Summary: Inspired by Jim Gaffigan's real life, It explores one man's struggle to find balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy and an insatiable appetite.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JIMSummary: The single-camera series is inspired by Jim Gaffigan's real life, exploring one man's struggle in New York City to find a balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy and an insatiable appetite. Ashley Williams co-stars in The Jim Gaffigan Show as Jim's wife, and cult comedy favorites Adam Goldberg and Michael Ian Black also star as Jim's best friend and his wife's meddling confidante,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JIMSummary: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIGSummary: When an illness brings comedian Emily Martin back to her college town of Austin, Texas, she must endure an awkward weekend with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MR.Summary: Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When a comedian, having become a reality TV star at the hands of his fiancée, allows a newspaper profile writer follow him around for a day, he explores the issues in his life and learns about the writer's life as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOPBirbiglia, Mike
Summary: A stand-up comedian tries to balance his rising career and a long-term relationship with his girlfriend while also dealing with a sleep disorder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLEDe Niro, Robert
Summary: When an aging comedian trying to make a comeback is sentenced to community service for accosting an audience member, he meets the daughter of a real estate mogul and the pair find inspiration in each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMSummary: A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015