Jim Gaffigan

Click here to read the full article. EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to the sci-fi dramedy Linoleum from Sub_Sequential Pictures, following a competitive bidding situation. The multi-platform entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory is planning a strategic launch of the movie across all major entertainment platforms, beginning with a theatrical launch later this year. Pic will be presented at the Cannes Film Market by Blue Fox Entertainment. The film from writer-director Colin West (Double Walker) follows Cameron Edwin (Jim Gaffigan), the host of a failing children’s science TV show called Above & Beyond, who has always had aspirations of being...

Click here to read the full article. Tim Blake Nelson, Uzo Aduba, Simon Rex, Nina Arianda, Jim Gaffigan, José María Yazpik and Joey Lauren Adams have rounded out the cast of, Providence, a comedy from Dylan Sellers and Chris Parker’s Limelight and David Boies and Zack Schiller’s Boies Schiller Entertainment. Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Himesh Patel are set to star with Potsy Ponciroli directing. Michael Vukadinovich penned the script. Limelight and BSE will fully finance and produce, along with Shannon Houchins’ Hideout Pictures. Between the previous three stars already announced and this new round, Limelight and BSE look have put...

News surrounding the Limelight and Boies Schiller Entertainment spooky comedy flick, Providence has been jumping out left and right, giving us the best shocks — of the casting variety, that is! We already knew that Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Hamish Patel would lead in the Potsy Ponciroli helmed feature, but now we have a significant chunk of the call sheet, and it’s full of some of the biggest names in comedy. Preparing to haunt us with their performances, in a good way, are Tim Blake Nelson, Uzo Aduba, Simon Rex, Nina Arianda, Jim Gaffigan, José María Yazpik, and Joey Lauren Adams.

One of the highest-paid comedians with six Grammy nominations under his belt is set to bring his latest tour to Michigan. The earliest date for Jim Gaffigan’s The Fun Tour is in July at the Traverse City Cherry Festival. Gaffigan will perform on the Pepsi Bay Side Music Stage...

1) Doing clean, non-divisive material isn’t easy for stand-up comics. It’s challenging to be funny while steering clear of clichés, and the ooh-and-ah-eliciting shock value of sexual or political references is often too tempting a tool to give up. But Jim Gaffigan, who comes to PPG Paints Arena tonight, has made his more wholesome approach work for more than 25 years. The pudgy, always-bearded comedian has found plenty of material in guilty-pleasure food (cake, bacon, and Hot Pockets get frequent mentions), and he’s got loads of stories from two large Catholic families, the one that begot him and the one he begot. (The dude has five kids!) When his five-year-old son wrote “Daddy is fat” as part of a writing assignment, Gaffigan was able to turn it into a book and long-form stand-up routine. Gaffigan is also a frequent contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning.” He visits Pittsburgh as part of his The Fun Tour. 7 p.m. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown. (E.C.)

One of the top comedians in the country will perform multiple stand-up shows all over Michigan in 2022. Jim Gaffigan will bring his “The Fun Tour” to Traverse City, Grand Rapids and Detroit. His first Michigan stop will be at the National Cherry Festival on Wednesday, July 6....

Jim Gaffigan will be performing his stand-up show at Van Andel Arena on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. According to The Day, Gaffigan's "The Fun Tour" features all new material. Tickets for Jim Gaffigan in Grand Rapids will go on sale this Friday, April 29, at 10a.m. at Ticketmaster and the Van Andel Arena box office. Note that the box office will not be open for the on sale.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Actor and comedian Jim Gaffigan has announced a new set of tour dates, with a stop scheduled for Grand Rapids in the fall. The show is scheduled to take place Friday, Nov. 18 at Van Andel Arena. A spokesperson for the Van Andel Arena says...

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