When people walk out, I definitely want them to be like, "All right, that was worth it," because I'm the same way. My ticket prices aren't that high anyway, but if people are giving me two hours on a Friday night, it better be worth those two hours, because we don't have time. My relationship with audiences is that there is the value of time. Initially, people were just ecstatic to get out. I feel as though there's a maturity there. "We live in such a voyeuristic, exhibitionist era that if you are not revealing some of yourself, you're not going to develop a relationship with the audience." "The only adjective that really matters with stand-up is 'funny.'" Watch Jim Gaffigan's "Salon Talks" episode here. "The entertainment industry is perception," he says. He talks about food.'"īut while there are plenty of other aspects to Gaffigan's comedy than his measured Midwestern pace and jokes about fast food, he also knows the label that matters the most to him. "In one special," he recalled, "I had five minutes on cancer, and people were like, 'He's still clean. And over the past few years, his evolution has taken his observations in plenty of new places - even if some critics haven't always recognized the whole picture. Longtime fans of Gaffigan know that a touch of dread has always been part of his worldview. "We have PTSD," he told me on "Salon Talks." "We've all lost someone, whether it's through the pandemic or just in everyday life." In his new Prime Video special, "Dark Pale," (which he wrote and directed and the New York Times calls his "best yet") Gaffigan remains funny as hell, taking umbrage with family life and hot air balloons. But the comic, actor and author is also, like all of us, a person who's lived through some rough times, and wants to talk about it. And it's accurate to say that those aspects of his sensibility are as true as they ever have been. Over his over two-decade-long career and 10 stand-up specials, Gaffigan has gained a reputation as a "clean" comic, the guy who ruminates about bacon and the challenges of raising his brood of five kids. "If we're not a little bit cynical, we're living in a little bit of denial." Wait, the Hot Pockets guy says what? "We have to acknowledge some of the chaos that exists and the fear that exists," says Jim Gaffigan.
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