Jim & Jeannie Gaffigan (Best of, Part 1)

Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

Barry Katz

Comedy

4.7 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jim Gaffigan worked in the advertising business on award-winning campaigns for Sierra Mist, ESPN, Saturn, and Rolling Rock, earning him Business Week's 1999 salesman of the year award. He got his first big break on Late Show with David Letterman, who handpicked him to develop a CBS sitcom, Welcome to New York, shot in the big apple. He has appeared on numerous TV series and feature films including the Dan Aykroyd series Soul Man and the films Three Kings and Super Troopers. Jim has been nominated for two Grammy awards, his last special was the most watched special on Comedy Central in 2014, the accompanying album was number 11 on the main Billboard charts and # 1 on the comedy charts. In 2015, he performed at Madison Square Garden. Jeannie Gaffigan has a masters degree in directing from Marquette University, and went on to work at a repertory theater in Milwaukee, before she moved to New York, where she performed in sketch comedy groups and theater companies where playwrights developed original plays. Soon after, she founded the not-for-profit theater company Shakespeare on the Playground, dedicated to teaching literacy and production to urban youth through the performance of full Shakespearean plays. Together, Jim and Jeannie wrote and executive produced all 5 of Jim's award winning comedy specials, the animated series Pale Force, starring Jim and Conan O'Brien, for which they received an Emmy nomination, and the TV Land series The Jim Gaffigan Show, where Jeannie received the Christopher and Elouqentia Perfecta awards for her work in television. Together they are one of the most prolific husband and wife teams in the business. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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