Jim Gaffigan

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James Christopher Gaffigan (born July 7, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.

He was born in Chesterton, Indiana.

His books are often about fatherhood, observations, laziness, and food.

He is also known as a "clean" comedian, who uses little profanity in his routines.

He has produced several hit comedy specials, including Mr. Universe, Obsessed, and Cinco, many of which have received Grammy awards.

Crown Publishers has published his memoir, Dad Is Fat (2013), and his most recent book, Food: A Love Story (2014).

The Jim Gaffigan Show was produced and performed in a TV Land television series based on his life. He works closely with his wife, actress Jeannie Gaffigan, and their five children are together.

They are Catholic, a subject that appears in his comedy, and they live in Manhattan, New York City.

Early life

James Christopher Gaffigan was born in Elgin, Illinois, on July 7, 1966, the youngest of six children born to charity worker and fundraiser Marcia Miriam (née Mitchell) and banker Michael Ambrose Gaffigan. He is of Irish descent, with his family's surname originating from Gavahan. Justice Richard F. Mitchell, the son of Iowa's supreme court, was his maternal grandfather. Gaffigan was born in Chesterton, Indiana, and he joked about growing up in a large family. His mother, who excelled at needlework, received a national award for original design and craftsmanship from the American Needlepoint Guild in 1985. She died of cancer at the age of 53 in 1990.

Before his resignation in 1991, Gaffigan's father was the president and CEO of the Mercantile National Bank of Indiana. He was also heavily involved in local charity work as a former seminarian. In 1999, he died of lung cancer. Father Gaffigan was the first in his family to attend college and encouraged his children to seek careers that promised job security. However, when Gaffigan reached the age of five, he revealed that he aspired to be a comedian as a child.

As a child, Gaffigan appeared on Saturday Night Live. He attended La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana, where he competed on the school's football team. He attended Purdue University for one year, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, before transferring to Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he obtained a degree in finance in 1988. He played football at Georgetown and Purdue. Although he loathed financial analysis, he worked as a litigation consultant for a short time after graduating and "was horrible at it."

Personal life

In 2003, Gaffigan married actress Jeannie Gaffigan (née Noth). They have two daughters and three sons together, and they have two daughters and three sons. The family of seven children lived in a two-bedroom apartment in New York City's Manhattan borough before transferring to a larger Manhattan home in 2015. When working in the city, Gaffigan tries to "maintain bedtime habits." When on tour, he is believed to bring his family with him.

Gaffigan is a practicing Catholic who avoids working on Sundays, though he has joked that his wife is so much more devout than him that she does seem to be a "Shiite Catholic" in comparison. He and his family attend Mass at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan, which is also where he and his wife were married and where their children were baptized. He and his wife gave the commencement address at the Catholic University of America in May 2016. In May 2018, they delivered the commencement address at his wife's alma mater, Marquette University. Both students were awarded an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree as part of the graduation ceremony.

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Career

In 1990, Gaffigan moved to New York to pursue comedy, a move that was inspired by his admiration for fellow Hoosier David Letterman. He found a career in advertising, and he plans to work during the day and take acting lessons at night. He appeared in Blockbuster Video's "Entertainment Squad" series of commercials at this time. When a friend from the class pushed him to attend a stand-up seminar that needed a live set at the end, his career began in earnest. He fell in love with stand-up and began to perform comedy clubs nightly—after his evening acting lessons—well into the wee hours of the morning. He was often found sleeping on the job; his boss would have to wake him up to fire him.

He experimented with many styles in the first seven years of his career, from angry comedy to impressions and voices. In addition, live comedy was down from its high point in the 1980s, being even more affected by cable television's increasing success. He began performing on the show with David Letterman for six years, and his career flourished.

Gaffigan's style is mainly observational, and his main topics are laziness, eating, and parenthood. He is best known for his Hot Pocket routine, which was inspired by a commercial's comment that he mistook for a Saturday Night Live sketch. In addition,, he will often perform soliloquies by using a high-pitched voice and—in the third person—deliver negative feedback on his own results, such as after making a diarrhea joke in his 2012 debut "Mr. Universe" using the voice and saying, "Really, he's using diarrhea jokes?" "My inside voice is my audience," he says.

