of La Bohème , as well as the Orchestra de Paris with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra.

In his first season as General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin, Gaffigan will lead productions of Eugene Onegin, The Golden Cockerel, Der Fliegende Holländer and Le Nozze Di Figaro during the 2023/24 season. Committed to building and investing in young audiences, and presenting unflinchingly relevant and inclusive programming, Gaffigan will also lead Komische Oper in special programming for children throughout the season.

Recent orchestral appearances include London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Norske Opera and Ballet, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Czech Philharmonic and Luzerner Symphonieorchester. In North America, Gaffigan regularly works with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others.

A regular at the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Opéra National de Paris, Gaffigan has also conducted the Zürich Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Dutch National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Santa Fe Opera.

Gaffigan was first prize winner of the 2004 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, which opened Europe’s doors to him as a young American. In 2009, he completed a three-year tenure as Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, a position created for him by Michael Tilson Thomas. Prior to that, he was Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, where he worked with Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. Gaffigan is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival’s Aspen Conducting Academy and the Tanglewood Music Center.

Passionate about music education and a product of the New York City public school system, Gaffigan grew up in New York City and studied at the LaGuardia High School of Music and Art before pursuing his conducting studies. He believes that access to music education is the method by which America’s concert halls will finally begin to reflect our community and shrink the racial and gender gaps that exist in performing arts today.

“Gaffigan flaunted an unbridled enthusiasm in Thursday’s program. He also showed an exacting dedication to music-making. Conducting at times with his eyes closed, lovingly shaping phrases with cradled arms, he brought out the tenderness and delicacy of Beethoven’s orchestration. As the music turned stormy, the ensemble didn’t round the edges of thunderous, booming passages, giving articulated notes a stalactite edge.”

Atlanta Journal Constitution

#1 of Top 10 Performances of 2019: “The Lyric Opera of Chicago delivered a  Don Giovanni  for the ages in November. Rarely will one experience as stellar an ensemble lineup in this notoriously hard-to-cast opera, all working together seamlessly and delivering the cynical humor as well as the moral twilight of Mozart’s dramma giocoso with equal relish. Robert Falls’ fluent, stylish staging remains theatrical titanium and James Gaffigan delivered a seminar in Mozart opera conducting, just as he did with Lyric’s  Così fan tutte  in 2018.”

Chicago Classical Review

“James Gaffigan’s conducting is simply terrific—big in character and bringing out all of the drama and humor of Mozart’s glorious score with the Lyric Opera Orchestra.”

“Gaffigan offered an intense, full-throated reading, with an emphasis on galvanic fortissimos, fiercely stated string playing and extreme dynamic contrasts. He seemed intent on keeping the music moving along, especially in the enormous first movement, but he did not sacrifice the profundities of its final pages.

Chicago Tribune

“Gaffigan’s career is clearly ascendant, with performances already under his belt at the Met Opera, Chicago’s Lyric, and major orchestras on both sides of the pond. His work with the CSO seemed authoritative and collegial, his sensibility for the music of his own generation readily apparent.”

Chicago on the Aisle

“Under Gaffigan’s direction, the outlasting Debussy work —  La Mer  — was magnificent. Fineness and strenuousness balanced beautifully, the instrumental balance itself supporting every gesture. The final effect was like that of a pointillist painting — impressive whether seen from a distance or up close, at the level of a speck.”

San Francisco Classical Voice

“Deborah Borda, the chief executive of the New York Philharmonic, sees big things coming for the 38-year-old conductor James Gaffigan, who just led the orchestra in its annual tour of the city’s parks. In 2015, he impressed me enormously when he led the Philharmonic in the crackling premiere of Andrew Norman’s fantastical ‘Split,’ a breathless fantasy for piano and orchestra. Mr. Gaffigan has also won praise for his approach to the standard repertory. He ended the Philharmonic’s concert last week in Central Park with a colorful account of a piece I never tire of: Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Scheherazade.’ Here he leads an uncommonly dramatic account of Mozart’s Requiem, recorded in 2017 with the Orchestre National de France at the Basilica of St. Denis in the Paris suburbs. Let’s hope the future Ms. Borda envisions for him regularly includes the New York Philharmonic.”

The New York Times

“A 38-year-old native New Yorker — from Staten Island, which is, alas, the only borough to get an indoor chamber concert, on June 17, rather than the full park treatment — Mr. Gaffigan is one of the rising stars of his generation. Deborah Borda, the New York Philharmonic’s chief executive, said in an interview: “He’s energetic, he’s a very affable presence on and off the podium, and I think he has an ability to give enthusiasm for a wide variety of music.” His recordings with the Lucerne Symphony, where his contract extends until 2021, are vibrant and beautifully played. (I particularly relish a glowing but fierce account of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 and American Suite.) A Philharmonic concert he led in 2015 — featuring the premiere of an Andrew Norman piano concerto, Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony and Strauss’s  Till Eulenspiegel  — was a programming model, a study in musical tricksterism through the ages that gave a new work a brilliantly apt context.”

