Losing Arguments with Your Wife After Her Brain Surgery - Jim Gaffigan
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In his special Noble Ape, Jim Gaffigan details his experiences after learning his wife had a brain tumor and questions her surgeon’s fruit-based tumor-sizing system.
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My mom had a “golf ball” sized tumor removed 5 months ago and has another one growing in a different place now. Please put her in your prayers. Laughing at this relieved my fears and hurt for a while. Thanks for posting.
🙏🙏🙏 My wife died of COPD on Christmas Eve of 2015. Her mother died of COPD in 2005. And my mother died of COPD in 2010. My wife was diagnosed terminal in 2011 right after my Mom died & they told her she had 2-6 years. 2 if she didn't quit smoking & maybe 6 if she did quit. Well she didn't quit & lived 5 years. She sure showed them, huh? No but seriously, if you can quit smoking do it for the people that love you. Cuz I miss my wife so damn much that I feel pitiful! I'm 55 years old now but. I was 48 when she passed away & I haven't had an intimate relationship since then. I haven't even wanted a woman. Don't get me wrong sometimes I see a lady wearing spandex & if she has one of those heart shaped asses I can't help but look & go damn. But that is about as far as I go. If I were to meet someone special I think I would move on but that hasn't happened & I'm not going to make a big effort to try to find someone.
She's doing good right?
I prayed for her.
@@kennethdeanmiller7324what is COPD
Prayers
My mom got brain surgery about a year before she died (from something completely different). My dad and I went to see jim live a few months after she passed to help our healing process around the same time jim was going through this. Now my father and i are using this clip to laugh through our pain. What a small world, and how crazy it is that we're all so connected.
I’m sorry, I’ll pray for your Mom and you and your Dad.
My condolences. Thanks for sharing comments about something so personal and difficult. My best to you and yours.
♡
Sorry for your loss. Keep her memory alive in your heart and remember everything that she taught you.
I am sorry for your lost...I lost my mom about 3 years ago...and yes laughter is the best medicine...always something funny to remember
Good to see Jim's still got it. Happy his wife is well.
and clearly good enough to still help him write
Max Pankau: Oh, that's tho thweet of you!
Laughter is how comedians deal with pain. Writing probably helped him get through the whole thing
@@lucky5th2 laughing has always been my reaction also no idea why. In the Corp, jail bad gf fight I always just laughed when I thought it was all over and after years of reflection I’m sure it’s my cynical mind thinking.. “figures”..
I'm a 56 year old Brit and this is my first encounter with this guy .He's funny and original without being crude or vulgar . Good on Ya' !!
He has very good material out there.
He is my favorite comedian. Bill Burr is a close second, and his humor is completely different from Jim's.
smyffmawzz isn’t he great? He usually does a tour to Europe.....every year. Brilliant!
I concur, I've heard of Jim for years but only recently have I given him a shot and now I can't stop watching this bloke 😆
I'm a fellow Brit too btw 😉
🍺
So glad his wife survived, for him and his children.
....and also because she's always been a big part of his writing process for stand up. He ALWAYS gives her credit when he can, it's adorable.
yep, with out his wife and kids he has no material. Also unhealthy food, without that, he's got nothing.
It's a good thing or those 5 kids would be up for adoption.
It is also a good thing she survived , you know, to live, not just as caretaker of children and a man
She takes credit for his work? She WRITES his jokes. He was not successful until he married her. Typical male taking credit for the work he didn't do. He's nothing without his wife!
Jim Gaffigan started comedy and acting in the 90s. He was in hundreds of commercials and several tv shows in the 90s. He had been on stage hundreds of times and had two comedy albums by the time he met his future wife in 2000. His comedy was identical to the way it is now other than some cussing. He was on his way up long before he met his wife. She undoubtedly helped him but he was far from nothing when they met.
My wife had a "ping pong ball" sized tumor removed from her brain three months ago. She's doing great. I'm still recovering from all the casseroles.
