- And if you need me to hang out with you and Oprah,
just let me know.
- I'll make it happen.
I feel like it'll be a laugh a minute with us.
'Cause I'ma tell you something,
she could be a standup comedian.
- Oh, I bet. - Yeah.
- I watch her Insta stories.
I'm seeing her doing jokes in that garden
out there in Montecito.
- That's a little different than a comedy tour,
but yeah, you get it.
You know, you get it.
- [Male Announcer] This is one with "What a Joke."
- [Female Announcer] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Male Announcer] On Netflix is a Joke Radio.
- I just went to the bathroom here at Netflix,
and there's toothbrush and toothpaste.
It's nice. - [Tyler] And Floss.
- Yeah. - Yeah,
and there're lens wipes and hand sanitizer.
I stole all that shit, man.
It's really cool. - I was about to say,
your pockets better be full right now.
- Pockets are really full.
Pockets are really full.
- When I go to Netflix, I steal the snacks.
(laughter)
- You right there.
Good stuff over here, man.
I love it.
- They used to put it in the lobby.
I didn't even go up to the main other floors.
I just stayed on the lobby and ate the snack.
- You cancel your meetings and just hang out in the lobby.
- Note to self, check the lobby for snacks.
Okay, I'm going down.
- Our whole show is just about being as positive as we can
and just making people laugh and smile.
And that you decided to bring Madea back at this time.
- We're very happy about that.
- Yeah, we're very happy about it.
And it seems like you have the same philosophy.
- But for the very same reason.
I was looking at the state of the world.
I was looking at where we are in the pandemic.
The civil unrest, social unrest, the politics,
the division, the hatred.
I'm just like, gosh, man, I just wanna laugh.
I need something to make us laugh.
And we're all wearing masks, so our smiles are covered.
Our face is covered.
The only way you can see if somebody's happy
is if they raise their eyebrows or something, right?
And that's kind of hard to read.
So I wanted to bring the character back at this time
and just go all out with fun.
And I thought Netflix was the best place
because it could be all around the world at once.
- Oh man, and you touch on every single subject.
I mean, this is something
that I think the culture was missing
was seeing what the comedians were saying
about all the crap that we were going through.
- Yeah.
You know what I tried to do,
I didn't wanna make a fun of it,
but I absolutely more wanted to talk about it
because I think we're at a very dangerous place in society
where a comedian can't be fully a comedian.
They can't make the jokes they wanna make
because this group is offended and that group is offended
and everybody wants to cancel.
So I just wanted to say, guys,
if we don't talk about this,
nothing's gonna get better.
So I'm hoping that as people see it
and they see that you can have your opinion,
someone else can have their opinion in the same family
and everybody still can go to dinner and agree to disagree.
- Well, that's the beauty of that character.
She can get away with saying a lot of things
that other people can't.
- That Tyler Perry never could get away with, for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
- My tax dollar, my tax dollar.
- Joe, lemme ask you something, baby.
When the last time you paid a tax?
You don't pay no damn tax.
- Can we just let this go, please?
- Well, do you want there to be lawlessness then?
- Hey babe, you think that scare me?
Bring it.
Look, I know lawlessness.
I spent my whole life in lawlessness.
Look who I live with.
That's my sister.
It's braless and lawless.
- [Man] Lawless and braless. - Yep.
Them titties ain't never been captivated.
They've been running free all the time.
You want me to feel sorry for you?
Hell no, I ain't finna feel sorry, y'all.
- Well, now you're doing the very thing
that you don't want us to do.
You don't want them to judge all black people ass criminals,
but you wanna judge all police as killers?
- Madea, say something to stop all of this.
- I got it, I got a set of his keys in here.
(car horn blaring)
- Oh, call the police.
That my car alarm, that my car alarm.
- See?
- [Woman] Oh, you want the police now?
- See? - Oh, nevermind.
It went off.
Okay, what was I saying?
- Not a damn thing.
You see, you see, you see?
You're mad at the police till you need them.
- [Woman] That's true.
- You be sitting there talking about I can't stand them
until somebody break in your damn house
then they're first thing you call.
- [Woman] Ooh!
(applause)
- It must be so freeing to play her.
- No. - No?
- No, as a character,
being able to say the things and spit the wisdom, for sure.
Yeah, that's fun.
But costume, getting ready.
- [Papa] Oh yeah.
- Yeah, you don't want to see me directing in that thing.
It's scary.
(laughter)
- You're walking around.
Well, I love you could always just revert to
I'm gonna punch him right in the face.
- Exactly, right.
(laughter)
Right, right, right.
- I love Madea so much that I had your voice as Madea
on my Waze when you did that.
- Yeah.
That was so bad. - My wife and I went
to the movies to see your Madea movies.
We're hardcore Madea fans. - That's great.
I love it.
- But the Waze thing was the best.
- Please turn left right here.
You gonna miss your turn, back the hell up.
That's right, yeah.
- Even if I knew where I was going,
I'm like put the address in the Waze.
- That's awesome.
I gotta do that again, man.
That was fun. - For real.
- There are some twists and some surprises
that I think, comedically, we shouldn't blow,
but I don't think I'm out of turn
by saying that she is eating edibles in this one.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It's gotta be fun to have a character
go for such a long time where you can kind of change
and start adding things in that are happening in the culture
that you don't get a chance when it's just a one off.
- Yeah, it's been over 27 years
I've been doing the character,
and she was Madea before Cardi B came along
and before she was even born at this point, right?
So to be able to listen and to have her introduced
to that kind of music and eat edibles
and have an opinion about WAP, you know,
all those crazy things, you know?
As if my grandmother was alive,
the thing she would be saying about it.
So to have her be able to do those things, man,
it's levity at it's best.
