Beyond the absence of sleep and being poorly dressed, you lose touch with your friends, you try to encourage others to join you, and you move into this compound, which is the suburbs.ĮSQ: And you have the charismatic, overbearing manipulator-in my case, Molly. JG: I say in my book, parenthood is like being in a cult. There are times when I just want my daughter to fuck off, even just for a minute, but then I don't really want that at all, or maybe I do. All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.ĮSQ: One thing you learn as a parent is that you have this ability to entertain opposing emotions.
I wrote this book from the point of view that parenthood is this impossible task, and we're all valiantly trying to pull it off, knowing the likelihood of that is unlikely. "I love you with all of my heart," he writes, "but you are probably the reason I'm dead."ĮSQUIRE.COM: First of all, as the father of a four year old, I'm not sure you should be making fun of parenthood, which seems to me to be like laughing at people with shingles.ĮSQ: That question was a lot funnier when I wrote it down. In Dad is Fat, the New York-based comedian (and father of five) does eye-rolling, long-suffering riffs on everything from "Naps Are Payday Loans" to "Negotiating with Terrorists." The book begins with what Gaffigan presents as a posthumous letter to his kids. And where lots of dads would get mad if their kids called them fat, Gaffigan chose instead to turn the affront into a book. Jim Gaffigan, in his way, is a model parent. To read an excerpt from Jim Gaffigan's book, Dad is Fat, in which he helpfully explains the difference between children and dogs, ->
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