Who Is Jim Gaffigan?, Jim Gaffigan Biography and Wiki
Jim Gaffigan (James Christopher Gaffigan) is an American Stand-Up Comedian, Actor, Writer, and Producer born on 7th July 1966 in Elgin, Illinois, U.S. He is best known for producing best comedies.
Jim Gaffigan Age and Birthday
He was born on 7 July 1966, Elgin, Illinois, United States of America. He celebrates his birthday on 7 July every year. He will be 55 years old on 7 July 2021.
Jim Gaffigan Height and Weight
He stands at a height of 1.83 m. His body weight will be added soon.
Jim Gaffigan Education
Jim Gaffigan graduated from La Lumiere School, Indiana, where he starred on the school football team. He joined went on and joined Purdue University where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity.
He then transferred to Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he graduated in 1988 with a degree in finance. He played varsity football at Georgetown and Purdue.
Jim Gaffigan Family and Parents
Jim Gaffigan was born to Micheal A. Graffin (father) and Marcia Gaffigan (mother). He is the youngest among his six siblings. His father was a banker.
Jim Gaffigan Wife, Is he married?
Jim Gaffigan married Jeannie Gaffin who is also an actress with whom he got five children.
Jim Gaffigan Children
Jim Gaffigan has five children two daughters Marre Gaffigan and Katie Louise Gaffigan, and three sons Jack Gaffigan, Michael Gaffigan, and Patrick Gaffigan.
Jim Gaffigan Net worth
He has enjoyed a long career in the Comedy Industry. Through proceeds from his work as a comedian, he has been able to accumulate a modest fortune. Jim is estimated to have a net worth of about $25 million.
Jim Gaffigan Measurements and Facts
Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan Bio and Wiki
- Full Names: James Christopher Gaffigan
- Popular As: Jim Gaffigan
- Gender: Male
- Occupation / Profession: Comedian
- Nationality: United States
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: To be updated soon
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Jim Gaffigan Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 54 years
- Zodiac Sign: To be updated soon
- Date of Birth: 7 July 1966
- Place of Birth: Elgin, Illinois, United States
- Birthday: 7 July
Jim Gaffigan Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: To be updated soon
- Height / How Tall?: Average
- Weight: Moderate
- Eye Color: To be updated soon
- Hair Color: Dark brown
- Shoe Size: To be updated soon
Jim Gaffigan Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Micheal A. Graffin
- Mother: Marcia Gaffigan
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): six siblings
- Marital Status: Married
- Wife/Spouse or Husband/Spouse: Married to Jeannie Gaffin
- Children: Five children two daughters Marre Gaffigan and Katie Louise Gaffigan, and three sons Jack Gaffigan, Michael Gaffigan, and Patrick Gaffigan.
Jim Gaffigan Networth and Salary
- Net Worth: $25 million.
- Salary: To be updated soon
- Source of Income: Comedian
Jim Gaffigan House and Cars
- Place of living: United States
- Cars: To be updated soon
Jim Gaffigan Comedy
Jim Gaffigan after his graduation he moved to New York to pursue comedy, his move was inspired by David Letterman. He successfully 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 comedy’s styles are 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. Jim has appeared at the “Just for Laughs” comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec numerous times.
In 2004, his stand up comedy materials were 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.
Jim Gaffigan Actor
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 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 canceled 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 Broadway as “an amazing experience, really hard but really fun.”
Jim Gaffigan Animation
He is noted because of his voice in overwork animation, his voice was animated in the version of Pale Force with Conan O’Brien from 2005 to 2008. He has also voiced characters on the animated shows Bob’s Burgers, Shorty McShorts’ Shorts, WordGirl, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and the animated feature Duck Duck Goose.
Jim Gaffigan Writer
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,” he recalled 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, 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.