He explained in a Duluth News-Tribune interview that the voice was developed over time, beginning as a youth when he would dearm people by speaking for them in their presence. In his career, he used it to intimidate hecklers earlier in his career, though he says that comedy clubs were more combative. He cursed early in his career, and he added cursing to his comedy collection Doing My Time at his request, in the hopes of attracting more teenagers. However, he has largely cut profanity from his daily life, as he believes that his subject matter does not lend itself to cursing and that it reduced the effort he expended to make his jokes.

In 2004, Gaffigan's stand-up material was included in Comedy Central's animated film Shorties Watchin' Shortie. He produced Beyond the Pale, a live Comedy Central special that aired in January and became the comedy album/DVD. The routine consisted mostly of articles about food and American eating habits, and the comedian mistook a future Dunkin Donuts dish—the 'glazed donut breakfast sandwich', despite questioning the future of America's eating habits. King Baby's 2009 album was also a television special on "The Sexy Tour" in Austin, Texas. On DVD, Comedy Central released King Baby. In a Anytime with Bob Kushell interview in March 2009, Gaffigan defended his tour's selection, saying that it would be amusing that parents are unsure whether or not to bring their teenage children to the show. The Wall Street Journal rated Gaffigan as the "King of Clean" four years later on March 14, 2013.

Mr. Claude Gaffigan taped a one-hour stand-up special on February 25, 2012. Universe—at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C.; it was nominated for a Grammy Award. He revealed it based on Louis C.K.'s company model. The stand-up on Live at the Beacon Theater will be available online at $5, with 20% of the funds going to the Bob Woodruff Foundation, a charity that helps military veterans. According to Pollstar, he was one of the top-ten grossing comics in the United States in 2012.

On January 18, 2014, Gaffigan filmed Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed at Boston's Wilbur Theater. Obsessed debuted on Comedy Central on April 27, the network's most viewed stand-up comedy special of the year. Obsessed, the accompanying album, debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Billboard Comedy Album charts, debuting at number 11 on the Billboard 200 and number one. He began on a headlining tour in 2015, culminating in a winter show at Madison Square Garden.

Gaffigan has also acted out to raise money for charitable causes. He appeared at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 2002 as part of the United Service Organization's activities. Gaffigan appeared at the 2013 Stand Up for Heroes charity benefitting the Bob Woodruff Foundation, alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, and Jon Stewart. Gaffigan appeared at the 2013 CNN Heroes festival, which honors ordinary heroes who do amazing work around the world. Gaffigan attended the Make It Right Gala, an organization established by Brad Pitt in May 2014 that builds sustainable homes and buildings for communities in need. He appeared at the Festival of Families, a Catholic event held in Philadelphia, on September 26, 2015. At the festival, Gaffigan was the only comedian on the bill, and Pope Francis visited the function. There were more than 200,000 people attending the festival.

With over 647 million spins as of June 2016, Gaffigan was the most popular comic on Pandora.com.

Gaffigan embarked on his Fully Dressed Tour in 2016, appearing in North America, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Many times, Gaffigan has appeared at the "Just for Laughs" comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec.

Gaffigan attributes David Letterman and Bill Murray as influences, although he has claimed that Richard Pryor was the best stand-up comedian ever. Dave Attell, his comedian, was the only one who believed he was funny in his early stand-up days.

On the episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which featured Gaffigan, he confessed that the show's host Jerry Seinfeld had a major influence on him.

Gaffigan is best known for his being both an everyman and a clean comedian, and his Hot Pockets, cake, and bacon are among his signature items. Audiences and commentators have mixed reactions about his choice to avoid profanity. One critic likened him to full house Bob Saget (who appeared in the 1990s family feud), which Gaffigan dismissed as an insult. Hampton Stevens of The Atlantic wrote that the comic champions "weren't taken away" from [Lenny] Bruce's takeover of "the basic, yet apparently unconcerned belief that comedians have no obligation to be innovative, timely, politically aware, or something else but amusing."

