When you think of Jim Gaffigan, you think of Hot Pockets. Or bacon. The 48-year-old stand­up has a seemingly endless supply of observations about both food products that are at once hilarious and impressive. I mean, who gives so much thought to such mundane subject matter?

Obviously, he does. Just when you think he can’t possibly wring any more juice out of a topic, he’ll look at it from another angle and give you three more minutes.

“I like the idea of hitting people after you’ve hit them,” he tells the Straight on the phone from his home in New York. “There’s nothing funner than laughing and then you have to laugh again before you can catch your breath. Some of it is just the style of how it works for me. Some people go for big home runs; I’m like a singles hitter.”

His current show is called the White Bread Tour, and his second book, due out in October, is titled Food: A Love Story. (His first was named Dad Is Fat.) Sensing a theme here? “Yeah, a big, fat theme,” he jokes. But there’s none on this tour.

“Part of me is always running away from labels: ‘He’s a clean comedian, he’s the guy with five kids, he’s the food comic,’ ” he says. “So now I’m trying to evolve. Maybe there’s a little bit more storytelling. The most important thing is to be funny. I’d love to say, ‘Well, this time I’m being much more socially conscious.’ The point of it is I’m trying to be funny and get better at it. That’s the important thing.”

The prolific Hoosier is on his fifth hour of new standup material. And he says he couldn’t do it without the help of his wife, Jeannie. Most stand­ups are lone wolves who take pride in doing everything themselves, but Gaffigan openly credits his life partner as his writing partner in both his stage act and his books.

“I think of my wife as kind of a secret weapon,” he says. “Without her I certainly wouldn’t be as successful as I am. I might be on my third hour as opposed to my fifth.”

More than just a second set of eyes, the mother of his five offspring, who are ages 2 to 10, has a background in sketch and standup herself. “In a way, I feel like I’ve brainwashed her to my point of view so she’ll come up with lines that are great that I might have come up with later on, but maybe not,” he says. “Every comedian deals with people coming up and saying, ‘What about this or that?’ And 90 percent of the time it’s not useful information. But with my wife, 90 percent of the time it is useful.”

You may wonder where the Gaffigans find the time, let alone the energy, to complete all their projects, which include a single-camera TV show coming out next year. It’s a case of loving what they do, but there’s also a practical side.

“I have a thousand children, so I have to pay for it,” he says.

Jim Gaffigan’s White Bread Tour plays the Orpheum on Thursday (September 11).