Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time

I laughed so hard I had an asthma attack! Well done Jim!

Normally this guy has me in stitches. I've been a fan for years. I saw him live a few years ago and he was amazing. But this one just feels lazy to me. Don't get me wrong, some of it is pretty good... but for every good moment there seems to be several moments of sub par (compared to his normal genius) filler. My buddy put it perfect - a lot of dad-joke quality material here.

I really enjoyed this show. He did several different voices, which was good. He went pretty fast from one joke to another, so it felt like he was really maintaining a pace. I like the faster pace of the jokes in this special.

Gaffigan really unleashed some interesting themes that he kept moving forward, like the appendix and the bear. The horse theme was funny. I enjoyed this special a lot.

One thing others mentioned is the laugh track that seems to be in all of his specials, and I blame cheap production values for that. I think that instead of putting microphones all over the theatre to get audience reaction, the whole show is taped in front of a live audience and then Gaffigan does the whole show in a studio where his voice is synced to the live video, and the audience laughter is added in. That is just cheap production by his producers. We have all seen live shows were they manage to get the comic's voice crisp and clear, and the live audience reactions are also clear. I cannot take points off from Gaffigan because of the bad production values.

This is the best Jim Gaffigan I remember seeing. I guess I remember liking him and enjoying it before but this was really fun from beginning to end. Now, this is a comic telling jokes and IMDB has gone back to requiring a lot of words. I don't want to give away his jokes. I don't even want to talk about the subjects of the jokes because that would sort of be a spoiler and won't make the jokes better. It's interesting that I could just rate this and give it a score but if I want to say anything, I have to come up with 600 characters of something to say. He does talk about horses and shirts. Actually he talks about horses sort of like the Moby Dick whale species chapters. Quite a bit. But he does apologize for that.

Granted there was a bit borrowed from Carlin, which I shouldn't even say cause literally who cares and what is he supposed to not talk about it merely because another comic mentioned it several decades ago? Regardless, and I can't say this vehemently enough - his stand up is utterly seamless and he does it all in a manner suited for practically any age, well I mean ok I did say practically. Simply put - its funny, very funny and I actually laughed several times so do yourself a favor and brighten your day