Glad your wife is doing well. My wife had a tumor near the brain removed about five years ago, doing great, and has since had a brain tumor dealt with (gamma knife radiation) and doing great with that as well aside from hearing loss on one side. Nothing cancerous, so good news there. Prior to any of that, she had a hysterectomy. We knew I'd be on my own with the kids for X number of days. The night before surgery, our son, who was 2 at the time, was pestering our 4 year old daughter, threatening to drop a small toy in a place where it would have been absolutely hopeless for me to ever recover it. He's holding the toy over the precipice with this incredibly serious and determined look on his little face, and I was a hostage negotiator. But at a moment when I needed to be firm and unwavering, the look on his face made me laugh, and the whole moment just fell apart. I had to leave the family room because I was laughing too hard. My wife looks up at me and says "They are gonna eat you alive."
🥘 Casseroles = love
😂..from all the casseroles...(💝 sorry for your situation though 😔)
@@bacsigabe29 what kind are there?
It's takes talent to turn something as tragic as a brain tumor into comedy. I'm glad she doing well.
Visit a cancerward in a hospital or whatever its called in english and you be surpriced how those who are about to die still jokes around and make fun. Often about things "normal" people judge to dark. or in apropiate . Talent aint needed you will see then :)
Yes i know my english suck, no i refuse to google it ... you can do that if you care this much haha :P
@@UltraSuperDuperFreak dude youre english is fantastic! But yeah comedy is a great way to cope with tragedy
Comedy = tragedy + time
@@davidjames-cameron617 Its also been proven that your outlook on your situation affects your odds of recovery quite a lot.
@@davidjames-cameron617 *your
Jim is his own heckler. He's awesome!
One of the few clean comedians that has actual comedic material . Jim never ceases to amaze.
GOTEN 3030150 fff
A real comedian.
Jim is refreshing and fun instead of the pop culture and tired Trump hating.
Him and Brian regan
I can’t stop laughing. The Gaffigans are a comedy writing gift 🎁 to a world that needs them.
Jim is a light and his wife is the electricity.
Hilariously enough she co-writes his stand up with him so she literally is
@@davidjames-cameron617 Oh shut up, he was writing for years before he met her, stop trying to be a white knight.
@@jhonnyappleseed1786 ...what? Dude I watched an interview where he said explicity his wife co-writes some of his stand up with him and she also helped him write a few episodes on his show...I was never taking credit from him. Take a little time off the internet cuz clearly its making you over sensitive to some ridiculous stuff man
Love your comment. Says so much with so few words. Excellent!
Jhonny Appleseed you’re hysterical and over-sensitive.
This dude is a master. One of the GOATS in my opinion.
Jim turned his life tragedy into great comedy to put smiles on people's faces . one of the best in comedy for sure! Glad his wife is ok.
Who the hell down votes this?!
He's freaking hilarious!
thought the same 2000 negatives? why? hes great
Grapefruits
When I’m having a rough day he always makes me laugh
My Netflix playlist is all his specials. Sometimes I just need a break from everything.
When I'm having a day he always makes my day everyday
:)
Imagine being 41 and only just finding this man exists... It's tragic but great for me... Non stop Jim Gaffigan marathons! 👌👌
He’s like a nice thanos
Wut? Wtf is the relation?
Maybe they meant visually? He's got a big forhead and broad jaw.
@@garekbushnell3454 He looks quite literally nothing like him.
@@casperchristensen8354 look at the shape of his head. Tune out skin color and Thanos' chin folds.
@@garekbushnell3454 So your argument is "Change everything", k.
This man has been doing standup for 30 years and he just keeps getting better.
He became my favorite comedian when I first say him in 2011 and remains so to this day. I had never heard of him before that but his appearance has changed so drastically that I might have seen him earlier but never connected the dots.
He's more handsome with the weight and beards.
Your screen name is awesome 👍😎
This man has been doing standup for 30 years and he just keeps getting older.
"That was the worst impression of a grapefruit ever!" 😂😂
Gearhead 6971 Read your comment just as he was saying it. 😂
@@medusagorgon8432 S A M E ! 😂
It was such a tiny joke but it hit like a bolt of lightning. I was dying in my chair after that.
And probably the best, at the same time.
It was the only impression of a grapefruit ever!
