It's like a secret weapon to have someone who is on your side. I was very reluctant to even pitch lines to her when we were dating.
My wife and I, we've just been doing everything together. Obviously, comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness. We just kinda put together a book proposal, and it ended up turning into this book.Ĭ: Now your wife has always sort of been your writing partner, right? But with Twitter, I started to post some tweets about my kids, and I ended up compiling a bunch of what I thought were interesting comic ideas that my wife and I thought could mix up into, hopefully, good essays. JG: Well some of it is I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.' In recent years, I'm almost kind of censoring myself, not letting my act become that of the guy that talks about the kids.
What made you want to sit down and write a book instead of standing up and talking. Enjoy our chat, then read an excerpt from his book, available at the bottom of the page.Ĭhicagoist: Let's start with the book. Gaffigan spoke with Chicagoist Thursday about his creative process with his wife Jeannie, the idea of "clean" comedy, his regional roots and Chicago's comfort foods. Comedian Jim Gaffigan swings through Chicago on his tour to promote his first book Dad Is Fat, a collection of humorous essays on raising his five young children.
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