Jim Gaffigan Addresses Weight Loss In His New Stand-Up Special | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Jim Gaffigan the skinny this is again to. your being prolific you've got another. special they have been uh stunningly. successful You've Won countless Awards I. think you have every award one can have. I think it's too many and you should. give me some but the skinny you're. addressing weight loss you're addressing. people's Obsession and and weird. feelings about weight loss and food. which is sort of a huge topic right now. yeah I think it's I think it's really.

peculiar how people are secretive about. taking an appetite suppressant like or. maybe they aren't secretive I mean but. people there's people that walk around. with their hair dyed a different color. and we all know that but nobody's nobody. would think it was that weird you've. talked about how there is kind of a. shaming of people that have a food issue. and then somehow um there are other I.

don't know there are other areas where. we have a completely different like. drinking can can be seen as very cool. romantic it's romantic and the the I. can't put the bottle down. yeah sounds much cooler than I can't put. the cream pie I love I love donuts I. want a donut yeah I think there is I. think that's what this drug I mean this. is not humorous but like I think that. that's what this drug proves is that.

like some people the the it's it's might. not be psychological it's it's a. chemical thing cuz it's fixed by. chemical that they have a com a chemical. compulsion I mean I come from a family. that is like big eaters like you know um. and that's that's a good sound effect. right but I think look like Mo the way. you did that looks like it would be. Cookie Monster where most of it doesn't. go in the cookies are just cookies are. just bouncing off the you're so hungry.

you're not getting much in the mouth. such waste that Cookie Monster Cookie. Monster never actually tasted a cookie. it just hared off the felt back stop of. his mouth it's like he wasn't even. really eating it it's. sad but this is but you know there is a. cultural part of it too which is you. talk about it from a Midwestern point of. view I've seen the Boston Irish side of. it which is it is the way in my family. that we showed love.

was eating because it wasn't hugging and. saying I love you and I and and I love. my parents love my family it was just. cultural it wasn't about that we didn't. drink it was a dry house and so no one. could talk about sex right right in a. million years I still don't understand. how it works and then what do you have. you have we're I'm going to we're going. to cook a giant meal and I'll eat it. together which is we're going to eat. tons of ham and potato yes and all the.

butter in the world uh and that is going. to be how we show our affection and love. for each other and have a communal. moment celebrate or you know uh lick. your wounds by uh overeating yeah like. my brother and I was like H I could. throw up that's what you know like when. you've eaten so much you're like H oh I. could throw up I feel great you know. what I mean it's just we did it we did. it you talk about um obviously the how.

the drug has changed your life yeah and. but I also think it's temporary meaning. we're eventually going to find out that. it makes people grow tals or something. like that right so I I view this weight. loss as. completely you know I I don't think I'm. going to be not that I'm even super thin. but I imagine it's it's an ongoing. battle my uh weight right and it's also.

I mean over the years it was such a part. of your comedy too yeah it just you I. mean so funny talking about it and. talking about your obsession with Foods. yeah the love affair with food and now. it's alcohol no um but uh there is. something but the skinny there is about. the appetite supressant but I I use the. title of the skinny because that's you. know you you do the St you write the. stand up and then kind of the theme you.

see the theme when you look at the. material and and some of the special is. about parenting teenagers like I had no. idea how difficult it was was going to. be to parent teenagers because they and. I say that with empathy and also. exhaustion and part of I don't want to. do it anymore uh is because it's so. difficult yeah and and I think I think.

adult humans we have a built-in. forgetter of the anxiety and the stress. of being a teenager because it's it's. painful for them so when they're going. through it and you're this parent it's. it's not an easy Road even for the best. kids and you know and so that's some of. uh you know so I complain about my kids. but I do that in every special too but. it's it's a different type of complaint. but then you get to pay the then you can. say my bitching about you uh paid for.

your tuition paid for this roof and. since they're teenagers I know they'll. never watch the special so it doesn't. matter they're not your demo yes uh well. Jim Gaffigan the skinny is now available. to uh stream on Hulu and uh Jim from the. bottom of my heart you thank I mean I. thank you for um lending your comedic. genius to my show for over a 30-year. period perod uh and then continuing to.

come back and and and do the podcast I. love talking to you and um I'm kind of. uh in awe of just you're you're so. talented and so funny and uh I just when. you're around I'm I'm in a good mood oh. well thank you so you can't leave that's. very nice yeah I I can tell I'm really. getting to you when your mouth gets very. small you went oh thank you I don't know. what to do I'm not comfortable with the. compliments well then you like this. weird you're a real shitty guy Jim yeah.

that's more like it I don't like the. compliments you know what are we in. group. therapy yeah you got an ugly mug see. yeah that's more like it that feels. better.