Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist

Jim's humor is offbeat and weird. He speaks to himself out loud in the third person and he sometimes laughs at his own humor. But in Canada he has great timing and the audience loves him. There is no repeating of one liners, no redundant jokes, but great humor regarding Canada and the Canadians seem to love it. He speaks about the provences and the difference between Canadians and Americans. I found him funny with great timing. He is a clean comedian, hardly a swear word and he always talks about being a Catholic. I'm not but I fond his Catholic humor pretty funny since I used to be Catholic myself. I figured I'd run into a lot of disgruntled fans because of Jim's twitter rampage. These are people who USED to find him funny until he made political statements. Then, they write bad reviews. I call BS on those. Love his humor, love the ideas he and his wife come up with and I love his delivery. Id like it even if he had different political views than I did.

Cred for being a clean family comic, but all a bit rambling, childish and repetitive for me. I guess you either like his delivery style or not. Good for kids and families though.

The Canadian set was hilarious. I laughed nonstop. Virtually every joke was a hit. Then I put on the Spanish set. Wow.....*thud.* Not a single laugh. Ended up turning it off because I was falling asleep after 30 minutes. The audience didn't seem into it either. It was a shock why Gaffigan would put such a weak set out there. It was a total downer after the show in Canada. I've seen Jim Gaffigan live and I couldn't breathe from laughing so hard. This is a just bizarre misstep and I don't understand why he did it.

The Canadian episode is really shows off how much effort Jim put into building a special that played to every region of a country. The historical and cultural references are spot on and make these episodes both highly entertaining and informative.

Witty and well put together. I love the contrast between America and Canada. Top notch.