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Beyond The Pale

Jim Gaffigan at The Vic Theatre in Lakeview, Chicago, Illinois
2006

Annotations By Lauren Smir

In the words of Aristotle, "We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because nosotros feel a joy at feeling superior to them." Equally a man known for his pale skin, strange voices, and robust body shape, it's evident that stand up-upwards comedian, Jim Gaffigan is not the about attractive man on the block. Gaffigan'southward unique physical appearance of what could exist desribed as the typical middle-anile American man, not but serves as a main source of his jokes, merely contributes to the self-deprecating theme of his one-act equally well. By focusing on the three major themes of his very ain food obsession, unattractive appearance, and what he describes as his "inner voice," Gaffigan has developed a formula to comedic success that is zero brusk of genius.

In his 2006 stand-up comedy operation, Beyond The Pale, Gaffigan proves there is no reason to alter his formula. The phrase, "Beyond The Pale," dates dorsum to the 14th century during a menstruation when a portion of Ireland was bounded by fences nether English control. This boundary was commonly referred to during this time period as "The English Pale." If an individual was to travel outside of that boundary, he/she was to go out behind all morals and travel outside the bounds of expected behavior. In many means, Gaffigan travels outside the premises of expected behavior in the comedy world through the uniquness of his character. Interestingly enough, he also uses the phrase as a dual meaning to alude to pallor of his pare.

"We're never satisfied when it comes to food. You know what'd be good on this burger? A ham sandwich. Instead of a bun, lets employ two donuts. That fashion we can have it for breakfast. Expect our McGriddle, hither comes the donut-ham-hamburger!" What meliorate quote to sum upwards Gaffigan'southward cleverly constructed sense of humour present in his stand-up performances than one of his almost notorious food predictions? Gaffigan's main source of genius comes from a subject that relates to every human existence on this planet, and fifty-fifty more then to Americans, and that is food. Gaffigan has a natural skill for acturately depicting our subconscious thoughts when making decisions regarding our food intake. From the humility that comes from standing in line at Cinnabon to recognizing the absurdity of hot pockets, Jim Gaffigan orchestrates a unique stand up-up comedy performance through his unique delivery, original content, and ability to relate with the inner thoughts of his audience.

The major theme of food that Jim Gaffigan presents in his performances is non only brilliant because every audition member tin relate to information technology, but also because he pokes fun at many unthought of aspects of American civilisation. However, a topic that he doesn't poke fun of and only references to in the championship of his functioning is the 14th century Irish gaelic culture. While Gaffigan's love for nutrient embodies about 80% of his performance, information technology'due south surprising that he refrains from joking almost the European famine that passed through Ireland during the early 14th century. Known as "The Great Dearth of 1315–1317," the crisis began with poor atmospheric condition and universal crop failures that ultimately resulted in mass disease and millions of deaths throughout all of Northern Europe. The lack of nutrient consumption during this fourth dimension period lies on the opposite side of the spectrum equally the rise of fast nutrient consumption in today's 21st century that Gaffigan focuses on as a primary theme of his stand-upwardly performances.

Whenever Gaffigan tells a story, his delivery focuses on a wide array of voices to highlight his jokes. These different voices range from a goofy, high-pitched vox to a voice of a southern, obese man focused on devouring his meal. His monotone mode is also broken upward by a loftier-pitched tone that Gaffigan describes as his "inner voice"- him acting out the thoughts of a conservative, easily offended, female person audience member. This shows he'south completely enlightened of how he'southward beingness perceived, which lets him get away with telling "on-the-edge" jokes that may strike many as widely offending.

The stand up-upward one-act special was released on DVD in 2006, beingness Gaffigan's starting time stand up-up operation available on home video.

Pre-Show Ritual

[8:00 AM-12 Hours Before Starting time]
Woman: (Nudging Jim's arm) Jim. Get upwardly.
Jim: (Nonresponsive and asleep in his bed)

[i:00 pm-7 Hours Earlier Starting time]
Woman: (Nudging Jim's arm and raising her vocalisation) Jim. Get up!
Jim: (Opening and blinking his eyes)

[ii:00 pm-6 Hours Before Showtime]
Jim: (Cracks a raw egg into a glass and gain to drinkable information technology's contents while reviewing his script)

[3:00 pm-5 Hours Before Get-go]
Jim: (Jump roping in his hotel room dressed in a bathrobe)

[4:00 pm-four Hours Earlier Starting time]
Jim: (Looking into a mirror and speaking inaudibly) that'south just not funny!(yelling) Do y'all think that'south funny?
>>You think that's funny?!
>>IT'Due south NOT!! (Throwing script at the mirror)

[five:00 pm- 3 Hours Before Kickoff]
Jim: (Laying on the ground whimpering)

[vi:00 pm-2 Hours Before First]
Jim: (Ironing and stretching out his blood-red thong)

[seven:00 pm-one Hour Before Showtime]
Jim: (Pointing at the mirror and proceeding to grab a slice of pizza) Aye!

[7:59 pm- 1 Minute Before Showtime]
Woman: Jim. Become up!
Jim: (Asleep on the couch with a slice of pizza in mitt)
>>Ughh man..(Groaning and arising to accept a bite of his pizza)
>>Permit's go.
Human: Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr.Jim Gaffigan.
Audience: (Loud cheering)

Showtime

Jim: Whoo-hoo!
>>Ooh!
>>Eee! eee! eee!
>>Alright, alright, stop it you expect like you're on drugs.

Jim: (Impersonating a judgemental audition member in a breathy female voice) Whoa, he's a pale fella. I didn't know he was gonna be then stake!
>>Oh, that shirt looks like a tablecloth.
>>Is that a shirt or a blouse?
>>I think he's wearing his mother'southward blouse.
>>His pants look muddy.
>>I wonder if he'south wearing a thong.
>>I didn't wonder that, and now I do (interruption).
>> Is this all he does?
>>He'due south weeiird.
>>(Looking around) I tin barely hear what he's saying.
>>(mouthing words)

Jim: (normal voice) It is great to be here in Chicago. Cheers for coming out, appreciate it.
Audience: (Auspicious)
Jim: It'due south good to be here.
>>I guess I should open up I'll tell a petty bit nearly myself.
>>I'thousand korean. And I come up from the country of koreeeaa (elongating "korea" in a whispering voice)
>>And I've been here for, how do y'all say, one day.
>>Actually, I wish I was korean, crusade then my interest in asian women wouldn't exist considered so creepy.