- Cora, I got to pee.
- Go on! - I'ma go pee, Cora.
- What the hell? - Don't be long.
And if you are long, bring it back.
(laughter)
What a wonderful family.
I really like them.
They're so funny.
(laughter)
- [Man] You seem a bit off.
- I just like dark humor.
- Oh, what?
Wait a minute.
Something is wrong with Mr. Brown.
I think his sugar, I need to check his sugar.
You have some of that candy.
I need to give him some more candy.
Where your purse?
- Cora, you been in my purse?
- Yes.
- You gave them candy out of my purse, Cora?
- Yes.
- [Madea] How many you give 'em?
- [Cora] They had like four or five of them.
- Oh, hell no, Cora.
That's straight up weed you gave them.
- What, weed? - Yes, they high as hell.
- My great aunt is high?
- I love you.
I love you.
I love him.
I love you too.
I feel like I'm 16.
I love you.
- Let me go check on Mr. Brown.
- Ah, Cora!
- Oh, hell, Brown!
Oh, hell no.
Hold on, hold on. - They call me the Brown Paca.
- I did love seeing you and "Don't Look Up."
Oh my gosh, that movie was fantastic.
- You know what was the most fun about that,
just working with Cate Blanchett who was unrecognizable.
I mean, she's stunningly gorgeous
and we were doing these scenes,
and she's such an incredible actress.
And I found myself often just staring at her.
I'm like, dude, be in the scene.
Don't look at her performance.
You know, her performance is so great.
Yeah, but she asked for my email
and said she would email me.
She never did.
- Did you like going in there
and not having to be the one making a thousand decisions?
Did you ever tell Adam he's not the boss of you?
(laughter)
- No, I actually love it because, again,
I don't have to make any decisions,
and I can just sit back and relax.
And I wanna be in a director's hands
who's very clear on their vision.
You wanna drive me crazy,
put me in with a director
who doesn't know what they're doing.
I've done that before and will never do that again.
- Oh, I'm sure.
Yeah, I would imagine there are only a handful of directors
that you would do that with.
- Yeah, no, it's gotta be the right director.
And I tell you, David Fincher was really great.
JJ Abrams, they were all great to work with.
I really enjoyed working with all of them.
If you do the process of elimination,
you'll find out who I'm talking about
that I don't wanna work with.
- (laughs) Right.
Let's take out the list.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I know you have this huge studio now in Atlanta.
I was looking at all the pictures.
How has that been having just this giant studio
where you're doing so many shows and movies?
- You know what it is?
It's a playground for any creator.
And that's why I wanted to create it as a place
where I could create everything I wanted to do.
And any other creator, any other artist who wanted to come,
you can find exactly what you need there.
There are 12 sound stages, and all 11 are,
I hold onto one 'cause most of my things
are shot around the studio,
but all 11 sound stages are booked.
They have been for the last couple of years
and are booked for the next two years.
And to see all of these different talented artists
come and creating things and building these sets,
and you know, Marvel and Disney and just all that.
I'm just like, you know, it's beyond a dream come true
to be the person who's responsible for that piece of land.
- I mean, there's almost more going on there
than Hollywood I feel like.
- We're trying, we're trying.
We wanna be one heck of a competitor
because you know, Atlanta is a great place to live.
The cost of living is much, much, much lower than LA,
and you could buy a beautiful house
and have all your kids there and run all of your business
out of Atlanta and save so much money.
The weather's not is great, but it's a great place to live.
- Do you feel like we should move our radio show there?
- It depends on how much they're paying you.
You know, if you wanna make your dollar go a lot further,
you might wanna get on the midnight train.
- I am tired of $10 lattes.
I'll tell you that.
- Yeah, they're $1.50 in Atlanta.
- I'm from North Carolina, so.
- So you know. - I know.
And I miss biscuits, Jesus.
- Wait, there are no biscuits in LA?
- Not good ones.
- Oh no, come on, man.
Gotta get out of here.
A place with no biscuits?
No one can live.
- Tyler, I need to film things and eat biscuits.
- That's right.
That's good.
That's really good.
Really good.
(boxing bell rings)
- Wow, this is a very special day, Fortune,
because it's just so filled with love.
(upbeat music)
Joe, did you make plans?
- Yes, but ours are ordering at home plans.
- I think you should get her a dessert
that she's not expecting.
- Oh yeah.
I know a good spot.
There's a vegan bakery in LA.
They do awesome stuff.
- Be like, okay, hold on.
Your hands are like,
'cause the dessert's been sitting in floor.
She thinks that you're scratching your ankle.
Let me ask you something, baby.
- Yeah, baby?
- You like it sweet?
- You know I do.
- You like it sweet?
- You know I do.
- Let me hear you one more time.
Do you like it sweet?
- You know I do!
- Then you reach down,
you grab like a handful of berries.
I assume that's the only vegan dessert that's available.
- I'm gonna go to bed early.
I gotta get up for work.
- Okay, let's rewind, rewind.
You like it sweet?
- You're not gonna do the berry thing, are you?
- No, I've already realized
that they're more dessert options than just berries.
- Oh.
Well, then yeah, I like sweet.
- All right.
Reaching down by my ankle.
Here's some mozza that I put sugar and cinnamon.
- Oh. - Is that good, Joe?
- No, I want it to be like,
oh my God, this is so great.
Thank you, that's so thoughtful.
It's a classic cinnamon roll.
- Cinnamon roll's like breakfast food.
- It's not a romantic Valentine's dessert food.
- You're pretending like the food is what you guys want,
but I doing what Jen wants.
- It's not about Jen.
This isn't about Jen.
(laughter)
- Wait a minute, what? - It's about us.
- This is gonna be the worst Valentine's ever.
(rhythmic music)