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Traveling across the country as one of the world’s highest-paid comedians allows Jim Gaffigan access to some of the best food cities around the globe. But that kind of access is a blessing and a curse, as he says he ends up eating far more than he probably should. In the video above, Gaffigan tells us how he tries to…

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Looking for great stand-up on Netflix? We count down twenty-five highly recommended comedy specials on the streaming service...

In the face of ever-declining DVD sales, Netflix has quickly become the foremost place to discover new stand-up material. The streaming giant is on track to release over 50 exclusive specials in 2017 alone, signing big names (with big cheques) from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.

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There is a downside to this remarkable release schedule, though. With so many new specials out there, instantly accessible, it can sometimes feel like the smaller fish in the pond are getting short shrift. Amy Schumer, Dave Chappelle and Jerry Seinfeld have all been featured this year alone: with only so many column inches (and so much screen space) to occupy,...

On a recent episode of The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, John sat down with veteran comedian Jim Gaffigan for a chat about his busy, funny career. Naturally there was more interview than we could use on the show, so here’s an outtake in which Gaffigan talks about the difference between a “tight five” and the…

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Exclusive: Comedian Jim Gaffigan has come aboard the dramatic thriller, Them That Follow, joining Thomas Mann, Olivia Colman, Alice Englert, Walton Goggins, Kaitlyn Dever and Cameron Monaghan. Brittany Poulton and Daniel Savage are directing the pic, from their original screenplay about a small community in Appalachia where believers handle poisonous snakes to prove their righteousness before God. Gaffigan will play Zeke, the pious, steadfast husband of the community…...

Jeannie Gaffigan looks like a million bucks five months after undergoing major brain surgery! Comedian Jim Gaffigan shared a photo of his unbelievable wife on social media. “Almost five months after brain surgery,” Gaffigan captioned the picture of his sweetheart. “The incredible Jeannie Gaffigan.” Related: Jim Gaffigan Addresses Wife’s Brain Tumour The “Super Troopers” actor […]...

Comedy is ready to shift from a booming summer to a jam-packed fall as the seasons begin to change. With so many tours and shows set for September, it’s hard to know what’s worth your time. To help you figure it out, here are Backstage’s picks for comedy to see and be a part of this month—don’t miss out! Performances Dylan Moran is an Irish comedian who has mastered the art of stitching together a set built from self-deprecation, absurdism, and opinion. Fresh off of his 2016 tour that sold out Town Hall, Moran is bringing his comedy back to New York with his show “Grumbling Mustard” from Sept. 9-23 at Theatre 80. Comedy isn’t limited to just stand-up sets, and neither is Lauren Krass. Performing “A Krass Act” at Q.E.D. Astoria on Sept. 30, the comedian’s style combines everything from improv to musical...

In May, comedy writer Jeannie Gaffigan opened up to People about the scary discovery that she had a tumor the size of an apple wrapped around her brain stem. Gaffigan – who is married to comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan – underwent a nine-hour surgery on April 18 to have the tumor removed.

Though successful, Gaffigan’s road to recovery hasn’t been easy: she battled aspiration pneumonia before returning home and was left unable to swallow due to throat paralysis, leading to the placement of a feeding tube and tracheotomy.

Now, three months later, Gaffigan is sharing her progress and renewed verve for life.

Exclusive: Two-time Breaking Bad Emmy winner Anna Gunn has boarded Miranda Bailey’s upcoming Cold Iron Pictures/Imagine Entertainment comedy You Can Choose Your Family along with Samantha Mathis, Alex Karpovsky and Logan Miller rounding out the cast that already includes comedian Jim Gaffigan. The film centers on Frank (Gaffigan), a seemingly normal father of a loving family. However, his home life is turned upside down when his 17-year-old son, Phillip (Miller)…...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– The Orchard has acquired the rights to “Kings,” the drama starring Halle Berry and Daniel Craig and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Deadline reports. The film focuses on a foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Ergüven previously directed “Mustang,” which received an Oscar nomination in 2015 for Best Foreign Language Film. Charles Gilbert and Vincent Maraval served as the producers on “Kings.”

