- Jerrod is one of my favorite people.
I saw black Panther with Gerard, Jay Z, Beyonce, Khalid
- You know, just a few folks
[Tom Laughs]
- Jay and Jerrod are really close
and something was like weird watching them and
I felt like I was losing my friend.
- Like I was trying to jump
in the conversation.
Like I was like laughing real loud
like ha-ha-ha
(Tom laughs)
- Someone make eye contact with me.
- Yeah, yeah.
Crazy man.
Ha-ha-ha, What we talking about?
Jay and Jerrod
- [Man voiceover] This is What a Joke,
- [Woman voiceover] with Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Man voiceover] On Netflix Is a Joke Radio.
- Saw your clip that you did with Tiffany
where she was guest hosting Ellen
and it was really cool
to see y'all have that moment together,
cause y'all been such good friends for a long time.
- Yeah, it was one of those moments
you couldn't even like
when I think about it, I'm like, dang,
I did that on camera.
But when I sat down and I looked at her across
and I was sitting there and I was like,
yo, you remember,
I just remember sitting on her futon
- Yeah
- And just having a conversation about,
"Yeah, it'd be nice if we really do this for real."
You know what I mean?
So just to have that moment,
I could even like,
but I'm just so proud of just,
actually, I'm just proud of it.
It's just like was, kind of,
sharing this together.
Comedy is a tough game, man.
You know, it is not easy to rise in the ranks.
it could literally just all still be the same way.
[Everyone laughs]
- I know.
Yeah.
- Don't throw away that futon,
just in case
[Everyone laughs]
- This movie is so much fun.
It's so good.
But you're acting within that environment.
Like you've seen other people do, like, kind of like,
like punk people on the streets
and like involve real people and stuff.
And it's just kind of like hosty, whatever.
but you guys are really believable
and really intense acting in this
at the same time.
It really is,
congratulations.
It's really well done.
- That's good you notice.
I think that's might be the most underrated thing
about it
is that we had to stay in character like for hours.
It's not like when you do a regular movie
the yell cut and you go sit at your chair like,
yup I'm back to being real,
and text people
- Yeah.
- I had to be Bud Malone for hours,
[Tom laughs]
like kicking it,
taking shots at people, having a conversation
knowing that Eric is like, like the bar scene where
Eric falls off is like,
Oh my God, these people are so invested into us.
We about to ruin their night.
- Were you uncomfortable when you do that stuff
it's almost like, oh, how do they look
at these real people in the eye knowing that this is coming?
- No, if it's after awhile, once again,
you kinda
fall into the world because if you don't do that
it's hard to sell it.
So at some point
which is why I've watched the movie
quite a few times now
because I don't remember everything.
Right. I was just so dove into it.
That when I re-watch it, I'm like, yo, this is insane.
I mean, I text Eric all the time about little stuff.
I'm like, Hey man
that dude was really invested into our friendship.
[Everyone Laughs]
He was just grabbing us, you know
he was really invested
- I was so nervous for you in so many instances.
Cause you know, Eric, Eric will push it to like so far.
And I was like Rel's so nice.
And
I don't want anything to happen.
Like that guy coming into the barbershop.
I was so nervous for you.
- Yeah. He tried to kill us, man.
It was, but that's the thing about the whole dick
trap thing. Right? I don't know why people were so
out of any prank we did.
That's the one that really made everybody upset.
- [Tom] Really?
[Everyone Laughs]
- It was two homeless dudes
walking past 'Like they better not say nothing to me'.
Nasty mother...
[Everyone Laughs]
They better not come over here with
that nastiness.
See what happened to him.
Just talking to himself.
- Fuck I got a headache man.
- What happened last night?
- I don't even know.
- I really gotta pee.
Ah!
OW!
FUUUUUUCK!!!!!
♪ Electronic music ♪
OW!
Why are our dicks in a chinese fingers trap?
OOOW!
- We will go to a barber shop, they got scissors
Hey sir, can you get our dicks out of this thing?
[Suspenseful Music]
[Man Shouting]
- Had you and Eric also -
had y'all been friends for a long time too?
- Yeah
- So it was like very familiar.
- Yeah, it was.
That's why the chemistry was so good.
I believe like all of us friends
and then like we all participate in
some crazy Eric
anything birthday parties, sometimes on the street
like - like him and TJ Miller, to this day,
they got into the craziest fight
on second city in Chicago for no reason at all.
- It was like, now I had one of my buddies with me
that's not in the comedy world and
they was just throwing up like, yo, what's wrong
with these two dudes?
Like TJ was doing an interview
and Eric just punched him in the face.
[Everyone Laughs]
- This is a true story.
And then they started chasing each other
throughout second city
like knocking stuff down.
They both had these black cars.
Eric like literally kicks the car
the old black dude that was driving.
Came like 'no what you doing man'? You know.
And TJ - the old black dude drives off
Eric gets a cab and says follow that car!
