Could the same be said of young Jim Gaffigan?
I wouldn’t say that I was a troublemaker. I was raised in a family that had a work hard play hard type of attitude. You also played sports in school? I went to a high school with a hundred students, freshman through senior. Saying that you’re the captain of the football and wrestling teams was not that huge of an accomplishment. I was lucky to escape those John Hughes cliques that I hear my wife describe. The nerds, the jocks, and the potheads, in my high school everyone was all of those things. I did play college football for a little bit. That’s why it’s always fascinating when I’m portrayed as a nerd in television shows. What sort of creative outlets did you have growing up? A lot of it was my imagination. I was raised in a big Midwestern Catholic family where success was a job and wearing a coat and tie. The whole notion of creativity wasn’t something discouraged, but it wasn’t really explored. I didn’t know anyone growing up that was considering being an actor or comedian. If I sa