Jim Gaffigan Discography
- 2001: Luigi’s Doghouse
- 2001: Economics II
- 2003: More Moo Moos
- 2004: The Last Supper
- 2004: Doing My Time
- 2006: Beyond the Pale
- 2009: King Baby
- 2012: Mr. Universe
- 2014: Obsessed
- 2017: Cinco
- 2018: Noble Ape
Jim Gaffigan Movies
Year | Title | Role |
2019 | Them That Follow | Zeke |
2019 | Light from Light | |
2019 | Troop Zero | Ramsey |
2019 | Drunk Parents | Carl Mancini |
2019 | Playmobil: The Movie | Del |
2019 | The Day Shall Come | Lemmy |
2018 | Duck Duck Goose | Peng |
2018 | Super Troopers 2 | Larry Johnson |
2018 | You Can Choose Your Family | Frank |
2018 | Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | Professor Abraham Van Helsing |
2018 | American Dreamer | Cam |
2017 | Chappaquiddick | Paul F. Markham |
2016 | Chuck | John Stoehr |
2015 | Walter | Corey |
2015 | Experimenter | James McDonough |
2015 | Hot Pursuit | Red |
2015 | Staten Island Summer | Danny’s Father |
2013 | Kilimanjaro | Bill |
2012 | Howard Cantour.com | Howard Cantour |
2011 | Salvation Boulevard | Jerry Hobson |
2010 | Ten Stories Tall | Simon |
2010 | Going the Distance | Phil |
2010 | It’s Kind of a Funny Story | George |
2009 | The Slammin’ Salmon | Stanley Bellin |
2009 | 17 Again | Coach Murphy |
2009 | Away We Go | Lowell |
2008 | The Love Guru | Trent Lueders |
2008 | Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) | Mart Ryder |
2007 | The Living Wake | Lampert Binew |
2006 | Stephanie Daley | Joe Daley |
2005 | The Great New Wonderful | Sandie |
2005 | Trust the Man | Gordon |
2004 | 13 Going on 30 | Chris Grandy |
2004 | Duane Incarnate | Bob |
2003 | Season of Youth | Dr. Gelding |
2002 | Hacks | Arty Hittle |
2002 | No Sleep ’til Madison | Owen |
2002 | Igby Goes Down | Hilton Manager |
2001 | Super Troopers | Larry Johnson |
2001 | 30 Years to Life | Russell |
2001 | Final | Dayton |
1999 | Personals | Waiter |
1999 | Entropy | Bucky |
1999 | Three Kings | Cuts Troy’s Cuff Soldier |
1999 | Puppet | Mr. Kamen |
1998 | The Real Howard Spitz | Storekeeper |
Jim Gaffigan T v Shows
Year | Title | Role |
2017 | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | Officer Krupke |
2015–2017 | Star vs. the Forces of Evil | Father Time / additional voices |
2015–2016 | The Jim Gaffigan Show | Himself |
2015 | Wallykazam! | Mr. Trollman |
2014 | Us & Them | Theo |
2013–2017 | Bob’s Burgers | Henry Haber (voice) |
2012–2013 | Portlandia | Donald |
2011 | Royal Pains | Pete Stanbleck |
2010 | Bored to Death | Drug Counsellor |
2009 | Flight of the Conchords | Jim |
2009 | WordGirl | Mr. Dudley (voice) |
2006–2009 | My Boys | Andy Franklin |
2006 | Love, Inc. | Jamie |
2005 | Cheap Seats | Jerome Block |
2004 | Bad Apple | Butters |
2004 | Strip Search | Reverend Craig Peterson |
2004 | The Jury | Mr. Nifco |
2003–2004 | Ed | Toby Gibbons |
2003–2004 | That ’70s Show | Roy Keene |
2003 | Hope & Faith | Brad |
2002 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Marty Palin / Russell Matthews |
2001–2002 | The Ellen Show | Rusty Carnouk |
2001 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Oliver Tunney |
2001 | Sex and the City | Doug |
2000–2001 | Welcome to New York | Jim Gaffigan |
2000 | Third Watch | Portis |
2000 | Cry Baby Lane | Dan |
1999 | LateLine | The Del-Ex Kid |
1998–2009 | Law & Order | Larry Johnson / George Rozakis |
1998 | Soul Man | Keats |
1998 | Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist | Jim |
1998 | Conrad Bloom | Oliver |
Jim Gaffigan Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
2013 | Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe | Best Comedy Album | Nominated |
2015 | Obsessed | Best Comedy Album | Nominated |
2018 | Cinco | Best Comedy Album | Nominated |
2019 | Noble Ape | Best Comedy Album | Nominated |
Quotes
- Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don’t like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There’s something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.
