Jim Gaffigan - Doing My Time
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Free Music Review: Smoking Babies, Manatees, and Orville Redenbacher
Hit: 5 Stars
Comedy CDs are an iffy recommendation. What's funny today might bore you tomorrow. Some jokes are only funny the first time. Jim Gaffigan's CD, "Doin' My Time," scores high on the replay factor. Perhaps it's his delivery (dry self-deprecation with a twist of smug). Perhaps it's his avant-garde style of humor (he spends about a quarter of the time pretending to be a critical female member of his own show, weaving "her" comments with his). Perhaps it's just his voice, which has a malleable whine to it that never gets annoying and which makes his self-mockery seem humorously authentic instead of just patronizing or pathetic.
Part of it is definitely the humor itself. Whether his jokes make bizarre 180's ("I used to smoke. Yeah. Smoking's real addictive. But you know what's REALLY addictive? Heroin."), or whether their humor lies in their dead ends; whether they take the "didja ever notice?" concept and snap it in half (his "Hot Pocket" and bottled water/Mexican food bits are a good example of this), or whether they're just plain crude, grouchy, silly and dumpy, they all stand up to repeated listenings. There are a few times where you get the impression that the joke -- such as his bit on glasses -- would work a lot better if you could see the man (and, in fact, most of them are like that; Jim is almost as much fun to watch as he is to listen to), but none of them fail to be laugh-worthy because of it. Pasty, flabby, and grumpy, though he may be, Jim Gaffigan is also a funny, funny man, and this is a funny, funny CD.
(NOTE: This product comes with a short DVD of his Comedy Central appearance, which is much cleaner than the act to be found on the CD.)
Free Music Review: Funny!
Hit: 5 Stars
Funny, like all of Jim's stuff. It shipped well. It made a great gift.Free Music Review: Love it! Love it! Love it!
Hit: 5 Stars
Beyond the Pale is my all time favorite...Doin' My Time runs a close second.
Gaffigan is a staple for anybody who enjoys stand up.
Free Music Review: Fantastic
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a mix of the stand-up you've probably heard on Comedy Central and Beyond the Pale. This performance was in-between so there is material from both acts. I listen to it all the time on road trips and it never gets old!Free Music Review: Excellent...
Hit: 5 Stars
Never heard of Jim Gaffigan but ordered this CD based on the reviews and I'm very glad I did. Just finished listening to the CD for the second time and liked it even more. Looking forward to viewing the DVD but the CD alone was worth the price.