What's White Trash? | Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale

[@stephenlawlor2876]

As far as comedians go. Jim's way up there with the best of them!!!

[@Navesblue]

“You know what’s more important than the truth? Not being in an argument. RIP, truth.” If there’s a quote to capture the sentiments of modern times, THAT IS IT.

[@Mushroom321-]

😲 exactly!!! 😅👏👏👏

[@MK-lh3xd]

It was true in all times, and probably will be in the future too. Most people don't like confrontation.

[@polreamonn]

The PSA we all need.

[@sookie8762]

Oh yeah the mere appearance of virtue without actual morals is all that matters today.

[@itchycroe411]

Maybe for you

[@heathermetz6576]

3:03 “You know what’s more important than the truth? Not being in an argument.”

[@mj8495]

Explains why so many people avoid engaging with MAGA adherents 😊

[@judithsixkiller5586]

​@@mj8495True. It's the equivalent of arguing with a brick wall,except the brick wall serves a legitimate purpose, and has more common sense.

[@jrosner6123]

​@@judithsixkiller5586😂😂😂

[@pudimdecana51]

“Not a soul!!!!” You can sense he is truly hurt by that!! 😂😂😂

[@charlie-obrien]

Turns out, it was just one "townie's" lunatic idea. Probably presented at a late Friday council meeting, by the Mayor's, fish farm owning brother-in-law.

[@skillcoiler]

Well.... if he is hurt and talking about goldfish him and I need to have a talk. I too live in the rust belt and well growing up our pool released gold fish for kids to catch in the pool.

[@dougfromsoanierana]

Same. Grew up in Ohio in the late 70s/early 80s and our town pool did that every year. Also threw change in the pool with some of it painted so you could get special prizes.

[@stealahb]

"don't let the door hitteth your ass on the way out" - i will 100% use this. needed the chuckle today.

[@batsonelectronics]

in the south it is " don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya".

[@mrbfros454]

On the way outeth, to be precise. 😂

[@TimHollingworth]

In the UK we say ARSE...

[@maximolacerante8808]

@@TimHollingworthin the UK we definitely say hitteth and outeth

[@JackieOgle]

He's very relatable! Lol!! He cracks me up and his voices and facial expressions are hilarious!!

[@TheRealArtimusKnight]

What I love about Jim is that his jokes make him relatable. His jokes are about things we’re all thinking, struggles we all have to a degree

[@toad4ever103]

He always makes me giggle.

[@KitaHolms]

Definitely one of my favorite comics😂👏 And he doesn't have to resort to swearing and "shock" jokes 🫤

[@rmr2471]

Well said🤗

[@mattiefee]

He's pure funny.

[@scottsmith8162]

He used to. I heard an old bit of his and it was weird to hear him telling dirty jokes lol

[@NolanTheOtherOnly]

he literally used the word ass

[@goatsplitter]

Ass is a swear. And there's a lot on dark pale that is a bit of a shock joke.

[@Davett53]

Anyone growing up in the 1950s & 60s, collected empty soda pop bottles, often from the trash. In those years, the bottlers of the soda pop, offered cash refunds for each bottle. Back then, the bottlers washed & refilled the bottles with fresh soda pop. A kid could make some adequate spending money.

[@flowersafeheart]

Wow! That sounds healthier for our bodies and the environment than all the plastic and aluminum! Incentivizes recycling - which saves the businesses money so that is why they are willing to.

[@Davett53]

@@flowersafeheart Big soda pop companies discontinued that, when all soda pop began being canned up or in plastic throw away bottles. Washing the glass bottle was costlier. In the USA, there are still a few cities, with bottlers who use glass, and offer refunds. Glass bottles are heavy and difficult to accumulate and heavy to transport. In the 1950s, it was just kids, and I suppose winos, who were willing to do the work for a few coins. We used to pull a kid sized wagon, to people houses, and ask if they had any bottles, they could let us have. Since forever, most people just threw the bottles away. Recycling hadn't been invented, yet,....back then.

