Lyme Disease led him to finally
shed the weight for good. “Put
a tick in your bed and you’ll lose
weight,” he says.
Ironically the nickname “Round
Boy” didn’t come from his weight.
It came from the movie Beetlejuice. One night a guy in the audience called him that and Jimmy
had no idea where it came from.
It’s actually from the scene in
which Beetlejuice jumps on the interior decorator’s back and whispers in his ear, “Hey, Round Boy!”
Since there were several Jimmy
Graham’s out there — including a
Big Daddy Graham in South Jersey — he felt the nickname was
good enough to come along for
the ride.
His early material started out by
talking about his kids (“Kids are
always funny,” he says) and grew
from there. Outside of his family,
he talks about relationships with
sets that are very observational.
Some material deals with culture
and race, sometimes straddling