"Lemme have the bones & hooves, I've got an idea for a kid's dessert. It'll be huge, we'll get Cosby to do the commercials!" 🤣
Your last joke about the surgeon and lunch actually happened to me. My wife was having leg surgery that was a multiple hour procedure. About 3 hours in I decided to run next door to the university cafe for some carryout. There checking out was the entire surgery team. To say I was confused and perplexed would be an understatement
Jim Walton wow.
do they just leave people cut open in the OR?
Imagine being a Resident doing surgery and it's the first time you had to leave a patient open, out cold on the table... To get lunch...
I bought a grapefruit last week, it was the size of a tumor.
😂
You’re killing me. To soon?
Easily one of the funniest stand up comedians of all time. His humor has not only stayed true to himself, but it has also evolved with the times. Truly, genuinely talented.
Alex so True!!
Whats great about him is that his humor is so widely relatable.
I will never, ever get over God Pockets.
As a brain tumor survivor, I absolutely LOVE this. So dead on. And compliments how. I heal....comedy and humor. Thank you Jim Gaffigan.
Much Bless to Jim and his wife. They are the best comedic duo. What a blessing they are!!
The sign of a genius in any field is they make it seem effortless. This noble ape is really a humble great
Jim was the first comedian I ever got into, and the reason I love comedians in the first place. Glad to hear his wife is doing great. Keep it up Jim ❤️
Jim, please don't stop performing. Our entire nation is craving CLEAN comedy that is actually funny, and you deliver every time! Kudos to you and your wife! You are an outstanding team.
One of the Very Few who Gets Better and Better
*who is still alive
@@xpirate16 sadly too true
Love Jim. He never fails to make me laugh. "You're here?!?"
Fellow brain tumor survivor here. My brain tumor was compared to a grape, and the cyst that surrounded it was compared in size to a grapefruit. I'd say we must have had the same dr, but this was 11 years ago. Guess not much changes with medical jargon. While I don't recommend the brain tumor experience to anyone, I'm adamant the entire experience was one of the funniest events of my life. The whole thing was insane. And as Gaffigan is doing, you can either make a joke about it and find humor in a horrible situation, or you can cry. Doesn't change the reality, but might change your comfort level while you're going through it.
Sam R just had cancerous thyroid tumor removed and two good test results gotta have a sense of humor.
Same here few tumors removed on brain stem kidneys and such.what do you have I have von hippel lindau disease bless you.
im glad you all guys have a great sense of tumor ;P and that you are alive!
Amen 🙏
"We all have our cross to bear"--- Dude was spot on.
Everybody's got different loads to carry. How can you judge? 😆 🤣
Miraculously it's his wife who writes most of his jokes. They're an amazing team.
Really? His wife wrote most of his jokes?
@@bluecat6902 I thought they worked together to write it all. But I could be wrong. I love it when couples do everything together, it beats needing to be away from them to maintain the relationship. 😕
I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote the jokes, and his wife wrote all the inner thought parts critiquing them.
She provides material, but she doesn't write his jokes. Look at his earlier years of standup before he was married and his delivery and material are pretty much the same.
@@linneajordyn5275 I think you're probably right. But whatever help or inspiration she provides, it's working! I'm sure he bounces his ideas off of her before using them too. He trusts her judgement 👍
Jim is so talented, so smart, so real and last of the great clean comedians. Family friendly. Most comedians, have gone crude to impress people.
How bout selling an MRI machine and getting a pasta station 😂😂😂
I’m a retired nurse, and I was exposed to hospital food nearly every day for over 4 decades. Jim is correct when he compares hospital food to Shawshank Redemption level fare. Our hospital cafeteria featured mystery mounds more than once a week. They’d serve up a chicken dish on Monday and kept serving the leftovers all week till Friday, though by then the entree was re-labeled tuna casserole because of the evolving color and smell. I don’t miss those meals!🤢
I haven't laughed this hard in weeks
I can sit down with my kid and watch Jim Gaffigan and we both love it. He can be hilarious without the profanity.
Yep, Jim Gaffigan, and Brian Regan, both masters at being hilarious without the profanity! ;-D
Could you be more npc
Fight The Words my son is such a fan! He loves Jim gaffigan
Go fuck yourself. Stop raising kids in a bubble.
