- There's a lady in my golf course
that talks about you every time I see her.
(laughs loudly)
- Just because I'm Southern too.
- Well. Yeah.
She just likes your comedy,
And she's like, "I love Fortune."
I mean every time.
- That's hilarious.
- I say, what about Tom?
And then she goes, "Not a fan."
Specifically!
- [Nate] This is "What a Joke"
- [Nate's Daughter] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- On Netflix is a Joke Radio.
- I was impressed that you were able to pull this together
and get stage time and put this up.
It's impressive.
- Oh, you haven't seen me yet, Fortune, so...
(group laughs)
- You're always funny, you're always funny.
- Oh yeah, that's that makes sense.
(group laughs)
- Oh, I see, I get it.
- I think you're one of the funniest stand-ups working so.
- The special is very impressive, Nate, it really is.
I like how you got your daughter to intro it.
She's growing up, she's really growing up.
- She loves it.
We shot a bunch of stuff for Netflix,
and the announcements and stuff, and she did all that.
The goal of it is to have her do every one,
and then we kind of get to do something together.
And then the older she gets the more involved
that that beginning can become.
- It's a very funny bit you have too,
about her with her, her YouTube channel.
- She didn't like that one.
(group laughs)
No, she goes that's the only one she doesn't like,
Because I feel like she thinks I'm making fun of her.
And I was like, I'm not!
And I'm trying to explain it.
It's like, no, it's because every kid does this.
So everybody, it's like, it's not you, it's just in general.
That's what kids do.
- That's a goal now.
It used to be, if you said you want to be a,
you know what do you want to be?
A doctor, fireman, lawyer...
now they're like YouTube star!
- I mean, that's all they want to be.
A YouTuber which is frustrating as a comedian, you know?
Like it's like, we haven't...
I haven't wrapped my head around that.
Like just being a YouTuber
just creating like a content creator.
Like we build acts, you know,
we look at it as like, it's this show.
And I got to build this act and it's gotta travel.
It's gotta be every, it's got to work in every state.
And then they're just at home.
Just, "Hello guys, What's going on?"
And you go like... (exasperated sigh)
- I'll blow the joke a little bit.
I love that you say that she's, she's a YouTuber.
But it's my wife and I are the only subscribers.
We're the only ones, we're just watching it on our phone.
It just the two of us.
- She's like, four views today!
- Oh, wow, she's seen a buzz.
I hear she's on her own phone and just being like,
"Well, I've been hearing a lot
of people are talking about it."
And you're like, "Yeah, me and your mom."
You shouldn't be on your phone that much.
Is what you're hearing.
She wants to be a YouTuber,
which is a comedian makes me furious.
(audience laughs)
She watches all these kid YouTube videos.
Now she makes her own videos.
It's just her sitting there going,
"Hey guys, what's going on?
Click the links below, Subscribe, leave a comment."
None of this is anywhere, but my phone.
I got 90 hours of this, not on YouTube.
Me her mom are the only subscribers.
(audience laughs)
She just watches kids playing with toys too.
Like that's what's crazy.
It's not like a show.
I would be fine if she watched a show.
She watches just a kid that's like,
"Hey, you don't have this toy. I do.
You want to see me open it?"
It's got 5 billion views.
It looks like we buy her nothing.
Like we just show her,
"If you want, to watch a kid have fun.
But you're never going to have fun in this house."
(audience laughs)
- Well you at least beat every other comic
to the punch of COVID jokes.
Cause no one else is doing that.
- Man. Getting it out, getting those COVID jokes out,
You just, are like...
You know when you're so worried,
like we're all attacking this thing.
There's no way we're going to be different.
And so you're just trying to hurry.
I remember watching,
I watched Kevin Hart's special.
You're just like sitting there, like, "Please don't."
Just be straight up everything I'm talking about, right?
- Yeah.
Are you going to start building a set soon?
Are you take a little break or...?
- I just want to be ready, really by...
It's like by the time the theaters come...
whether it's August, September,
or whatever's going to happen.
You know, you need, you need more than an hour.
That's what's getting so tough.
It used to be an hour and that's all you thought of.
45 minutes is like, I'll do 45 minutes.
And now, I mean, you need like an hour and 10
worth of material or and hour and 15, something like that.
- Yeah, I know, it keeps growing.
- So much, it keeps growing.
I know they want you like...
How long am I supposed to be up here?
- I know, it's not like we can sing Freebird.
You know, every freaking time.
- It's not like, we're not, we don't know how to be funny.
We know how to be funny.
But it's like, what are we talking about?
- Well, craft a set.
You know, it's not like a crap shoot.
You're like really crafting almost like a mini novel
that's supposed to be funny.
- That's got a flow.
- I was talking with Louie Anderson the other day.
And he said that his mindset now when he's doing sets.
He goes, "I used to think I've got to do an hour.
I've got to do an hour ten.
Now I just think, when is it enough?"
And not thinking about what you're going to have to film
but just for the evening, what is enough?