A friend suggested that Gaffigan's comedy career stall in the 1990s, a move that turned out to be lucrative. He has appeared in over 200 TV ads, ranging from Rolling Rock to Saturn to Chrysler and ESPN. By BusinessWeek in 1999, his ubiquity earned him the title of 'Salesman of the Year.' As part of the Sierra Mist comedy group "The Mistakes," he appeared in three Sierra Mist commercials for the 2007 Super Bowl. He appeared in a Sierra Mist commercial with fellow comedian Michael Ian Black.

After his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1999, Gaffigan was hired by the host to produce Welcome to New York, in which he also co-starred with Christine Baranski. Despite receiving positive feedback, the show was cancelled after its first season. He appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' second sitcom during the 2000-2001 television season. He appeared in two films selected for the 2001 Sundance Film Festival: Super Troopers and 30 Years to Life. He appeared on That '70s Show.' He appeared on TBS' original sitcom My Boys as a regular cast member. He left the program at the end of the third season.

Mike Myers appeared in the film The Love Guru in 2008.

In one episode of HBO's comedy film Flight of the Conchords, a Gaffigan guest starred as Murray Hewitt's best friend. He appeared in Sam Mendes' directed dramedy Away We Go and the teen comedy 17 Again later that year. Gaffigan appeared on Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show on June 11, 2009. He appeared on Law & Order's "Flight" and "Reality Bites" as well as an episode entitled "Smile" on Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

He appeared on a Daily Show correspondent as a man dressed as a show reporter who knows nothing about it (he refers to it as "The John Daily Show") and simply wanted to see Jon Stewart. This was supposed to be a parody of the 2009 White House gatecrash incident.

In That Championship Season, Gaffigan appeared on Broadway, opposite Brian Cox, Chris Noth, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jason Patric. ABC News reporter Sandy Kenyon praised Gaffigan's appearance as the most touching and that he might "steal the show." "It's an amazing experience, but also fun" being on Broadway.

Gaffigan appeared in Howard Cantour.com, a short film directed by Daniel Clowes' 2007 graphic novella Justin M. Damiano. "There's no greater sin in the stand-up world than thievery," Gaffigan said in an interview with The Daily Beast, "I don't want to be associated with this crime because I don't think I have anything to do with it."

Gaffigan, his wife, and Peter Tolan began to produce material for a show that was largely based on their own lives in the 2010s. In March 2013, CBS agreed to shoot a pilot of their show, with Marc Hirschfeldt casting and Mira Sorvino playing his wife; but the project was ultimately cancelled. When the cable television network TV Land began efforts to air original content and attract younger viewers, it gave the Gaffigans complete creative control. The end was The Jim Gaffigan Show, a comedy about a couple raising their five children in a two-bedroom apartment in New York City. The pilot episode aired on July 15, 2015, following the premiere of two online-only episodes in June 2015. Gaffigan appears as a fictionalized version of himself, with his wife Jeannie played by Ashley Williams. Other characters include Daniel (played by Michael Ian Black), Jim's fellow comedian and best friend Dave (Adam Goldberg), and their priest, Father Nicholas (Tongayi Chirisa). In 2016, Jim and his wife Jeannie decided not to continue with a third season so they could spend more time with their children.

In the film Experimenter, a fictionalized account of Yale professor Stanley Milgram's research, Gaffigan co-starred. Gaffigan is an actor who has been hired to participate in the experiments.

Gaffigan took over as Colonel Sanders in KFC commercials in February 2016, replacing Norm Macdonald.

Since April 8, 2016, Gaffigan has been with his family in a Volkswagen Pacifica marketing effort.

