- Tom.
- Hi, Fortune.
Fortune, you really did a great job in this film.
- Yeah, you really did!
- I mean, Ryan, I thought I killed it.
- Fortune, you nailed it.
- [Announcer] This is What a Joke.
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- So good to see you bud.
- Well, it's very nice to see you.
How's everyone doing?
- We're doing well. We're doing all right.
We've never done a press junket
on this side of the junket thing before.
It's weird.
- I know it is a little bit weird.
Now I'm used to it.
- Oh, good. You've done a lot of these.
- This is how I visit with my family now.
(Tom and Fortune laughing)
- In these times, for sure.
- Yeah.
- Well, this movie was awesome.
I watched it last night
and y'all had a lot of twists and turns
that I did not see coming. I have to tell you.
- Yeah, it's twisty
very, very twisty
and a lot of fun,
you know, I think it's like a, you know,
it's a bit of a throwback in the sense
that it's like one of the swashbuckling
adventure, comedy, treasure hunts,
which I, I grew up loving.
- [Tom] Yeah.
- Loving that kind of movie
I kind of was weaned on the Hamblen
sort of world,
along with the Indiana Jones kind of stuff.
And it's just sort of fun
to play in that sandbox a little bit.
- It kind of has a little bit
of the Deadpool thing to it where, you know,
you love action, but you also love comedy and you kind of,
whatever you're thinking to make a joke about
you guys actually do, right?
As you're thinking about it,
like you call it out a little bit.
I don't know.
It's kind of like a relief
you're used to like watching stuff
and it's only your own thought.
And then to actually hear the star of the movie,
make a joke about it, it's very satisfying.
- It would be rude not to say anything, really.
- Yeah.
- Well, it's also,
I kind of look at some of this stuff is, you know,
when you're kind of, even,
even when you're acknowledging
and playing with the cultural landscape
and pop culture in films,
people do that every single day.
I mean, you know,
every conversation I had today,
there was some exchange of pop culture and, you know,
so I find that people fixate on that sometimes in movies
like, oh, wow, like you're, you know, it's,
there's the pop culture references.
And that's like, almost,
it's weird that it's still almost novelty.
I don't think totally, but it is almost novelty still,
yet it's a function of how we communicate
in society these days and share information.
So I never really shy away from pop culture references
or those sorts of things,
even though they sometimes could date a movie.
I think they're important
because they're part of the shared experience.
- Was it you who pitched the shower scene with Dwayne?
- I would never, ever willfully pitch it,
a shower scene
in which I'm not wearing anything
with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson,
I believe that was his cruel vindictive
and unnecessary doing. Yeah.
- You nailed it.
I mean, as comedians, we were like,
okay, well Ryan's like us, he's funny.
And then you have your shirt off and it's like,
he's not like us.
He's actually, he's actually in shape.
- I was wearing a lavender body stocking
that was easily, easy to sublimate,
whatever body they chose to use on that so,
and I have makeup artists
that make me look four months younger
before work every day, so.
- It is hard to feel in shape beside The Rock,
I would imagine.
But you're holding your own.
- You have no idea. I mean,
he's a skin covered mountain, legitimately.
- Well, I was always mad at you
for being good looking and funny.
I was told you couldn't be both, so.
- Yeah, you're not allowed.
- We're allowed to be anything we damn well please.
Aren't we?
- Did you ever try stand up, Ryan?
- You know, I did a bit of it back in the day,
my early, early days of sit-com.
I do the warmups sometimes and,
and honestly, I have such,
now, let's hold the phone for a second
because you guys tread those boards
and I don't.
That's real.
I am not a standup.
I don't pretend to be a standup that is super difficult,
crazy high wire work that I have nothing but respect for,
but I would do the warmup, which was a standup act.
And I loved it.
And mostly it was a way to channel
the obscene amount of anxiety I felt
before actually performing in front of a live audience.
So, I felt like it helped me kinda,
rather than sit and pace and destroy myself
in a dressing room whilst the audience poured in,
I could actually just be mixing with them
and getting rid of some of that energy
and get rid of some of those yips.
- Yeah, I mean,
we ask because it seems like a no brainer
that you'd be able to do it.
- Yeah. I don't,
I don't pretend to do it at the level that you guys do
or are accustomed to,
but I definitely,
I definitely loved it when back then.
It was,
it really helped me kind of be better
and it gave me a better understanding
of how difficult that kind of work is.
You know, it's,
it's not easy.
I could get by because people were like,
oh, you're also the star of the show.
So this is by nature gonna be fun
that you're just sitting up here with us
hanging out, chatting.
But I loved it.
- Well, you're so funny.
And so endearing and every time we watch you in anything,
it's just, you're always a pleasure to watch.
So you guys killed it in this movie.
- Thank you so much.
- Yeah. Well done. Well done.
- Hello boys.
- Oh my God.
Wow.
You're the captain?
You might benefit from a little career change.
I mean, I'm,
I don't think runway,
but definitely regional catalog work, flyers,
- She's the Bishop.
- No shit, dipdick.
- It's so nice to finally meet you Mr. Booth.
Such a thrill to be face-to-face
with the second best art thief in the world.
- Oh, well, I see what you did there.
That's, yeah,
you got lucky a couple of times
early on, you know,
but you can't name one time in the past year
that you beat me.
- Helsinki.
- My parachute failed.
- Jakarta.
- My segway sank.
- Macau.
- Nobody knew that Miley Cyrus was going to be there.
It was a completely unannounced show.
- You can have excuses or results.
Not both.
