"I just want you to knowthat cursing sells."

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 26th, 2006

From an interview with Jim Gaffigan in the Iowa State Daily:

To be completely honest, when I did my album with Comedy Central, the guy said, “I just want you to know that cursing sells.” I curse in everyday life, but when I’m on stage – sometimes if you say an F-bomb, it’ll save a mediocre joke, so I’m constantly trying to get rid of it. But there has been no pressure to do that. I have checked out reviews of my last CD on Web sites and people literally say “not enough cursing.” I think that’s kind of hysterical. If we were all 13 sitting in a garage, we’d want to hear curse words. It’s like, get the Dave Attell CD – who I think is a genius, by the way. There was no pressure, but I can’t get in Dave’s kind of shape so I’m not worried about that. There’s, like, a comedy nerd audience that has always kind of got me and those are the people I want to still think I’m funny. I’m not looking to be on the cover of People magazine – but I’ll probably be the most handsome guy in the world next year.

Make of this what you will.

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