2006 · comedy · supernatural
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
Directed by Michael Drumm1h 12m2006
The affable, towheaded comic demonstrates his hysterical brand of self-effacing comedy and deadpan delivery at two sold-out shows at Chicago's Vic Theater. It's OK to laugh at this pale white guy...'cause nobody's laughing at Jim Gaffigan harder than Jim Gaffigan!
Our read: Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale (2006) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / supernatural, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
- funny
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