- Normally you see two stars, you know,
having to figure out chemistry. There was three of you.
I didn't think y'all could nail the charisma like you did.
- It was a hard job with the guys, but we managed.
(everyone laughing)
- [Fortune] You know.
- Yes. It was fun.
- It was funny.
You can pull off comedy, which a lot of people can't do.
- Thank you, I must say
it was so delightful to be able to work on a movie set.
With two lovely friends who I adore,
but not only that,
both of them are extremely fun and funny.
And it was like almost a game,
an unannounced game
that each of us tried to break the other.
I must give, you know, Ryan won.
Big time.
- [Fortune] Yeah, I can see that.
- He cracked us all the time. It was,
that was the biggest challenge
not to, not to break takes.
- Yeah.
Well you had just had
that with Kristen Wiig with the two of you,
- Yes.
- I imagine you went through a similar thing with her too.
- My girl. Yes, yes, yes.
Another brilliant, funny, talented woman.
- Yeah. I did Barb and Star with her
and we just, the whole day was us giggling.
- Oh my God. You lucky you.
You and Annie too?
- Yeah. Yeah.
All of us. We were,
we did this talking club scene
where we all just wore culottes and crazy outfits.
- Oh my God, I wish I was there.
- Yeah.
- When you were in the middle of these giant films
and it's getting tiring
and it's four o'clock in the morning
and you're doing these scenes,
do you ever think,
maybe I should just go do a play somewhere?
- Yes.
You know what? I remember,
so I just finished Wonder Woman, 84.
And then I shot Death on the Nile
with Kenneth Branagh.
After shooting Wonder Woman for eight months
and being in a harness and being,
wearing the crazy suit and all of that
and doing so many fights sequences,
doing like a drama from the thirties.
It all, I was like, this is so easy.
There's something about the fact
that we have to be so physical in our character.
That it's, it's hard.
There's something, when you're only available for the drama
it's, for me, it was so much easier.
I was like, oh my God, the costume is comfortable.
I'm just wearing normal clothes.
When you do these type of things,
you have no idea how many things we're like dealing with.
We need to hit it on the right time.
You working with someone else. You gotta,
it's like a dance,
but you're doing it on high heels, with a harness,
with a dah, dah-rah, it's like,
- [Fortune] Yeah, that's crazy.
- Rather than to just like go and play and walk and talk.
You know?
- Do you think you'll do
a straight up comedy at some point?
- I would love to. I would love to.
I love to make fun of myself and I love to laugh
and I love humor and comedy,
but yeah, it has to be the right one.
- I mean, I know two comedians
that are currently hosting this radio show
that would love to work with you.
- Yeah. You and I could play,
I don't know, twins?
- Yes. We can do that.
We can be the twins.
The chocolate vanilla ladies, sisters.
- It'd be like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
(everyone laughing)
But you're much better looking than all of us.
- Exactly. We'll be the even better version.
- That's right.
- I'll give you one last chance to take me up on my offer.
- Where's my counteroffer?
You're under arrest.
- Oh my God.
Read the room.
- I told you,
this would end with you in handcuffs.
- You're so embarrassing.
He's so embarrassing.
- Tell you what agent Hartley.
You want to arrest me?
Come.
Arrest me.
- I just want the egg.
(grunting)
(intense music)
(glass breaking)
(grunting)
- Take it easy.
- This is easy.
(glass breaking)
- I have to ask real quick though.
Who do you like better Ryan or Dwayne?
- Rawson.
(Tom and Fortune laughing)
Oh, I love them all.
They're all so freaking awesome.
- Hi Tom. Hi Fortune. Rawson.
- [Tom] Rawson! - [Fortune] Hey Rawson.
- How's it going?
- Good to see you.
- Likewise.
- Listen. Just three good-looking people
in a zoom room.
- Hanging out. Let's do it.
- Yeah, man.
- Thanks for making something
that is a super cool and super funny.
We like funny around here.
- Me too, thanks.
- We know you have it in your DNA,
but it's such a cool thing to like see an action movie.
And when you think as a viewer of like the joke
and then see you make the joke.
So satisfying.
- Oh, thank you so much.
What a kind thing to say.
- What attracted you to action?
I mean, everyone says comedy is hard,
but then you see some of these action set pieces
and you're like, that looks much harder.
- There are different hard, right?
I've just loved action movies, my whole life and comedy.
So, you know,
I've loved Die Hard, Raiders of lost Ark,
you know, the Bourne franchise, Mission.
The action sequences, they're hard,
but they're different hard
because it's really about
executing on a technical level.
And when you're making something at that scale,
you have to do it efficiently and safely.
And you have a lot of people involved helping you.
There's a visual effects team,
there's stunt coordinators,
there's special effects,
there's certainly your whole entire camera department,
there's the actors,
you've you've written it,
you've storyboarded it, you've pre-visited it,
you know, you plan for all of this stuff in action
because you have to keep it safe and you know,
the car either blows up or it doesn't, you'd never go,
oh, could the car blow up funnier?
So, but on the comedy side
that can be a little more challenging
cause that's just, that's up to me.
It's me and the actor and,
and your own sort of internal tuning fork of,
of what what's working or not.
- Well, we have to wrap up.
- Yeah.
(Fortune laughing)
- They're like, get out of here.
- We could literally spend an hour with you.
- Let's do it. Why aren't we?
This is some bullshit.
I was just starting and I was just enjoying it.
- Listen, come on another time.
- Let's figure out how to do it properly.
- All right, cool. I appreciate that.
All right. Enjoy it. We'll see you soon.
- Cheers. Thanks guys.
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