BEST OF WIO: Jim Gaffigan

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🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jim Gaffigan: Dark Comedy From the Cleanest Comedian (Recorded July 2023) Mike met Jim Gaffigan in 1997 when he cold-called Jim’s New York City landline. Jim appeared as a guest on Working It Out in 2021 and now, between touring with Jerry Seinfeld, releasing his 10th comedy special “Dark Pale,” and raising money for the Georgetown Scholars Program, Jim sits down with Mike in-studio for his second Working It Out chat. The old friends go deeper as they work out material and discuss how Jim actually *doesn’t* like hot pockets, what item of clothing comedians should never wear, and why being married to a comedian is like having a roommate who is a conspiracy theorist.

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0:00.0	You in Seinfeld, I feel like touring together.
0:02.7	It's a little bit of a monopoly.
0:04.6	I feel like the government should break it up.
0:06.6	You're taking comedy audiences, you're touring as a double bill.
0:10.1	You're taking comedy audiences
0:11.8	and you're, there's nothing left for the rest of us.
0:14.6	Oh my gosh that's well obviously that's you're being nice but that's it is it is one of those things
0:21.2	where Jerry had brought it up before the pandemic.
0:24.2	He's like, why don't we do a couple of shots together?
0:26.6	I'm like, yeah, sure, sure.
0:28.0	On that tour, will you pick his brain about comedy?
0:30.4	Oh my gosh, that's all we'll talk about. Well we we meet up all the time and do a show and then we'll talk for
0:37.0	two hours about stand-up. That's interesting. Yeah and I think he is the guru
0:41.8	Yeah, he's the Socrates of comedy.
0:44.0	He is.
0:45.0	That is the voice of the great Jim Gaffigan.
0:49.0	Jim is one of my favorite comics,
0:52.0	one of the comics who inspired me to start doing comedy
0:55.9	One of the people who I I actually met with 25 years ago and asked him how he did stand-up comedy because he also went to Georgetown
1:06.0	University and so I looked in the alumni book and for stand-up comedian and there was
1:11.2	only one. It was Jim Gaff again. And so I called him on a landline and got him on the phone and here we are on my working
1:20.8	it out podcast today, working out new jokes. We recorded this this summer. He has an amazing special that I highly recommend or go see him on tour. I am out on tour right now. I'm having a blast
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