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– Lionsgate has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the crime-thriller “Dragged Across Concrete” The film will be released by the...

Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the animated family comedy Duck Duck Goose.

Featuring a voice cast headed up by Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya and Lance Lim, the film is directed by Christopher Jenkins from a screenplay he wrote with Rob Muir.

China-based Original Force produced and financed the film, which Open Road will release April 20, 2018.

Greg Proops, Natasha Leggero, Reggie Watts, Diedrich Bader, Jennifer Grey, Rick Overton, Craig Ferguson, Stephen Fry and Carl Reiner round out the voice cast.

The story centers on a high-flying bachelor goose named Peng (Gaffigan) who is injured in flight...

Open Road Films has acquired U.S. rights to Duck Duck Goose, an animated family comedy produced and financed by Original Force. The pic features the voices of Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya and Lance Lim and the distributor has set an April 20, 2018 release date. Directed by Christopher Jenkins and written by Jenkins and Rob Muir, the pic centers on a high-flying bachelor goose named Peng (Gaffigan) who is injured in flight and finds himself saddled with two adorably hilarious and…...

Comedian Jim Gaffigan‘s wife Jeannie is recuperating after having a “life-threatening” brain tumor surgically removed in April – with the love and support of the couple’s large brood.

Taking to Facebook on Monday, Gaffigan wrote, “Two weeks ago an Mri revealed @jeanniegaffigan had a large tumor around her brain stem that was life threatening. After nine hours of urgent surgery, the tumor was completely removed. She is now recovering at home. We thank you for your continued prayers.”

Jim and Jeannie first met at a NoLiTa Korean market in New York City back in 2000, according to their New York...

Comedian Jim Gaffigan took to Facebook on Monday to reveal his wife, Jeannie, was diagnosed with a large brain tumour and recently underwent surgery. “After nine hours of urgent surgery, the tumour was complete removed,” Gaffigan said. “She is now recovering at home. We thank you for your continued prayers,” the comedian revealed to his […]...

2017-05-03T06:21:13-07:00Jim Gaffigan's Wife Has Surgery to Remove Brain Tumor

Comedian Jim Gaffigan says his wife and writing partner, Jeannie Gaffigan, is recovering after surgery to remove a serious brain tumor.

Jim Gaffigan said on his social media pages Monday that two weeks ago an Mri revealed that Jeannie Gaffigan had a large, life-threatening tumor around her brain stem. He says that after nine hours of urgent surgery the tumor was completely removed, and she's now recovering at home.

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Jim Gaffigan starred in the TV series The Jim Gaffigan Show.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan revealed his wife, Jeannie, recently had a “life-threatening” tumor around her brain stem removed.

“Two weeks ago an Mri revealed @jeanniegaffigan had a large tumor around her brain stem that was life threatening. After nine hours of urgent surgery, the tumor was completely removed. She is now recovering at home. We thank you for your continued prayers,” Gaffigan, 50, wrote on Facebook Monday.

The husband and wife duo, who wed in 2003, created TV Land’s The Jim Gaffigan Show ,and have five children together: daughters Marre and Katie, and sons Jack, Michael, and Patrick. Jeannie also served as co-writer,...

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Speaking to People Now from the set of the upcoming Once Upon a Sesame Christmas special, Santa Claus (Jim Gaffigan) and Elmo dished on their behind-the-scenes chemistry.

“Elmo is all about kindness and that’s what Santa looks for,” Gaffigan said, in an especially jolly accent.

He added, “Elmo is adorable. Not at all . You know, Elmo, there are people that are bright and honest and friendly — he’s like a monster version of Jimmy Fallon, always there, always a warm, cuddly, friendly face.”

Returning the compliment,...

