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Jim Gaffigan and Jeannie Gaffigan are partners in life, love and laughter.

The couple first met in 2000 in a New York City bodega and wed in July 2003. Jim and Jeannie live in N.Y.C. with their five kids — whom the comedian often jokes about in his stand-up routines, including his comedy special on Hulu, The Skinny, which premiered in November 2024.

In addition to raising their children, Jim and Jeannie have worked together on various comedy specials, including the TV Land series The Jim Gaffigan Show, loosely based on their family life.Not onlydid Jeannie direct one episode and serve as a co-writer, but she was also one of the executive producers of the series. Jim told Vanity Fair in 2015 that the sitcom was a "perfect utilization of us."

"Our relationship has always been — ever since we first started dating —collaborative," Jim told PEOPLE in May 2017. "We've always had this similar work ethic where we don't really view it as a job. And it doesn't happen in a set or even a scheduled time; it's an ongoing discussion."

Here's everything to know about Jeannie Gaffigan and her relationship with the Grammy-nominated funnyman.

She's originally from Milwaukee

Jeannie was born in Milwaukee and is the oldest of nine siblings. Her brother, Patrick Noth, is a writer and actor with more than a dozen credits to his name (including The Jim Gaffigan Show), and her brother, Paul Noth, is a cartoonist whose work has been featured in The New Yorker.

In 2021, Jeannie celebrated a milestone wedding anniversary of her mom and dad, Louise and Dom Noth, sharing a series of throwback family photos on Instagram.

She captioned the images of the large Noth brood, "Happy 52nd Anniversary mom & dad from your 9 kids, 10 grandchildren, all the spouses, partners, friends, nephews, nieces & all the 'adopted children' you have accumulated over the years w your uncondit

Jeannie is the writer and executive producer of The Jim Gaffigan Show which received critical acclaim for its two seasons on TVLand.

Jeannie is known for her creative openings at the top of Jim Gaffigan’s comedy specials. She co-wrote and executive produced Beyond the Pale (2006), King Baby (2009), Mr. Universe (2012), Obsessed (2014), and Cinco (2017). Jeannie directed, co-wrote and executive produced the specials Noble Ape (2018) and Quality Time (2019). Jeannie executive produced the most recent special The Pale Tourist (2020). These specials achieved platinum sales and six Grammy nominations.

Jeannie was the story editor on the two New York Times Best Sellers, Dad is Fat and Food: A Love Story.

Jeannie’s New York Times bestselling book When Life Gives You Pears, a memoir chronicling her diagnosis, surgery and recovery from a Pear sized brain tumor, is available everywhere books are sold.

Jeannie is the director and a founding member of The Imagine Society Inc., a youth led not for profit organization.

Jeannie lives with her husband and five children in New York City.

American actress, producer, and comedy writer

Jeannie Louise Gaffigan (néeNoth) is an American actress, producer, and comedy writer. She is best known as a writer and executive producer for The Jim Gaffigan Show, a show loosely based on her own family life with her husband, Jim Gaffigan.

Early life

Gaffigan was born on March 9, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as Jeanne Louise Noth. She grew up the oldest of nine children. Her father was a theater and film critic for the Milwaukee Journal. She graduated from Marquette University'sDiederich College of Communication in 1992.

Career

Gaffigan began her career as a stage actress in regional theater and upon moving to New York, performed in sketch comedy groups and small theater companies where playwrights developed original plays. Gaffigan founded the not-for-profit theater company Shakespeare on the Playground, dedicated to teaching literacy and production to urban youth through the performance of full Shakespearean plays. She began writing and producing comedy with her friend and future husband Jim Gaffigan. Since then, Gaffigan has helped write and produce all five of Jim's comedy specials, also serving as the director of his fifth special.

Gaffigan co-wrote an animated series called Pale Force, starring Jim Gaffigan and Conan O'Brien, for which she received an Emmy Nomination. She worked on it with her brothers Paul Noth, a New Yorker cartoonist, and Patrick Noth, a comedy writer and composer.

In 2013, Gaffigan began developing a pilot with her husband titled The Jim Gaffigan Show. After working with NBC and CBS, the show landed at TV Land where Gaffigan co-wrote and executive produced all 22 episodes with Jim. She directed the finale episode of Season 2. In August 2016, Jim and Jeannie decided not to continue with Sea

Comedian Jim Gaffigan is probably best known for his hilarious Hot Pocket routine, the animated series Pale Force, in which he starred with Late Night host Conan O'Brien, and, lately, simply being a dad. (The semi-autobiographical Jim Gaffigan Show, a TVLand original that ran from 2015 to 2016, and a series of 2017 Chrysler Pacific commercials starring the fair-skinned funnyman and his kids solidified Jim's "dad brand.") But what many people don't know is that his wife, Jeannie Noth Gaffigan, is also his career co-pilot.

In fact, Jeannie has co-written or produced all of Jim's comedy projects since 2005's Beyond the Pale, including the Jim Gaffigan Show and two bestselling books, Dad Is Fat and Food: A Love Story.

On paper, the pair seem made for each other. Both are Catholic (Jim has referred to Jeannie's devout nature as “Shiite Catholic”) and come from big families in the Midwest. He grew up the youngest of six children in Chesterton, Indiana. She was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the oldest of nine. Both moved to New York City in their 20s to pursue their respective careers, and ended up living on the same block in the same Manhattan neighborhood. Which is how they eventually met.

Jeannie, a stage actress who spent her childhood studying theater thanks to her film critic dad, had seen Jim perform in a sketch group. “I was like, ‘He’s really good,’” she said. They started talking after crossing paths at a local Korean market and quickly became friends.

They started collaborating professionally when Jeannie asked Jim to do a workshop for the nonprofit she'd started, Shakespeare on the Playground, and he, in return, asked her to help in developing his acting skills for what eventually became the 2000 CBS comedy Welcome to New York. The show only lasted a season, but the time they spent together leading up to it proved Jim an