- Chris Redd, Chris Redd, Chris Redd, Chris Redd.
Where you been?
How are you?
What's going on?
- I've been all over the place, man.
I've been to hell and back, Papa.
Come on now.
- [Narrator] This is What A Joke.
- [Narrator 2] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Narrator] On Netflix Is A Joke Radio.
- Chris has like a thousand jobs.
- Yeah, man, I'm just trying to retire early, dawg.
By 38, man, I want a boat.
I want to quit comedy.
- Somebody said that they needed to give Chris a break,
and Chris said, "Not before I buy my boat."
- Hey man, don't give me a break prematurely, man.
I'm just getting out of my tax situations, n****.
I just got out of my Wesley Snipes.
- Oh, no. (all laughing)
- Now I'm really saving.
- You went from 2016 New Faces,
which is the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.
It's when the new fresh faces come along
and they get noticed by the industry.
And then you usually, 10, 15, 20 years later
you've kind of done a bunch of stuff.
From 2016 until now, you've just exploded.
It's so insanely great.
- Thank you, man.
At the time, it doesn't feel like it's moving
as fast as that recap sounded.
That recap sounds awesome
because it sounds like it just breezed, right, you know?
But, 2016, I was still struggling.
I was still broke.
You know, I was just doing cool shit,
and that's like a really,
I mean, you guys know what it's like,
it's such an interesting part that you kind of don't know
how to deal with until you're there, but it's like,
you start getting enough things for you to know not to quit,
but you're still not making enough money to eat, so like.
- It's true. (laughing)
- You're doing this really cool shit
where you're doing shows with people who have stuff.
- Yeah.
- And you're like, "Man, if I just keep at it,
I'll have stuff too."
(Fortune laughing)
- That's really true.
Oh, they gave me just enough to keep coming.
- I remember going over to houses of people
that had been in the business forever,
and their houses would be so extravagant,
and I would be like, "Remember when TV used to
pay people money, and they could have mansions?" (laughs)
- So Chris, tell me what it's like when you're on set
at Keenan without Fortune, and tell me what it's like
on Keenan when fortune shows up.
- Listen, being on the set with Fortune
is like having a rainbow just start and finish
inside the room.
- Look at that. (laughs)
- Granted, being on the set of Keenan is already cloud nine,
so now you have cloud nine with a rainbow in it.
It's just, it's beautiful, man,
it's like a Skittles commercial, bruh.
And nothing bad happens.
- Finally let Chris and I do, have some storylines together.
- Yeah, that was a ball, man.
- People really enjoyed it, and we really enjoyed it.
- Yeah, dude, it was like, I mean, as you know, Papa,
you guys have a podcast together,
working with Fortune is effortless, man.
It's just like, it's so fun.
And it's just dope to have a homie
that's from the standup world,
and we get to just really,
I mean those storylines,
we got to really just kind of be us, and it was the best.
- They had us compete after the same girl,
it was pretty great.
(all laughing) - That's funny.
- And I love when Fortune roasts,
because it always has a pleasant sting to it.
(Chris and Fortune laughing)
- Kills you with a smile.
- So great.
But no, that was maybe one of my favorite,
my favorite day shooting.
- Same.
That whole show is such a treat.
You walk in there and you can't, you just start smiling.
- Which is so strange, 'cause Kenan is known
as just being such a ball breaker.
You could just see from his face, like,
step back, this guy's gonna be in your face and trouble.
- Yeah man.
You know, his approach to comedy is very Breaking Bad-like.
(all laughing)
- I like that you're getting to used so much
of your musical talents at SNL.
That up, up, up song you just did.
It's so catchy.
- Man, thank you.
That's a lot of fun.
You know, obviously one of my favorite things to do.
I still can't believe I've written more songs
for SNL than my own album.
(all laughing)
- Is that something you would do?
- Yeah, I'm gonna put out some stuff, but like,
you know, I'm gonna do it on my own terms type of thing.
It's just 'cause I like making music.
- How's New York feeling?
- New York is cool, man.
They had a snow day.
They had one snow day.
They've been kind of going apeshit a little bit.
As a kid from Chicago, I'm like,
"This is just a regular winter day to me."
But it's not too bad, man.
You know, got a bunch of snow,
it's cold as all fucking hell.
Y'all out in LA though.
- I'm in Des Moines right now.
Not as exciting, but I'll be in LA soon.
Yeah.
- That's why you look like you in a bus stop.
- I know.
That looks like a booth over there.
I'm in a hotel room.
(all laughing)
You guys don't mind at the bus stop
if I do my radio show, do you?
What's the wifi password?
- That woman is driven,
the wifi is slow at the bus stop.
- And everyone's going like,
"She doesn't doesn't have a radio show,
she's talking to no one."
- She's just setting up a ring light in the depot.
- Well now Chris also has his own freaking show coming out.
Oh my gosh.
- Yeah, Bust Down.
