Jim Gaffigan is one of my favorite comics, and he was always underused on “My Boys.” So it’s great to hear that NBC has a bought a sitcom about his life.
NBC has bought a single-camera comedy from actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan, Universal TV and Scot Armstrong and Ravi Nandan’s studio-based American Work. Gaffigan will write and star in the project based on his life as a lazy man, married to a strong woman, raising 4 children in a 2 bedroom apartment in New York City. [Deadline]
It’s not exactly the most enticing premise, but what comedy has a great premise? “A former pro baseball player runs a bar” isn’t a markedly better concept than “a longtime bachelor marries into a Mexican-American family,” but I can say with confidence that “Cheers” is better than Rob Schneider’s forthcoming CBS sitcom.
The difference is usually the actors and writing, and while we can’t jump to conclusions about what the writing will be like, I can say with confidence that nobody does “lazy but exasperated” quite like Gaffigan:
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We can pass judgment once we find out if there’ll be a laugh track.
“single-camera comedy” = no laugh track
This doesn’t quite make up for Whitney, but it does make me very happy.
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“Why no laugh track, Mister…Larry Johnson?”
I hope the entire 30 minutes is about bacon.
The premise doesn’t matter too much, but when it’s the same premise as every other lazy sitcom, it’s going to temper my enthusiasm.
Oh good. A single camera sitcom about a fat lazy man, his hot, driven wife and their wacky, back-talking kids. Cutting edge stuff, man. They should throw in a crazy neighbor who never knocks before he walks – on cue – through the front door, which is never locked.
I hope the show is narrated entirely by his inner monologue voice.
I hope this isn’t to Louie what Paul Reiser was to Curb.
“Single-camera comedy” is the best news I’ve heard since “Jim Gaffigan gets a sitcom.”
@Jack Burton: single camera means the show will be like Arrested Development or Parks & Rec, not Two and a Half Men or Big Bang Theory. No laugh track, no wacky neighbor, no unrealistically hot wife, etc. By the way, Gaffigan’s real-life wife is actually unrealistically hot: [a1.twimg.com]
@TonyTX: she looks like a drag queen to me.
This sounds like someone threw “Louie,” “Modern Family,” and “Everybody Loves Raymond” into a blender with a big pile of bacon.
Jim Gaffigan is my fourth favorite comedian who only talks about bacon
@Stinky Pete: yeah, but the heat is relative. Jim Gaffigan ain’t exactly George Clooney, ya know? Drag queen lookalike or no, Gaffigan’s still punching above his weight when it comes to his wife, so I say she’s unrealistically hot.
In Future News:
“NBC announced today that Jim Gaffigan’s freshman comedy ‘Untitled Gaffigan Comedy’ will not be renewed for a second season. NBC VP of Programming, Herp Derpeson was quoted as saying ‘[Untitled] was a great show. But I don’t think America can relate as much to this type of show in comparison to say, Whitney’. Derpeson went on to announce that Whitney was renewed for a 3rd season, with Jonah Hill set to join the cast as an asian tranny bus driver.
When asked about joining the cast of ‘Whitney’, Hill said: “I love being a cast of Whitley. I think Whitley Cummins is a great comedian. Anybody have a cheeseburger? Aids Aids Aids’.
Gaffigan could not be reached for comment.
-Entertainment Weekly 5-11-12
I quite enjoy Jim Gaffigan, drag queens and, probably not coincidentally, Whitney Cummings. Life is good.
I worked with Jim Gaffigan and he is a huge dick. He sucks.