- This summer I've went off on Trump.
I was like, well, that's it.
It was a good run.
You know, doing these big venues.
- As friends, we talk about stuff all the time.
And then when it happened,
I was like, do you know
that you're not just texting me right now?
(all laughing)
- [Tom] This is "What a Joke,"
- [Fortune] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Tom] on Netflix is a Joke Radio.
It's a Christmas miracle.
- Hi Jim.
- Hi, How are you?
I still have my Christmas decorations up.
Today's the feast day of the Christmas that never ends.
- Does your family make you keep it up longer?
- We did a lot of traveling so we're doing something.
I don't know, these kids.
They get.
Of course, now it's like,
Halloween, there's like four days.
Now my wife has us doing another day of Christmas.
I'm like, come on, what's going on?
It's like, they're going to face reality
and they're going to be like,
"Do I have to work two days in a row?"
But my youngest did say like, he's nine.
And you know, he's kind of at that age
where he probably doesn't believe in Santa,
but he's kind of like, just in case, you know?
So we were in Florida and he was like, "Dad,
do you think Santa put additional presents
under the tree back home?"
And I'm like, "No, I don't think he does that."
(Tom, Fortune laughing)
But my wife had already told them that Santa does that.
And I'm like, well, I guess I don't know Santa.
Or he was just conning me.
He's 37 years old.
- It was a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
What do you think Santa is up to?
- And shifting gears between parent to comedian
is not an easy segue.
You know what I mean?
So I usually wake up and I get them out the door
and then I do my stuff.
You know, I don't do stuff during the day of a show.
I wish I was one of those comedians.
Do you guys do stuff?
Do you?
- Not a thing. - No, not much.
- No, like run around and go to museums
and take in the sites, no.
- It's very post-show.
I'm a post show guy.
Post-show steakhouse is my thing.
- Yeah. - And it doesn't matter
if I'm hungry or not.
I'm going to a steak house. - That's amazing.
- It's weird how some cities,
you're like, some cities are like,
if you have one show, you're like, "Hey, it's nine o'clock."
And they're like, "Everything's closed."
You're like, "But this is Atlantic City."
- Yeah, right.
- And they're like, "No, it's Saturday.
We closed everything."
You're like, "Nine?"
They're like, "You can go to a club or a strip house
or whatever."
I don't even know what.
I'm such a puritan,
I don't even know what a strip club's called.
I call it a strip house.
- Strip house.
(all laughing)
What time does that strip house close?
Did they have steak?
- What if this is the origin of the popularity
of the term strip house?
It all goes back to Netflix is Joke Radio
with Tom and Fortune.
It was just, it took, took off at that point.
- That's the etymology.
- My wife chose Hawaii because my wife loves the beach.
And as you can see, so do I.
(audience laughing)
I spent the entire time applying and reapplying sunscreen,
which thankfully makes my skin whiter.
(audience laughing)
What cruel bastard decided that the goo
that protects pale people from the sun
should also make them look like White Walkers.
(audience laughing)
It's just cruel.
They should offer other colors.
Cool, there's one of the guys from blue man group.
I don't even know why sunscreen is white.
What was the figure?
Wow, you know those pale people love ranch dressing, so.
(audience laughing)
Let's keep it in their wheelhouse.
Because I don't tan.
I don't kind of tan.
There's no medium rare for me.
I either look like I've never been outside
or I was just released from a burn unit.
(audience laughing)
There's no in-between.
And I know people go to the beach to relax.
People find the beach very relaxing, not so much for me.
It's like being allergic to bees.
And then for vacation, becoming a beekeeper.
(audience laughing)
- Jim, congratulations on Comedy Monster.
You're just, you are a comedy monster.
You just keep cranking out great special
after great special.
I don't know how you do it.
- Well thanks.
I'm just trying to get my dad to like me.
I don't know if it's working.
He's been dead for 30 years.
I haven't heard from him at all.
No, thank you so much.
I hope people watch it.
When you release a special, as we all know,
you sit there and you're like,
"I hope they're watching it
'cause I want to do another one."
You know, and you occasionally look at that top 10 list
and you're like, "Is there by chance, you know?"
And it's not once.
It's never, mine's never in the top 10.
- It's like when you were doing clubs,
you weren't selling a lot of tickets
and they'd come into the green room
and be like, "Well, they're doing the ice sculpture contest
this weekend, so." - Right, right.
Well it rained last Tuesday,
people are probably fixing their gutters.
(all laughing)
- Right.
- It's always the third Saturday after Easter
when people just don't show up,
We don't know what it is.
- But I was thinking, cause you,
you are so prolific and you,
you almost come out with one a year
and you started off talking about pretty current
- Covid - current Covid, anxiety,
and stuff.
And it was like, for somebody that only came out
with a special once every four years,
you probably wouldn't make that choice.
But that this is the one for this year,
to hear your take on it was really great.
- I had no expectation of even doing COVID material.
I always imagined that people didn't want to hear about it.