- What's Bust Down about?
- Bust Down is about four friends.
Me, Jak Knight, Langston Kerman and Sam Jay
playing very hyperbolic versions of ourselves.
We're just four casino workers in this middle America,
Gary, Indiana casino, and we're trying to solve problems
with these really terrible ideas, man.
(Tom and Fortune laughing)
- That's a funny setting already.
- It's a black show, but it's a black show
that's not trying to remind y'all we black.
And we wanna just kind of make a really hard-hitting show,
you know, hard jokes and just funny first type of sitcom.
- What's your character like in this one?
- Man, he's wrong.
He's an asshole.
Well, he's a wild boy.
This may be the dumbest man I've played on TV for sure.
- That's great.
- It's like an Always Sunny for black people,
but white people could watch too and get it.
- [Tom] Oh nice.
That's great.
- Like our version of what Always Sunny would be, you know?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great.
- Had to be fun doing that with so many friends too.
- Yeah, man.
We've been doing this for about five years,
and we went through a bunch of different deals and shit,
but it does feel good when you're like,
"Yeah, see my thing, we made our thing and you were wrong."
- You're behind the scenes too?
- Yeah, man.
Yeah, I really liked being in control of the whole story
with my friends and being able.
You know, we really knew what we wanted to make,
but we were also really open to learning,
so it was a cool creative process.
You just learn a whole lot being on the other side of it.
Seeing auditions and shit, and as the actor, I was like,
"Man." I knew this part of it, but it was like,
"Damn, you really don't have any control past
doing a good audition, man."
Because sometimes you just not getting the role
for just reasons that are so out of your control.
- So out of hand.
- Finishing that show, starting Kenan
and then starting SNL all at one time,
it was pretty intense.
- Dude, when I tell you I don't think I remember
half those days.
As a human being, I don't remember.
I wrote down notes from different days
and jokes from different days.
And it helps me remember what happened
because I was like, this whole last year has just flown by.
I feel like, I felt kinda like I've been Thanos snapped
a little bit.
Like I just disappeared.
And I just came back after the year and I was like,
"What the fuck?"
- Why is my IMDB so much longer?
(all laughing)
- Why does my body ache?
- Yeah, we'd be on set, I'd be going through
the breakfast menu, and Chris has been up
since like 5:00 AM, boxing.
I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, same, same, same."
(all laughing)
- Yo, that only happens when I'm shooting.
I don't do that shit now.
- Okay.
- Y'all helping me wake up, man.
I got up at 9 o'clock and I was like,
"Damn, I feel dead, bruh."
That's why my eyes so low.
People gonna think I'm high.
I'm not high.
(Tom and Fortune laughing)
- My eyes are always low.
- I was high yesterday and it carried over to today.
(laughing continues)
- Now I'm just moody.
- Yeah. (all laughing)
- Now I'm just pissed!
- Right. (all laughing)
(air swooshing)
- Do you know what the Mandela effect is?
There was a time when people would have sworn
that Nelson Mandela was dead, but he was alive.
Okay, let me ask you this.
The monopoly man, does he have a monocle
or does he not have a monocle?
- I always assumed he did have a monocle.
- He 100% has a monocle.
- You live in a different world.
You live in a different universe.
The Mandela effect says some people will swear
on their life that the monopoly man has a monocle.
Well, the monopoly man does not have a monocle.
- [Tom] That's not true.
- Tom, you listen to me, Tom.
- You listen to me. - You listen to me.
- The Mandela effect.
(creepy music)
- [Man] Does the Fruit Of The Loom logo have a cornucopia?
- [Tom] It's like that weird little basket.
- I don't think there's a cornucopia, but I'm not positive.
- I don't think so either.
- The answer is no.
Okay, so Mandela effect avoided for you on that one.
Is it Reddi Whip or Reddi Wip?
- [Tom] I think it's without the H.
- [Fortune] Thought it was with an H.
- It's no H.
- [Tom] No H.
- [Fortune] Okay.
- [Tom] it Cheez-It or Cheez-Itz?
- Cheez-It.
- You're right, Fortune.
I'm surprised you got that right, being you always have
a box of Cheez-It next to you.
- [Man] A box of Cheez-It?
- Yeah, that's the thing.
Box of Cheez-It.
- [Fortune] Is it Berenstain Bears or Berenstein Bears?
I always thought it was Berenstein Bears.
- [Tom] Yeah, Berenstein, not stain.
- I hate to say it, but you've been Mandela affected.
- [Tom] What?
- [Fortune] Berenstain Bears.
- Like they got poop stuck on their fur?
- [Fortune] I love the Berenstein Bears.
They'll never be the Berenstain Bears.
- [Tom] Yeah, Joe.
I think you have the Mandela effect confused.
I think it's all backwards.
- Double effect?
(evil laugh) (creepy music)
- That was worth having the whole interview right there.
(Fortune and Richard laughing)
(upbeat music)