THR reports Jim Gaffigan will be a series regular in season three of Fargo, on FX. Since the actor comedian and his wife Jeannie Gaffigan left The Jim Gaffigan Show, after two seasons, the TV Land comedy was effectively cancelled.According to the report, Gaffigan will play Donny Mashman. The character is a police deputy who works with Eden Valley Police Chief Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon). Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have also joined the third season cast, with McGregor playing a dual role. Additionally, Scoot McNairy is set to recur. Read More…...

Jim Gaffigan will be added to the cast of FX's hit drama Fargo, the adaptation of the Coen Brothers' Oscar-winning movie, for its third season. THR reports that Gaffigan will play a police deputy named Donny Mashman. Gaffigan will join Carrie Coon, Ewan McGregor, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who were announced as part of the show's cast earlier this year. 

McGregor is going to be the star of the series and will be playing a set of twin brothers on what will be his first television series. I'm super excited for the lineup, which has been strong for the series since its beginning. If you haven't watched the show, I highly suggest you give either season a try! Season 3 is set to premiere sometime in late 2017.

Time for Jim Gaffigan to buy one of those hats with the ear flaps, because he’s heading to Fargo. The actor and stand-up comedian will be part of the FX series’ upcoming third season, TVLine has learned.

Gaffigan will play police deputy Donny Mashman, who works with Chief Gloria Burgle (The Leftovers‘ Carrie Coon) at the Eden Valley Pd.

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Season 3 of Fargo (premiering in Spring 2017) focuses on a pair of lookalike brothers, both played by Ewan McGregor. The older of the two, Emmit, is a good-looking, self-assured real estate magnate known...

Fargo continues to line up an impressive cast for season three. FX's Noah Hawley anthology has enlisted Jim Gaffigan as a series regular, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Season three of Fargo has been rumored to take place in 2010, following the events of the breakout drama's freshman season. It's unclear how or if it will tie into the events from the first run, though none of the stars from season one will return. Gaffigan will take on the role of Donny Mashman, a police deputy who works alongside Gloria Burgle (The Leftovers' Carrie Coon). He joins a cast that also includes

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Jim Gaffigan and Olivia Thirlby have joined the cast of Chappaquiddick, the indie drama being directed by John Curran from Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan’s Black List script. The Gaffigan and Thirlby join Jason Clarke, who plays Ted Kennedy, and Kate Mara, who plays Mary Jo Kopechne, in the based-on-real-life tragedy tale. Ed Helms and Bruce Dern co-star. Shooting is now set to start September 7 in Boston. Wme serves as the film's North American sales agent, and…...

The Jim Gaffigan Show been cancelled after just two seasons on TV Land. The actor, comedian and co-creator announced on his Facebook page, today that the show was ending. Deadline reports The Jim Gaffigan Show was cancelled. Either way, it is over. Gaffigan and real-life wife Jeannie Gaffigan wrote every second season episode. She also served as showrunner, while he played a fictionalized version of himself in the family comedy series. Last night's episode, "The Mike Gaffigan Show," was the TV series finale.Ashley Williams co-starred as Jim’s wife Jeannie. The series cast also included Adam Goldberg, Michael Ian Black, and Tongayi Chirisa. Guest stars in the second season included: Chris Rock, Steve Buscemi, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Lawrence O’Donnell, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Dave...

The Jim Gaffigan Show has been cancelled… by Jim Gaffigan himself?

The TV Land sitcom, which wrapped its second season on Sunday, will not return for Season 3, Gaffigan announced Monday afternoon on social media.

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“After months of discussion, Jeannie [Gaffigan] and I have decided to make season 2 of The Jim Gaffigan Show the final season,” he said. “We realize this may surprise some and we don’t make this decision lightly. It is hard to say goodbye to this highly personal passion project, which...

