My daughter is just over a year old and I would conservatively estimate that my computer currently holds more than 10,000 pictures of her, plus videos. I am giving it three stars because it is essentially a bunch of 2-minute standup routines strung together nevertheless, I think the bit about the millions of pictures we take of our kids is suitable for framing. It's kind of like Dave Barry except it's still funny post-1993. This is a really amusing book about an insane man who decided to have five children in a two-bedroom apartment in New York City. But it turns out 140 characters are not enough to express all the joys and horrors of life with five kids, so hes' now sharing it all in Dad Is Fat.įrom new parents to empty nesters to Jim's twenty-something fans, everyone will recognize their own families in these hilarious takes on everything from cousins ('celebrities for little kids') to growing up in a big family ('I always assumed my father had six children so he could have a sufficient lawn crew') to changing diapers in the middle of the night ('like The Hurt Locker but much more dangerous') to bedtime (aka 'Negotiating with Terrorists').ĭad is Fat is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home. Those tweets struck such a chord that he soon passed the million followers mark. Though he grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family, Jim was satisfied with the nomadic, nocturnal life of a standup comedian, and was content to be 'that weird uncle who lives in an apartment by himself in New York that everyone in the family speculates about.' But all that changed when he married and found out his wife, Jeannie 'is someone who gets pregnant looking at babies.'įive kids later, the comedian whose riffs on everything from Hot Pockets to Jesus have scored millions of hits on YouTube, started to tweet about the mistakes and victories of his life as a dad. Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have his own kids.

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