@@Liderligelort This dude is literally being aggressive because someone isn’t showing their kids something inappropriate. this is so backwards and next level creepy I can’t even take it 🤮🤣
He's invented a new kind of comedy: tumor humor
He makes the best outta worse. If I'm at work. An something makes me even close to mad. I pop this on
As someone whos had 3, I say humor is the KEY to getting thru a tumor diagnosis. Love that they are so open with it.
Nah, David Sedaris did it earlier
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop
Hahaha very witty! I see what you did there!
I am grateful to get to listen to a funny comedian that I can actually watch with my kiddos. Thanks Jim!
Jim is VERY good at what he does
He is living proof that you don't have to use curse words to be funny and that you can joke about anything, even about your wife having a tumor, and get away with it - if you're good enough. But Jim isn't just "good enough," he's a brilliant stand up comic and he looks to be at the top of his game in this video.
I had brain surgery for a pituitary tumor in Dec. 2017, hubby had the same type of tumor THIRTY years earlier (1985), what are the odds, eh? Anyway, we are both doing well, survivors... and THANK YOU Jim for making us laugh. Laugher truly is "the best medicine", glad to know your wife is doing well.
His sets and his delivery are always TIGHT! He's just amazing.
He's still great
bruh
Do brain dum georg Carl
Jaundice
One of the best actually.
Well yeah always has been
OMG I LAUGHED SO HARD I CRIED!!!!! I'm on my 2nd brain tumor - I just found out a week ago, and I could have a 2nd craniotomy or radiation - I'll be scheduled with those doctors next week and we'll start to make a plan. I've been incredibly depressed. Not married. No kids. But also no house, no longer have a job... just happened to think "I wonder if anyone does comedy about brain tumors..... nah" but decided to look it up - found you, cracked up! Definitely sharing this video - thank you! So incredibly funny!!!
Jenni Haase how are you doing?
I pray you're doing well and a few of us are commenting with high hopes that you reply to let us know. Hang in there and respond back if you get these notifications
@@mrlee7328 and others whom have commented, thank you for your messages. I had radiation for the 2nd brain tumor. It probably will never go away but the hope is that in time it'll stop enhancing. I've had many MRIs since, but my next MRI was supposed to be this month. It got pushed due to COVID-19. I'm still fighting. It's a crazy world we're living in now and I've been in self-quarantine since the 1st wk of March, mostly in bed. It's hard to eat. We all handle stress differently. I just have no interest in food. Still fighting. Thank you everyone who's written in. Means so much to me. Xx
Now it’s a year later. How are you doing?
@@morganschiller2288 still fighting 2nd brain tumor plus zygomatic trigeminal neuralgia from 1st.
Thanks for caring ♡
Laughing and crying as I watch this. His ability to turn this into humor is a gift.
No vulgarity, no seggsual remarks, no complaining, and instead he finds humour in a terrible and painful stage of his life. His comedy is gold and I'm glad I found about this guy.
He is truly a brilliant comedian -- how refreshing to hear intelligent, clean comedy. Blessings to Jim and all in his family.
Jeeze what a funny guy. I think everyone wishes they had a Jim in their family. I do
I love his style of comedy. He absolutely cracks me up *crying laughing emoji*
He continues to be true to his style! funny, honest, and always funny !! One of the most consistent comedians there is..and to people unpset about him making light of his wife's brain tumor..she co-writes many of his jokes..so it's safe to assume she's ok with the material!! As she prolly had a hand in crafting them!!
"We all have Jaundice" 😂😂
This made me laugh !
I'm going to send it to my Mother who really has a brain tumor. A Acoustic Neuroma. She has lost all hearing on her right side and has many problems. But watched this and hoped she'd find a smile in this.
Thanks ! Glad your wife is well Jim !!
Jim Gaffigan has the cleanest, funniest material among the recent comedians. It's a treat to watch his performance!
That intensive care unit joke was clever.
I had a brain tumor removed april of this year, he's right you will win every argument
Glad you’re okay Angel, you’re a brave woman!
lol
I have a TBI that is still healing and yes, I win every argument in the home now :)
How so
No you won't. Glad you're ok
I work as a nurse & this cracked me up!! Mediocre care unit- 😂
The intensive care jokes are the best
My favorite part of his act is when he imitates a random lady in the audience who is critical of his jokes. Comedy gold!