Jim: (Breathy female voice)
>>Hmm, he looks like one of those guys.
>>He looks like a mormon.
>>What's wrong with looking like a mormon?

Jim: (normal vocalism) Really, I just dated one asian girl, but she was very asian.
>>She was a panda..um..
(Breathy female person vocalism)
>>Hey, I like pandas.
>>(Making an offended face) They're endangered, fella.

Jim: (normal vocalism) I'thousand non korean.
>>I don't know if you tin can tell past looking at me, but, uh, both my parents were white.
(Breathy female person vocalism) I retrieve one of them was a polar bear.
>>Maybe that's why he went out with a panda.
>>I didn't know he was gonna be doing behave jokes.
>>He's doing the large special and he's doing jokes most bears…seems weird to me.
>>He looks like he eats a lot of candy.

Jim: (normal voice) I practice love food.
>>I even enjoy watching people make nutrient.
>>But you e'er notice the nutrient network is far more interesting when you're hungry?
>>When yous're full you're similar, "this is stupid." But when you're hungry, the food network'southward similar porn.
>>You're like, oh yeaahh
>>Whip it up, babaayyy (rubbing tum)
>>(whispers) BAKE Information technology FOR ME.

Jim: (normal vocalisation) IT IS A little embarrassing when someone catches you watching the food network.
(deep voice) What are you lot watching?
(nervous vox) uh, um, the food network….
(deep voice) Why are your pants off?
(nervous voice) …i-i similar food…a lotttt.
(normal voice) I practice love food.
>>I like to consume late at dark, as well.
>>You know, you're not supposed to eat tardily at nighttime.
>>Then again, yous're not supposed to drink booze in the morn (creating fake quotation marks with his hands).
>>And apparently, you're never supposed to smoke crevice (rocking dorsum and forth).
>>Whoa, whatever! I'one thousand not training for the olympics!!
>>Sad if later an entire hour of piece of work, I wanna unwind with a burger and a crack pipe.
>>If I do that every night does information technology make me some "crackhead."

(blatant female person voice) This guy's a crackhead.
>>Possibly that'southward why he'southward so pale .
>>He'southward the fattest crackhead i've ever seen.

Jim: (normal vox) I accept gained some weight, uh, only most of this is a stomach implant.
>>Occasionally, I'll regret it.
>>Like when I'k talking to a woman and I will take hold of her staring at my belly.
>>I'll be similar, how-do-you-do, I'm up here. (pointing upwardly)
>>I'm not some piece of flab for y'all to oogle at..
>>I don't care if I'm in a tube top and I'g rubbing cocoa butter (rubbing tummy).. while I'm riding a unicycle, going "la la la la laaaa." (jumping to the right)

Jim: (blatant female phonation) that was the worst impression of a unicycle I've ever seen.
>>It'south like he didn't even effort.
(normal voice) I'chiliad starting to realize I'g a pig…
>>You know you're a grunter when you consume something that tastes horrible and you don't even notice until the concluding bite.
(deep voice) oh, well this wasn't fifty-fifty good..
>>..at present I gotta eat something else to get rid of that flavor
(normal voice) You ever eat so much you feel ill?
>>Isn't that the bessst?
>>And so you experience like a real American.
(breathy female voice) Oh that was strangely patriotic
>>It's weird.
>>I'm a pig.

Jim: (normal phonation) Ever become hungry when you're watching a commercial?>>and so you realize it's a commercial for dog food.
>>(deep voice) ooh those are savory chunks of beef.
>>rich, flossy..(surprised and aroused vocalisation)..wh-why are they giving information technology to the dog?!
>>oh-oh-oh noo..thank god for packaging!
(normal voice) I honey packaging, packaging is like the habiliment of food isn't it? (breathy female person vocalism) oh what are you wearing there coookieee?
>>A lovely mint milano pack.
>>Candy, let me help you with that wrapper.
>>Become you a little scrap more com-for-table (whispering intensely)

Jim: (normal voice) and the fancier the food, the more elaborate the packaging.
>>Yous e'er run across generic cereal? It comes in a plastic bag similar information technology's homeless.
(typical american vocalisation with a southern accent) Well lets supply you a box to live in..livin in a bag on the bottom shelf…that ain't correct.
(normal vocalization) I buy the generics.
>>I always feel like I have to explain to the cashier..(deep vocalism) "yep these generics they're for similar a cheap neighbor of mine."
>>"I go all my groceries from sharper image…(pause for audience laughter)..and sky mall."

Jim: (blatant female phonation) no one buys annihilation from sky mall.
>>hey buddy I work for sky mall and I dont appreciate y'all jabbing u.s.a..
(normal voice) I dear going to the grocery store. Those complimentary samples..
>>It'due south always a lilliputian chip awkward if you have the gratis sample…they're like, "oh free sausage yum yum yum..(breathy voice)..well run into ya."
>>(takes a few steps to his right) suuckkeerr!!
(normal vocalism) crusade you kinda act like you're gonna get a instance of it.
(high-pitched vox) well this would be pretty good for a party now wouldn't it?
>>(suspension) nahh.
>>(whispers) gotcha!!

Jim: (normal vocalism) When did we have to first becoming members of all these grocery stores?
(breathy female person voice) are y'all a fellow member of our hush-hush guild?
(southern emphasis) I…I'm just gettin doritos.
(breathy female vocalization) well that'll exist four g dollars…or yous tin can join our gild.
(southern accent) I..I can't come to alot of meetings, simply I gauge I'll bring together.

Jim: (normal voice) I do feel guilty at checkout when they're bagging my groceries. Talk about feeling lazy.
(southern emphasis) Hey thanks for putting my groceries in my bag. Yeah I could probably aid merely I'll just lookout. I'm exhausted from picking that crap out.
>>You wanna come up home and watch me swallow em?
>>I'm lookin for a buddy.
(breathy female voice) This guy talks alot about food.
(normal voice) But actually, we're a country that loves food.
>>I mean, call up almost it, once a week on the news, there's a piece about American obesity.
>>They ever prove a big guy walking (impersonating a buff guy).
>>They'll block out his face but that guy knows it'due south him.
(southern accent) Well…that guy looks familiar.
>>Oh, crap! Tin can't wear that shirt once again.
(normal voice) poor guy gets to work.."hey, bill saw your shirt on the news."
(southern voice) I..I know….

