- I so, so appreciate you guys being here.
It has been a rough couple years.
I got bangs at one point.
Shit got dark.
I didn't even want bangs.
I just needed people to check on me.
And it works by the way.
You post a selfie in bangs.
Everybody's like fire emoji.
You go girl.
Then they text you like you okay?
- [Narrator 1] This is What A Joke
- [Narrator 2] with Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster
- [Narrator 1] On Netflix's A Joke Radio.
- Are we recording already,
we're not, right?
- Yeah, we're recording.
- But we could cut it out if you want to say something.
- No, no, no it's fine.
Let's let's keep it all in.
Let's just be raw and vulnerable.
Let's just, this is how it really works guys.
Let's pull back the curtain.
- Yeah, no secrets here.
- Congratulations.
Much, love.
People are gonna love it.
- Let's hope so.
I'm nervous about it.
Do you guys get super nervous before specials come out?
I might have asked you guys this question already.
Tom's like no, it's just always great.
- I know.
- Tom's like I got this guys.
- Everyone's gonna love it.
- Don't even worry about it.
- All the time.
- I'm more curious like, oh, I wonder what people are
going to respond to
and what they're not going to respond to you.
You know what I mean?
- So you're just, we got one curious, one confident.
All right.
- Yeah.
- I'm alone.
I'm alone here.
- It's a nightmare.
It's a nightmare.
You try and cool about it,
but it's like you're vulnerable.
You're putting something out there,
but you should feel very confident
and your special legit is great.
- Thank you.
Yeah, you get, you feel like ungrateful too.
You're like well, I can't complain about how nervous I am.
'Cause everybody's like your dreams are coming true.
Maybe chill out.
- Yeah, Taylor, enjoy your dreams.
- You're fine.
Like, it's weird.
It's weird to have people say to you angrily
the world's your oyster right now.
- And you're like okay, sorry.
- But you can still feel however you want.
That's what I say.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- I saw you posted that you were on a hike.
- I was on a hike.
- I'm now going to wear that same outfit that you hike in,
and just let it really hang out, you know?
- In a rare moment of health and normalcy,
I went to Malibu with my friend Christina
who is married to Ron Funches
because she is having a baby very soon.
It's so she's like let's do a baby moon.
- Oh nice.
I wanna go on a baby moon.
- Yeah, it's a good time.
She was like and she was very generous
in that she was like
we're both kind of having babies, right?
Like your specials your baby, my baby's my baby.
And I'm like I mean I think yours is
a little more fulfilling,
but yeah, no same thing.
I got back into therapy.
Anybody in therapy?
(audience cheering)
Mostly women, that's the problem.
It's very hard to stay in therapy.
My old therapist told me
that when I get close to people
I have a tendency to self sabotage
and I thought that was bullshit.
So I ghosted her.
And then I finally went back
because I finally dated enough people
who all gave me the exact same feedback
about my shitty personality.
You know, that romantic quota you hit
where you're like uh-oh might be me.
Oh, the reviews are in
and they are unanimous.
That's a bummer.
So after a really bad breakup a few years ago,
I finally took a long hard look at myself
and said okay Taylor,
five outta five dudes,
all think that in fights
you behave like a raccoon trapped in a trash bag.
So maybe it's time to get some Klonopin or a rabies shot.
- How nervous were you about this interview?
- I was looking forward to it
until I was like did you guys get nervous?
And you guys were like nah, I just get kinda curious
how many people are going to love what I made.
And now I'm intimidated and I feel isolated
and semi-rejected.
And then luckily Tom was like okay no, we all get nervous.
And I'm like well, I don't believe you.
I think I was less nervous to film it
than I am for it to come out.
Actually.
Yeah.
- Having already done your hour right before the pandemic,
did you feel a lot more confident going into this?
Like you knew what to expect
and did that experience help?
- Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was well 'cause when I did the first special,
I didn't know I got so much like say in it
when like, I didn't know I got to edit it,
and like pick my own clothes.
Like I just, I didn't know that I got so much control.
I didn't know how much editing you could do.
'cause everything I've ever done prior to that
was like you go, you film it,
and then you're surprised with everybody else
when it comes out.
- Yeah.
- Like you get to find out how it went later.
And so to go through that already in 2019-2020
and know exactly what was coming out
and have had like final approval on everything.
This time I think that's part of why
I was less scared to film it
because I was like well now you know
that if you mess up with the line,
you can just say it again.
- Yeah.
- You know, there's editing.
Like you know a little bit more of what you're doing.
So I was less nervous this time around
than I was the first time.
- Yeah.
Right.
- That's good.
- It's really good.
And it's a weird thing because you're pretty vulnerable.
Like the subjects you're talking about
are really you know, mental health and real vulnerable,
all hilarious.
But it almost seems like you don't see it as vulnerable.
Like you deliver it-
- Oh no, I do.
- You do?
- I do now.
Now I'm like what did I do a little bit.
I'm like very nervous.
- Oh really?
- Oh I'm like very nervous about it.
'Cause my therapist told me not to talk about a lot of it
when I was kind of going through it
and then I started writing jokes about it
and I was like I have to do these now.
- Do you think that your therapist will watch the special?
- Oh yeah.
She was like I'll watch it if you want.
And I was like I would like you to watch it
so that we can you know,
really get to the bottom of everything in here.
