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 July 2015, the Gaffigans appeared on the
NPR program
Ask Me Another, where Gaffigan played a version of the
Newlywed Game; she got all the answers right. Since April 8, 2016, Gaffigan has appeared in a marketing campaign for the
2017 Chrysler Pacifica starring Jim Gaffigan and the couple's children. In March 2016, she received a
Christopher Award for the Season 1 episode of
The Jim Gaffigan Show,
"My Friend the Priest". She also received the Eloquentia Perfecta award from Fordham University for her work in Television and Media. In May 2016, the Gaffigans delivered the
commencement address at the
Catholic University of America. The Gaffigans also delivered the commencement address at Gaffigan's
alma mater Marquette University on May 20, 2018. They were both awarded an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters degree as part of the graduation ceremony. == Personal life ==