A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.
The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?
I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my wife and - you know, and now we're going in there every other day baptizing a kid.
There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.
I think what Pope Francis is saying is that nobody's perfect, you know? And so someone like Joe Biden, you know, where - you know, when he was running for president, people were - there were some bishops that were like don't let him have the Eucharist. And Pope Francis is saying that's not the point of this.
I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.
I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.
I do just want to do jokes. I don't want to be a divisive figure.
The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.
I'd have to say Sunset Salsa. Nothing against Honey Lime, but it's for losers.
I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.
It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?
You could say that to the pope. I want to talk to you about Jesus. He'd be like, easy, freak.
"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.
Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.
Once you identify yourself as believing something, you open yourself to ridicule.
My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.
I am somebody who - my path to my faith is very kind of individual, and I don't want to be lumped into the category of those Westboro Baptists.
My faith is very personal. It's not something that I want to project on other people.
I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.
It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in the initial clip - is that we are in the middle of this culture war.
I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.
