Jim Gaffigan Movies and Career Information

James Christopher "Jim" Gaffigan (born July 7, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Gaffigan was born in Chesterton, Indiana, and attended La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana. He is one of six children, plus a cat and often jokes about growing up in a large family. He is married to Jeannie Noth, with whom he has two daughters, and one son, Jack. Gaffigan was raised Catholic, something else he frequently jokes about. He attended one year at Purdue University where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. He graduated from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in 1988. He is of Irish descent, although in his Comedy Central Presents special he joked that his dad was Swedish and his mother was Elton John, and in Beyond the Pale he used one of his "asides" to joke that one of his parents must have been a polar bear and, the other, a fish. Also, in his first stand-up performance (included in the special features of the Beyond the Pale DVD) he jokes that his father was a Q-tip. Gaffigan's comedy routines often include humorous, high-pitched "asides" representing commentary on his performance from a hypothetical naive and easily offended audience