It's a running gag on TV Land's The Jim Gaffigan Show that Gaffigan's fellow comedians dismiss his act as being dumb, uncool, and almost entirely about food. The latter charge? Sure, even Gaffigan would cop to that. His signature stand-up routine is about his hatred of Hot Pockets, he wrote a book called Food: A Love Story, and most episodes of the show feature him stopping by Katz's Delicatessen for a pastrami sandwich. There's even a scene in an upcoming episode where, through the magic of time-lapse photography, we see him eat an entire plate of steak frites and a friend's side order of fries in under a minute(*). (*) Being a responsible journalist, I of course asked whether Gaffigan really ate all the food in that scene. He replied (on the record), “I cannot lie, I only ate 90%. There was a spit bucket involved. Please don’t let this become public knowledge,...

Comedian Jim Gaffigan defended Nickelback, who are for some reason among the most-hated musicians in the world. “I don’t know anything about Nickelback, but I know my friends that are super cool despise Nickelback,” Gaffigan told Conan O’Brien on Wednesday. “Like they kidnapped the Lindbergh baby. They’re playing music. If you don’t like it, turn it off.” He went on to explain “Outrage Jail,” where people seem to hate some celebrity “for no reason at all.” Another example he gave is Carrot Top. Also Read: Donald Trump More Disliked Than Nickelback, Poll Says “ are perfectly nice guys,...

The first season of The Jim Gaffigan Show didn't do very well in the ratings but TV Land renewed it anyway. How will season two perform? Will the numbers rise or fall? Will it be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned.

Set in New York City, The Jim Gaffigan Show revolves around a fictionalized version of comedian/author/actor Gaffigan as he struggles to find a balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy, and an insatiable appetite. The rest of the cast includes Tongayi Chirisa, Adam Goldberg, Michael Ian Black, and Ashley Williams.

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Jim Gaffigan, father of five, came on Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show to share his guide to gift giving for Father’s Day. Gaffigan started off by acknowledging, “A lot of people might not think it’s the most important holiday or frankly as important as Cinco De Mayo, but it really is an important day.” He […]

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Father's Day is nearly upon us, and comedy heavyweight/Dad extraordinaire Jim Gaffigan returns to TV Land on June 19th with the second season of The Jim Gaffigan Show, his sitcom chronicling the trials and tribulations of raising five youngsters in a humble, two-bedroom New York apartment.

The lightly fictionalized version of the comedian's own life touched on such classic fatherhood storylines as doting on the kids, pondering a vasectomy and keeping the marriage spicy. And now, in an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone, TV's newest paterfamilias breaks down his...

Impastor Buddy Dobbs will now be delivering the good word on Sundays.

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TV Land has announced that Season 2 of the con man-turned-clergyman comedy — starring Michael Rosenbaum, Mircea Monroe, Sara Rue, David Rasche and Mike Kosinski — will premiere Sunday, June 26 at 10:30/9:30c, with back-to-back episodes.

The Jim Gaffigan Show meanwhile will kick off its own sophomore run on, fittingly, Father’s Day — Sunday, June 19 at 10 pm, also with back-to-back episodes.

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Gaffigan is back for 12 episodes,...

Has Alec Baldwin found a new calling as a couples counselor?

In an exclusive clip from Thursday's Rachel Dratch's Late Night Snack, Baldwin surprises a young couple in a limo with some relationship advice.

"I'm sorry. I'm so starstruck right now," says Jesus, after saying a curse word when he sees the 30 Rock star sitting across from him.

His partner Marlene, 18, explains the couple has been together two years and live together under a domestic partnership.

Baldwin, feigning confusion, says he thought a domestic partnership was "where you could sleep with her before she's old enough."

The couple laughs...

[Youtube "Le6Cv_eJfKY"] Has Alec Baldwin found a new calling as a couples counselor? In an exclusive clip from Thursday's Rachel Dratch's Late Night Snack, Baldwin surprises a young couple in a limo with some relationship advice. "I'm sorry. I'm so starstruck right now," says Jesus, after saying a curse word when he sees the 30 Rock star sitting across from him. His partner Marlene, 18, explains the couple has been together two years and live together under a domestic partnership. Baldwin, feigning confusion, says he thought a domestic partnership was "where you could sleep with her before she's old enough." The couple laughs...