“I think communicating music is, of course, important but bringing people together and getting people to move together and breathe together is a beautiful job. I love my job, but it’s hard to put into words what it is we do up there but at the end of the day it’s bringing people together and whatever language they speak or whatever place they’re from, somehow we’re all coming together and doing the same piece of music in a very united fashion.”

Limelight Magazine

“Gaffigan and his ensemble, which plays with rich tone and a winning sense of dialogue, bring terrific purpose and style. Gaffigan and the LSO do themselves proud.”

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Jim Gaffigan , the comedian from Indiana, was performing live at the DTE Energy center. I would say that his performance highlighted his unique style. Jim speaks really well, and I can appreciate that as did every member in the audience. He was in tune with the audience who were always very amused or laughing a lot. His performance was very good, cracking jokes about being a father of many and being from Indiana. His jokes would be funny to almost everyone, that’s just the guy he is. You can be from any place and you would be laughing at his comedy wholeheartedly. His type of jokes are just relatable to any person, from any walk of life in my opinion. He is not only a gifted comedian, he entertains and is in sync with the crowd. It feels like we are all having fun together. The performance was outside, and many hundreds crowded around to hear his amazing performance. It felt very relaxed sitting by the comedian or just sitting on the grass a bit further away. Overall, it was just quality entertainment. His jokes are very relatable and you’ll find yourself laughing and having a god time for certain.

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Jim Gaffigan - New Tour: The fun Tour

EMMY AWARD WINNING COMEDIAN

Jim gaffigan, returns to toronto & ottawa with his new tour, the fun tour, friday, october 21, 2022, meridian hall, saturday, october 22, 2022.

Tickets on sale Thursday, June 23 at 10 AM

MONTREAL (JUNE 20, 2022) – Just For Laughs is thrilled to announce the return of comedian, actor, writer and author Jim Gaffigan to Toronto & Ottawa with his new show The Fun Tour . Gaffigan will be at Meridian Hall (Toronto) on Friday, October 21 at 7 PM and at TD Place (Ottawa) on Saturday, October 22 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $45.50, $59.50, $69.50 and a limited amount at $85.50 (taxes included + facility & service charges) and go on-sale Thursday, June 23 at 10 AM.

About Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life. Tickets for his The Fun Tour are currently at JimGaffigan.com.

A top ten earning comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list, Jim recently released his 9th stand-up special, Comedy Monster, on Netflix, which was hailed as “dynamite,” and “his best special,” by NY Times. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora.

Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, which will premiere at SXSW this year, and will star as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar’s highly anticipated film, Luca, opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph.

On the silver screen, his many credits include Three Kings, Super Troopers 1 & 2, and Chappaquiddick. 2019 was Gaffigan’s biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films releasing, three which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including Troop Zero with Viola Davis and Alison Janney, Them That Follow and Light From Light – with many festival goers and press calling Gaffigan the “King of Sundance.”

Gaffigan also had two films recently in which he debuted as the lead. The comedic film Being Frank, and American Dreamer, a dark thriller which was the grand finale of 2019 for Jim and features him as a ride share driver who moonlights as a private driver for a drug dealer. Both films are now available for download. Gaffigan can also currently be seen opposite Ethan Hawke in IFC Films Tesla, as well as opposite Josh Hartnett in Saban Films Most Wanted.

Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.

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Review: Midwestern Sensibilities Drive Jim Gaffigan’s The Fun Tour

• March 8, 2022
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Full disclosure: I listen to standup to help me sleep. During these dystopian times, when I’m frequently unable to catch some ZZZs, I’ll play a comedy special on the bedroom TV. I close my eyes but can still hear the routine until I hopefully slide into slumber. It reminds me of dozing off while my parents talked in the other room, a bit of companionship and security, like falling safely asleep in the back of the Impala while Dad drove home from Grandma’s. My favorite soothing sleep aid is Jim Gaffigan, and he’s unknowingly rocked me to sleep with his comedy specials, including Beyond the Pale, King Baby, Mr. Universe, Obsessed, Cinco, The Pale Tourist, Quality Time and Noble Ape .