One of my favorite comedians. So glad your wife is okay. 🖤🖤
Those Snickers commercials are true😂🤣😂 He is so damn funny!!! Glad to hear his wife is doing great. God is good🙂
Best comedy comes from reality
I started learning English 30 years ago in school. To this day I'd never made a connection between grapes and grapefruits - how crazy is that!!!
The thing is I'm German and we also use the word _grapefruit_ for that fruit but a totally unrelated word (Traube) for grapes. So I was already familiar with the term grapefruit and apparently it never registered that there is a word connection to grapes! ;-)
(A similar thing happen in French. In German we use the word _Garage_ for the "car storage building" (but not the car repair shop). At some point when learning French I memorized the verb _se garer_ which means to park your car. It wasn't until many years later that I had the realization that this was where Garage comes from!
I realize you wouldn't guess it from these anecdotes but I'm actually not entirely stupid! :p)
What about pea and peanut? Or (a level further) doughnut (Teigmutter).
this is so wholesome
Heil Aunt Merkel
Me too. Always thought grapefruit was a kind of berries, turn out it wa s a citrus.
@Jens Raab It wasn't until I studied German that I realized the connection between the English word "defenestrate" (to throw someone out a window) and the German word "fenster" (window). However, the etymology is Latin ("fenestra" for window).
I saw the title and thought "Oh no..this has got to be horrible" immediately watched and LMAO 😂
I can’t even win a argument with my wife & she only has a peanut allergy.
You can win an argument with her. You're just smart enough to know there is no point in winning. I know. I'm divorced. Will never see her naked again. But hey. I won!!
Lmao
Everyone has their cross to bare! (being allergic to bee stings isn't so bad cos the bee population has been dwindling, and that sucks, cos I like honey! oh yeah...and they're helpful for human survival, but HONEY. COME ON!)
Aaron Burr Atwood. Look on the bright side, you have a good reminder to keep your mental health; don't go nuts!
sure you can, but the jail time for murder by peanutbutter isn't worth the win.
"We care but we're not gonna be a spazz about it". 😂😂😂😂😂
Surgeon: "Halfway through I'll probably stop to get lunch" ... the payoff killed me! Way to embody the whole purpose of comedy ... to make life's pain more tolerable.
FYI....don't look at comments till after the videos over! Lol
Jokes aside, something similar happened to me once. I slipped when I was going on a water slide and cracked the back of my head open (not seroiuos, but there was some blood), so I had to go to the hospital. At the ER they prioritized head injuries, so I got in quick enough, but as soon as the doctor had deduced that I had no concussion and that the bleeding had mostly stopped, he said "You know what, I have this workplace meeting in a couple of minutes, would you mind just sitting here for a while and I'll be back to sew that cut up later. I Shouldn't be gone more than 15-20 min", and then he just left. It was kinda funny though even in the moment and even though I was the one who needed stitches in the back of my head.
Blixthand I cracked the back of my head open......are you Humpty Dumpty? Lol
We need someone to like this. I had to like it to bring it up to 666 likes :D
Lunch half way through brain surgery. OK.
"Look, we care but we're not going to be a SPAZ about it." lolol
“Based on appearances he doesn’t eat fruit!” … I nearly burst a gut.
IMO Gaffigan is one of the greatest comedians ever. He has this casual way of making the perfectly normal seem perfectly crazy.
Dude in my 28 years on Gods green earth I’ve had 3 brain tumors all at different times. Their absolute hell to say the least. May God bless you, your wife and your kids Jim.
Points for using the word abacus. XD
Love the end where he thinks he's gonna run into the doctor at the cafeteria. What are you doing here?!
I met Jim many years ago, when I was doing security at a night club on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. He was such a good sport, he gave me his autograph, and had a great time at the club! He cracked me up so much!
Just going through our own medical adventure and this had me crying with laughter. Thanks so much.
“I joke around but it was scary... We have 5 children and there were moments I was like... ‘Oh my gosh! If anything ever happens to my wife... those 5 kids are gonna be put up for adoption!’” Oml that was hilarious 😂👌🏻
I lost it on that joke too! The sad thing is I can relate. My wife has a brain tumor but the doctors won't operate because the odds of her not surviving the surgery are too high.
