Jim Gaffigan Brings The Laughs Again

Ask Me Another

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🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan opens up about his creative partnership with his wife, and the real-life struggles that informed his album Noble Ape. This episode originally aired March 1, 2019.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:09.7	it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:14.4	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:18.9	Hello, everybody.
0:28.9	So we have four brilliant contestants on our show.
0:34.2	They are backstage right now.
0:36.1	They're talking.
0:37.1	They're trying to decide whether they should declare a national trivia emergency or not.
0:42.2	And they'll be up here playing some games and one of them will be our big winner.
0:46.5	What a great show.
0:47.5	Our guest is comedian writer, actor Jim Gaffigan.
0:53.5	Jim's recent comedy album was nominated for a Grammy.
1:00.8	He has performed for the Pope.
1:03.4	He's got three movies coming out.
1:06.2	He's like the dad we all aspire to be, basically.
1:10.2	As you know what, I appreciate him.
1:11.6	As a mom, I appreciate him.
1:13.1	I appreciate the fact that he's super open about the fact that he has bad eating habits.
1:18.4	I do like that.
1:19.4	His first book was titled Dad Is Fat.
1:24.2	And you know what, everyone loves a chubby dad.
1:26.8	Everyone.
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