But there was no napping when Gaffigan played a three-show, nearly sold-out run of his new piece The Fun Tour  at the Chicago Theatre last weekend. Frequent opening act Ted Alexandro warmed up the lively, appreciative Friday night crowd, and shared that he had indeed achieved his “quarantine 15” pounds. To lose that weight, he buys bagged salad at the store, which he suggests that the cashier throw directly into the trash after purchase, to save him the trouble of doing the same at home a few days later. He also talked about being a new dad with a younger wife, and notes that, as an aging guy, he now pees sitting down, sometimes wakes up injured, and has increased the font size on his phone.

Gaffigan then took to the stage for his hour-long set. Perambulating around the empty stage wearing a black sweatshirt, brown pants and white sneakers, the self-professed super-pale guy (as noted in some of his show titles), he confessed that he had polished off a Lou Malnati’s pizza the night before. Gaffigan was born in the Chicagoland area, and grew up in Indiana, so knows his pizza as well as how to integrate local delicacies and regional knowledge into most of his sets. He shared some bathroom antics in this show, from stories about Montezuma’s revenge to musings about why the toilet is also called “the loo … perhaps a reference to Lou Malnati’s?”

Before COVID and the tyranny of The Former Guy, Gaffigan was mostly, famously, apolitical, but now, due to the aforementioned dystopia, some liberal opinions are (gratefully) creeping into his act, and the audience welcomed his jibes at antivaxxers—“we all used to know one.” He and his wife Jeannie, co-writer and co-producer of his shows (whom he calls a “Shiite Catholic”), also shared religious-inspired material about the plagues that are currently visiting our planet, and he riffed about how the frog plague is the most pathetic plague. (Ed. Note: it is.)

He owns up to being “white trash,” admitting that he had a dirty beer can collection at age nine, and refers to Indiana as merely “the road from Chicago to Michigan.” But now he’s fancier, sharing that he “just took out a reverse mortgage to afford a new phone.” He echoes some previous material about carting his five young kids around the world, and updates viewers on Jeannie’s new swallowing disorder following her life-threatening brain surgery a few years back. He talked about merch tables at funerals, how golf trips might make men gay, and the perennial conundrum as to why bikers ride motorcycles and cyclists ride bikes.

Gaffigan is deeply funny and insightful, yet his charm emanates from his calm, reflective and world-weary everyman take on the everyday: family foibles, mass culture, and now, a wee bit more politics. Keep talking, Jim. Thank you and good night.

Along with his wife and kids, Gaffigan added a “Let’s Get Cookin’” series of videos to his YouTube channel during quarantine. His hourlong pandemic special Comedy Monster is currently running on Netflix , and his live, in-person The Fun Tour continues around the US throughout 2022 (Hot Pockets not included).

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Standup Jim Gaffigan: ‘I never wanted to do us-and-them comedy’

The Grammy-nominated US comedian with a nice-guy reputation has warmed up for the pope and doesn’t swear on stage. But since he called out Trump on Twitter, are we seeing a new, spikier side to the ‘king of clean’?

W hen I first wrote about Jim Gaffigan, on his visit to the UK in 2017 , I asked: “Is this America’s Michael McIntyre?” OK, so the Indiana man is bluer of collar, and rather less gigglesome. But he was, like the Englishman, a purveyor of fun-for-all-the-family observational comedy, inhabiting that territory where funny foodstuffs, marital scrapes and pesky kids meet, and from which politics and rude words have made themselves scarce. Here was an act – known as “the king of clean” – who opened for the pope in Philadelphia before a million-strong audience, whose albums topped the Billboard comedy chart and secured six Grammy nominations, and who reigned supreme at standup comedy without ruffling any feathers whatsoever.

Suffice to say, when Gaffigan visits again this autumn, no one will be comparing him to McIntyre. On 28 August 2020, “it finally happened”, in the words of one askance US news report at the time: “Donald Trump broke the world’s nicest man.” The lifelong noncontroversialist Gaffigan had launched an extraordinary Twitter tirade against the then president, hot on the heels of that year’s Republican National Convention. Addressing his 3 million followers, from all sides of the political spectrum, he called Trump “a traitor and a con man who doesn’t care about you. Deep down you know it.” The president was “a liar, a criminal [and] a fascist who has no belief in law.” Gaffigan-watchers couldn’t believe what they were reading. Some predicted a career implosion. Gaffigan followed up with an explanatory Facebook post three days later, sarcastically titled What I’ve Learned Since I Lost My Mind .

“As for my Trump rant,” he tells me now, over Zoom from the US, “I’m somebody who does not think that anyone listens when a comedian or actor tells them to do something. But I had reached the point where I was so convinced there was this great con occurring that I was hoping to shake some moderate, who might be from a small town in the midwest like I’m from, to not be conned.”

