Comedy was king last night — specifically King Baby, the concert comedy special starring stand-up Jim Gaffigan, the master of sloth-humor. Later in the evening, the fascinatingly weird Delocated!, on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, wrapped up its first season.
Gaffigan, the tall, white-blond, pasty-faced comic who also appears on the sitcom My Boys, has cornered the market on jokes about being all-American lazy: an infantile adult. His stand-up act, taped in Austin, was all about lying around (on couches; in hammocks), avoiding exercise (he loves escalators and airport moving sidewalks), and extolling the dubious nutrition of glorious bacon:
Gaffigan’s a funny man. He’ll never be mistaken for a revolutionary artist, but he’s a solid pleasure-emitter.
Delocated! is also created by and stars a funny white guy — Jon Glaser, former staff writer for Conan O’Brien and Human Giant — but his show is a lot weirder than Gaffigan’s. The premise is that Jon moves to Manhattan in the witness protection program (the reason for this isn’t revealed). He lives a normal life, walking around town, searching for a job, coming on to women… while wearing a black ski-mask and speaking through voice-distortion to keep his identity secret.
The effect of this is deadpan-amusing, as when Jon went to look for a job in the pilot episode:
The season finale of Delocated! was satisfyingly self-conscious. In an episode entitled "Sick Of It!," Jon ordered the camera crew to stop following him around to film Delocated!. But before that could happen, Jon was shot dead. Or so the other people on what his wife called "this stupid show" thought. Delocated! is anything but stupid. Here’s looking forward to a second season.
Did you watch King Baby? Delocated? Both? Did one seem funnier to you than the other?
I’m eight months pregnant and was laughing so hard throughout Jim Gaffigan’s special that I was giving myself contractions.
I thought Jim Gaffigan’s special was great! I especially loved the part aboout camping.
I can’t get into Delocated. I tried but for some unexplained reason, it annoys me.
This Gaffigan special was better than the Hot Pockets one. I never thought I’d say that.
Delocated is not on Comedy Central, it’s on CARTOON NETWORK’S Adult Swim.
I watched King Baby last night and gave myself a headache laughing so much! Hilarious…even better than Beyond the Pale!
i caught delocated for the first time last night at 4.30am after waking up for a glass of water. i immediately set the dvr to catch any airings.
I thought Adult Swim was on Cartoon Network.
Loved Gaffigan talking about bowling, the only sport where you can eat while you play; also his take on the small ketchup packets, and pumping the ketchup at Wendy’s like it’s a keg. The guy is a genius at simple humor
LOVE Jim Gaffigan, but was a little dissapointed in so much material I’ve heard before, the bowling stuff was the only bit that seemed new.
Can’t wait for new My Boys tomorrow night!
Gaffigan is a master. Adult swim is mostly garbage
I didn’t think Jim Gaffigan could possibly be more hilarious than he was in “Beyond The Pale”.
…I was wrong.
His new DVD will be in my movie collection in no time. I’m saving a spot!
Ah Jim Gaffigan has done it again! I loved last night’s special, I couldn’t stop laughing! “Beyond the Pale” is amazing, but “King Baby” is perfection! If you know what funny is, watch it! I already ordered my copy! Yeay bacon!
I seriously haven’t laughed so hard in years. I already pre-ordered my CD of King Baby. I hear there’s an extra 30 minutes of stand-up that wasn’t in the Comedy Central cut…….mmmmmmmmm bacon!!!!!
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