[@justsomedudeyouknow8372]

I did that. There was a local market that sold milk in glass bottles. We'd drink the milk and bring back the bottle for cash.

[@Davett53]

@@justsomedudeyouknow8372 In the good old days or more recently? I think the beverage called Snapple, a national brand, still refunds cash in some current US cities. I stopped drinking that stuff years ago, though in a pinch, I will still consider it.

[@jeffschwehr6750]

Bottle refund money went towards candy. If I found a couple pop bottles , they registered in my brain as Three Musketeers Bar!

[@ericawirta9922]

Those old school cans with the pull tabs….I made necklaces out of those, they reeked like beer and i was sooo proud!

[@AlyKatKitty]

We used to see how long we could make them. The longer your chain the cooler you were. I had one hanging across my room.

[@obnobn2345]

No doubt, even after rinsing them in the creek. I still find that weird.

[@LoveCats9220]

Genuinely curious, how do you open beer cans now? Can you no longer buy beer in cans?

[@ericawirta9922]

@@LoveCats9220 They’re just like pop/soda cans with that little tab thingy

[@LoveCats9220]

@@ericawirta9922 - pull tab, right? Got confused when you said “old school”

[@Patricia-e8h5t]

Jim is hilarious and ❤️love his humor !!

[@echognomecal6742]

I seriously need more stories like this!

[@lisakirsoff3469]

Humble hardworking and simply good folks who had access to great schools and once in a while took the south shore to Chicago is my memory of growing up in Porter County. Your wife is very smart in her choices.

[@nozrep]

dude IS intelligent and I very much love how he is able to play the fool for us, intentionally, for our entertainment. And he laughs all the way to the bank😅 Bravo! And I am not sarcking I absolutely do think it is awesome how he has developed his comedy and persona with the absolute mastery of self deprecation and “playing the fool”.

[@billyeveryteen7328]

I also collected cans as a kid. Not for fun, but to take into recycling so I could buy stuff. Let me tell you, you don't need an allowance or to mow lawns when you recycle cans and your dad is an alcoholic.

[@morro190]

I started to laugh and then got to the end. Thats dark, man.

[@charlie-obrien]

My brother and I would always fight over who got to return Dad's case of empties. Big money in that racket.

[@buzbuz33-99]

I also grew up in NW Indiana and, during the 1960s, used to deliver the Gary Post-Tribune to a poor neighborhood about a mile outside of town. While I some of my customers didn't always have money to pay right away, they never stiffed me. One of the most cheerful people on my route was the young daughter of customers who lived in a house the size of a chicken coop. That was a great experience for my younger self. Unfortunately, despite earning the big bucks, I couldn't afford to collect cans, so I collected rocks instead.

[@My-Pal-Hal]

I'm Sorry. But every time I see North West of anything,.. a Thousand Miles from the North West. I just think that's funny as hell 😂 ... there's actually an ocean here, not to rub it in 🤣

[@alison5009]

@@My-Pal-Halit’s a directional reference. It doesn’t have to mean the United States Pacific Northwest.

[@My-Pal-Hal]

@@alison5009 I said I'm sorry. What else do you want? Come on, be PACIFIC 😂

[@marilyntaylor9577]

I’m from Terre Haute, once known as “Sin City”

[@bobvorwald9737]

I remember delivering the Post Tribune too

[@SaturdayParker]

I was like aww thats so cute, putting fish in the pool!😊 Then you mentioned the chlorine and I was like oh no 😢.

[@annspaz8237]

He's a treasure!!!❤

[@traceypalangio9615]

He’s so brilliantly funny!

[@markderidder]

Jim hit a new note with that “not a soul”!

[@notquiteultralight1701]

Ironically one of the most brilliant comedians out there!

