Jim Gaffigan on playing late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: "It’s a pretty huge task, and I wish Chris Farley was around to play him"

ET Canada

"It’s a real human story and it’s — it’s Shakespearean really,” Gaffigan tells ET Canada of his AMC limited series role of Ford, who was caught on camera smoking crack cocaine. “It’s also kinda sad because from the research I’ve done, it’s like, he probably should have just been a football coach. As an actor… I want to play a character that’s complex and has a lot of dimension, and so Rob Ford’s great."