What happened to jim gaffigan

“You hear TV Land. You hear ‘clean’ comedian. You hear father of five,” Jim Gaffigan says. “People think this is—and I understand—they’re going to think this is horse shit.”

“They think, King of Queens with five kids,” his wife Jeannie adds.

“Well, probably not even as edgy as that,” says Jim.

The comedian we know as Jim Gaffigan is actually Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan, a couple who has built a successful career as a comedy team, even as one of them remained completely behind the scenes.

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Together they crafted his brand as a food-worshipping father of five who doesn’t need to curse in his act to sell out big theaters or make a number one comedy album. And now they’re preparing to launch their biggest collaboration to date, TV Land’s The Jim Gaffigan Show. Not that they ever expected it to happen this way.

When Phil Rosenthal, creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, insisted that the next logical career move was to do a half-hour comedy, Jim didn’t see why he shouldn’t just keep making one-hour specials and writing books.

“I was like, ‘I’m not doing a family comedy,’” Jim s

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