Colonel Sanders has some pretty big shoes. During Super Bowl 50, KFC debuted the new face of their chicken – its comedian, Jim Gaffigan. Gaffigan replaces comedian, Norm Macdonald. Gaffigan is fully decked out in the classic white mustache and black bow tie during the commercial. Colonel Harland Sanders was the first and original spokesperson for the food […]

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Comedy is generational. It's always changing and adapting. What made your great-grandmother laugh will probably be a bit different from what tickles you. More fans today are listening to Jim Gaffigan than Will Rogers. Does that mean Gaffigan is funnier than Rogers? Not necessarily. Usually, after a couple generations, most comedy loses a good deal of its bite. So, in an ever-changing art form, what passes as modern and edgy can slowly turn old-fashioned. The bar for what constitutes modern keeps moving. The evolution of comedy is evident in Vulture's 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy (disclosure: I helped compile that list), with each comic standing on the shoulders of comics standing on the shoulders of comics, and so on. Similarly, one can see exactly how game-changing technology modernized and transformed comedy: feature-length films (1914), sound films (1927), network radio (1928), network television (1947), the LP record (1948), HBO comedy...

Jim Gaffigan and comedy legend Carl Reiner have joined the voice cast of Original Force Animation’s first animated feature “Duck Duck Goose,” while Mark Isham has come on to compose the score, it was announced Tuesday by the company’s co-presidents Sandra Rabins and Penney Finkelman Cox. Gaffigan will voice one of the leads, a rebellious yet lovable goose named Peng, who rescues two young ducklings, Chi and Chao (Zendaya and Lance Lim), from an eccentric but deadly cat named Banzou (Greg Proops). Reiner will voice a wise turtle named Larry. The cast also includes Stephen Fry, Jennifer Grey,...

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Enjoying Fargo's third season and fancy a peek at what's to come in episode 8? Here's your chance...

Here's the official promo for episode 8 of Fargo's third season, entitled 'Who Rules The Land Of Denial?'

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The synopsis for 'Who Rules The Land Of Denial?' tells us that Gloria will hit some road blocks while Varga hatches a new scheme:

"Nikki struggles to survive, Emmit gets spooked and Sy joins Varga for tea. Written by Noah Hawley and Monica Beletsky; Directed by Mike Barker."

We'll bring you all the latest on Fargo season 3 as we hear it, of course.

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Exclusive: The biopic about Chuck Wepner, a Jersey booze salesman and journeyman boxer who at age 35 went 15 rounds with heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali, has rounded out its cast. Jim Gaffigan, Michael Rapaport, Pooch Hall and Morgan Spector are stepping into the ring with The Bleeder for director Philippe Falardeau (The Good Lie). Liev Schreiber is starring as Wepner — a role he has wanted to play for years. Gaffigan plays John Stoehr, the ever-loyal best friend of…...

This Saturday night, at 9 p.m., Brian Regan will be the first comedian to broadcast a live stand-up special for Comedy Central from Radio City Music Hall, a place only a select group of comedians could fill in the first place. But unlike those other comedians, Regan didn't get there through celebrity, as he explains it, "I just got lucky enough where along the way, my following just got a little bit bigger and a little bit bigger, and before you knew it I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show." Over the course of a 35-year career, Regan quietly became one of the biggest stand-ups in the country. To interview him, who better than Jim Gaffigan, another comedian with a similar arc? Though Gaffigan's TV Land sitcom, The Jim Gaffigan Show, is wrapping up its first season tonight (it's already been renewed...

