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Jim Gaffigan is an actor, writer comedian, has five children two daughters Marre Gaffigan and Katie Louise Gaffigan, and three sons Jack Gaffigan, Michael Gaffigan, and Patrick Gaffigan and wife Jeannie Gaffigan.
Jim Gaffigan moved to New York to pursue comedy, his move was inspired by David Letterman. He successful found a job in advertising, where he worked during the day and taking acting classes at night. However, his career led him in an earnest when his friend from the class dared him to take a stand-up seminar that required a live set at the end. He began playing comedies in night clubs after his evening classes. His comedies styles is largely observational, and his principal topics relate to laziness, eating, and parenthood. He is famous for his Hot Pocket routine, which was inspired by a commercial he saw that he mistook for a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Also, during his routines, he will sometimes perform soliloquies by using a high pitched voice and in the third-person deliver negative feedback on his own performance, such as after making a diarrhea joke in his 2012 special “Mr. Universe” using the voice and saying he “Really, uses his diarrhea jokes?” He calls his voice connection to his audience, in an interview with the Duluth News-Tribune, he explained that the voice was developed over time, beginning as a teenager when he would disarm people by talking for them in their presence. He also used it as a way to fend off hecklers earlier in his career, when he says that comedy clubs were more combative. He cursed early in his career, and he added cursing to his comedy album Doing My Time, at the request of his label, in the hopes of drawing more teenagers. However, he has largely removed profanity from his routine, as he feels that his subject matter doesn’t lend itself to cursing and that it reduced the effort he put into crafting his jokes.
In 2004, his stand up comedy materials was featured in the comedy Central’s of animated series like Shorties Watchin’ Shortie. In October 2005 he filmed a live Comedy Central in a special thing aired in January, and became the comedy album and DVD beyond the Pale. The routine consisted primarily of material regarding food and American eating habits, and the comedian unknowingly predicted a future menu item at Dunkin Donuts the ‘glazed donut breakfast sandwich’ while commenting on the future of Americans eating habits.
On February 25, 2012, he taped a one hour stand up special Mr. Universe at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. He announced that,he is based on business and model used by Louis C.K.’s Live at the Beacon Theater, the stand-up would be available online through his website for $5, with 20% of the total proceeds going to the Bob Woodruff Foundation, an organization that provides support to military veterans. In 2012, he was among the top-ten grossing comics in the US, according to Pollstar.
He filmed his 2014 comedy in a special title of Jim Gaffigan who is obsessesed to Boston Wilbur Theater on January 18, 2014. He then obsessesed a premiered Comedy Central on April 27 becoming the most watched stand-up comedy special of the year for the network. The accompanying album, also titled Obsessed, debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200 and number 1 on the Billboard Comedy Album charts. 2015 saw him embark on a headlining tour, culminating in a winter show at Madison Square Garden. He has performed a stand up comedy to support a charitable causes in a well being services. He parted with United Service Organization event at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. He has also performed in the 2013 in his Stand Up comedies for Heroes on charity event benefiting the Bob Woodruff Foundation alongside fellow stand-up comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and Jon Stewart.
He also performed at the 2013 CNN Heroes event, which celebrates everyday heroes doing extraordinary work around the world. In May 2014, he performed at the Make It Right Gala, an organization founded by Brad Pitt, which builds sustainable homes and buildings for communities in need. On September 26, 2015, he performed at the Festival of families, a Catholic event held in Philadelphia. Gaffigan was the only comedian on the bill at the festival, and the event was visited by Pope Francis. The event had more than one million attendants As of June 2016, he was the most popular comic on all of Pandora.com with over 647 million spins. In 2016, he embarked on his Fully Dressed Tour, performing in the United States, Canada and the UK.
Jim Gaffigan his started his acting career as a comedian in 1990. His friend suggested him to turn out in a profitable appearance over 200 TV commercials. He is ranging to from Rolling Rock to Saturn to Chrysler and ESPN. His ubiquity earned him the title of ‘Salesman of the Year’ by Business Week in 1999. He also performed a trio of Sierra Mist commercials in 2007 for Super Bowl as the part of Sierra Mist comedy ensemble “The Mis-Takes”. He appeared in an ad series for Sierra Mist alongside fellow comedian Michael Ian Black. After his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1999, he was tapped by the host to develop a sitcom called Welcome to New York in which he also co-starred alongside Christine Baranski. The show was cancelled after its first season despite receiving positive reviews.