@@e.b.1728 I'm so sorry. I will pray for your wife and for you.
Thank you SoulWolf. God bless and keep you!
@@e.b.1728 can I ask what happened?
@@e.b.1728 just saw this. thinking of you and hoping she is still ok
Very much impressed with Mr. Gaffigan! I think the funniest stand up comedian out there.
Doctor: Mr Gaffigan your wife has a tumor the size of a.. scoop of ice cream. Jim: Oh my god... I love ice cream 😆
That would be funnier
I was waiting forever for that part you bastard😂
Connor Katana shoulda went with a ......hot pocket.
@@brandonbrown1984 *hawwwt pawwwkket*
That is good material right there.
This is just a streamline of great bits one after the other, makes you be out of breath laughing. Jim is such a comic genius!
I don't know if he does voice acting, but he has an awesome voice and should!
He's voiced about 8 different characters in both movies and television.
I love this guy. My favorite comedian, hands down. His faces, his voices....He always makes me laugh.
You have to laugh about something so absolutely terrifying. Props to his amazingly strong wife.💪💯
Comedy royalty. Best segment in stand up ever.
So thankful Jennie is better. Love you Jim!
The mark of a true comedian....humor without all the vulgarity and profanity.
those pants are really hugging the jewels..
Seriously, I'm like...Jim, size up on the pants dude. He looked poured into those things.
kept trying to ignore this.
Thought I was the only one. Wasn't gonna say it xD
My eyes are bleeding...........he is very funny, though.
I couldn’t stop looking! Lol I’m like is he just massive or are his balls just fucking ginormous?? Lol
I love you, Jim Gaffigan. You've helped me through a rough time. Thank you for making your comedy and humor available to the masses.
They actually do tell you they're taking a break for food during surgery in case you run into them in the cafeteria! My mom was having a 16 hour surgery 20 years ago and my dad bumped into the Dr. in the cafeteria and it freaked him the hell out. Now they disclose it to you
Joseph W I tend to avoid areas where I’m likely to encounter family when I’m on break. Mostly so they don’t freak out and partially because I have a limited amount of time to eat.
One of the funniest, cleanest comics 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Glad that Jim could find humor during a very scary situation such as that.
And CBS picked the perfect guy to do 'a few minutes' like Andy Rooney used to.
God bless Jim Gaffigan!
O man have I missed Jim Gaffigan! So glad I found this! I also am glad to hear his wife is cancer free! God bless him & his family.
As Wanda Sikes said, Doctors desribe tumors to us as fruit because we can't be bothered with learning the metric system.
Jim Gaffigan taught me how to laffigan.
@Joe Blow Thanks Joe. Someone left the same comment yesterday on Jim's channel and got 200 likes including one from Jim. Looks like I was doing it all wrong 😕
Just finished the book “ when life gives you pears” by his wife, excellent book! What a story!! And what a family♥️
Jim, you are awesome and so is your wife, glad she is recovering. You're a very lucky man and a brilliant comic! Thanks for all the laughs.
OMG! I love him and his family. So happy his wife is well. I have worked in the medical field and hospitals for 25+ years and I never thought about them in the way he describes. I was crying laughing at this. I think, how true😂. What a talent!
I love this guy. He's a walking advertisement for the notion that you really don't need to be dirty to be funny.
I know right, when I was far younger - being dirty/crude was so hilarious to me but not really any more so Gaffigan is my favorite comedian due to this.
Most important thing is that a comedian is funny. If a dirty joke is funny let them tell it. What is not funny is when (bad) comedians think being dirty and filling up every sentence with swear words is funny on its own.
@@einundsiebenziger5488 Also, just general rudeness and the "angry old man/woman" schtick just are not funny.
Brian Regan
Jonathan Winters, Jerry Seinfeld, and Bill Cosby before we knew he was intensely flawed as a human being - ALL were masters of observational comedy. They were all creative and clever enough that the profanity would have ruined it.
Best medical monologue ever
Ya know ///his wife helps write his material ........ strong lady and smart !!
Slowly but surely becoming my favorite comedian.
He's the greatest
Love this guy, he makes me laugh