- Oh my god
- These dudes were following each other like
some hooligans.
[Everyone Laughs]
And the drivers were so invested they don't
know what was happening.
- That's so crazy. So then you do a film like this
and it's like, for everybody else's weird as shit.
And for Eric, it's just like, yeah, this is
this is what I do.
- He - but you know what - now this is what I
learned about Eric though,
more than I ever did all the years I've known him
is how meditation is a big part of his craziness.
He has to take -
You know, I guess that's in his contract,
middle of the shoot,
he needs like an hour and a half and just meditate.
And he's a lot more sensitive than I felt like you don't
invite them to something and he'd be like
Hey man, um, heard you had party, you didn't, um,
you didn't invite - you not even in town,
like I'm sorry.
Very emotional, man, it's like damn, alright.
- [Fortune] I know,
It is so funny to see the other side of him.
Because you know, like watching the Eric Andre show
you're just like this guy's bonkers.
And then I'll see him around like some of his actor friends
from, you know, LA and he's like this sensitive, sweet,
thoughtful guy.
[Everyone Laughs]
- That proves it all too, like hey man
you okay man? Like -
- [Tom] So sensitive
♪ Singing happy birthday ♪
[Crowd Talking]
- [Malone] I've never been out like this before.
But this is fun.
What do you want a shot of?
- Hey DJ cut the music, cut the music,
I'd like to make a toast, to my best friend
Bud Malone.
- What the fuck are you doing up there? Get down!
- OK, he's a little nervous.
We're the only black guys in here.
He's the coolest guy in the world, man.
- [Malone] Get down from there
- I love yo-
[People Scream]
- [Malone] Shit, you okay?
[Man Groaning]
- [Malone] come on, come on, come on, get up, get up.
- I'm a nurse. You just fell off a freekin' bar
so you need to get checked out.
[Man Groaning]
- You got water bottle or a cup?
- [Man] I got a wet rag
[Retching Sound]
- It was really cool that you dedicated the film
at the end to Kevin and Brody.
That was really sweet.
- Yeah.
- I know you guys were like brothers.
- Yeah. That's, that was
You know even Brody was such a great
dude too, man.
- Yeah
- And I was hanging out with the Lucas brothers yesterday.
Well one of the Lucas brothers, Keith
and - it's so funny if they not together
You still say the Lucas brothers
- [Fortune] I know right
- [Tom] It's true
[Everyone Laughs]
- It's like a separate sklar
[Everyone Laughs]
- Yeah, we were just talking about Kevin man.
How much we miss them and such an amazing dude.
Sometimes I don't, I don't realize how big
or how much all of us actually work together
even when we're not working together.
So any other projects that maybe nobody's signed.
I will send it to them and like what you think?
So, it came up for me for the last few years
became a big part of my, you know,
my Hollywood transition, like, you know
between friends of the people that macho, rarely created
like became a lot of my creative stuff
I was, you know, kind of going
to Kevin and Josh about it, you know?
So Josh has had a baby in which I think that's
kind of like really lifted our spirits.
You know, this baby got the longest name ever.
[Tom laughs]
And he got like, one
of her names is bird
Kevin calls her bird, so that was great.
- [Tom] That's beautiful
- That little girl got a long name.
I don't even know the whole name.
I know Ruby something, something, something Rabinowitz
[Everyone Laughs]
- [Fortune] Something' something' something'
- Had you started with Kevin, or you met him
after you been in it a bit?
- I've met all of them differently right,
which is all crazy.
Me and Jermaine became friends
because of the In Living Color reboot,
we were both cast on that.
And then when we went to the Just for Laughs Festival
is where I met Josh.
I met Lucas brothers before that in Chicago at Stand
up with diversity and then Jerrod too.
So all of us was tided to each other, but it, Kevin showed
up, you know?
So we all decided to do a sketch and they brought Kevin
and I'm like this tall dude joining us
they like 'oh that's our friend Kevin.'
Hi Kevin, so why you a part of this?
[Everyone Laughs]
- Tough crowd
- I used to give it to Kevin man, it's so funny
like the first few years and just me picking
out this dude who really could have just destroyed.
And then we became really close, like
You know we come to the show where we started
hanging out on the weekends.
He became my hanging out guy.
Next thing you know, me and Kevin became really close.
And then we all became close,
we was like a bunch of grown kids.
- Yeah
- Like our friends are the people we always go
to lunch together.
- I remember all y'alls pictures
I was like, they're always having fun.
[Everyone Laughs]
- They help for me in comedy
find a good group who really loved it.
I think for a second it became so competitive, you know
coming from Chicago and a lot
of the cats were older than me.
- Right.
- Just overly competitive.
It was like bitterness a lot of the times.
- Yeah.
- To meet these young guys who just love it.
Like they love supporting each other, love
writing with each other.
They just love the art of comedy.
It really changed the way I see.
And that's why I like to this day it was like the
it was like my best friends, man.
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