Jim: (normal vocalisation) we're never satisfied when information technology comes to food.
(breathy female phonation) You know what would be skillful on this burger?
>>A ham sandwich.
>>Instead of a bun, permit'south use 2 doughnuts.
>>That manner, we can take it for breakfast.
>>LOOK OUT, McGRIDDLE here comes the doughnut ham hamburger.
Audition: (auspicious)

Jim: (normal voice) Yous guys laugh, simply you know there's someone at dunkin' donuts going, "that'south not a bad idea (blatant female voice)."
>>So nosotros could have the nutrition doughnut ham hamburger.
(normal phonation) I bought some peanut butter recently, there was creamy, mesomorphic, actress-chunky, and now farthermost mesomorphic peanut butter.
>>I bought the extreme chunky.
>>I opened it up and information technology was just peanuts.
>>That is extreme, trying to spread that stuff.
(deep shouting vocalization) oh this is RADICAL!

Jim: (normal voice) We like our food fast now don't we?
>>That'south why nosotros really honey those value meals..but have to say a number, Ii!
>>Soon yous won't even accept to speak information technology'll just be a noise, EH!
>>(raising voice) EHHHHH!
>>(raising hands up in the air) alright I'll supersize it.
(normal vocalisation) We need our food fast. That'southward the real appeal of chinese food but chinese food nearly comes too quickly.
>>you're like yeah ill accept..oh! At that place it is!
(breathy female person phonation): How'd you know I fifty-fifty wanted that.
(normal voice): Fast is to prepare, tedious is to eat.
>>I prefer the chinese restaurants that have the silverware on the table when yous arrive because there's nothing more humiliating than starting with chopsticks and having to plow to the waiter and be like, (blatant female vocalisation) "uh yeah how-do-you-do uh i'yard too white..uh do you have a shovel back in that location?
>>uh chopsticks are fun but i'd rather eat than play functioning.
>>yeeaahh.
(breathy female voice): He's weeirrd.

Jim: (normal voice) We're so lazy about our food. People deliver information technology to us.(southern accent) yeah I like your food just not enough to become down there and become it (pretending to be on the phone).
(normal voice): Delivery is actually a combination of my ii favorite activities: eating and not moving.
>>Worst part of delivery is getting upwardly and answering the door.
(deep voice) well this is a pain in the donkey.
>>Who am I the butler?
>>Well at least I don't take to put on pants, HAND Information technology OVER!
(normal voice) Nosotros're getting lazier and it's only a affair of time.. (pretending to be on the phone) hey yeah, I desire a commitment and I'grand gonna need someone to feed me.
(southern accent) yeah, nah I'll exist in the tub.
>>Yeah key is under the mat.
>>chip chap fleck.
(Breathy female phonation): Chip chap chip?
>>I don't fifty-fifty know what flake chap chip is supposed to mean…

Jim: (normal voice) I'm not good at ordering delivery. I e'er become that order panick..
(southern accent) Delivery, what exercise ya want?
(nervous phonation) uh..uh..uh y'all got food at that place?
(southern accent) yeah we got food what do y'all want?
(nervous voice) uh..uh..let me write information technology down and then i'll call y'all back.
>>well i wasn't gear up for the fox questions.
(normal voice) Information technology's exciting when that commitment guy arrives isn't it? It's like Santa coming to your house.
(jumping around) He's here! He's here! The guy'southward hither! What practice we do what exercise we do?!
>>Just we don't care for them like Santa, we treat the state of affairs similar it's a earnest exchange.
(deep voice) whoa whoa whoa now you lot wait out there.
>>Here's the bargain. I'll give y'all the money, you'll hand over the nutrient.
>>Then I want you lot to dorsum away slowly. I don't need you casing the joint.(breathy female voice) It's re-dic-u-lous.

Jim: (normal voice) Hither'due south something fun to exercise next fourth dimension you get delivery..care for the delivery guy like he'due south a waiter.
>>Be similar, hey thanks alot can you do something nearly the music in here? (pointing into space)
>>And I could go for some more ice water.
>>I never know what to do with all those additive packets they give you when you get delivery..they give you like fifty ketchups.
>>Information technology'southward such a waste.
>>my wife's always like, "save them." (high pitched voice)
>>In instance you become upwards to a homeless person..
(southern accent) Hey you got that nutrient yous're lookin for? Hither'due south some ketchup.
>>I'm lookin out for ya buddy.
(blatant female voice) It'southward ridiculous..

Jim: (normal vocalization) It is user-friendly though, we want our nutrient easy.
>>I hateful how else would y'all explain spray cheese?
>>I mean, I'm lazy but I guess at that place's some people that are just like, "ya know I like cheese but information technology'southward just too much work."
>>I'm tired of opening it upwardly, taking information technology out..
>>I'd be willing to consume cheese if I could exercise, idk, this… (making the movement of squirting something out of a can)
>>Here's the deal, i'll exercise this (making the same motility) and the cheese will just spray out and..I could write my name with it.
>>Crusade I gotta sign some checks to Mayor McCheese.
>>And as you lot know he only takes cheese checks.
(blatant female voice) I don't even know if that's authentic.
>>I don't know much about Mayor McCheese but I don't recollect he even takes checks.

Jim: (normal vocalism) I dearest cheese.
>>I call back I'thousand lactose intolerant though crusade terminal night I had iv milkshakes and felt similar crap..
>>..I think information technology's the lactose.
>>If you are lactose intolerant, don't exist ashamed only cause your tum tin can't handle that "spicy milk" (breathy vocalization).
(looking upwards with finger on chin) uh do you lot accept anything milder than milk?>>uh..but not water that gives me gas.
>>yeaaahh.

