NEW YORK (AP) – On Jim Gaffigan’s new comedy series, “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” the popular standup comic plays a comic named Jim Gaffigan.
Like the real Jim Gaffigan, he’s married to Jeannie, an attractive woman he readily admits is out of his league (played by the attractive Ashley Williams). They plus their five children are squeezed into a two-bedroom walkup on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
On the show (which premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m. EDT on TV Land) Jeannie is cool, capable and kooky, which makes her perfect for Jim, who reigns as a serial bumbler with a food fixation.
All autobiographical? Check, check, check, says Gaffigan.
“I DON’T know what I’m doing! I’m NOT pretending!” he declares, his voice taking flight into his trademark squawk for emphasis. “I’m not in a fat suit and pretending to be lazy – I AM fat and lazy, and you know what? I wish I could be fatter and lazier.