Every step of a television show's life cycle is cause for celebration or commiseration. And "The Jim Gaffigan Show," an affable family sitcom starring (surprise!) comedian Jim Gaffigan, has had both in its history. After a long and complicated development run, the series finally found a home at TV Land, which was more than supportive of the show based on the lives of Gaffigan and his wife Jeannie, who are raising five kids in the heart of New York City. And yesterday, TV Land announced that the series would return for a second season, promising even more family-focused antics. Read More: Darren Star On How TV Has Changed From '90210' to 'Younger' Below, Indiewire was able to ask the real-life Gaffigans how the show came together, why Jeannie isn't playing herself and what goes into making a series that basically can be described as "artisanal comedy." So...

The first trailer for Peter Sarsgaard's new film Experimenter is out - and it might just get inside your head.

Co-starring Winona Ryder and Jim Gaffigan, it features the true story behind the development of a psychological test known as the 'Milgram Experiment' on how humans respond to authority.

Set at Yale University in 1961 during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, it features people who believe they are giving a friendly stranger (Gaffigan) in another room an electric shock because they are told to do so.

Despite his pleas, those involved in the experiment continue to administer the shocks because they are told to.

It raises interesting questions against the trial of Eichmann as to how far a person will go if they are told to do something.

Stanley Milgram (Sarsgaard), the creator behind the experiment, divides the country as some celebrate his work and others question it.

Ryder co-stars as his supportive wife Sasha.

Read More: Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder Stare You Down in Exclusive 'Experimenter' Poster Infamous for supposedly deceiving people, Stanley Milgram proved in his obedience experiments how people willingly follow orders. despite the fact that following them seems to directly inflict serious pain on someone. Now his trials are being given the cinematic treatment in Michael Almereyda's ("Hamlet") "Experimenter." The biopic debuted at Sundance to positive reviews, boasting a cast of Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Kellan Lutz, John Leguizamo, Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin and Jim Gaffigan. The official synopsis reads: "Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they're delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don't stop the...

The summer is a confusing time for late night shows. With vacation time, shows are often off, then on, seemingly at random. When shows do air, there’s fewer dangerous animals on, and more affect-less athletes. And yet, some really funny things happen on late night during these lesser watched months. Jimmy Fallon nearly lost a hand, Conan rode into Comic-Con with a Mad Max war band. We got to see Colbert interview Eminem on Monroe, Michigan public access TV. Jon Stewart’s Daily Show month long “moment of zen” farewell continues, streaming every episode back-to-back, available globally. It wasn’t all bad.

Last week, Bill Hader and Amy Schumer were doing the rounds for Trainwreck, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were reunited with Jimmy, Emma Stone was on Conan, Meyers got a dose of Schumer and Jim Gaffigan, and Corden horsed around with Ian McKellen. Plus, John Oliver took...

Wondering why some networks have all but given up on creating new sitcoms? Maybe Jim Gaffigan knows the answer.

The stand-up comic, whose sitcom "The Jim Gaffigan Show" debuted on TV Land this week, has been promoting the show with interviews (including here, here, and here) where he explains why he took his new series to basic cable.

According to Gaffigan, each broadcast network tried to shoehorn his autobiographical series into its preferred sitcom format, with less of an eye on what would make the show unique or good and more on what would make it test well with audiences and run long enough to be sold into syndication. That's where the real money is for a TV production company -- we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars for a successful series with at least 100 episodes in its library -- but to get there, the networks apparently believe that risk-avoidance...

Revolving around a fictionalized version of Louis Ck, the Louie comedy series has aired for five low-rated seasons on FX. Now, TV Land is trying a similar concept with The Jim Gaffigan Show. Will it perform better in the ratings? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.

Set in New York City, The Jim Gaffigan Show revolves around a fictionalized version of comedian/author/actor Gaffigan as he struggles to find a balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy, and an insatiable appetite. The rest of the cast includes Ashley Williams, Adam Goldberg, Michael Ian Black, and Tongayi Chirisa.