Whether or not we should be thanking Gaffigan for Trump’s ousting at the ballot box a few months later, it seems that breaking the dam of his personal politics marked a watershed moment for the 56-year-old’s comedy. I’m not claiming he’s since become some Mark Thomas of the midwest but his 2021 Netflix special Comedy Monster, with its routines on Covid, QAnon, stolen land and “billionaire pretend-astronauts”, was noticeably spikier than Gaffigan’s usual fare.

Is that how the man himself sees it? Yes and no. On the one hand, “entertainment is the perception business”, he says. “And because I was clean, I’ve got five kids and I don’t curse on stage, people made assumptions: ‘Oh this guy is vanilla, he’s milquetoast.’ In fact, I’ve always made some political jokes. But I’ve also always had the approach of: it’s better to convince someone of your point of view with subtlety than with a hammer.” In his audience, he says proudly, “there’s always been the conservative Mormon family sitting next to the lesbian couple. I never wanted to do ‘us and them’ comedy.

It comes down to a matter of taste. While he has respect for “my brothers and sisters in comedy that get off on it”, Gaffigan’s is not for the kind of “edgelord” standup who rejoices in giving offence. “My whole thing is, you can communicate a point of view without throwing a punch as if it were 2am outside a pub.”

“You look at someone like [90s standup icon] Bill Hicks ,” he goes on. “A great comedic mind, but a lot of what he says seems shocking by today’s standards.” Seen as progressive at the time, Hicks’s shtick can feel homophobic or misogynist at 30 years’ distance. “Is that because we’re too fragile now,” asks Gaffigan, “or because we’ve evolved? The concept of liberty for gay people has changed so dramatically since the 90s. So are we sacrificing some individual liberty by not saying things that are offensive [to gay people]? Or are we just learning a greater level of civility?

“Maybe I’m just a dumb guy, but I’m like: ‘OK, if that pisses you off, I’m not going to say it.’ I don’t feel like there’s any freedom being infringed.” You could call that an apology for mild-mannered comedy – or you could credit a comic who makes an effort to engage constructively with the times, and with the debates that swirl around his art form. Certainly, there’s more to Gaffigan’s new show – called, with more than a hint of irony, The Fun Tour – than just a nonconfrontational disposition. Because “you’ve got to evolve”, says Gaffigan, who admits that his work is developing slightly sharper edges. “As a standup, I’m on my 10th hour now. And I view standup shows as a conversation among friends. And the friends we really like, they challenge us. Whereas the people that only want to have the same conversation with you, over and again – you get bored of them.”

For Gaffigan, the same conversation would be more jokes about being a “doughy” (his word), pale-skinned midwesterner, a hapless dad hitched to an ardently Catholic wife, and hopelessly addicted to bad food. (His signature, career-breakout routine is about the microwaveable American snack Hot Pockets.) All will feature, he promises, in the London-bound new show. But so too will a brand of comedy that responds to the changing times.

“Culturally, whether it’s bad or good, whether down to social media or the Kardashians, we have become more voyeuristic and more exhibitionist. And it’s become obvious that the personal point of view is an important price of entry to any artistic endeavour.” Of his new show, he promises something “pretty dark”, and influenced by “how the Brits see comedy”, which is that “shows should strive to have a message [and] be closer to a piece of art. You guys take comedy much more seriously than Americans.”

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If the show has a message, Gaffigan says, “it’s that after Covid, there’s a nihilism. We’ve been dealing with some harsh realities. What’s going on worldwide, it doesn’t look great. I don’t know about you but I’m like: what is the winter going to be like?” That may not sound like a hoot, as Gaffigan admits – but early reviews stateside, of a gallows-humorous show that tackles Death with a capital D, nose-diving aircraft, anti-vaxxers and divine retribution for humankind’s misbehaviour, are encouraging.

The show isn’t all Gaffigan has in the pipeline, mind you. While he knows you won’t know this about him, the New York resident is also a screen actor, with several live-action and voiceover roles under his belt – not to mention his autobiographical sitcom The Jim Gaffigan Show. He’s now got a plum upcoming role in Disney’s remake of Peter Pan, as Smee to Jude Law’s Captain Hook. But Gaffigan seems less eager to talk about this than about his standup, perhaps because “I’ve been acting for the past 10 years in mainly dramas, and with every single movie, my interviewers always ask: what’s it like to be a comedian in a drama?” I won’t ask, Jim, I promise! “Look, the first time I did a comedy special in the US, I was known for sitcoms. And the USA Today review was headlined ‘Sitcom actor tries standup’.” Even on a transatlantic Zoom call, I can feel the exasperation behind Gaffigan’s brave face. “It’s a perception-based industry,” he shrugs, “and I can’t control that.”

