- You know, you kill it in "Arrested Development,"
you kill it on "Veep," you win Emmys.
I guess our first question is when is enough enough?
- That's a great question.
It's never enough.
(laughing)
There is a hole at the bottom of that bucket
that's never gonna get filled.
(laughing)
- [Male Narrator] This is "What a Joke."
- [Female Narrator] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Male Narrator] On Netflix is a Joke Radio.
- You do have some of the most iconic parts in comedy.
(laughing)
For real.
(laughing)
- I actually love you both.
I love watching you both, I love listening to you both,
this is fun for me.
- Good, and we're not gonna let you answer
any of the questions, we're gonna answer them for you.
(laughing)
So, what's this new project you're working on?
You playing two characters or something?
- I am, thanks for asking.
(laughing)
It is called "Mysterious Benedict Society,"
and I do, I play two characters.
I play, I play a good guy named Benedict
and then I think, not a bad guy,
I think a misunderstood guy
named Doctor Curtain. - That's what they all say.
- That's what they all say.
There's this global crisis happening in the world,
my character, Mister Benedict,
brings these kids together to kind of find the source,
and these kids, what I love is the powers they use
are empathy, their intellect, and their creativity.
And that's their super powers. - Wow.
I like that, you know, 'cause it's a nice change
from the kids wearing their halter tops and making out,
and I feel like I'm 50.
- What are you talking about? (laughing)
(laughing)
- Did you say you feel like you're 50?
- I'm 50.
- Yeah, I'm 50.
- Stop insulting the guest, (laughing)
stop insulting Tony. - Exactly.
(laughing)
- Oh, oh, I'm over the hill, 50.
- I can't (laughing).
I can't wait for you to like talk to Carol Burnett
and be like, "Eh, it's like I'm 60,"
and she's like, "I'm 80."
(laughing)
- 50 is the bench marker for me
and it will be, even when I'm past 50
because of Molly Shannon.
- Molly Shannon, yeah.
- When I'm 50, 50 years old and I like to kick
and stretch and kick - Kick.
- 'cause I'm 50.
(laughing)
- So, when you were out there filming with these kids
for so long and you were away from your family,
did it get kinda weird 'cause you were like
giving them advice and acting like their dad and stuff?
(laughing)
- Just started making their lunches.
- Yeah (laughing).
(laughing)
- Hey guys, I brought you a PB&J,
just (mumbling) snack time.
All right, freak. (laughing)
It did get lonely but Kristen Schaal
is also on the show with me,
and so we had a little Saturday pod
that I would go over and,
'cause we, (mumbling),
they had to be, they were very careful,
and so, Saturdays, I really look forward to
just to hang out with Kristen, her husband, Rich,
and her daughter, Ruby, - Aw,
yeah. - and we would just
watch movies, we spent Christmas together,
and Thanksgiving.
- Oh, wow.
- Yeah, it was really nice.
- Oh man, you missed all those holidays.
- Yeah, either us,
there was one time when my wife,
it was Christmas, said, "What are you guys doing tonight?"
She goes, "Oh, we're gonna have a little Christmas party
with our friend, the Guyers."
And I was like, "Oh, so you guys are gonna be in person?"
And she goes, "No, no, we're gonna just, you know,
do like a Christmas Zoom party."
And I was like. - And they didn't invite you?
(laughing)
But I mean, I'm still the dad,
like do not wanna, (laughing)
I can join you by Zoom.
And she was like, "Oh, okay, well,
we're loggin' on in like five minutes."
- [Fortune] That's hilarious.
- [Tom] That's so funny.
- She's like, "Well, our pod is gonna Zoom,
I don't know what you're doing."
(laughing)
- I was like, "All right."
(soft whoosh)
(loud scream)
- Okay, hey, Michael, hi.
- Am I that much of a monster Michael, even to you?
- No, no, not at all.
I just, I wasn't expecting you know,
a man to be sitting in a scuba junior
sleeping out and up in the attic, that's all.
(laughing)
That's all.
(laughing)
Woo.
- I guess that is a little strange.
(laughing)
You should of seen your face.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Look like a little girl.
(loud scream) (loud thuds)
- Look at that, got a new hand?
- No, I just took the skin off, it's in the dryer.
- All right.
Buddy, you cannot be up here, 'kay?
- The tent thing, I know,
I mean, thank God I found some scuba equipment
because they are fumigating. (loud clank)
- Your skin really muffles the sound on that.
- There's another suit over there,
it's a smaller size, though.
- Ah, that's my sons, we never got a chance to use it.
- Ah, probably too young to be around the fumes.
(loud clank)
- No, pal, we were gonna use the scuba gear
for scuba diving, you know, underwater.
(soft whoosh)
- Oh, and get this.
This lovely woman named Shawna gave me a rope bowl.
- A rope bowl?
- It is a bowl made out of rope.
I kinda (laughing), I got obsessed with it,
and I started making rope bowls.
And look, look what I made, look at these rope bowls.
- [Fortune] Oh wow, that's impressive.
- [Tom] That's amazing.
- I just kept imagining big knots, you know?
Like well, that'd be hard to keep milk in that (laughing).
- It's possible.
This is another one I made.
- [Fortune] Those look great.
- Man oh man, when are comin' home?
When can I get a bowl?
- Dude, I will totally make you a bowl.
By the way, I'm gonna write it on my to do list
to make Tom Papa - Thank you.
See, see?
That's a 50 year old - a rope bowl.
- that gets things done, Fortune.
- Can I ask what, just out of curiosity,
what your favorite color is, Tom?
- Unrelated to any gifts and stuff?
I really like green.
- And just out of curiosity,
what's your middle name?
