559 Quotes by Jim Gaffigan

What’s amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there’s an ending you can see. There’s an enthusiasm to it.

I’ve been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it’s like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.

I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late ’90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn’t do some of the more explicit jokes.

I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there’s nothing really filthy.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something’s catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

I would say I’m – in the show, I’m a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.

I’m an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I’m not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I’m a dad who had no idea what he’s doing.

I don’t want to get involved in the culture war. Religion’s iffy.