Happily, he’ll always have standup comedy to fall back on, an art form with which – as London beckons – he still seems sweetly in love. “I take pride in being a comedian,” he says. “There’s a big responsibility, of course. People don’t have much time. If you’re getting them to come to a theatre, you’ve got to deliver. You have to add value to their day.” But – whether joking about hot politics or Hot Pockets – “the creative fulfilment you get from coming up with a line, or figuring out how to set something up, or teasing out a question you want to examine … And the immediacy of standup! I don’t think there’s any art form that can compete with it.”

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Jim Gaffigan is calling Nashville from Costa Rica — not the first place you expect to find a stand-up comedian who famously jokes about his pale complexion and propensity for getting severe sunburns.

But as it turns out, traveling close to the equator is actually a strategic move for the father of five. He had a gig in Mexico City during spring break for several of his kids, and turned the trip into a tropical family vacation. 

The journey continues next week, when Gaffigan will have a very special opening act for his show at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on March 30.

During our conversation — which he joked would add roughly $80 to his hotel bill — we talked about touring with his kids, an uncharacteristically controversial joke from his last Netflix special, his takeaway from presenting at the CMA Awards, and his love/hate relationship with hot chicken (who can't relate?)

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'This fat guy is gonna want this food'

The bit that put Gaffigan on the map some 20-plus years ago was an extended riff on Hot Pockets, and food has remained a constant in his career. In fact, when KFC was using a revolving door of comedians to play Colonel Sanders on TV, his turn involved promoting the franchise's new "Nashville Hot" variety.

A self-made poster for his Nashville show boldly proclaimed that all of the city's hot chicken was still "not enough," and that's dangerous talk when you're dealing with seriously high spice levels. 

"I love hot chicken, but I'm somebody who can't pace themselves. So later that night, you know, the 'bill comes due' for the hot chicken. But I'm still that guy that if I'm in Nashville, I'm going to get hot chicken. The question is, 'Before or after the show?' The smart thing would be to do it after the show. But given that the promoters are Outback (Concerts), and they're from Nashville, I think they're probably gonna give me some hot chicken (before). I did a show in Lafayette, Louisiana, and they brought crawfish. They're just like, 'Whatever the local specialties are, this fat guy is gonna want this food.' That's my equivalent of touring with an entourage, it's the food."

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His new opening act

Gaffigan's Bridgestone Arena date falls right in the middle of weeklong jaunt he's calling "3 Men and a Bus." He'll be traveling with friend and fellow standup Todd Glass, as well as his 16-year-old son Jack, who'll be on his spring break next week. Jack has introduced his dad on stages from Alaska to Florida, but it sounds like he'll be even more involved at these shows.

"Jack is really funny, and I want to just force him to do it so that he has some experience," Gaffigan says. "I come from a small town, and I didn't really have an opportunity to discover performing until I was like, 25."

A snark-free take on the CMAs

Gaffigan was last on stage at Bridgestone Arena in 2019 — as an unlikely presenter at the CMA Awards. (He and Blanco Brown gave the New Artist of the Year prize to Ashley McBryde). The female-centric show was one of the best CMAs in years, and Gaffigan walked away with a sincere respect for the Music Row world. 

"I was blown away by the whole experience," he says. 

"The opening number of that year had probably 12 of the best, biggest female stars in country music. Dolly Parton was there, Kacey Musgraves and just down the line, and there was no real hierarchy. There really is this sense in country music that you can support your fellow artists. And that's not to say that people don't support each other in other aspects of the entertainment industry, but it's kind of woven into country music, and it's really reflected."

That experience stood in stark contrast to the Grammy Awards, where Gaffigan presented two months later.

"It felt like a day in high school. The hierarchy was so clearly defined. And as a comedian, I'm grateful to even be at Grammys, but I feel like in country music, people check on their ego when they get together."

Courting controversy...with marching bands?

Gaffigan works clean, and generally steers clear of politics on stage. It was surprising, then, that a portion of his latest Netflix special ruffled a few feathers — more specifically, plumes sticking out of hats. 

"A marching band can take a song – it’s impressive, really – any song, and ruin it," he jokes in 2021's "Comedy Monster."

“They’re always rehearsing. It’s amazing how much effort goes into creating something that no one really likes…"

His distaste for marching bands likely stems from his childhood in Chesterton, Indiana, where the local high school's Trojan Guard band won the national championship in 1981.

