- When you wake up in the morning and your eyes first open,
you're still in bed, you're in your pajamas.
What does Jo Koy think about first when he wakes up?
- Tom, this is how I wake up, you ready?
Watch this. - Yep.
- Press, I need to do press.
(laughing)
- [Male Narrator] This is "What A Joke."
- [Female Narrator] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Male Narrator] On "Netflix is a Joke Radio."
- Look at you. You look like Steve Jobs reincarante.
(laughing)
- Anyways you guys, I have iPhone 14s for you.
(laughing)
- You got to put your hands in front of you like that.
- I have iPhone 14 coming your way Tom.
- Are you in Vegas or LA?
- This is my Vegas place.
- Vegas baby.
- Yeah. (murmuring)
- Jo's the king of Vegas.
- I started here Fortune.
This is where I started.
- I remember when you used to run out big ass theaters
and you were like,
"I'm gonna have my own shows."
- Yup. I did not wait for any of the casinos.
I went and rented this place called the Huntridge Theater,
and it was just an old rundown movie theater
from like the '40s.
And I'd literally rent it out
and do my own comedy shows.
- How long were you into comedy when you did that?
How many years?
- I was like five years into stand up at that point.
- Yeah - Nice. (laughing)
That is ballsy.
- Jo's had a street team since he started.
(laughing)
- You know it's crazy,
we were just talking about that Fortune,
But my little nieces and nephews,
like I just did five straight shows at the Whim
and the first thing they said in the green room
was like "Uncle Jo,
you remember when we used to grab your flyers
and put them on all the houses at the apartments?"
And I was like, "Yeah." (laughing)
"All the cars at the mall, parking lots,
and you'd pay us a hundred bucks each?"
I'm like, "Yeah." (indistinct).
- That's amazing.
What are you doing now tour wise?
Are you--
- It's crazy. I just sold out Golden 1 Center.
It's the arena where the Sacramento Kings play.
- I've never heard of them or that.
(laughing)
- I have heard of the Sacramento Punchline.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Its that times 400.
(laughing)
Guess what you guys?
I got to tell you this.
Please, if you don't mind.
- Yeah. - Please.
- When I was 15 years old,
I used my mom's credit card to buy Eddie Murphy tickets
to see "Raw" live at the Seattle Coliseum.
I sat 15 rows dead center.
I can remember looking at the arena going,
"I can't believe this many people are here."
And I just put that arena on sale.
We're sold out. it already sold out. So--
- Oh wow. (mumbling)
- Yeah. - Nice.
- And I'm gonna sit in the same seat that I was in
when I was 15, and I just, yeah, I just...
That just happened by the way. So I just wanted to say.
- That's awesome. - Wow.
So great Jo. - Congrats man.
- Congratulation.
You run everything so well.
When you're playing these bigger venues,
these giant places which is really what you're,
that's your schedule now,
is it changing how you're performing
and what you're doing in your set?
is that starting to evolve now?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- You got to cut the fat out just to tell you,
you don't have to cut too much fat out,
but you got to get to it a little quicker.
The tension is...
You know, you're playing for people
that are up in the 300 section
and you've got to grab them fast
or you're gonna lose them.
- Oh yeah.
- And then you ever go to a game
and you just see people walking through the hallways,
that's an adjustment because you're like,
okay, is anyone in their seats?
And they are.
It's just there's thousands of people
also going to the bathroom at once.
- They got to get nachos.
(laughing)
They're like,
"I love Jo but I also need some nachos right now."
- I love Jo but I also love relish.
(laughing)
- I gotta get a king size hot dog and a nacho,
and then I'll be back to see what Jo's talking about.
(laughing)
- Standing in line, "He's funny yeah."
- They finally get back to their seats.
"It's done?
The show's done?" (laughing)
- Your comedy works well with it
'cause you do so many act outs.
So you're like visually showing them
a lot of your jokes too.
- Yeah its actual.
That's always been me.
I like to be physical.
It's just being animated and creating the character,
it's like you Fortune,
I don't like to talk about my mom, I'd rather be my mom.
I'd rather be my son and really get into character.
- Yeah.
- You know what I love the most about welders?
Is when they wear the helmet, (upbeat music)
they do this to close it.
(laughing)
(imitating drilling sound)
- Exactly.
- Why can't I get a welding helmet?
I want one.
- Are you serious?
- Why wouldn't I want a helmet?
Nuh-uh.
- Well now you've got a new show.
You've got "Metal Shop Masters."
Tell our friends about this.
- I'm telling you,
it happened right at the height of the pandemic.
