On Jim Gaffigan’s new comedy series, “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” the popular standup comic plays a comic named Jim Gaffigan. Like the real Jim Gaffigan, he’s married to Jeannie, an attractive woman he readily admits is out of his league . They plus their five children are squeezed into a two-bedroom walkup on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. On the show Jeannie is cool, capable and kooky, which makes her perfect for Jim, who reigns as a serial bumbler with a food fixation. All autobiographical? Check, check, check, says Gaffigan. He explained,
“I DON’T know what I’m doing! I’m NOT pretending! I’m not in a fat suit and pretending to be lazy — I AM fat and lazy, and you know what? I wish I could be fatter and lazier.