It got to a point where I was like,
it worked during some of the pre-Delta, after Delta,
and so I was like, all right, you know what,
I'm just going to do it.
- Unfortunately, the timing of it worked out perfectly.
'Cause the Omicron was hitting when your special came out
and you have that great joke.
I'm paraphrasing, but it's like a TV show
that you thought was canceled and gets picked up
by Netflix. - Picked up on Netflix.
- Yeah, oh yeah.
Remember when we thought the pandemic was over?
(audience laughing)
Everyone was so happy.
We did it!
(audience laughing)
We probably look so stupid.
Everyone was patting themselves on the back.
I'm just glad I could help out the sick by staying inside.
It's not over?
Well, I'm not going back in.
(audience laughing)
Sick people have to die.
Because it's not over.
The pandemic is like a TV show you thought was canceled.
And then it got picked up by Netflix.
(audience laughing, clapping)
I don't know what adjectives you're given Fortune,
but like I know that Tom and I get clean.
And now the thing is, is like the reality is
I used to say, "Oh no one's going to see a show
just because they're not hearing someone say fuck."
You know what I mean?
They're like, "Oh, we got to go.
This guy doesn't say a curse word."
It's like, it really comes down to funny.
We might use a more of a velvet hammer,
but we're still making points.
Like point of view is very important.
All comedians have some edge or they would be newscasters.
Do you know what I mean?
(Tom, Fortune laughing)
It would just be - A presentation.
- Monologues.
You know what I mean?
And it's good to do comedy in different environments
because you can get comfortable.
Like I am sure you guys have faced this where you,
you know, more in clubs stuff,
but like, you'll do a weekend,
you'll be like, "I got this great bit."
And then you come back to a city
and people are like, "What are you talking about?"
You're like, "Oh, I'm sorry."
(Fortune, Tom laughing)
- It's true.
- I was getting a little lazy there.
I thought the Casey Kasem impression was a good idea.
You know what I mean? - Yeah.
- We do learn from,
like when you first walk on stage when you do stand up,
there's this brutality where you can see it in their eyes.
They're like, "Oh, you like," for me,
"you look like my boss that I hated."
- Do you really get told that you look like babies?
- Oh, I get baby photos.
I get cat photos.
I have dozens of mostly cats, mostly cats.
Not dogs, just cats.
And it's just kind of like a grumpy cat
that it is usually asking for food.
- That's hilarious.
- And it's like,
it's just white and furry and it has a huge head.
I did an episode of the Jim Gaffigan Show all about it,
where I flew in one guy from Chicago who looked like me,
who was a standup comedian.
And then there's like a barista in Seattle.
I'm not kidding.
Who looks, I mean, he's younger and his beard is more red,
but he looked exactly like me.
It was scary.
Aren't the people that look like you guys?
(Tom, Fortune laughing)
- I gave it a lot of,
but it's usually like a picture of a dude
you know, working at the airport, that's got a huge beard.
I'm like, he looks like me?
- No, it's never flattering.
(pinball machines dinging)
- [Tom] I kept waiting for my Joe Christmas pajamas
and they never came.
- I said, as soon as Tom responds to my texts
about what he would like his pajamas dropped off,
we'll schedule.
And I never heard from Tom.
- I never got a, when do you want them dropped off text?
- I sent a picture. - You sent a picture.
It didn't say,
"I've got, I'm coming over." - No,
it was a group text with all of us on it.
- Oh.
- Did it say, "I'm coming to your house?" No.
- I said, "They've arrived."
And you didn't even respond.
- Oh, did any of us respond? - What?
- Yeah, it looks like all of us didn't pay any attention
to your pajamas.
(Fortune laughing)
- Thank you, Fortune.
- Yesterday you said you were going to bring them by
and I waited all day and night and you never came.
- The pajamas are actually right over there.
I can go grab them right now.
- Let's see the pajamas.
Oh, I see pants.
I see pants.
- [Tom] Whoa, that they do exist.
Look at that.
- I do wonder where my apology is for not being
on said pajamas.
- Oh. - That's true.
Everyone should apologize right now.
- I'm sorry to everyone.
- I'm not sorry.
(all laughing)
- All right.
I got a delivery.
I got my pajamas from Joe.
- Oh yeah. They look good.
- Oh, nice. - They look real good.
- A little snug. - It's kinda tight.
- Yeah, but thought for Cynthia, she might like that.
- A little snuggy snug.
- It's a little tight. - It's kind of short.
- Yeah. I've noticed the shirt.
I thought that might be a little bit of issue,
but you're rocking it. - Am I?
Just unbutton it and let my chest out.
- Yes. - That's kinda weird.
- I blame you for just having all those muscles.
- Me too. - Thanks
for calling it muscle.
- Can I ask about his Christmas shirt?
- Yeah, this is um. - You mean that tight,
Christmas pajamas?
- It's really tight. - Whoa.
Hey Tom, why are you wearing those baby, that baby pajamas?
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