Nearly 30 years later, Jim Schwartz remembers his former Georgetown teammate as being “really serious, someone who worked hard.”
That isn’t exactly the persona comedian Jim Gaffigan portrays today. Gaffigan, who announced Monday that his TV Land show won’t have a third season, by his choice, has made a career of playing a certain type of white-bread, mid-American schlub; there’s a line of dad-comedy-style car commercials, and a vaguely creepy portrayal of Colonel Sanders on behalf of KFC.
“I saw him just this summer” in Maryland, said Schwartz, who is from Baltimore and has a shore house near there.