In October 2016, it was announced that Gaffigan would appear in the cast of Fargo's third season. However, he was eventually forced to leave due to scheduling conflicts; Mark Forward was subsequently pushed out; he was then recalled by Mark Forward. He portrayed Paul Markham in the biographical drama Chappaquiddick, starring Jason Clarke and Kate Mara, to raves in 2018. Gaffigan appeared in the 2018 neo-noir film American Dreamer, which was released on September 20, 2019. Critics loved Gaffigan's gruesome portrayal of a homeless man led to horrific events, with the Chicago Sun-Times review describing it as "the best dramatic performance" by the Chicago Sun-Times.

In Michael Almeyda's 2020 film Tesla, Gaffigan portrayed George Westinghouse.

In season two of Stargirl, Gaffigan was confirmed to be the voice of Thunderbolt. Seth Green's role was recast to Seth Green by season three.

Mr. Smee appeared on Disney's Peter Pan & Wendy in January 2021. In the Pixar film Luca, Gaffigan played Lorenzo Paguro in 2021.

Gaffigan is also known for his voice-over duties. With Conan O'Brien from 2005 to 2008, he performed an animated version of himself on Pale Force. He has also voiced characters on Bob's Burgers, Shorty McShorts' Shorts, WordGirl, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and the animated film Duck Duck Goose.

Pale Force, a Gaffigan-led short film made for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, called Pale Force (2005–2008). Gaffigan and O'Brien were depicted in the animated sketches as superheroes who fight crime with their extremely pale skin. In 2005, the series was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the category "Outstanding Broadband Program – Comedy."

On Twitter, Gaffigan's humular quips have earned him over two and a half million followers. In 2012, Rolling Stone named him as one of the "25 funniest people on Twitter."

Gaffigan released Dad Is Fat in 2013, a term derived from his eldest son's sentence who wrote on a dry-erase board at the age of four or five. "He showed it to me," Gaffigan said in an interview, "and I chuckled, and then I put him up for adoption." The book is a collection of essays about his children's raising as well as reminiscences from his own childhood. On Father's Day, he appeared on NPR's Weekend Edition, ABC's The View, and MSNBC's Morning Joe.

It debuted on the New York Times Best Sellers list and remained on the list for three months. Critics largely dismissed the book. The book, according to Kirkus Reviews, "not groundbreaking comedy stuff," although it will be popular among Gaffigan's fans. "While Jim Gaffigan's book "no new ground is broken in his book, 'Dad is Fat" should be a fun intermezzo in your summer reading pile, according to Lou Harry of the Indianapolis Business Journal. Audiofile said his "performance strikes the right balance between his near-deadpan comedy delivery and the enthusiasm needed to keep a beleaguered parent interested."

In June 2013, Gaffigan was hired by Crown Publishing to write his second book of comedy essays. Food: A Love Story, a book that was published in fall 2014, was the subject of a love tale. According to Publishers Weekly, the book "packs a lot of laughs." "Gaffigan somehow manages to function 'clean' without ever becoming sickeningly saccharine," Kirkus Reviews wrote, and "laughs [are] served up on every page." "The witty commentary is peppered with jokes and amusing stories that will have listeners smiling throughout and occasionally yelling out loud," the Library Journal says of the accompanying audio book.

Gaffigan mainly wrote alone before meeting his wife, actress Jeannie Noth. However, when he first saw Welcome to New York, he was overwhelmed and asked for feedback from her (then his friend). Although initially reluctant to have a collaborator, Noth's ability to write articles for him increased as their friendship increased. She and Jim broke with her work with their youth theater venture (Shakespeare on the Playground) to devote herself to raising their expanding family, and after a joke she wrote made drew big laughs at a show, she and Jim started to collaborate more. She gradually moved into the role of Jim's chief co-writer, and the two writers are now full writing partners. She has been credited writer and/or executive producer on all his comedy ventures since Beyond the Pale, which include his two books and television series. He also attributes her to "coaching" him during his appearance in That Championship Season.

Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! Gaffigan appeared on the NPR radio quiz show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! In 2013, the United Kingdom hosted the World Economic Association. Gaffigan has served on CBS Sunday Morning as a regular commentator, for which he received a Daytime Emmy in 2016.

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