Video interview: Backstage with Jim Gaffigan, talking Town Hall, prepping his new hour special
Jim Gaffigan performed an hour unannounced Tuesday night in New York City, as he works out the final bits of what will be his new hourlong Comedy Central special when he tapes it in Austin during the first week of December. Oh, yes, there will be bacon. And other "edgy" topics, too, for Gaffigan to consider and mine for punchlines. I caught up with him afterward backstage in the Comix "green room" to talk about how he’s using the weeknights to try out new jokes while touring theaters across the country on the weekends, about what it’s like to play multiple nights in a city at a theater instead of a club (including six shows at Town Hall here in NYC over Thanksgiving weekend), and much more. Gaffigan told me he hadn’t performed in the past four nights, as he’d just gotten back from a family trip to Disney World. You can watch some of our conversation right here, in intimate but spooky mirror vision, where my little Flip camera suddenly transforms into some odd-like little Big Brother, keeping an eye and red light on us. More quotes, plus ticket info, after the jump… Earlier this year, I also heard Gaffigan’s interview for XM Unmasked (which airs Nov. 1), and you get to hear a lot about how he felt he was struggling for years to catch a...
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