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I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain persona. Comedians write the way they're going to write.

Jim Gaffigan

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Jim Gaffigan
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: July 7
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James Christopher Gaffigan
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There were times in my life when I had one thing to do all day, but I still couldn’t get to it. “I gotta go to the post office, but I’d probably have to put on pants. And they’re only open till five. Looks like I’m going to have to do that next week.
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I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.
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When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.
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Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.
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I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like Bottled water! Haha, they're selling bottled water! ... I guess I'll try it. Ah, this is good, this is more watery than water. Yeah, this has got a water kick to it.
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Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?
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Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.
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For me, it's always a little sad getting out of bed. Every morning after I get up, I always gaze longingly at my bed and lament, 'You were wonderful last night. I didn't want it to end. I can't wait to see you again.
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The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, You should be the head of the sitcom! Or you're given no respect, where they're like, You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down.
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All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.
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Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.
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When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.
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It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'
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Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.
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Don't you expect a rainbow coming out of the tub of bacon strips at the end of the buffet line?
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If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.
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I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon.
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If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.
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Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
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