Gaffigan gives Green Bay cheesy shoutout on TV

Green Bay scored a mention on “The Jim Gaffigan Show” and it wasn’t for the Green Bay Packers.

This is food-obsessed comedian Gaffigan we’re talking about, so it was for — what else? — cheese.

On Wednesday’s episode of his TV Land sitcom, based on his life as a performer and father of five, it’s his wife Jeannie’s birthday. She tells him she doesn’t want a celebration, including any “stupid, last-minute gifts” or one of his horrible poems. She reminds Gaffigan, who stars as himself, of the haiku in which he compared her to fried cheese curds.

“That’s an honor in Green Bay,” Gaffigan deadpans.

The stand-up comedian knows a little something about curds in real life, too. At one of his two shows at the Weidner Center in Green Bay in 2013, he talked about them. “I’m so fat ... I have had cheese curds twice in the last two days,” he said. And then clarified it wasn’t a joke.

He also fessed up to having had curds at Kroll’s West after a book-signing event for “Dad Is Fat” that same summer at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Ashwaubenon.

Curious about booyah, the hearty chicken soup popular in the region, he asked the Weidner staff where he could get some for take-out. We’ll be really impressed when he finds a way to work that into an episode.

— kmeinert@pressgazettemedia.com and follow her on Twitter @KendraMeinert.