- So we can talk about it.
- Yeah.
I all like, I would like just
I would like you to see me in makeup.
I think that would be,
I'd like you to see that I'm doing pretty well
in the hours of the day.
Fun fact about prescription drugs.
Everything they prescribe,
they actually use for like four different things.
So you don't really know what your deal is
until you find a combo that works
and then Google all your pills by yourself.
So after years of trial and error,
I finally found a combination of things that worked for me.
And six months ago I decided to Google it
'cause what the hell?
And it turns out that everything I'm taking
is primarily used for bipolar disorder.
So I went back to my psychiatrist and I was like hey,
do we think,
and she was like oh yeah.
(audience clapping)
And I was like is this how you fucking tell people?
And she's like no, of course not.
We didn't know.
I'm glad we figured it out.
And I was like we.
- I mean that's the thing about a comic
is you know, their willingness
to take things about themselves and share it with people.
I'm sure that is something a therapist
isn't used to experiencing.
- I mean in LA, who knows.
Like I don't know what her clientele is,
but you know do I wanna ask
if I have the most Instagram followers
of all of her clients?
Of course.
Have I, no.
Because boundaries.
- Selena Gomez.
- Yeah, my old therapist used to be like
I represent some very famous people
and I always wanted to be like who?
- Why even tell you that?
- I know, I know.
It was that's why she's an old therapist.
- There's a lot to it.
- Yeah, she's great.
I mean my psychiatrist too,
I think she watched the old special as well.
Hopefully they like it.
I think if they didn't like it,
they couldn't tell me.
So who knows?
Like, I guess we'll be able to tell from their comments.
They might be like the set was beautiful.
Like they'll just-
- You do look good in makeup.
- Yeah.
That was a fun jacket.
- It seems like you're doing a lot of spots around town.
You're already getting into that next hour, right?
- Yeah, I've been going real hard in town spots
trying to, trying to get this new stuff working
so that when people come to the rest of the tour,
maybe they see some repeats,
but for the most part, the majority of it is newer.
'cause I did also save some stuff.
Like there was, we probably filmed like an hour 10,
hour 15 of the special.
And then I cut like 10 or 15 minutes
just to get it like as close to an hour as possible.
'Cause I think my audience is younger
and has a shorter attention span as do I.
Just try trying to be mindful of that
and also saving a couple bits that I still wanna tell.
- I think a clever idea is to call it the "crowd work tour."
- Right, exactly.
That's what you do.
You go I have 40 new minutes
and then we're gonna talk to people for 20,
which is what they want anyway.
A lot of the time.
- It is true.
- This is the Q and A tour.
- Truly.
This is the ask me anything tour.
- I'm gonna do some readings from books I like,
not even that I wrote.
- Who likes poems.
- That's the hardest part too
is like you can't even really enjoy
your special coming out 'cause you're like
frantically writing a new hour
and trying to get it right for the tour that's coming.
- Yeah, maybe this should be time
to maybe write some jokes about food.
- I know right?
Well I can't, I think Gaffigan did them all.
You know?
I'm like what's left?
- Do you think you'll take a break from the road?
- Yeah, I'm gonna take May off.
I mean you guys know it's so nuts
that you just know what like the next year of your life
is going to be, touring schedule wise.
- Yeah, your agent's like okay we have this date for April.
What year?
Wait what?
- Yes.
- So I'm gonna be a comedian in April of 2024.
Is that what you're telling me?
- I have job security, you're sure?
They're like provided you don't get canceled,
This is what we're thinking.
I'm on more of like the west coast for my March dates.
Like I'm in like Boise and Salt Lake City this weekend.
Next weekend I think I'm in California.
And in the week after that
I'm in like Cincinnati and Louisville.
And then I go back to the east coast after that.
So it'll probably still be kind of cold,
like end of March, beginning of April.
- I slipped on the ice in Fargo.
- Oh no.
- Yeah.
So comedy's dangerous guys.
- That was a hard fall.
- I wasn't too concerned about him.
He was telling the story
and Jacks came in here and asked me something
so I got distracted
and he was like I feel like you didn't care
about me falling.
I was like my wife just told me that it smelled like gas.
Our most important question though is
once your special comes out
and you get even more known and popular,
are you still gonna be our friend?
- Oh my God, yes.
Are you kidding?
I'm literally only here today to try to be friends
with both of you.
- Oh thank God.
- Hey, are you guys gonna be my friend?
- Heck yeah.
You're coming over to our pool, duh.
- I know.
I mean as long as it's not,
as long as there's no gas leak going on.
- The gas I think, it's under control.
Don't light any candles.
- Don't go there.
- Just to be safe.
- You know what's funny?
I actually did,
I bought some candles today
'cause I needed to feel something
and one of them is called Rosemary baguette.
That sounds nice.
I meant to bring that up earlier to you, Tom.
I've never seen a bread scented candle.
- I've never seen it either.
- I just got it.
- Did you light it?
- Not yet.
That was an automatic purchase though.
- Alright well text us and let us know what it smells like.
If it's worth buying.
- Tom's making bread.
He's been making olive bread.
He gives it to people and says olive you.
- Thank you.
- Fortune's not worried about her comedy.
- I'll be here all day.
I'm not worried at all
what people think of my specials.
Wait, should I be?
- Guys.
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