[@JeremyEssen]

^^^ you ever hear a word and not know what it means, and just start using that word anyway?

[@debraroberts6735]

What's ironic about his comedy ?

[@FatimaAmerson]

And clean no vulgar language or harmful content. He's amazing. 🔥🔥❤️

[@sfperalta]

As a teenager, it was not unusual to have one or more friends who incorporated beer cans into their décor.

[@charlie-obrien]

Yes. To offset the STP stickers!

[@dealwolfstriked272]

My own brother glued beer cans all over his wall completely. Room smelled like rotten beer

[@Mary_O]

Jim and I are six months apart. Beer can collections were a thing in the 70s. My dad had one. He was also an alcoholic.🫤

[@pamelas1002]

Gotta love him!

[@wendyspencer887]

I laughed so loud at “RIP the truth” 😂😂😂

[@mattiefee]

Yes, "Good riddance". I had a moment like that when I was writing a thank you card to a family that had driven me to football practice. I had messed up the end of the card and wrote, with ink, "I hope you have a ho..." (I was starting to write "happy") when I realized I meant to write Merry Christmas instead. In my infinite wisdom, I decided I would work with the "ho" instead of scribbling the word out because in my mind I'm a big boy and I know how to write properly. So, thought very hard for a while about how I could end the card with a word that fit "ho" in it. I finished the card with "I hope you have a very homely Christmas", and gave it to them. What was even worse was they were a slightly homely bunch. My stepmother read the card after they showed her at our football banquet and she immediately informed me what homely meant. I was so embarrassed.

[@ecwfanatic22]

I'm surprised you didn't think to turn the O into an A and write "happy christmas"

[@mattiefee]

@@ecwfanatic22 I did. Yet, in the mind of a 12-year-old me, "happy" was reserved for birthdays and Thanksgiving. My fear of writing happy Christmas is what got me into that mess. 😐

[@ecwfanatic22]

@@mattiefee If it makes you feel any better, when I was 12, I had recently heard of the term "Ménage à trois", and didn't fully understand what it meant besides the "trois" part, thinking it meant a group of three friends. Imagine my surprise when I used that to describe 2 of my friends coming over to play games(this was the late 90's). Something along the lines of "our Ménage à trois is gonna play some games". Got an earful from my mom on that one.

[@michiganconstructiongroup6379]

OMG. That's hilarious. Just kids trying to find their way through this crazy world.

[@terryenglish7132]

You actually used it in its original meaning. Which was "of the home " It shifted to looks because back then an unmarried woman would continue to live w her parents. Past a certain age the ones who did tended to be not good looking , so it was a polite euphemism for unattractive.

[@doriweishaar4901]

I love these videos lol. "Rest in peace truth" Just cracks me up

[@rochelransom1688]

One of my favorite comics! 😂

[@FatimaAmerson]

Jim is the best.... Idk if he's a writer but his content is clean and relatable across all genres. 😂🔥🔥❤

[@manningbartlett522]

HIm and his wife (Jeannie Gaffigan) write all of his material. She's a fascinating person and a brilliant comic writer.

[@ericdavey6702]

I will always love this man.

[@susanwest8239]

I love you're comedy!!! I'm watching your old videos too❤❤

[@diatribe1194]

some people's trash is someone else's treasure...

[@dannarose2000]

He is truly amazing…

[@Iamtheoverlander]

I collected beer cans as a kid as well. Holy crap I got something in common with this guy. Am I white trash?

[@Lurker-dk8jk]

Let me know, would ya? I still have a Pepsi can I shot in my father-in-law's back yard. First time I ever shot a pistol.

[@hoytballard5504]

I did that in the seventies growing up. Still got about a thousand cans and for the life of me I can’t understand why my wife won’t let me display them in the livingroom 😜

[@Chris-ut6eq]

Or a redneck ;-p *in your best Jeff Foxworthy voice* You know you are a redneck if you collected beer cans as a child. ....and you know you're really a redneck if you drank all those beers yourself.......as a child ;-p We used to sneak beer out of my grandpa's basement fridge....that shocked you if you touched the handle barefoot, redneck home security systems of the 1960s.