During the 2000/2001 television season, he was a cast member of The Ellen Show on CBS, Ellen DeGeneres’ second sitcom. He appeared in two movies chosen for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival: Super Troopers and 30 Years to Life. He appeared on That ’70s Show. He was a regular cast member of the TBS original sitcom My Boys. He left the show at the end of the third season. In 2008, he appeared in the movie The Love Guru starring Mike Myers.
In 2009, Gaffigan guest starred as the best friend of Murray Hewitt in one episode of the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords. Later that same year, he appeared in the Sam Mendes-directed dramedy Away We Go and the teen comedy 17 Again. On June 11, 2009, he appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. He appeared on Law & Order episodes “Flight” and “Reality Bites”, as well as an episode titled “Smile” on Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
He was in an episode of The Daily Show as a man posing as a Daily Show correspondent who knows nothing about the show (he refers to it as “The John Daily Show”) and simply wants to be seen with Jon Stewart. This was meant to be a parody of the 2009 White House gatecrash incident. He appeared on Broadway in That Championship Season, which opened in March 2011, opposite Brian Cox, Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jason Patric. His performance was praised by ABC News correspondent Sandy Kenyon as the most moving and that he may “steal the show”. He was called on the Broadway as “an amazing experience, really hard but really fun.”
He has starred in Shia LaBeouf’s 2013 short film Howard Cantour.com, the content of which was later revealed to be mostly plagiarized from Daniel Clowes’ 2007 graphic novella Justin M. Damiano. Reflecting on the incident in an interview for The Daily Beast, Gaffigan said, “There’s no greater sin in the stand-up world than thievery…So you do not want to be associated with thievery,” but added, “I don’t have any hard feelings about it because I don’t think people think I had anything to do with it.” In the 2010s, him, his wife, and Peter Tolan began to develop material for a show based loosely on their own life. CBS agreed to shoot a pilot of their show in March 2013, with casting by Marc Hirschfeld, and Mira Sorvino playing his wife; but
He ultimately passed on the project. When the cable network TV Land began efforts to broadcast original material and attract younger audiences, it offered the Gaffigans complete creative control. The result was The Jim Gaffigan Show, a sitcom about a couple raising their five kids in a two-bedroom New York City apartment. After the release of two online-only episodes in June 2015, the pilot episode aired on July 15, 2015. The show stars him as a fictionalized version of himself, with his wife Jeannie played by Ashley Williams.
After 2 seasons of the show, in 2016 Jim and his wife Jeannie decided not to continue with a third season so they could spend more time with their kids. In October 2016, it was announced that he will be joining the cast of the third season of the anthology drama series, Fargo. However, he was ultimately forced to drop out due to scheduling difficulties; he was replaced by Mark Forward.
Jim Gaffigan produced a series of animated shorts for Late Night with Conan O’Brien, titled Pale Force (2005–2008). The animated sketches featured Gaffigan and O’Brien as superheroes who fight crime with their extremely pale skin. The series was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2007 in the category of “Outstanding Broadband Program – Comedy”. his humorous quips have earned him over two and a half million followers on Twitter. He was listed by Rolling Stone as one of the “25 funniest people on Twitter” in 2012.
In 2013, he released Dad Is Fat, a title derived from the first complete sentence his eldest son wrote on a dry-erase board at the age of four or five. “He showed it to me,” announced Gaffigan in an interview, “and I laughed, and then I put him up for adoption.” The book is a collection of essays dealing with the raising of his children, as well as reminiscences from his own childhood. In support of the volume, he appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition, CBS Sunday, ABC’s The View, and MSNBC’s Morning Joe, spoke at BEA in New York, embarked on a nine-stop bus tour that ended on Father’s Day.
- It debuted at number five on The New York Times Best Seller’s list, remaining on the list for three months. The book received tepid reviews from critics. Kirkus Reviews said of the book that it’s “hardly groundbreaking comedy material, but the book will appeal to Gaffigan’s fans.” Lou Harry of the Indianapolis Business Journal said that while “no new ground is broken in Jim Gaffigan’s book and Dad is Fat’ should be a fun intermezzo in your summer reading pile.” Regarding the audiobook, which Gaffigan read, Audiofile said his “performance strikes the right balance between his near-deadpan comedy delivery and the energy needed to keep a beleaguered parent engaged.
In 2015 Gaffigan released the book “Food, a Love Story” and in 2019, Gaffigan released “Quality Time” on Amazon Prime.