"The weird thing is, I feel like people in marching band generally got it," Gaffigan tells The Tennessean. "But there were some angry people (laughs)."

"I'm not an 'Us and them' kind of comedian, like, 'Those idiots over there,' which some comedians do.  But you’d be amazed about what people will be upset about. I always imagine, where are they in that situation when they're consuming it? I mean, are they going through a divorce? Are they 70 years old, and think that I'm being disrespectful of this time with my children? You're not going to please everyone. That's for sure."

His next special is planned, but still being written

In October, Gaffigan will tape his next stand-up special in Tampa, Fla. Which of the 50 streaming services will carry it? "I think the expectation is Netflix," he says. "But you never know."

What material he'll tackle next is also up in the air. He's already done the pandemic:  "Comedy Monster" had some sharp, gap-bridging material on emerging from lockdown life before Delta and Omicron sent him back in.  

"The pandemic is like a TV show you thought was canceled," he jokes on the special. "And then it got picked up by Netflix.

"Standup is very much self assignment," Gaffigan says. "And so that's the assignment that I've given myself, which is great, because otherwise I would just eat and watch TV. And I really do love coming up with new material, which is always a terrifying thing. It's a parallel to even performing stand up. It's like, 'Why put yourself in this position where you can humiliate yourself?' But the reward is so gratifying. Fear is a motivator. That's kind of my parenting style, too."

If you go: Jim Gaffigan performs at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, March 30. The show starts at 7 p.m., and tickets start at $34.65.

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Jim Gaffigan Adds T-Mobile Center to “The Fun Tour” in 2022

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Kansas City, Mo. (December 6, 2021) – Today, Comedian  Jim Gaffigan  announced additional 2022 tour stops to his “The Fun Tour” including T-Mobile Center on April 1. 

Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, two-time Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life.

A top ten comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list, Jim recently released his 8th stand-up special, “The Pale Tourist,” on Amazon which was nominated for a Grammy. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora.

Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, and will star as the role as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He will also be heard in Disney/Pixar’s highly anticipated film, Luca, opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph which premiered in June.

On the silver screen, his many credits include “Three Kings,” “Super Troopers 1 & 2,” and “Chappaquiddick.” 2019 was Gaffigan’s biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films releasing, three which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including “Troop Zero” with Viola Davis and Alison Janney, “Them That Follow and Light From Light” – with many festival goers and press calling Gaffigan the “King of Sundance.”

In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from “Portlandia” and “Bob’s Burgers” to the HBO cult hits “Flight of the Concords” to dramatic roles in “Law & Order.”

Gaffigan has won two Emmy awards for his humorous commentaries on “CBS Sunday Morning.” In 2015, Gaffigan had the great honor of performing for Pope Francis and over 1 million festival attendees at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia.

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ABOUT JIM GAFFIGAN: Gaffigan is a seven-time Grammy-nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy-winning top touring performer, and multi-Platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life.

Gaffigan is a top 10 comedian according to Forbes’ most recent comedy list, and top 10 earning comedian in Pollstar’s 2022 list. He released his 10th comedy special, “Dark Pale,” this year on Amazon Prime Video – an unprecedented achievement for the comedian/actor. “Dark Pale” was met with critical fanfare, with The New York Times calling it Gaffigan’s best yet.

Gaffigan was also recently recognized for being the first comedian to reach 1 billion streams on Pandora. He can currently be seen as the lead in the well-reviewed Sci-Fi dramedy, “Linoleum,” and stars as Mr. Smee in “Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy,” opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He will co-star with Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden and Hugh Grant in Netflix’s “Unfrosted.”

On the silver screen, Gaffigan’s many credits include “Three Kings,” “Super Troopers” and “Chappaquiddick.” 2019 was Gaffigan’s biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films releasing, three which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival – including “Troop Zero” with Viola Davis and Alison Janney, “Them That Follow” and “Light From Light” – with many festivalgoers and press calling Gaffigan the “King of Sundance.” Gaffigan was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar’s animated film, “Luca,” opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph.

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Jim Gaffigan is a seven-time  Grammy  nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time  New York Times  best-selling author, three-time  Emmy  winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life. Tickets for his  Barely Alive Tour , are currently available at  JimGaffigan.com .

A top ten comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list and top ten earning comedian in Pollstar’s 2022 list, Jim released his 9 th  stand-up special,  Comedy Monster,  on Netflix December 2021 which was nominated for a Grammy.  He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora. Gaffigan will release his 10 th  comedy special,  Dark Pale,  this year, an unprecedented achievement for the comedian/actor. 