[@toad4ever103]

Nothing wrong with that.

[@My-Pal-Hal]

BETTER NOT BE BUD "LIGHT" CANS. ... we're looking at you, .. especially when we run out of Beer 😂

[@jeependous]

For men, 90% of marriage arguments come down to one question; would you rather be right, or stay married?

[@drewgrows7765]

At least 80%

[@My-Pal-Hal]

Leave Bill Burr out of this. He's got that situation well figured out.

[@Mushroom321-]

​@@My-Pal-Hal😅😅

[@My-Pal-Hal]

@@Mushroom321- And They're Still Married 🥰 What the F is up with That 🤗👍 ... that's just another podcast

[@michaelversant8401]

Cans! My brother and i collected old whisky bottles and made a fake bar in our basement. We're talking hundreds of bottles...Looking back at it now, I"m surprised how many we found in our neighborhood. :)

[@madelinetracy3847]

My mom loves the 70s movie “Strange Brew” (if u know, u know- long live the McKenzie bros!) and she once lamented that we would never find a beer can to hang at a jaunty angle on our Christmas tree (some reference to the Great White North album). I reminded her that we’re from like 9 generations of Mormons who don’t drink alcohol and she wondered aloud if it would be a sin to buy a beer, pour it out, and hang the can/bottle on the tree. We didn’t risk it, I guess

[@suzannahirwin7165]

I collected broken glass shards. I pretended they were uncut gems.

[@ginor8416]

Living legend, hope I can see his show

[@toddveden5302]

Love your jokes man!!!! keep em coming.... from Valparaiso

[@multivariateperspective5137]

Too true for most people… “RIP truth”

[@kennethgardner3090]

Always funny. Way to go Jim Gafagan. I would tell you about my collection, but it would make your beer can collection look impressive.

[@icingcake]

Poor lil Jim 😂😂😂

[@RobinMarconeCassidyRN]

"RIP TRUTH" 😂

[@bgdddyweave77]

My local pool also did the fish! Every 4th of July, they would release a bunch of goldfish into the pool, and then all the kids would catch them and take them home in a water-filled baggie.

[@sarge420]

I discovered at the age of 50 that I was white, trailer trash. Came home to help my folks and there were two “Free” used toilets in the yard.

[@DJ-sv7xf]

I found out I was white trash when I was told my cousin married my uncle (her dad's brother).

[@Mary_O]

Yep, that qualifies.

[@HWCism]

Wow, you nailed that one! Thanks

[@medusagorgon9]

So funny, my ex-husband who strangely enough looks like Jim (most unfortunate coincidence), would tell family situations/stories so elaborate to our friends or neighbors that I actually started questioning my own presence at the situation. Was I even there? I really don't remember that happening.🤔

[@johnweir8368]

Jim Gaffigan is one of the funniest people out there today, It's sad to see him reduced to making Walmart commercials

[@NC-oy8hq]

I grew up in NE Indiana. And I have never heard of people fishing in a public swimming pool. Now I see why we avoided the NW 😂.

[@glintrhmj]

This dude is like the drake of specials each one a massive hit 😂😂your awesome so funny

[@jesusgaud8]

Funny thing is that he has a joke that involves Drake. 🤣

[@penguin44ca]

So Jim is the opposite of drake. Not annoying and making it absolutely about himself. I'm sorry he's from where I'm from.

[@Brian-os9qj]

Great stuff Jim

[@MisterRisk]

I grew up in South Bend. My cousins from Florida would come every summer for a month and we would spend whole days riding bikes to the outskirts of the neighborhood to collect beer cans. I remember the smell like it was yesterday. Good memories.

