She kept getting pregnant! I don’t know how. I love you with all of my heart, but you are probably the reason I’m dead.Īll right, you didn’t kill me. Right now, you are actually more interested in preventing me from doing things like working, sleeping, and smiling. I would assume this because I can honestly foresee no other situation where you’d be interested in anything I’ve done. If you are reading this, I am probably dead. Given how attractive and fertile your mother is, there may be more of you by the time you read this book. The father of all five of you pale creatures. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

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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