- My middle name is Gerard with a G.
- Oh, I did not see that coming.
- Yeah.
- Gerard (laughing).
- Is this the first time you've known that, Fortune?
- I've never heard of that.
- Tom, this is Fortune.
Fortune, this is Tom.
(laughing)
- Hi, Tom.
- Hi, Emily.
(laughing)
- Emily's my first name.
- Oh, who's this puppy again?
- It's my dog, Maddy, I apologize.
- Oh, that's right.
Oh, don't apologize, hi, Maddy.
- Hi.
(laughing)
She's being very needy.
- Wait, where in Alabama are you?
Are you from Alabama, Fortune?
- I'm from North Carolina.
- Oh, we were just in North Carolina
at Mount Gilead,
you ever been there? - Oh, yeah.
I haven't, for fun or for work?
- My family, their friend had a lake house
out there and we went
out there and just did some - Yeah.
- water sports.
- How are you at water sports?
I don't see you doing water sports.
- Why?
- Yeah, why, Tom?
- Um, you seem more like the guys
who sits in the lounge chair on the shore
with the "New York Times" and looks up
and sees those people water skiing,
you're like, "Huh." - Oh.
You mean the 50 year old man
who doesn't do water sports?
- Oh yeah, he is 50, he is 50.
- You got 50 year old hips. (laughing)
'Cause your hips will give out.
(laughing)
Like an old shepherd.
- Tony is 50,
leave him alone. (laughing)
- I will say, my hips have been speaking up lately.
It's on my left hip, but it's the hinge,
or what is that (mumbling)?
Some word for it.
- I think it's called arthritis.
- Mm,
okay. - I think you need to get
a foam roller.
- Yes, says the 40 year old.
- Are you 40, Fortune?
- I'm about to turn 41 tomorrow.
(laughing)
- Ah.
Happy happy.
- Thank you.
- Enjoy the last nine years of your life.
- I will.
(laughing)
(soft whoosh)
- Buster, I'm going to exhale.
- No, please, they've had like seven
in the past half hour.
- You're not the one staring five years in the face.
- But right now, I'm staring at a 100 years in the face.
- How dare you.
- Would you mind?
(soft music)
- Be careful, defendant.
Remember who you're talking to.
It sure would be a shame if something happened
to your pretty little key witness.
- Star witness and are you threatening yourself?
- Maybe I am.
- You need me just as much as I need you, cookie.
- Oh, really?
Because you can be replaced, you know?
- [Narrator] Can she?
- And even if you can't,
you're not the boss of me.
Can I go to?
I'm going to the park!
(footsteps patter)
(soft whoosh)
I'm in Alabama right now.
- Why? Are you okay?
- 'Cause (laughing).
(laughing)
- Tony.
- I can feel the southern around you (laughing).
- Someone just comes up and just punches me down.
(laughing)
My wife is from here, so we're visiting famil-yay.
- I knew I liked you, Tony,
that you are with a southern woman, good for you.
- Mhm, mhm, thank (laughing).
(laughing)
- Very feisty.
- I know you get asked this a thousand times,
but how much do you miss "Veep", I mean, one of
the greatest shows? - I do,
I do miss it. - Oh.
- I really do miss it.
I mean, you guys have been on so many things
that even though I love the material, it was so fun,
I just miss the people.
Just, I'm doing "Veep,"
like we would go get a drink after the shoot,
we were shooting Baltimore in between takes,
you just cracking jokes.
I don't know, just that energy,
I really, really.
I mean, we got really close
and there was a really special time each day,
Julia would be doing her hair and makeup
and then I would come in,
it was just this kind of like sanctuary
where we would just talk about families and our day,
and go over lines, and then go to set,
and I do, I miss that a lot.
- You guys made such a perfect duo.
- So good.
- That give and take between the two of you
was so next level.
- It comes from so much pain, Fortune,
so much pain. (laughing)
- You're tellin' me.
(loud exhale)
(laughing)
- It was fun.
- It really as very funny.
You're so good, Tony.
I mean, even just like that little clip,
it's like you just nail it,
you're just so funny.
- Oh.
(laughing)
- Well, we love you, Tony.
- Yeah, you're the best,
Tony. - Love you guys.
It was so fun. - We hope you get
out of Alabama safely.
(laughing)
And remember, rope bowls, rope bowls.
- No, I got green, green in a monogram.
- And Gerard.
(laughing)
- Okay, so this is a game,
this is what the top looks like.
(loud thud)
- Called Punderdome.
- Nice.
- Here we go, okay, what did Austin Powers
say to the Bumble Bees?
- Yeah, babee.
(laughing)
- Oh.
(laughing)
Fortune's gonna be great at this game, by the way.
- Okay, so. (laughing)
- Yeah, baby, do I make you horny, baby?
- Make a pun that combines the Beatles and fighting.
- Hey, judo.
- Okay, yes, so there you go, yeah.
(laughing)
- That's a good one, right?
- What's the drunkest candy?
- Tequila bars.
- Okay, great.
(laughing)
Carbohydrates and plumbing.
(soft ticks)
Okay.
- This is the slowest anyone's ever come
up with pun. (laughing)
- Oh, what about toilet paper rolls?
- Okay, okay.
- I couldn't think of what a pun was (laughing).
- You are always talking in puns.
You literally. - I know,
but now, under pressure, I don't know what a pun is
when I literally use puns all the time.
- You literally use puns everyday.
- Okay, what's the stupidest candy?
- A dumb pop, a dumb lollipop.
(laughing)
- Okay, drinking and celebrities.
- Martini Navratilova.
- Oh, okay, yeah, wow. (laughing)
- Brad Shitface.
- Okay, great.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)