Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan
James Christopher "Jim" Gaffiganis an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, voice-over artist, and author. His humor largely revolves around fatherhood, observations, and food. He is also regarded as a "clean" comic, using little profanity in his routines. He has had several successful comedy specials, including Mr. Universe and Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed, both of which received Grammy nominations. His memoir, Dad Is Fatand his most recent book, Food: A Love Story, are both published by Crown Publishers. He co-created and currently...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth7 July 1966
CountryUnited States of America
If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.
Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.
Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.
I do just want to do jokes. I don't want to be a divisive figure.
I do want everyone to feel comfortable. That's why I'd like to talk to you about Jesus.
I am somebody who - my path to my faith is very kind of individual, and I don't want to be lumped into the category of those Westboro Baptists.
There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.
All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.
Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"
You know, I want to teach, but I don’t want to read?
The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
I just want to be known as funny.
I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.