[@solidgroundmusic]

once you figure out to choose your battles wisely and sparingly your getting somewhere in marriage. works with teenagers too

[@aza109954]

I think collecting beer cans in the eighties was a cool thing to do. I did it when I was a teenager too… … in New Zealand 😁

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

I MADE A CHAIN FROM PULL TOPS OF CANS...WENT AROUND MY BEDROOM TWICE!😄😅😃😂

[@judithsixkiller5586]

Mine only went around once,so I'm totally jelly.

[@NancySullivan-u2w]

I grew up in north central Indiana but in farming country--there was an Amish community nearby.

[@tamb7587]

Jim’s the best!

[@ItIsJustJudy]

I collected beer cans, too. I kept them in the garage. One day, I went in and found my dad had recycled them. Our local swimming pool did the fish on the last day of the season, also. I’m from a suburb on the north shore of Chicago.

[@SlimFatboy-m9y]

One mans trash is another mans treasure!!!!

[@Blake4625kHz]

Jim is depressed is what I gather from this tour LOL

[@SilverSkitty]

“What happened here?” was my exact reaction when I visited Indiana

[@todvball]

Jim and my brother shared a hobby!!! At age 8 through early teens, my bro(and i) collected beer cans. My brother was a member of the BCCA or "Beer Can Collectors of America" . We found cans everywhere but mainly at our great wooded nature reserve in Ohio (Grant Park). Their Park ranger thanked us for cleaning it up ;) . Haha .

[@deltahomicide9300]

Maybe Jim and your brother loved the logos. That's how a successful career in graphic design starts!

[@margieb.4346]

There’s nobody like Jim. And that’s a good thing. Just kidding, I love him and his humor. Never disappoints. I wish he would talk more about his childhood, sounds like mine without all the kids.

[@cathleenmorgan3784]

Love you you're the best

[@user-ye3tx8mz8o]

"beer can collection on the way home from school." 😂

[@petewangen-groovedrummer8083]

Right on Jim. Makes me laugh hard, which as you know is good for my health. Pete, the drummer in Austin, MN.

[@knittylane3016]

Hi Pete. Elaine from Hollandale,MN

[@tulliotk1]

I collected beer cans and had fishing days at the public pool.

[@miraclenichols4332]

Amen- RIP truth!!!

[@reset-xs9ql]

i'm in my early 50's currently. I lived in northeastern Ohio in the late 70's/early 80's. I'm not from there but, as far as fitting in with the white trash that was domestic, yeah snuggly. I suspect I'm similarly aged to Jim. We collected beer cans from all sorts of breweries in those days. I don't know why. i'm embarrassed now but we didn't think it trashy then.

[@dgrant7291]

They have a bring your dog to the pool day at the end of the season right before they drain it at our community pools.

[@noglenogle]

If they do a biographical of phillip Seymour hoffman this guy could play him

[@rococoblue]

😂 starting at seven years old I would have to carry around a toolbox a bucket full of grey soap water.. which I was told was only for washing the mechanic's hands.. which was my dad and also a very hot light bulb held by tape and a wall adapter the length of the house..so yes we all have our "white trash" scars.😂

[@sdsurfgirl60]

We had machines that spit out dozens of nickels for a bag of cans. That was entertaining.

[@Davett53]

I think I am older than Jim,....but we collected beer cans and bottles, too. Teen age trophies,....wishful thinking, too. Thinking some day I will drink a fresh beer from each style and brand. By the 1980s, aluminum cans were valuable. One could trade them for cash. I collected 100s of them, crushed them and received some money. Dedicated, I collected enough to buy a pint of scotch whisky. I was already an adult, not a teenager.

[@Anthony-ot8vl]

What's white trash? "Anyone that's not a big city liberal."-----Jim Gaffigan.

