He’s open about being Catholic, although he’s no Catechism-thumper (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). In any case, they can’t possibly be happy and well-adjusted.Īnd yet, there’s Gaffigan. In modern America, most people have a certain view of devout Catholics-they’re either recent immigrants who will assimilate away from the Church, or they’re repressed weirdos with strange ideas about sex who probably hate all sorts of people (women, gays, Muslims, etc.). Sometimes, however, evangelism can have a very different meaning. As he wryly informs us, his wife is “Shiite Catholic.” Does that make his new book, Dad Is Fat, Catholic? Is he, as the Washington Post’s Michelle Boorstein put it, “ the Catholic Church’s newest evangelizer”? Boorstein seems to want to say yes, although Gaffigan’s style is more subtle than most people would associate with the word “evangelism.” After all, you won’t hear “Christ, and him crucified” in so many words from Gaffigan. But it turns out 140 characters are not enough to express all the joys and horrors of life with five kids, so he's now sharing it all in Dad Is Fat.įrom new parents to empty nesters to Jim's twenty-something fans, everyone will recognize their own families in these hilarious takes on everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to growing up in a big family ("I always assumed my father had six children so he could have a sufficient lawn crew") to changing diapers in the middle of the night ("like The Hurt Locker but much more dangerous") to bedtime (aka "Negotiating with Terrorists").ĭad is Fat is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home.Jim Gaffigan is Catholic. Those tweets struck such a chord that he soon passed the million followers mark. Though he grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family, Jim was satisfied with the nomadic, nocturnal life of a standup comedian, and was content to be "that weird uncle who lives in an apartment by himself in New York that everyone in the family speculates about." But all that changed when he married and found out his wife, Jeannie "is someone who gets pregnant looking at babies."įive kids later, the comedian whose riffs on everything from Hot Pockets to Jesus have scored millions of hits on YouTube, started to tweet about the mistakes and victories of his life as a dad. Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have his own kids.
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