The minute the tour was closed and everything was closed,
I get a phone call from Netflix like,
"Hey, we're gonna shoot a show.
We found a way where we can shoot it safe."
And I was like, "What is it?"
They were like, "It's about welding."
I'm like, "What?" (laughing)
"You mean that class that I failed in high school?"
(laughing)
- You know this is Jo Koy, right?
- "The class where I almost lost a finger?"
"Yeah."
And then they showed me all these art pieces
that these welders were doing.
I was like,
my mouth dropped.
I'm like, "Whoa, wait a minute.
Okay, we have something here and yeah, let's shoot it."
And I'm telling you,
they're artists first of all, let's just put that out there.
They're artists and they're brilliant.
And it's a community that no one really knows about.
They know about it themselves,
but I think the world should know
that these people are geniuses.
They take boxes of scrap metal,
people throwing away junk pieces of metal,
and they turn it into these big, beautiful sculptures.
And it was fun
to joke around with people that are so serious
when it comes to like metal and flames.
(laughing)
Lift your mask up and let's have fun for a second.
(laughing)
- Ray and I as a team (upbeat music)
is actually surprisingly working out pretty good
'cause she is a hard worker. (welding torch sizzling)
She is awesome with a plasma.
Everything that she cuts out is perfect
and it helps me weld.
Working together is very good.
We're always staying busy.
- Hold it right (indistinct).
(torch sizzling)
- It looks good.
We're in a lobster roll right now.
(torch sizzling)
- Oh yeah. That looks good.
- Yeah we're good.
- There's one. Her name is Ray.
She's phenomenal.
And I don't wanna give anything away,
but her pieces are brilliant.
And just to see her battle with these guys,
which you know, predominantly,
when you think of welding and you think it's a man's thing
and it's not.
There's women like our judge, Stephanie,
she's the best in the biz
and she's crushing these guys.
It's crazy to see what they do.
I had Stephanie make a shelf for my ex-wife
and just to see how quickly she did it and the perfection,
you know what I mean?
It was just like, wow, this is cool.
Getting something handmade by basically a legend in this--
- Yeah, it's amazing. That is cool.
- I like that light behind you.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- That just looked like something from a metal shop.
- Never give comedians a TV show
because it doesn't matter how deep
or personal you're gonna get,
they're always looking for the joke.
I suffer from anxiety,
yeah, kinda like that chandelier behind you.
(laughing) (indistinct)
- Yeah, why are there Christmas lights on your railing?
(laughing)
- Why am I being interviewed by a man in his king size bed?
(laughing)
Hey you guys, this is a serious interview.
Let me make my bed first and we'll get it going.
(laughing)
- I don't know. (indistinct)
- Hey, we're gonna go to Tom Papa for the traffic.
Hey guys, (mumbling).
You're in bed. What are you talking about?
(laughing)
I'm too lazy to take them off.
Look, it's three months away from Christmas.
- I know, at this point leave them all on.
- Plug them back in.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- You're busy performing in some arena in Sacramento
- You're so funny.
(laughing)
- For the Sacramento.
- Bumblebees.
(mumbling)
Well we love having you on Jo.
You're one of our favorite people.
We talk about you a lot when you're not on the show.
- That's right. We love you. - I love you man.
- We love you. We're happy for you.
We also need to borrow some money.
(laughing)
If you wanna hook my wife up with a Prada purse,
I will take that.
- Or a metal sculpture, I have a Prada purse.
(laughing)
(welding torch sizzling)
- I decided that next week we're gonna wear suits
during the show.
- No.
(laughing)
- Yes.
- Every day?
- Every day.
- Urgh.
Yo, I'm too tired for that.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
- Its suit week. Y'all are looking snappy.
This is the beginning of suit week.
- I didn't think y'all were serious about this.
(indistinct)
- But how do you feel?
Do you feel different
like you coming to work this way?
- Yeah, I do.
I feel actually way more professional,
put together, focused.
- Now I feel like I'm dad going to work.
- I feel like I've stumbled upon a speed dating situation
and I'm in the wrong zoom room.
(laughing) (upbeat music continues)
- Joe and I were second day into our suit thing.
I don't like it.
I don't think I'm doing it tomorrow.
- I don't know.
It's not getting
the intended effect I think you guys wanted?
- No, I think you're right.
What effects would you say it's having right now Fortune?
- Like literally no one knows and cares
'cause it's a radio show.
- That was... (laughing)
- Like zero people are thinking about it,
wondering about it, know about it
'cause it's a radio show.
- I think the result is wearing a suit all the time
when you're on a radio show is stupid.
(upbeat music)