Jim: (normal phonation) I try and lay of dairy, uh, I bought some of that state crock margarine.
>>Didn't stick in the fridge right away though it turned into gasoline.
>>That'due south gotta be a tough product to market because not but is it a bucket of whipped grease but someone had the audacity to telephone call information technology crock.
(deep vocalization) you call up this is butter?
(shaking caput) it's crock.
(normal voice) we all endeavour and sentinel what we eat cause we're all so consumed with our bodies ya know..
>>I was at the gym and I saw this adult female working out and you could actually see her ribs.
>>And all I could recollect is, I Oasis'T HAD a McRib in forever.
>>D-el-ic-ious.
(blatant female voice) thank you for the remiiiinderrrrr.
>>this guy's obsessed on food.

Jim: (normal vocalisation) I am. I try and rationalize what I eat but in that location's some foods you should never eat, like a cinnabon..(shaking head)
>> I mean tell me that place isn't run past satan.
>>Yous ever swallow a cinnabon? you have to have a nap halfway through.
(deep voice and rubbing tummy) umm..I think I need some insulin…and a wheelbarrow for my one-half a bun.
>>(normal phonation) It's kinda generous calling that a bun..information technology's the size of a bean handbag chair.
(high-pitched voice) should I sit down in information technology or swallow it? (scratching the dorsum of his head)
>>Hey, I could sit down in it and eat it!
(bending down) ah this is sticky without pants on.
(breathy female vocalization) he has his pants off in a lot of jokes.

Jim: (normal voice) I'll tell ya, I've done some humiliating things but standing in that cinnabon line is up in that location.
>>anybody'southward so full with shame.
>>no one'southward trying to brand heart contact.
(southern accent) uhh…I'm just here for the napkins! Im not a pig like y'all guys..
(normal voice) cause there'southward no reason to eat a cinnabon, i've tried to notice one.
(placing finger on his chin) uh yeah I'yard well-nigh to get on a plane, how well-nigh eight pounds of block?
(breathy female voice) seems reasonable, a footling dessert on the gooo.

Jim: (normal voice) That's 1 thing that'south truly universal, nosotros all love dessert.
>>You always notice, when you lot go out to dinner, at that place'due south always someone that wants to share a dessert?
(female vocalism) hey, you wanna share a dessert? Let's share a dessert!
(deep voice) just get your own damn dessert.
(female person voice) Oh, I only desire a seize with teeth, but a seize with teeth.
(normal voice) then dessert comes, and they plough into a vacuum.
(imitates sucking noise) Well, apparently, it was a bite from a shovel.
(female phonation) Yep, I accept a chip of a sugariness tooth.
(deep voice) no, you're a hog. But so am i..takes one to know ane.
(normal vocalisation) I do love our excuses, you know.
(female person vocalization) aye I have a sugariness tooth..
(deep voice) oh, so you lot're ordering it for your tooth?
>>That'due south interesting.
>>Cause it'south going straight to your ass.
>>I think your ass owes your tooth an caption.

Jim: (normal voice) Cake'south a powerful food.
>>Cake can actually bring people together.
(southern accent) It's neb'south altogether!
(deep voice) oh I detest that guy.
(southern accent) at that place's cake in the conference room!
(deep vocalism) Well, I should say hello.
(normal vox) I mean, admit it, when y'all hear the vocal "happy birthday," all you're thinking is, hey, I'g gettin some free cake!
>>During the vocal, you're just wondering what kind it is.
(singing to the tune of "Happy Birthday") Promise it'southward chocolate for meee.

Audition: (auspicious)
Jim: (normal voice) We're all bashful, though, when we're offered a piece, aren't we?
>>We're always like, "well— well, I guess I'll attempt it (blatant female person voice)"
(breathy female vox) What's this called? block…?
>>Aye, I've never had cake earlier.
(grunts and motions eating block)
>>If he does another cake joke i'm gonna kill him.
(normal voice) okay lets talk about something likewise cake..PIE!
>>pie can't compete with cake though..put candles in a cake, information technology's a birthday cake…put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.
(whispers) caake.
(normal vocalisation) In that location'due south and so many types of cake as well.
>>There's rum cake, which makes sense, you know, crusade we've all been eating cake and thought, you know what this needs?
>>Booze.
>>A shot of liquor.
>>I don't have time to eat and potable.
>>I only got two hands, buddy, and one of them's holding a cigarette.
>>Meet me halfway, will ya?
>>There's funnel cake, which is substantially a giant french fry covered in sugar.
>>They're serving that at the ihop now.
>>That's a weird name for that place. I've never left there feeling similar hopping.
>>It should be called, I-never moved…or I-demand a wheel chair.
(blatant female voice) hey, buddy, I like the ihop.
>>If you don't like it, y'all don't have to go there.

Jim: (normal vox) I think the most disappointing cake has to be fruitcake, you know.
>>You'd think that would be better.
>>It doesn't add upward..fruit—good, block—bully, fruitcake—nasty crap.
>>Accept y'all tried fruitcake? I don't even recall that'south fruit in at that place.
>>you lot're similar "num,num, num (pretending to eat) what is that, a skittle?
>>Hmm, someone has a seed here..what'south this, a treasure map? (looking around confused)
>>What is the recipe of fruitcake? Anything but fruit?
>>It's like the baker was just clearing off the counter..
(deep voice)put all this crap in here. Nobody eats this stuff, they just mail service it to relatives (pretending to clean off a counter).

Jim: (normal voice) Big holiday tradition, fruitcake.
>>I honey our holiday traditions, like the christmas tree, where we get out and nosotros chop down a tree and we put it in our living room.
>>Kinda sounds like the behavior of a drunk man, really.
>>Some woman wakes up..
(female voice) dearest, why is there a pine tree in our living room?
(southern accent while slurring words)I LIKE It. We're gonna, we're gonna, decoraaate information technology..for Jesus (motioning to put ornaments on a tree).
(Slurring) and then I'm gonna hang my socks over the fireplace.
>>Fill 'em with candy.
>>Perhaps I'll tie some leaves to the ceiling, see if I can get some action.
>>Now I gotta puke on that burrow.

(normal voice) SOME PEOPLE get so into christmas that they decorate their yards.
>>Information technology seems completely backwards.
(blatant female person vocalisation) All right, chop down that tree, bring it in here.
>>Accept all these lights, put them out in that location.
>>Oh, I merely gotta get a job.

