![]() ![]() “I didn’t want to just cash in and publish my act. ![]() “I didn’t want to use a ghostwriter,” he said. Gaffigan rejected previous book offers, he told me before an appearance at April’s Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival in Austin, at which he was a headliner. If you have babies, you know this is perfect because you’re only going to have time to knock out one or two of them in between feedings, burpings, diaper changes, baths, feedings, burpings and diaper changes. My kids are older than Gaffigan’s count-’em five, but leafing through the titles of his pieces gave me the kinds of flashbacks I imagine men of my own father’s generation experienced after coming home from war: “On the Road Again” “You Win, McDonald’s” “My Former Bed” “Negotiating with Terrorists” and “Oh My God, You’re Pregnant?” I had pretty much blocked out the incident until I began to read “Dad is Fat.” The new collection of essays on children and parenting from comedian Jim Gaffigan hits bookstore shelves Tuesday. ![]() She was fine, but that’s when I realized that I had no business being a parent - and she was our second child. When I woke up, freezing, she was no longer in my arms but lying beside me, uncovered, in the oversize chair. ![]() In a poorly heated family room addition to our house. The night my wife and I brought our prematurely born daughter home from the hospital in 1998, I fell asleep with the baby in my arms. ![]()
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