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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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Whenever you go out to eat you gotta get the appetizer. 'Cause the appetizer's just an excuse for an extra meal. You're always like Lets see, I will start with the 80 buffalo wings...and do you have a low-cal blue cheese? 'Cause I don't wanna fill up too much.
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I worked on USA Today as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.
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I come from a very big family. Nine parents.
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Well my chocolate is so good I could sell it in an obnoxious prism shape.
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Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.
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I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.
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I do want everyone to feel comfortable. That's why I'd like to talk to you about Jesus.
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In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.
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People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?
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Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.
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There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.
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I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.
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The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.
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There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
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I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.
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I like that in my audiences, there's a lesbian couple sitting next to a Mormon family.
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I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.
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I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.
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Don't you think it's strange how many referees work at Footlocker?
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I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.
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