[@raymondjmcclain]

I successfully delayed my alcohol consumption until drinking age after smelling an empty bottle of whiskey from the ditch while riding my stingray. Even then it was decades of effort to acquire the taste for good scotch on the rocks but by that time my body mounted an insurgence and collapsed my infrastructure. A single sip now triggers all the symptoms of a hangover and I couldn't be happier. Not a habit I wanted to leave this world with.

[@aaronfaucett6442]

Fishing in a swimming pool sounds like a lot of fun 😅

[@maukasara808]

Every time my husband tells a story he embellishes to make it way for extreme for effect. I 😅quietly sit by and listen t this nonsense. Hilarious!

[@adrenazanetti3660]

Soda pop bottle money was what my brother and I used for spending money in summer as kids! We’d pull our little red wagon around collecting them to get the nickel each from the local grocer! I can remember being bummed if he said one or two bottles had too many nicks in them glass to get that nickel but he’d always see the sadness and give us a piece of free 5 cent candy !

[@chipmunktubetop]

"And I had parents, too!" He is SO funny, I only a while ago I noticed that his language is so clean!

[@rambofan334]

I always use words I don't know the meaning of to make myself sound more hemorrhage.

[@plissken2156]

The backdrop makes it look like he's doing his show in the middle of the Florida everglades at dusk.

[@grovertn867]

Just so you don't feel all alone, Johnson City, Tennessee, at the close of the summer, fills their public swimming pool with fish. Obviously, it's for the children. But my children didn't want to go...so I had to borrow someone else's kid...just to get free fish.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

Raised my daughter partly in Johnson City and we LOVED when they filled it with fish. Sometimes we went two days in a row. My daughter went back to visit and took her husband by the pool and told him about fishing out of the pool.

[@grovertn867]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing.

[@richmaricle5823]

😂😂😂

[@Mushroom321-]

Hilarious jim !!!😮😮

[@MikeBaxterABC]

2:20 My wife's (RIP) family is like this, one time they ALL somehow organized and agreed to use the word "whom" in place of "who", not joking! :( at Christmas time they literally talked about "Horton hears a Whom" :( Another time they All started PURPOSELY pronouncing EVERY word that ended in "ING" by saying it "INK" .. it was so disturbing!!

[@CarriannJohnson_GrittyGlory]

I get so sad when these clips are over… 🤣😭

[@lauragroce3816]

We collected used fireworks next morning in our wagon. Then we’d play firework stand all day. I’m 73 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ErikStenbakken]

"RIP truth." 😆

[@hondagoal]

Great Comedian 👍

[@creation1702490]

hey - the fish thing - I honestly can tell you that I and my brother would get to go to the pool - that someone had put fish in and then he would get a cane pole and he would get to try to catch one. Early 1970 - Statesboro, Ga.

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

0:04 my entire maternal line…and I have absolutely nothing in common with even one of my thousands of living g relatives. I have never met worse people.

[@daynapeck1769]

That's why your so funny. We're all from less than classy.

[@stevemlejnek7073]

I collected beer cans back then too. I STILL have some of the best ones!

[@marysevier]

The fish story! Dead on what my public pool did for the 4th of July growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the 90s. It wasn’t until this year that I realized that wasn’t a normal childhood activity.

[@Atlanta-Johnson]

That would be an awkward moment for her at the next family gathering. 😂😂😂

[@davidmitchell6873]

Some old beer cans are worth thousands of dollars.

[@robstimson4234]

2:03 l can relate. When you are 10-11 "Good Riddance" doesn't sound bad, so that's what l wished my piano teacher after the last lesson, and l am ashamed of saying that decades later.

[@tracymcdonald118]

Brilliant 😂

[@belltoll1918]

I grew up in Merrillville, Indiana. We were practically neighbors! If you lived in South Haven, fondly known as Hillbilly Haven, I would say yeah. But, Chesterton was a nice place and they had a Bakery that was SO GOOD! I married guy from Wisconsin. We have things in common! LOL. Jiim Gaffigan always make me laugh! You Hoosier!