Jim: (normal voice) Easter, that's a weird tradition.
(breathy female voice) Easter, the solar day jesus rose from the dead, what should we do?
(deep voice yelling) HOW BOUT' EGGS?
(blatant female voice) Well..what does that have to practice with Jesus?
(deep vocalism) alright, nosotros'll hide em.
(breathy female vocalization) I don't follow your logic..
(deep voice) don't worry, at that place's a bunny.

Jim: (normal voice) Thanksgiving, it's like we didn't even try to come upwards with a tradition.
>>The tradition is, nosotros overeat.
(deep voice) Hey, how about at thanksgiving we just swallow alot?
(high-pitched vocalism) we practice that every day!
(deep voice) OH, well what if we eat alot with people who badger the hell outta us?
(breathy female person voice) oh, he's anti-family.
(normal vocalization) MOSTLY, Nosotros use holidays so nosotros tin can eat more, yous know.
(sarcastic vocalism) I normally don't have a burger, a bratanda steak, simply it is 4th of july.
>>And I need the energy if I'g gonna kickoff bravado crap up.
>>It's what the founding fathers would want.
(normal vocalization) my favorite holiday is halloween and non simply because women use it every bit an alibi to dress similar prostitutes.
>>You ladies totally do.
(female person voice) I'm a witch!
(normal voice) if she was a hooker.
>>as a kid, halloween was amazing.
>>You dress like a superhero, you bang on your neighbour's door and they give you candy.
>>I do that today and my neighbor wants me arrested.
>>Probably cause I make a hot catwoman.
(imitates meowing) Kitty wants some candy (breathy female voice).
(imitates purring) meow, meowww, meow, meow

Audience: (cheering)
Jim: (normal voice) Valentine'due south day, tradition is, we requite each other those large cherry-red hearts filled with the gamble chocolate.
>>Take you ever eaten any chocolate out of those big red hearts with any confidence?
(southern voice) Hmm, well, this could either exist really good or totally nasty.
>>I'm just sus scrofa plenty to find out.
>>Ah, I got the ane filled with toothpaste!
>>Mmm, I'm gonna have to swallow some other nine to get rid of that flavor.
(normal phonation) There'south the big red hearts filled with the run a risk chocolate.
>>Or the tiny, chalk, eye-shaped antacids.
(breathy female voice) I know I brand y'all nauseous. Here'due south a tums with 'hug me' written on information technology.
(normal voice) I know nothing about st. valentine…I presume he'southward the patron saint of overpriced greeting cards.
>>That's an odd ritual, actually. You know, we go out and we buy cards that already take things written in em.
(deep voice)..hmm…Hey, that's something I'd say.
>>I'll but add my proper name hither (humming). Hither you go!
>>(yelling) You similar what that other guy wrote in there?
>>Took me 5 seconds to detect it.
(normal voice) greeting cards would make sense if there was something profound written in there.
>>Merely it'southward always like, "happy birthdayyyy" (high-pitched voice)
(normal voice) couldn't think of that yourself?
>>Everyone acts a lilliputian differently around their altogether, don't they?
>>You e'er have that friend that gives you the birthday alarm?
(breathy female voice) Hey, just wanna permit you know, adjacent week's my birthdayyyy.
(normal vocalization) just wanna let yous know, I'thousand non getting you anything.
>>They requite the, they give the alert cause, y'all know, at that place's so much pressure level in our lodge to take a good time on your birthday.
>>Yous know, it's similar, i can't believe I'm going to piece of work on my birthday.
>>i tin can't believe I'm doing laundry on my altogether.
>>i tin can't believe I'm paying for sex on my birthday.

Jim: (normal voice) it is fun getting those gifts though.
>>Information technology can be hard to give a souvenir.
>>It's a take chances, you know? it'southward hard.
>>I can't believe we're however giving clothing as a gift, cause whenever you lot get clothing as a nowadays, you ever open it up and you call back, not even close.
>>And the person that gives it is always like, "you tin have it back (high-pitched phonation).
(normal phonation) That's alright, I'll only throw information technology out.
>> I got a robe for christmas.
>>I remember looking at the robe, thinking, wow, hope I get the flu so I can wear it.
>>I mean, who has the time to relish a robe?
>>I mean, what, are we virtually to shoot a porno?
>>That's a weird slice of clothing.
>>How'd we even come up with the robe? Was some guy, hey, I got an thought. (deep drunken voice)
(drunken voice) How most we make a coat out of a towel?
>>And in that location could exist a belt that goes effectually and you could dunk the belt in the toilet.
(normal voice) the indoor jacket, the robe.
>>You e'er see someone outside in a robe?
>>They expect like they escaped from the loony bin.
>>do you ever become a candle as a souvenir?
(breathy female voice) Hey, thank you you lot know I have electricity, correct? (shaking caput)
>>Look, if my place smells, merely let me know.
>>No, this is perfect. Now I know what I'm giving you adjacent year.
>>(whispers) THISSSS.
(normal phonation) It's a hazard with gifts, you lot know.
>>The statue of freedom was a gift.
>>Big, beautiful statue, gift from the french.
>>Expert matter the statue's beautiful, crusade if it was ugly, that would've been awkward.
>>The french would've come up over, "Where'due south the statue of freedom? (French accent)
(normal voice) Yes, UH, That's in the desert in arizona.
>>Yeah, we thought it really complemented the desert. information technology would've been even more than awkward if we regifted the statue.
(French accent) Hey what's with that large statue?
(breathy female person voice) UH, Japan was having a birthday, and we didn't know what to go em…we said it was from both of us.
>>And they just love it, love information technology, love it, love it, love it.

Jim: (normal voice) my favorite souvenir I've ever received is a flask.
>>I think giving someone a flask is a overnice way of saying, "hey, you seem like a boozer on the go."
>>You strike me every bit needing hard liquor at all times.
>>It'd be good for you in your caaaar.
(normal voice) Don't you dearest how we accept different containers that we drinkable different alcohol out of?
>>You ever endeavor and drink wine out of anything but a vino glass?
>>Y'all feel like a drunk.
(deep vocalism) Hey, can you refill my yahtzee shaker?
>>Hitting the sippy cup, too, will ya?

