By Samir Mathur
Contributing writer
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JIM GAFFIGAN will play Hard Rock Live on July 23rd at 7pm and 9.30pm. Click here for tickets.
Even if you don't know his name, there's a good chance that you're familiar with Jim Gaffigan's face. You know him from the small screen (Friends, Sex and the City, more recently Bored to Death and Royal Pains), and from movies like Super Troopers, The Love Guru and Away We Go. He was also on the first couple of seasons of the TBS show My Boys, but I'm not sure that anyone other than my fiancee ever watched that.
His last few albums/Comedy Central specials have seen his profile grow exponentially, and now he's back on tour after a stint on Broadway, being all serious alongside serious actors like Brian Cox, Kiefer Sutherland and Chris Noth in 'That Championship Season'. Gaffigan's stand up is always family friendly, and he's guaranteed* to (a) talk about food, and (b) do that "internal monologue" voice. He's always funny, and these two shows are well worth every comedy fan's attention.
* Guarantee is strictly metaphorical.