Jim Gaffigan on Trump, Fox News, #MeToo and God

The Last Laugh

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

One of the most successful stand-up comedians of all time, Jim Gaffigan became the first comic to premiere a special with Amazon Prime Video in 2019. Quality Time, Gaffigan’s seventh hour-long special, finds the comedian getting back to basics like his weight and an inordinate number of horse jokes after dealing with his wife and writing partner Jeannie’s harrowing medical scare. In the episode, Jim opens up about that experience and explains why he’d rather make jokes about brain tumors than President Trump. He also weighs in on David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres, Aziz Ansari, Louis C.K., Bill O’Reilly, the Pope and a lot more.

This episode was originally published on August 20th, 2019.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh.
0:07.1	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today on the show, we are listening back to the epic conversation I had with one of the funniest and most successful comedians of all time, Jim Gaffigan.
0:21.5	I sat down with Jim face-to-face in the before times
0:25.2	when he was just about to drop his seventh hour-long stand-up special
0:29.4	quality time on Amazon Prime Video.
0:32.7	Now you can hear his singular voice in Pixar's latest film, Luca, streaming this month on Disney Plus.
0:40.3	We had a really wide-ranging conversation about his career specifically, but also about the
0:46.4	comedy world more broadly. It is still one of my favorite episodes we have ever done on this show.
0:52.2	So if you missed it the first time around or just want to hear it again, stay tuned.
0:57.1	This is me with Jim Gaffigan.
1:01.2	Are you just out in L.A. doing press stuff?
1:05.0	Press for them that follow.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:09.6	And then, you know, back to doing shows yeah i love it are you doing stand-up
1:15.8	yeah while you're out here um i don't know i don't know how tired i'm gonna be yeah how long are you
1:21.5	out here for well i got in i landed at like 10 oh today yeah oh? Yeah. Oh, wow. Straight here.
1:27.8	They said you were going to be here.
1:29.5	So I was like, I just got on a plane.
1:31.4	I was mid meal.
1:32.9	Yeah.
1:33.0	And I just ran to the airport.
1:34.7	There was like, we can get a car and I'm like, no, I want to run.
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