And I hope for good things from him in this medium in the (very near) future. But the sales of this have created a new sideline for him. Comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan lives happily with his wife and his five young children in a two-bedroom apartment in lower Manhattan. So not great, but in the easy-read department you could do worse. I’m not a foodie, I’m an eatie, says Gaffigan, who is six feet tall and not so much fat as slightly circular around the middle (he wears his extra calories surprisingly well). And this didn’t quite do enough for me there. But I’m not reading it for that – I wanted to laugh. And being in the parenting game I even found plenty here to relate to, and moments of interest, sure.

I want to like this book more than it deserves because I like Gaffigan. Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have his own kids. Though he grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family, Jim was satisfied with the nomadic, nocturnal. A shame, too, given his consistency as a comic performer. Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan: 9780385349079 : Books Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have his own kids. He’s a competent writer but this never really ‘pops’ as you might hope. Im David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. And/or they aren’t (quite) good enough.Īiming for the tone (and subject matter) of something like Bill Cosby’s Fatherhood (is it really the right time to be aping Cosby in any way?) Dad Is Fat deals with Gaffigan’s own attempts at parenting and the humour he finds in the situation (five kids, one tiny two-bedroom apartment) with some flashbacks to his own childhood. Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. He does it all with a revitalizing wit that will make you laugh out loud. There are a few lines you can spot as exactly that, lines, bits-of- bits but actually, in this case, there aren’t enough. Jim Gaffigan - Dad Is Fat Audiobook Free. But Dad Is Fat is not that really great book, maybe it’ll be the swift follow-up (I’ll get to that next…) but this first set of essays-as-memoir is nice rather than great. There’s a really good book inside of Jim Gaffigan – and he isn’t so fat that it’s simply hiding. Interview: Jim Gaffigan, Author Of 'Dad Is Fat' The comedian's new book, Dad Is Fat, chronicles life in a two-bedroom Manhattan apartment with five little kids.

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