Jim: (normal vox) I'm a vegetarian now. Anyone a vegetarian?
(scattered applause and cheers)
>>I'm not a strict vegetarian…I swallow beefiness and pork…
>>…and craven..only not fish cause that's disgusting.
>>How tin you tell when fish goes bad? Information technology smells similar fish either way.
(deep voice) Well, this smells like a dumpster, allow'south consume it.
(normal vocalisation) I am amazed that we're nonetheless serving fish with the heads on there.
>>Don't yous always feel like that heart is looking at you?
>>Like, "hey, you don't mind if I picket while you eat my trunk, do ya? (southern accent)
>>Don't be distracted if a lilliputian tear comes out..yous can just tell yourself information technology's butter.
(breathy female voice) OH, what if a fish was in the audience?
>>That would be bad-mannered for all of us.
>>Information technology could happen. Lake michigan's correct at that place, buddy.
>>The fish would express mirth, just on the within, it'd exist crying.
>>….Sadddd…you and your fish head joke.
(normal vocalization) Obviously, Some people adopt it like that.
(deep voice) Yep, I'll have the fish, go along the caput on in that location.
>> anyhoooo

Jim: (normal voice) Sus scrofa roasts, yous know?
>>Pig roasts, they always have that hog head sitting there.
>>Which is sad cause you lot can tell they killed the pig when information technology was eating an apple.
(high pitched voice) hey pig you want an apple?
>>yeah sure what are you doin with that…OWW..
(normal vocalism) mid bite every time.
>>At least those animals aren't alive, you know.
>>I always feel uncomfortable when I go in a seafood restaurant.
>>They have that lobster tank sitting there and all the lobsters are peering out like "hey what are yous here for?" (jumping to his correct)
(deep phonation) I..I'1000 here to eat y'all.
(southern accent)..ha ha YEAH RIGHT!
>>Hey, harvey, this guy…..(looking effectually)
(breathy voice) and Harvey was goneeee..

Jim: (normal phonation)I exercise honey the vegetarians.
>>I always become a kicking out of when they endeavour and impress you, like, "I oasis't had meat in 5 years. " (breathy vocalization)
(normal voice) I oasis't had a banana in a calendar month.
>>You don't see me bragging well-nigh it.
(high-pitched phonation) Do you know what they do to those chickens?
(deep voice) no, only information technology's delicious.
(normal vox) Don't get me wrong, I love animals…
>>I just love to eat them more than.
>>Fun to pet, ameliorate to chew.
>>I do experience bad they have to be killed, you know.
>>I prefer if information technology was like an animal suicide…peradventure the beast deserved information technology, you know.
(deep voice) This is a good craven sandwich. Thanks roger!!
>>I think this bounder tried to steal my car.
(breathy female phonation)who's roger?
>>I was simply getting used to harvey.
>>I don't know who whatever of these people are..

Jim: (normal voice)I could never really be a vegetarian, though,I dearest steak too much.
>>Steak is like the tuxedo of meat, isn't it?
>>And bologna is the retarded cousin.
>>Cause if you're eating steak, something special is happening.
>>If you're eating bologna, y'all might be special.
(breathy female voice) Hey, I like bologna, jerk head.
>>Your act is baloney.
>>Your bologna has a concluding proper noun and it's gaffigan.

Jim: (normal voice) I'm moving a little slow tonight.
>>I had a hot pocket for dinner (rubbing breadbasket and moaning).
Audience: (Cheering)
Jim: (normal phonation) Skilful to see I'm non the only white trash here.
>>I purchase the hot pockets.
>>I go in grocery stores, I'm similar, "ehh i'll go these." (southern emphasis)
>> I've never eaten a hot pocket and then afterwards been, "hey im glad Iate that!"
>> I'k always like, I'm gonna dieee!
>>I paid for that? (high-pitched squeal)
>>Did I eat it or rub it on my face?
>>My back hurts.
(moaning) owwww…
(normal voice) I was looking at a box of hot pockets and they have a warning printed on the side.. (looking around confused)
>>It's similar, "Alert! You JUST BOUGHT HOT POCKETS!" (southern accent)
(southern emphasis) Hope you're drunkard or heading home to a trailer.
>>You hillbilly, enjoy the side by side nascar event.
(high-pitched voice) hotttt pockkkettts.
(breathy female vocalism) I like nascar, he's a wiggle.

Jim: (normal voice) you never really come across that on a menu when you go out to dinner, you know.
>>Let's encounter, I'll have the caesar salad and the hot pocket.
(Deep phonation) uh, tonight's specials, we have a sea bass, which is broiled, and we have a hot pocket, which is cooked in a dingy microwave.
(normal voice) is your hot pocket cold in the middle?
(Deep voice) it'southward frozen.
>>But it can be served humid lava hot.
(normal voice) will it fire my mouth?
(deep vox) Information technology'll destroy your rima oris.
(blatant female vocalisation) hottt pockketttss.
(normal vox) hot pockets, yeah…
>>They haven't been effectually that long, like, ten years.
>>How'd they come up with that?
>>Was there some guy in a marketing meeting like, "hey, I got an thought." (hillbilly voice)
(hillbilly voice) How most nosotros make full a pop-tart with nasty meat?
>>And you could cook it in a sleeve matter.
>>You could dunk it in the toilet.
(whispers) HE'S WEIRD.
(normal voice) There IS the vegetarian hot pocket, for those of us that don't want to eat meat but all the same would like diarrhea.
(high-pitched vocalisation) hottt pockketttss
(normal phonation) it should only come with a roll of toilet newspaper.
(loftier-pitched voice) Diarrheaaa pockkketttt.
(normal voice) you lot ever observe there's no dignified way to purchase toilet paper?
>>You always accept to buy information technology in that multi-pack, like, 18 rolls.
>>Stick information technology in your cart and everyone in the store is like, "does that guy ever leave the bath?
>>What, is he living on hot pockets?
(high-pitched voice) hottt pockketttt
(normal vocalisation) There's the lean pocket..I don't fifty-fifty wanna know what's in there.
>>Imagine the directions.. "take out of box and place in toilet."
(high-pitched vocalism) flushhhh pocketttt.
>> Pocket, pocket, pocket, pocketttt.