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A stand-up whose best-known routines include riffs on bacon, donuts and Hot Pockets, Jim Gaffigan is a likeable onstage presence whose strongest asset is his harmless affability — the fact that he’s an unassuming regular guy, except funnier. However, those qualities only take Gaffigan so far with “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” his semiautobiographical TV Land laugher that’s amusing in stretches but too often succumbs to benign blandness and sitcom conventionality. Judged on five episodes made available by the network — which recently unveiled a new logo as part of a concerted rebranding effort to court Gen-Xers through edgier fare —...

In The Jim Gaffigan Show, premiering tonight on TV Land, the show’s star and co-creator draws on his own stand-up and best-selling books; his art in turn is drawn from his life, so there’s a bit of an ouroboros thing happening. Gaffigan plays, of all people, Jim Gaffigan, a New York–based comedian with a wife named Jeannie (Ashley Williams) and five kids, the youngest of whom is an infant, seen during the time-lapse opening credits being carried around the kitchen in a Snugli. Is it insensitive to point out that Gaffigan is playing yet another heavyset TV dad with a skinny knockout wife? I suspect not — Gaffigan’s books include Dad Is Fat and Food: A Love Story, and his real-life wife is also named Jeannie and an industry veteran who co-produces the series with the star. How about the lead character’s general ineptitude and man-boy bluster,...

Fifteen years ago, Jim Gaffigan was yet another young stand-up comic riding the conveyer belt from the comedy clubs to a network sitcom in the wake of the success of Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Tim Allen, and more. His CBS sitcom "Welcome to New York" was designed as a vehicle for him, but somewhere between the start of development and when it hit the air, the focus shifted to co-star Christine Baranski, an Emmy winner for CBS' "Cybill." It turned out to be a good showcase for neither, and produced only 13 episodes before calling it quits. That wasn't the end of Jim Gaffigan, sitcom actor, but for a long time, it was the end of Jim Gaffigan, aspiring sitcom star. He took jobs on other people's shows ("The Ellen Show," "My Boys") and largely focused on his food-obsessed comedy act (like his famous routine about Hot Pockets). Given how well...

The Jim Gaffigan Show feels like a family business. It stars comedian Jim Gaffigan as a fictionalized version of himself — a food- and nap-loving devoted father of five, who is raising his brood of fair-haired kids in a two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Gaffigan also writes and produces the scorchingly funny series with his wife and writing partner Jeannie, and while the three of us chat on the phone, they’re joined by their 3-year-old Michael (child No. 4), who entertains us before departing with a charmingly lisped “Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thank you!” Clearly, performing is in the youngster’s … Continue reading →

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Art replicates life for Jim Gaffigan.

The actor and comedian debuts The Jim Gaffigan Show on TV Land next month and says his home life helps feed the story lines for the show.

In an interview with Esquire, Gaffigan talked about raising his five kids (who range in age from 2 to 11) with his wife, Jeannie, and living in a two-bedroom New York City apartment, sans mini van.

"Being a parent is difficult. Being a son and a daughter is difficult. It's a human relationship. It's great fodder for material," he said.

Gaffigan also revealed that he thinks that Father's Day is a less sincere holiday.

TV Land's single-camera comedy push is off to a good start. The Viacom-owned cable network has renewed its Darren Star comedy Younger for a second season of 12 episodes, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The show stars Sutton Foster and represents TV Land's first single-comedy as the cabler pushes into the format with younger-skewing series, including Jim Gaffigan vehicle The Gaffigan Show, Teachers and Impastor. Read More Darren Star: 'Younger' Tackles Today's Youth Culture The decision to pick up Younger — about a recently divorced 40-year-old mother (Foster) who gets a makeover in a

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Jim Gaffigan didn't prepare differently for Wednesday night's eighth annual Stand Up for Heroes concert, but performing at the benefit for wounded veterans, which he's done before, feels different, he said, particularly when you think of what those in the audience and with the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which puts on the New York Comedy Festival kickoff event, have done. "I think as a lazy coward, I think that what veterans have done and their sacrifice for their families…I think we take it for granted in our society, whether we support the war or whatever," Gaffigan told The Hollywood Reporter

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