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Jim Gaffigan Bio, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Influences, Reception, and Writing

Jim Gaffigan Biography

A native of Elgin, Illinois, United States, Jim Gaffigan is a popular American writer, actor, producer, and stand-up comedian. His material often addresses religion, food, fatherhood, laziness, and general observations. He is considered as a “clean” comic, using little profanity in his routines. 

Jim Gaffigan Age

Gaffigan is 56 years old as of 2022. He was born on 7 July 1966  in Elgin, Illinois, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 7 July every year.

Jim Gaffigan Height

Gaffigan stands at a height of 6 feet and 0 inches(1.83 m ) tall and weighs 85 kg(187 pounds).

Jim Gaffigan Education

Gaffigan attended La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana, where he played 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 moving to Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he graduated in 1988 with a degree in finance. He played football at Georgetown and Purdue.

Jim Gaffigan Family

Gaffigan was born and raised in Elgin, Illinois, on July 7, 1966, the youngest of six children born to fundraiser and charity worker Marcia Miriam (née Mitchell) and banker Michael Ambrose Gaffigan. He is of Irish descent, with his family’s surname originally being Gavahan.

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Jim Gaffigan Wife

Gaffigan is happily married to his caring and loving actress Jeannie Gaffigan (née Noth) in 2003. They were blessed with two daughters and three sons together; Patrick Gaffigan, Jack Gaffigan, Michael Gaffigan, Marre Gaffigan, and Katie Louise Gaffigan.

Jim Gaffigan Net Worth

Gaffigan has an estimated net worth of  $30 million.

Jim Gaffigan Influences

Gaffigan credits David Letterman and Bill Murray as influences, and he has asserted that Richard Pryor was the greatest stand-up comedian ever. His comedy mentor was Dave Attell, who he asserted was the only person who thought he was funny in his early stand-up years.

On the episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee which featured Gaffigan, he admitted that the show’s host Jerry Seinfeld was a big influence on him.

Jim Gaffigan Reception

Gaffigan is widely noted for being an everyman and a clean comic, and signature routines regard bacon, Hot Pockets, and cake. His tendency to avoid profanity has drawn mixed responses from audiences and critics. One critic compared him to Full House-era Bob Saget (who starred in the 1990s family show), which Gaffigan took as an insult.

However, Hampton Stevens in The Atlantic wrote that the comic champions “a vital element to standup that [Lenny] Bruce had taken away—the indispensable, but apparently forgotten idea that comedians have no obligation to be provocative, topical, socially conscious, or anything else but funny”.

Jim Gaffigan Animation

Gaffigan is also notable for his voice-over work. He voiced an animated version of himself on 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 Writing

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”.

Gaffigan’s 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, Gaffigan 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,” Gaffigan 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 and 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…’ 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”.

Gaffigan signed with Crown Publishing in June 2013 to write the second book of comic essays. The book, Food: A Love Story, was released in Fall 2014. Publishers Weekly said the book “packs plenty of laughs” Kirkus Reviews remarked that “Gaffigan somehow manages to work ‘clean’ without ever becoming sickeningly saccharine,” and that “laughs [are] served up just right on every page”. Of the accompanying audiobook, the Library Journal said, “The witty commentary is peppered with jokes and funny stories that will have listeners smiling throughout and occasionally laughing out loud.”

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