Jim: (normal voice) recently, they introduced the breakfast hot pocket.
>>FINALLY!
>>I can't think of a better way to start the day.
(high-pitched voice) Well, good morningggg!!
>>You're about to phone call in sick.
>>hottt pockketttss.
Audience: (cheering)
Jim: (normal phonation) At present you lot can have a hot pocket for breakfast, a hot pocket for tiffin, and be dead by dinner.
(high-pitched vox) Deaddd pockkettt.
(normal voice) I practise love that jingle, you know.
>>Yous think they worked hard on that song?
(southern accent) what do ya got there Jim?
(breathy voice) uhh.uh.. hottt pockketttss. (high-pitched voice)
(southern accent) That's practiced. That's very good.
>>Not equally skilful as your 'past mennen,' merely it's proficient.
(normal voice) I saw a commercial for a craven potpie hot pocket.
>>Now they're just messing with us.
>>It's just a matter of fourth dimension.. "have yous tried the hot pocket hot pocket?"
(high-pitched vocalization) It's a hot pocket filled with a hot pocket.
>>Tastes simply like a hot pocket.
>>I'1000 gonna stick my caput in there.
>>hottt pockketttss.
(breathy female voice) He went crazy upward in that location..I didn't know what he was doing at the terminate there.
>>I idea he was on drugs or something.

Jim: (normal vocalisation) I am as well an thespian, but i, uh, I wish I was a film manager just in everyday life.
>>And so when someone was telling me a really boring story, I could merely get, "AAND CUTT!" (yelling)
>>that would come in handy when you come home late, your wife'south like, "AAND CUTT!"
>>Okay, let's endeavor information technology again. This time, you lot don't care where I was.
>>In fact, you're happy to encounter me.
>>Let'southward effort information technology topless.
(breathy female voice) HE'South A Jerk.

(normal vox) I exercise take a wife, I got married.
>>My wife changed her proper noun.
>>I know some women have a problem with that, but I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name.
>>So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the bible tells.
(breathy female vocalization) THE BIBLE doesn't say that at all.
>>He's dumb every bit a rock.
(normal voice) I don't think my married woman's parents like me, though cause apparently, when y'all meet someone's mother, you're non supposed to hug her and become, "oh yeahhhhhh."
(loftier-pitched voice) This feels righhtttt.
(normal voice) and if their dad is brusque, don't try and selection him up.
(babe vox) Oh, y'all're like a trivial baby daddy.
>>baby daddyyy…weeee (pretending to throw something in the air)
(Blatant vocalization) He'southward weeird.

Jim: (normal voice) we're all a little weird.
>>But, you know, we similar to think there'south someone weirder.
>>I'm sure some of you lot are looking at me, going, "well, at to the lowest degree I'm not as weird as Gaffigan." (deep voice)
>> Then I'thou thinking, "well, at least I'm non as weird every bit those people in the loony bin," and then the people in the loony bin are going, "well, at least i'm an orange." (deep voice)
(breathy voice) HEY, I like oranges.
(normal voice) there are then many weird situations in life anyway.
>>You ever mix ii different groups of friends?
>>That tin be stressful.
>>You e'er feel similar yous have to prep em, you're like, ..
(blatant female person phonation) ..Hey, yep, uh…uh..these people over here, uh, they don't think I drink.
>>And don't be thrown by my british accent.

Jim: (normal voice) I beloved when I'yard in big cities similar Chicago and I run into a policeman on a equus caballus.
>>for a second I'grand always like, "did Canada invade?" (breathy female voice) "did they come from a time machineee?"
(normal voice) hmm policeman on a horse..
>>they probably rarely go undercover, huh?
>>can't really run into them infiltrating the mafia.
(Italian-American accent) Hey, it's Finnie the horse, Finnie the horse, why are yous e'er on a horse?
(breathy female voice) That was the worst Italian-American impression I've ever heard.
>>Hey it ain't encephalon surgery.
(normal voice) I love how we mensurate the difficulty of everything versus brain surgery.
(southern emphasis) Hey, it ain't brain surgery.
(normal phonation) what exercise brain surgeons say?
(southern accent) Hey it own't like we're trying to talk to women.
(breathy voice) HEY, I'm a brain surgeon, buddy.
>>I didn't appreciate that…he made me uncomfortable.
(normal vocalization) I do want everyone to feel comfortable, and that's why I'd like to talk to you about jesus.
(breathy female vocalization) he, he better not.
(normal vocalism) It doesn't thing If you're religious or not.
>>Does anything make you feel more than uncomfortable than some stranger going, "I'd like to talk to you almost jesus." (breathy female vox)(normal voice) yeah, I'd like you non to.
>>You could say that to the pope, be like I wanna talk to you virtually jesus.
>>He'd be like, "easy, freak." (throwing hands up in the air)
>> I have to admit, that was a good impression of the pope.
(blatant female voice) That's ridiculous.

Jim: (normal voice) I don't know much most the bible myself.
>>I haven't read it cause I don't take to and cause I'm catholic.
>>not alot of Catholics take read the bible.
>>It's a different perspective on rules for catholics. It'southward not like other religions.
>>Hindus are not supposed to eat meat. They don't eat meat.
00:48:37 Catholics are like, "merely eat fish on fridays…unless y'all forget." (southern accent)
>>Eh, do whatsoever the hell you want.
(normal vocalisation) my wife, my wife'south really catholic, she's like a shiite cosmic.
>>She'south e'er worried most diabloooo.
>>So I joke around with her, I'll telephone call her up, she'll say "who is this?" (high-pitched vocalisation).
(very deep voice) THE DEVIL.