Gaffigan can currently be seen as the lead in the well-reviewed Sci-Fi dramedy,  Linoleum , and stars as Mr. Smee in Disney’s  Peter Pan and Wendy , opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He will also co-star Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden, and Hugh Grant in Netflix’s  Unfrosted , and co-stars in  Susie Searches  which premiered at TIFF last year and will hit theaters July 28 th . Gaffigan joined the cast of HBO Max’s  Full Circle,  a limited series from Steve Soderbergh and Ed Solomon which follows an investigation into a botched kidnapping connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day NY.  Full Circle  will premiere July 13 th . 

Gaffigan was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar’s highly anticipated animated film,  Luca,  opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph. 

On the silver screen, his many credits include  Three Kings ,  Super Troopers 1 & 2 , and  Chappaquiddick . 2019 was Gaffigan’s biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films releasing, three which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival   including  Troop Zero  with Viola Davis and Alison Janney,  Them That Follow  and  Light From Light  – with many festival goers and press calling Gaffigan the “King of Sundance.”   

Gaffigan also had two films recently in which he debuted as the lead. The comedic film  Being Frank , and  American Dreamer , a dark thriller which was the grand finale of 2019 for Jim and features him as a ride share driver who moonlights as a private driver for a drug dealer. 

Gaffigan can also currently be seen opposite Ethan Hawke in IFC Films  Tesla,  as well as opposite Josh Hartnett in Saban Films’  Most Wanted.

In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical  The Jim Gaffigan Show , which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from  Portlandia  and  Bob’s Burgers  to the HBO cult hits  Flight of the Concords  to dramatic roles in  Law & Order.   

Gaffigan regularly does humorous commentaries on  CBS Sunday Morning  for which he has won 3 Emmys.  In 2018 Jim served as master of ceremony at  The Al Smith Memorial dinner .  In 2015, Gaffigan had the great honor of performing for Pope Francis and over 1 million festival attendees at the  Festival of Families  in Philadelphia .   

Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.

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Jim Gaffigan Announces Second Show For His 2022 The Fun Tour At The Fox Theatre November 20

(DETROIT – June 6, 2022) – Due to popular demand, Jim Gaffigan announced today that he has added a second date for his 2022 “The Fun Tour” at the Fox Theatre on Sunday, November 20 at 7 p.m. Comerica Bank is the exclusive presenting partner of the Fox Theatre.

Tickets (starting at $39.75) for the newly announced date go on sale Friday, June 10 at 10 a.m. at 313Presents.com and Ticketmaster.com . Presale begins Thursday, June 9 at 10 a.m. A limited number of tickets for the first show on Saturday, November 19 are still available.

Jim Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy® nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life. Tickets for his “The Fun Tour” are currently at JimGaffigan.com .

A top ten earning comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list, Jim recently released his ninth stand-up special, Comedy Monster, on Netflix, which was hailed as “dynamite,” and “his best special,” by NY Times. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora.

Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, which will premiere at SXSW this year, and will star as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar’s highly anticipated film, Luca, opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph.

On the silver screen, his many credits include Three Kings, Super Troopers 1 & 2, and Chappaquiddick. 2019 was Gaffigan’s biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films releasing, three which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including Troop Zero with Viola Davis and Alison Janney, Them That Follow and Light From Light – with many festival goers and press calling Gaffigan the “King of Sundance.”

Gaffigan also had two films recently in which he debuted as the lead. The comedic film Being Frank, and American Dreamer, a dark thriller which was the grand finale of 2019 for Jim and features him as a ride share driver who moonlights as a private driver for a drug dealer. Both films are now available for download. Gaffigan can also currently be seen opposite Ethan Hawke in IFC Films Tesla, as well as opposite Josh Hartnett in Saban Films Most Wanted.

In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical The Jim Gaffigan Show, which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from Portlandia and Bob’s Burgers to the HBO cult hits Flight of the Concords to dramatic roles in Law & Order.

Gaffigan regularly does humorous commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning for which he has won 3 Emmys. In 2018, Jim served as master of ceremony at The Al Smith Memorial dinner. In 2015, Gaffigan had the great honor of performing for Pope Francis and over one million festival attendees at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia.

Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.

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Jim Gaffigan is a seven-time Grammy-nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy-winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life.

Gaffigan is a top ten comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list and top ten earning comedian in Pollstar’s 2022 list. He released his 10th comedy special, Dark Pale, this year on Amazon Prime Video, an unprecedented achievement for the comedian/actor.  Dark Pale was met with critical fanfare with The New York Times calling it, ‘his best yet.”

 In 2021 Gaffigan released his 9th special, Comedy Monster, on Netflix which was nominated for a Grammy Award.  He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora. 

