So the final scene everybody was talking about this
today in my office and I sort of ended it.
Actually, we collectively ended it.
I said, "Well it doesn't matter because Tony wasn't real."
But there was great concern
as to what happened in the diner,
of course, for the final scene.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, to me, it's obvious, like,
What, you didn't think that?
Grow up.
I think, I, my opinion,
Tony Soprano is alive and well
and living in New Jersey.
(cheers)
That's my opinion.
I don't know if I'm right, but that's my opinion.
That's what I would like to believe
because I miss Jim Gandolfini so much.
And what do you think?
I didn't watch it the first night
'cause that's the way I am.
Because they killed him off and he's pissed off.
All right.
(applause)
So you're mad, you're mad.
But I'm not mad all the time.
I'm watchin' it now.
Anyway, I felt that,
It took him a while
It took me a while to get over that, yeah.
I feel that David left it open.
Yeah. You know?
{Rachael] On purpose.
And there was conversation, So that people
conversations could do exactly
what we're doing, that kitchen table talk.
That's right.
Oh here, look.
We're talking about it now, twenty years later.
At a kitchen table. (cheers)
Who knew?
Not a day goes by, seriously,
not a day or a week goes by
where someone doesn't ask that question.
The three of you, Michael Imperioli
wanted to be here very much today.
He's been here before, he's our dear friend.
He had a scheduling conflict.
But you guys are in conversation and on tour together.
Yeah. Yeah.
So that for people that this was a big happening for them,
you can literally go and be
in conversation with you guys, right?
Yeah, so we been doing this show for a couple of years,
it's called Comedy and Conversation with the Sopranos.
And it's myself, Vinny, and Michael Imperioli.
And we show slides and we have questions.
And Joey Kola,
the warm-up guy. Joey, Joey!
This is our guy.
Isn't he the best?
Joey's the best.
Isn't Joey the best?
We love Joey!
Our honorary Soprano and he travels the country with us.
We did Australia, and we're doing the European tour
Australia?
We did Australia.
Oh my god!
Seven cities. Wow!
You know the show 20 years,
and we have prepared questions,
and then we take questions from the audience.
So it is truly a conversation.
It is. You know what it is?
It's a show.
I mean, I tell, it's a show.
It is a show, but people can actually talk to you, and be
in conversation. Yeah.
They ask us questions.
You know, it's been going great.
I mean, we pack them in everywhere.
Of course you do.
In Australia was just incredible.
And it's been great.
I mean, we're gonna be in Rochester November 2,
at Kodak Theater.
We'll put all of the dates up on the website.
Syracuse, we're goin' to Atlanta.
But we give you a little peep behind the curtain
of what it was like to be
on possibly the greatest show in TV history.
(cheers and applause)
It really is.
So talk to me.
I want to hear from both of you guys.
Can you give us,
you're saying you share the special moments with people,
can you each give us either your favorite memory
from Jim in working with him,
or your favorite episode of his,
or your favorite special moment off camera?
You know, Jim, as great an actor as he was,
he was a better guy.
And I'm not kidding.
He made everyone feel great.
It came from the top down, you know.
There was no problems of any kind.
He was just a sweet, generous guy.
Anybody who had a problem, cast, crew,
he was there.
Beautiful.
Jimmy helped me a lot with my work.
You know I was like a new kid on the block.
I mean, I started acting late, as well as Steven.
When the nominations came out
for the Emmys in the second season,
my phone rang at seven o'clock in the morning.
And Jimmy said, "You were robbed,"
'cause I didn't get nominated.
And you don't think that's ever gonna happen again,
but that's how Jimmy was.
He cared so much about all of us.
About everybody.
You know, the crew and family.
And there's another thing, Micheal,
which I didn't know,
and that's another thing about the show.
You're always learning.
Even I'm learning stuff new
because I wasn't there from the beginning,
and Michael was a writer.
Even when you were are all there at the same time,
you don't necessarily work with each other.
Right, exactly, yeah.
Michael told me, and I didn't know this,
that Jim had paid off numerous people's mortgages.
He found out and the people never know
to this day that Jim paid off their mortgage.
I love that.
(cheers and applause)