(normal voice) She brings me to church every sunday.
>>If y'all've never been to a catholic mass, that is the longest feel of your life.
>>It makes you lot look forrad to going to the D.One thousand.V.
>>At times, it seems similar they're dragging church out on purpose.
(singing) Ah, ah, ah, ahhh.
(singing and checking watch) ah, ah, ah, ahhh.
(screaming in a southern accent) AMEN ALREADY!
>>Let's wrap it upwards I got some sinning to do!
>>there's too much standing involved in church.
>>Can't I lie down and worship? While I'one thousand eating a…
(loftier-pitched voice) Hotttt pockketttt.
>> godd pockketttt.
(normal vocalism) I generally daydream in church building.
>>I always have that introspective expect on my face but inside I'thousand like, "did I go to wendy's twice yesterday?" (breathy female phonation)
(normal vocalisation) I'm not a expert cosmic.
>>I don't even feel comfy when someone's praying side by side to me in church.
>>I'chiliad like, "tin can you do that exterior?" (breathy female phonation)
(breathy female vox) I'm trying to check out some of the ladies in hither.(normal vocalism) I do have the dirtiest thoughts in church building.
>>I'grand always similar, "peace be with you and an actress piece for youuu."
(normal voice) my wife e'er wants me to go to confession.
>>Don't go me wrong, information technology's not that I don't enjoy lying to a holy man.
>>I just don't know how honest people are being in there.
>>They go in there for, like, a infinitesimal and a half..
(southern emphasis) yes, I lied, I double-parked..tin nosotros wrap this upwards? I'one thousand meeting a hooker.
(whispers) that's dizzy.

Jim: (normal voice) Information technology seems like and then much of church building is memorization.
>>I accept a horrible memory.
>>I'm ever like, "our begetter, who art in heaven without the canonical written consent of..major..league..baseball.. " (southern accent)
(normal voice) I love doing that joke, cause at that place's always one face in the audience that'due south similar, "you lot're going to hell."
>>those are the people I wanna bump into in sky and be like "hey recall me?" (breathy vocalism)
(high-pitched phonation) y'all're here???
(breathy phonation) yeah, peter loves my stuff.
(normal voice) I'm gonna be doing a show downwards nigh the pearly gates..pearly gates.
>>Am I the just one who finds it odd that heaven has gates?
>>Gates?
>>What kind of neighborhood is heaven in?
>>What, do you die and you go to a gated community?
>>Are the gates necessary?
(Southern accent) Yeah, we had a lot of kids sneaking in using the pool.
>>Those gates weren't easy.
>>We had to get downwards to hell, go a contractor and everything.

Audience: (cheering)
Jim: (normal vox) In tv and picture show, you know, whenever they show someone going to heaven, they e'er prove them going upwards an escalator.
>>You know, like heaven'southward in a mall or something.
>> I call up religion is fascinating, you know.
>>Adam and eve, kicked out of paradise for eating an apple tree.
>>An apple? Would you accept e'er been tempted by an apple?
>>I would've been like, "uh, cover information technology in caramel and come up back to me."
(southern accent) hey, y'all got any block back in that location?
(normal voice) jesus, of course, was a carpenter, we all know that.
>>Y'all remember jesus was a skilful carpenter?
>>Cause the bible doesn't actually accost it.
>>I mean, who knows?
>>Back so, people could've been, "good thing that messiah thing worked out." (deep voice)
>>Yep, he congenital a shed for my cousin. What a piece of crap.
>>The entire time, he'due south like, "blah blah blah apathetic." (weasel voice)
(deep vocalization) well, right now you're building a shed.
(normal vocalization) Wouldn't it exist great if I was electrocuted right now?
(imitates electricity buzzing) (blatant female voice) He did a jesus joke, and he was electrocuted.
>>Information technology was the best show I've always seen.
(normal vocalization) I would've loved to have overheard that conversation where mary explained to joseph that she was pregnant, and joseph wasn't the father.
(breathy female phonation) Joseph..?
(southern accent) aye.
(breathy female voice) .. you know how we've never made love..
(southern accent) Yep.
(breathy female vox) yeah, uh, well anyways, concluding night an angel visited me and now i'g pregnant..
(southern accent) JESUS CHRIST!
(blatant female person voice) oh yous already know near it?

Jim: (normal voice) It would've been hard to go jesus a nowadays, you know, back then.
>>Cause whatever you got him every bit a present back then, he must've been, "oh, a pair of socks. Thanks." (breathy voice)
>>You know I'm dying for your sins, correct…? Yeah, merely thanks for the socks!
>>Aye, they'll go great with my sandals.
(breathy female vox) i'm offended on so many different levels.
>>What if Moses was here?
(normal voice) Nosotros ALL KNOW Moses led the israelites out of egypt and they wandered in the desert for 40 years.
>>I don't know about y'all, just after a yr I would've been, "this moses doesn't know where the hell he'south going!"
>>I appreciate him getting us out of egypt, just we're in the desert, folks, as in no agua.
(blatant female person phonation) They wouldn't say aguaaa.
(normal voice) And afterward Moses parted the red body of water, did he say anything?
>>Was he like, TA DA!
(southern emphasis) How about them apples?
>>That'll cease some of your bitchin.
(breathy female vocalism) I don't know If that's chronologically authentic.
>>This guy's going to hell in two religions.
>>He's practically sprinting there.
(normal vocalism) Don't worry, you know god has a sense of humour, y'all know, 'cause he was talking to moses as a called-for bush.
>>A burning bush-league?
>>Can you imagine if you were the first person moses told virtually that?
(southern accent) Aye, god but talked to me as a burning bush-league.
>>s-sure, he did. yeah.
(normal voice) Mo-moses, we call up possibly you're burning some bush(property upward a simulated cigarette).
(normal phonation) All correct, that is all for me. Cheers very much you guys.
Audience: (Cheering)

Jim Gaffigan is not only a genius in his comedic work, but a genius in engaging his audition as well. If yous listen advisedly to his discussion choice every bit he tears through his performance, yous will find something very unique virtually his piece of work style: Jim Gaffigan stays clear of curse words. He resists profanity, avoids crude insults and instead chooses to work completely clean. By doing and then, Gaffigan's stand up-upwardly performances appeal to a wider range of audiences from a more intellectual oversupply to the folks looking for family-friendly fabric.

Jim Gaffigan has adult a comical reputation that has taken many years to accomplish. The route to beingness a successful comedian is a long 1 and requires traits that Gaffigan has shown to possess through his humorous stand-ups about Hot Pockets, Cinnabon, and many other topics, peculiarly associated with his love for food and unattractive advent. Ever since the offset of his career, Jim Gaffigan has had a program of action set in mind: " For me, stand-up comedy is a chat between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'one thousand making jokes nigh cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audition is interested and following where I'g going."

It's no wonder that Gaffigan has excelled to become one of the top comedians of the state.

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