And sometimes it's way too long.
And sometimes, maybe it's a little short.
But he just kind of reads the room
and just kind of flows with it.
- You can tell you can definitely, you can tell when yeah.
Especially in corporate shows.
Corporate shows are the most where you can feel that.
You go, "That's enough."
And they didn't want, they don't need more than that.
I try to talk down corporate shows.
And you know, when they're like,
They go, "We're running behind."
You're like, "I'll do 30, What do you need? Like 30?"
Like, I feel like they're, they feel bad for you.
Like they go, "Well, I want you to do your time."
You're like, "I don't, I don't need this."
I don't need this validation.
I want to get in and get out as quick as I can.
- I'm like, I'm like that too at casinos.
They're like, you have to be done at 7:59.
I'm like, "Great!"
- Yeah, no problem. - No worries.
- I'll give you one better, 7:47.
- That's right.
- So as comedians we do a lot of corporate events.
And I was doing this corporate event in Tampa, Florida.
And it was for this guy,
he ran Tampa's electricity or something.
I don't know what anybody does
But he invented the electricity in Florida.
(audience laughs)
Yeah, he was doing really good,
and he was a very nice guy. He's very generous.
His, all his employees, he was raffling off two cars.
He gave away a bunch of TVs, iPads, I mean,
honestly probably a hundred thousand dollars worth of gifts.
He was giving back to his employees. Very nice.
Well, I was one of these gifts that he was giving back.
So in the middle of giving this stuff away, he stops.
He goes, all right, got a big surprise for you.
Can't believe we got this guy to come here.
And he brings me out.
I mean, nobody's heard of me. At all.
(audience laughs)
I mean, they're all looking at it like,
"I think I could get this guy to come to my house."
I mean who is?
(audience laughs)
I start doing my act.
I do one hour and just zero laughs. I mean nothing.
And I'm not doing new jokes, I'm doing the greatest hits.
(audience laughs)
I told the iced coffee with milk story three times.
(audience applauds and cheers)
I kept just doing it, I was like,
"All right, I'm going to do it one more time.
I don't think y'all were listening."
(audience laughs)
People were leaving.
The guy that drove me asked someone that left,
and he just goes, "Hey is the comedy show almost over?"
And the guy goes,
"I don't even know what you're talking about."
(audience laughs)
"There's a guy giving a speech up there right now.
So maybe after that?"
(audience laughs)
- You have fun though, with your...
On your podcast it's fun to see
you and your buddies shooting the shit
and giving each other a hard time.
- I mean that's what it is.
Sometimes you do get people.
They get like, they, they would write like, don't be mean.
(Fortune laughs)
And you're like, "Well that's what it is.
All comedy is, is mean. It comes from a mean place.
No comedy comes from just a very happy place.
It's an annoyed place."
So that's what's fun.
You just kinda gotta rip on each other.
- Yeah. I saw your wife on there.
Does she do it regularly?
- She's producing it.
And then we did one episode with her.
Cause I would always get a lot of questions about her
and cause I mean, I talk about her a lot.
And so we did an episode and just talked about...
And it was actually kind of fun because it was like
I even learned stuff just from us starting in New York
and coming from her perspective.
Because we started dating before I ever even started comedy.
So she was along for the ride.
Not knowing if it's going to work out or not work out.
And so that episode still,
like I think our biggest episode where people
people want to know, like, what's it like?
Cause everybody thinks it's,
we're just fun all the time and, and we're not.
- Yeah. Well I was curious because my wife does do
my podcasts with me, not every episode but quite a bit.
And I was just curious about y'all's journey.
So it was, it was cool to, to listen to.
- Yeah. Yeah. It's fun to, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I think people like to, you know.
- It's really unfortunate though that you guys
are all putting your spouses in
because then it makes people who,
like myself who decided I'm not putting my wife in it,
to have to deal with questions about like.
- Well why not?
- Nate puts his wife on, what's the big deal? Why not me?
- Why can't I get on?
- It used to be, nobody does it.
- Yeah. Well, you would be someone,
I think a lot of your fans would love to hear
about your family and kids and what they think about it.
- You should do a podcast, have Cynthia on an episode.
- Well, it's nice having you on the show, Nate.
Thank you for coming by.
I don't want to.
- Well, that's your call.
- My wife doesn't want to a ton.
Like she's done that one.
She definitely doesn't want to be on...
- Jaqs is like that too, but I'm like,
I can't talk by myself. You have to do this with me.
(Tom laughing)
- I thought about having my family,
like my sister, I was thinking about having them on.
But it's true, when you go on,
Well, I can't, I got to have someone help.
- Yeah.
- And you realize that they don't know how to.
we can talk to a wall if we have to.
You know, like we, this is all we do is talk.
And so when you have someone that can't, it is very tough.
And sometimes you might wanna be like,
"Unless you want to have a fight on camera..."
It might not be best for you to be on it.
(relaxed music outro)