 Gaffigan can currently be seen as the lead in the well-reviewed Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, and stars as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He will also co-star Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden, and Hugh Grant in Netflix’s Unfrosted, and co-stars in Susie Searches which premiered at TIFF last year and in theaters this summer. Also premiering this summer, Gaffigan joined the cast of HBO Max’s Full Circle, a limited series from Steve Soderbergh and Ed Solomon which follows an investigation into a botched kidnapping connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day NY.

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Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 11 at 10:00 AM.

By overwhelming demand, a fourth show has been added for Jim Gaffigan 's "Dark Pale Tour" headed across the U.S. in 2023. The fourth show has been added on Saturday, January 28 at 9:30 PM.

Jim Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy-nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy-winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life.

A top ten comedian according to Forbes' 2019 comedy list, Jim released his 8th stand-up special, The Pale Tourist, on Amazon. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora. His 9th stand-up special, Comedy Monster, premiered on Netflix last December.

Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, and will star as Mr. Smee in Disney's Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He will also co-star with Jerry Seinfeld , Melissa McCarthy , James Marsden , and Hugh Grant in Netflix's Unfrosted, and co-stars in the independent film Susie Searches which premiered at TIFF this year. HBO Max recently announced Gaffigan joined the cast of Full Circle, a limited series from Steve Soderbergh and Ed Solomon which follows an investigation into a botched kidnapping connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day NY.

Gaffigan was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar's highly anticipated film, Luca, opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph .

On the silver screen, his many credits include Three Kings, Super Troopers 1 & 2, and Chappaquiddick. 2019 was Gaffigan's biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films released, three of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including Troop Zero with Viola Davis and Alison Janney , Them That Follow and Light From Light - with many festival goers and press calling Gaffigan the "King of Sundance."

Gaffigan also had two films recently in which he debuted as the lead. The comedic film Being Frank, and American Dreamer, a dark thriller which was the grand finale of 2019 for Jim and features him as a ride-share driver who moonlights as a private driver for a drug dealer. Both films are now available for download.

Gaffigan can also currently be seen opposite Ethan Hawke in IFC Films Tesla, as well as opposite Josh Hartnett in Saban Films Most Wanted.

In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical The Jim Gaffigan Show, which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from Portlandia and Bob's Burgers to the HBO cult hits Flight of the Concords to dramatic roles in Law & Order.

Gaffigan regularly does humorous commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning for which he has won 3 Emmys. In 2018 Jim served as master of ceremony at The Al Smith Memorial dinner. In 2015, Gaffigan had the great honor of performing for Pope Francis and over 1 million festival attendees at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia.

Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.

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Jim Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life. Tickets for his The Fun Tour are currently at JimGaffigan.com. A top ten earning comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list, Jim recently released his 9th stand-up special, Comedy Monster, on Netflix, which was hailed as “dynamite,” and “his best special,” by NY Times. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora. Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, which will premiere at SXSW this year, and will star as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi.  He was also.... Read more...

Jim Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life. Tickets for his The Fun Tour are currently at JimGaffigan.com.

A top ten earning comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list, Jim recently released his 9th stand-up special, Comedy Monster, on Netflix, which was hailed as “dynamite,” and “his best special,” by NY Times. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora.

Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, which will premiere at SXSW this year, and will star as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi.  He was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar’s highly anticipated film, Luca, opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph.

On the silver screen, his many credits include Three Kings, Super Troopers 1 & 2, and Chappaquiddick. 2019 was Gaffigan’s biggest year to date with an astonishing eight films releasing, three which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including Troop Zero with Viola Davis and Alison Janney, Them That Follow and Light From Light – with many festival goers and press calling Gaffigan the “King of Sundance.”

Gaffigan also had two films recently in which he debuted as the lead. The comedic film Being Frank, and American Dreamer, a dark thriller which was the grand finale of 2019 for Jim and features him as a ride share driver who moonlights as a private driver for a drug dealer. Both films are now available for download. Gaffigan can also currently be seen opposite Ethan Hawke in IFC Films Tesla, as well as opposite Josh Hartnett in Saban Films Most Wanted.

In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical The Jim Gaffigan Show, which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from Portlandia and Bob’s Burgers to the HBO cult hits Flight of the Concords to dramatic roles in Law & Order.

Gaffigan regularly does humorous commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning for which he has won 3 Emmys.  In 2018, Jim served as master of ceremony at The Al Smith Memorial dinner.  In 2015, Gaffigan had the great honor of performing for Pope Francis and over 1 million festival attendees at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia.

Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.

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