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From Jan 28, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC to Jan 30, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC · 1 date: Pensacola
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Boch Center - Wang Theater · Boston · US
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14 presales are published by the seller for the listed dates. Times are shown in the venue's time zone; access requirements (codes, memberships, cards) are set by the presale organiser and appear on the seller listing.
From Jan 28, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC to Jan 30, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC · 1 date: Pensacola
From Jan 29, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC to Jan 30, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC · 1 date: Pensacola
From Mar 11, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Oct 16, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC · 17 dates: Boston, Hershey, Pittsburgh, McAllen, Corpus Christi, Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, Tampa, Jacksonville, Estero and 2 more — Artist Presale
From Mar 11, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC to Apr 24, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC · 2 dates: Boston
From Mar 12, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Apr 24, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC · 2 dates: Boston
From Apr 23, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Apr 24, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC · 1 date: Boston
From Apr 23, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Jun 5, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC · 7 dates: Hershey, Pittsburgh, McAllen, Corpus Christi, Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando — Promoter Presale
From Apr 23, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Jun 5, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC · 7 dates: Hershey, Pittsburgh, Corpus Christi, Niagara Falls, Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando
From Apr 23, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Apr 24, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC · 1 date: Estero
From Apr 23, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Apr 24, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC · 1 date: Estero
From Jun 4, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Sep 18, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC · 4 dates: Philadelphia
From Jun 4, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC to Jun 5, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC · 1 date: McAllen — Venue - McAllen Performing Arts Center presale
From Jun 4, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC to Jun 5, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC · 1 date: Corpus Christi
From Aug 6, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC to Aug 7, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC · 1 date: Boston
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Jim Gaffigan was born July 7, 1966 in Elgin, Illinois — the youngest of six children in a large Irish-Catholic family — and was raised in Chesterton, Indiana, a setting that anchors a meaningful share of his early stand-up material about Midwestern food, large-family dinners, lake-effect winters, and the suburban dad archetype he would later inhabit on stage with five real-life children of his own. He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he played football and earned a finance degree, then briefly worked in advertising in New York before pivoting full-time into stand-up in the early 1990s. The early years ran through the Chicago improv circuit — Second City and the Improv Olympic adjacency, though he was always a writer-stand-up rather than an ensemble improviser — and into the New York alternative-comedy scene at Luna Lounge, Rebar, and the Comedy Cellar by the mid-1990s. The first national breaks came through Late Show with David Letterman, where Gaffigan became one of the most frequent stand-up guests of the Letterman era, and through a small-but-recurring sitcom presence (Welcome to New York, That '70s Show, Ed) that built name recognition before the specials defined the brand. Beyond the Pale, released in 2006, was the breakthrough — the special that turned the Hot Pockets bit into a generation-defining piece of comedy and pushed Gaffigan from working comic to headline touring act. King Baby followed in 2009, Mr. Universe in 2012, Obsessed in 2014, Cinco in 2017 (his first Netflix release), Noble Ape in 2018, Quality Time in 2019 (Amazon), The Pale Tourist in 2020 (Amazon, two specials in one taping cycle), Comedy Monster in 2021 (Netflix), Dark Pale in 2023 (Amazon), and The Skinny in 2024 (Hulu) — a release cadence that has made him one of the most prolific stand-up special releasers of the streaming era. Five Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album punctuate the same window. Alongside the specials he has built an acting career across film (Three Kings, Super Troopers 2, Chappaquiddick, Hotel Mumbai, Tesla, Linoleum, Peter Pan & Wendy, Drive-Away Dolls) and television (the self-titled The Jim Gaffigan Show on TV Land, recurring roles on Bob Hearts Abishola and Law & Order), with the on-camera work scaling alongside the touring rather than replacing it. He and his wife Jeannie Gaffigan — a writer, producer, and his long-time creative collaborator — co-wrote the bulk of his specials and the books Dad Is Fat (2013) and Food: A Love Story (2014), both of which landed on the New York Times bestseller list. The voice on stage is clean, observational, food-and-family obsessed, and built around a recurring inner-monologue device — Gaffigan voicing an imagined audience member's reaction to his own jokes in a higher-pitched aside that has become a signature beat of the act. He works without profanity, without political alignment, and without shock material, which is the genuinely rare positioning in modern touring stand-up and the reason multi-generational family groups stack into his arena dates more reliably than for almost any other headline comic on the road.