Good-natured observational comic Jim Gaffigan’s 1999 Late Show with David Letterman debut was so successful that the host offered him a sitcom-development deal. ∙ All six of Gaffigan’s LPs released between 2012’s Mr. Universe and 2020’s The Pale Tourist were nominated for Best Comedy Album Grammy Awards. ∙ Obsessed, his 2014 concert LP, topped Billboard’s Comedy Albums chart. ∙ In 2015, he became one of only ten comedians to sell out Madison Square Garden. ∙ The Jim Gaffigan Show, his sitcom about a stand-up comic raising a large family in a small New York City apartment, aired for two seasons. ∙ He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2016 for his commentaries on CBS Sunday Morning.