- As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn’t matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife’s Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
- I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I’m probably the opposite of a vegan.
- I’m from Indiana. I know what you’re thinking, Indiana… Mafia. But in Indiana it’s not like New York where everyone’s like, ‘We’re from New York and we’re the best’ or ‘We’re from Texas and we like things big’ it’s more like ‘We’re from Indiana and we’re gonna move.’
- I’m a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.
- Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.
- You know what it’s like having five kids? Imagine you’re drowning. And someone hands you a baby
- I worked on ‘USA Today’ as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.
- Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It’s pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.
- There’s something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.
- I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it’s pretty sincere.
- Comics write to their point of view. If you’re an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you’ve got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.
- I don’t know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don’t consider stand-ups really actors.
- Manhattan’s probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana’s definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.
- There’s something that’s really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.
- I’m closer to Bob New hart than Rodney Dangerfield.
- When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me – I’m 43, balding, blond, whatever – there’s something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it’s eight people from Sweden who don’t understand what I’m talking about.
- No one goes into stand up to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.
- I’m an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I’m not gonna frighten off social conservatives.
- I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn’t going to do in my stand-up routine.
- Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they’re like museums full of good food. It’s fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they’re going to cut up your baked potato.
- Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it’s what inspires you.
Jim Gaffigan Tours
- Wed, 20 Feb
19:30
New York, United States
The Bell House - Sat, 23 Feb
19:00
Led yard, CT, United States
Grand Theater at Fox woods Resorts Casino - Fri, 1 Mar
19:00
Poughkeepsie, NY, United States
Mid-Hudson Civic Center - Sat, 2 Mar
19:00
Albany, NY, United States
Palace Theater - Sun, 3 Mar
19:00
Burlington, VT, United States
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts - Wed, 6 Mar
19:00
South Bend, IN, United States
Morris Performing Arts Center - Thu, 7 Mar
19:00
Minneapolis, MN, United States
State Theater - Fri, 8 Mar
19:00
Minneapolis, MN, United States
State Theater - Sat, 9 Mar
21:30
Minneapolis, MN, United States
State Theater - Fri, 26 Apr
20:00
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Broadmoor World Arena - Sat, 27 Apr
20:00
Boise, ID, United States
Taco Bell Arena - Sun, 28 Apr
19:30
Spokane, WA, United States
Spokane Arena - Fri, 3 May
19:00
Huntington, NY, United States
The Paramount - Sat, 4 May
19:00
Huntington, NY, United States
The Paramount - Thu, 9 May
19:30
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Tuscaloosa Amphitheater - Fri, 10 May
19:00
Brandon, MS, United States
Brandon Amphitheater - Sat, 11 May
14:30
Orange Beach, AL, United States
The Wharf Amphitheater - Fri, 17 May
20:00
Irving, TX, United States
Live Nation Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory - Sun, 19 May
Long Beach, CA, United States
Terrace Theater, Long Beach Performing Arts Center - Thu, 30 May
19:00
San Francisco, CA, United States
SF Masonic Auditorium - Fri, 31 May
19:00
San Francisco, CA, United States
The Masonic - Sat, 1 Jun
12:30
Del Mar, CA, United States
Del Mar Fairgrounds - Fri, 7 Jun
20:00
Atlanta, GA, United States
The Fox Theater - Sat, 8 Jun
20:00
Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Denny Sanford PREMIER Center - Wed, 31 Jul
20:00
Toledo, OH, United States
Toledo Zoo Amphitheater
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