“This is the beauty of [Jim] Gaffigan, quietly one of the most successful comics of his generation,” writes Geoff Edgers for Style. “He is constantly Wiki-typed as the clean comic, and yet he is never afraid to venture into the unexpected.”
NEW YORK — On a recent weeknight, Jim Gaffigan arrived at the Gotham Comedy Club to do an unannounced 22-minute set. He had no choice. His latest comedy special , “Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale,” was set to premiere July 25 on Amazon’s Prime Video, and that meant new material would be needed.
“Clean. I know that term,” Seinfeld says in a phone interview. “I don’t think it means much. I mean, in the comedy world it’s, is this guy funny? Nobody goes, ‘Is he clean?’” Three summers ago, during the Republican National Convention, Gaffigan got so fed up with then-President Donald Trump that he went on a Twitter rant peppered with misspellings and the “F word.” The National Catholic Reporter declared it “the night that broke Jim Gaffigan.” Some commenters told him they were disappointed and would no longer follow him.
“I kind of essentially did what everyone told me to do,” Gaffigan says. “Like play football. I don’t even like football. But I’ll go out and then study finance. And so the passing of my mother was very much like, ‘Wait a minute. Hold on. What is all this? This isn’t fair.’” “So, he was like, ‘I didn’t want to be the Hot Pocket guy but this has completely changed my tax bracket, right?’” says Jeannie. “For a while, he would do it as the curtain call. Come back and say, ‘Sorry, I had to leave for a minute and have a Hot Pocket,’ and everyone would go crazy. That went on for a couple of years until he was like, ‘I’m ready to let go of Hot Pockets.’”
“I’ve been a comedian for 47 years, and over that time, I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of comedians,” says Seinfeld. “And I would say over 99 percent of them are not doing comedy anymore. The number one reason is how difficult it is to sustain this profession over many, many years. And the reason that some sustain and some don’t, you might think it has to do with how funny they are, but it actually isn’t.
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