- I was going through my pictures--
- Mhmm.
- And I came across the one that I took
in the makeup trailer.
- Oh really?
(everyone laughing)
- And I, yeah, I saw the wig and I said, that's funny.
And I put it on and I took a picture
and now I'm realizing
that I think this was made for your double.
- For my stunt driver.
- For your stunt double.
(everyone laughing)
And this is the picture.
(everyone laughing)
- Oh my God, that's so funny.
- Spitting image.
- [Male Narrator] This is What a Joke.
- [Female Narrator] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Male Narrator] On Netflix is a Joke Radio.
- Fortune you and I are,
we're working on something right here--
- We have a similar hair situation--
- We have a yeah, we have a similar situation going on.
(Fortune laughing)
But I saw you in the film and I said,
I need that hair.
- I know,
I mean it, it really rubs off on people.
What it is is, I don't brush it--
- Okay. - So, that's
my secret. - Well, neither do I.
(everyone chuckling)
- I just woke up like this.
So, I don't know.
(everyone laughing)
- We know.
We've seen you-- - Jen's always beautiful--
- Very early in the morning.
- We get it.
- Jen and I are doing the same hair, also, so.
- Yeah.
- Well could you tell our listeners
what the film is about?
'Cause as a parent I have to say
this concept was,
really resonated with us.
And my daughters were very into it.
- Oh good, oh I'm so glad.
This is a movie called Yes Day.
It's based on a children's book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
where for one day, all of the little rules
and big nos that are imposed on kids from birth,
like you must make your bed or you must
put on clothes or you must
go you know, brush your teeth or whatever they are,
everything's out the window and it's a big day of yes.
- You want to know what my secret is?
I give my kids yes days.
- Yes days?
What's a yes day?
- You pick a day
in the not too distant future,
and for 24 hours
you say yes to everything that your kids want.
(laughing)
- Really? - Yeah.
- Are you serious?
- You say yes to everything?
- Well you set some ground rules.
They can't ask for something in the future
and they can't kill anybody, obvi.
- Oh.
- I know it sounds crazy, but it is a true game changer.
They liberate kids
and give them a rare sense of autonomy.
And it sets the parents free too.
- Tom was saying earlier that the chemistry
of you guys and the family as a whole was so natural.
- It felt that way right away, didn't it Edgar?
- It felt so natural right away.
I mean, Jen and I had lunch
for the first time to talk about the movie.
And it was like, where have you been all this year
that I haven't seen you?
You know?
I mean, it felt like we've known each other for forever.
When we met the kids actually for, for the test
it was (fingers snapping)
right there.
Like the chemistry was right there.
Same thing with the kids.
It's the first time that I do comedy,
it's the first time that I do a movie of this genre
of this kind.
It was life altering.
I mean it was so transformative for me.
I mean, it was very healing.
It was a very, very healing experience for me.
- You do so much serious stuff.
Do you carry that intensity when you do those kind of roles?
- This movie, for how colorful and beautiful and refreshing
and positive, it was still serious business
'cause doing comedy is very serious.
(Fortune chuckling)
It's a very serious business.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- But it's funny because some people would ask me
you know, on one-on-one interviews,
so this was, this was one easy for you.
I mean, this was easy, easy breezy 'cause it's a comedy?
And I said the opposite.
It's one of the most demanding experiences
that I've had as an actor
because I was invited
to flex acting muscles that I didn't even know that I had.
I mean, it's easier to make people cry
than to make people laugh-- - Right.
(chuckling)
- Oh now this is what I'm talking about.
A car wash is like being reborn.
This is exactly what I needed kids.
Thank you.
- Yeah! - Yes!
- Yeah, this one's easy.
(soft music)
- Hey guys, one more thing.
- Windows down!
- Whoa whoa whoa, whoa.
- What?
- Yeah, you have to, it's yes day.
- What do we do?
- I don't know, it's your car.
- Come on, mom, you can say it.
One word, two letters, N O.
(suspenseful music)
- Windows down! (rock music)
(kids yelling) (rock music)
(water sprinklers spewing)
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
(rock music)
(family yelling) (rock music)
- Jen, how was it wearing the producing hat?
- Well, there was no other way to do it this time
because it was so personal.
- Do you think that would work in your real life?
- I've done yes day-- - You've done it, yeah--
- Many, many times, yeah-- - You have.
- This all comes from my own life.
This comes, my kids loved the book,
we've done yes days the last nine years.
We turned it into a movie, here it is.
Justin Malen was our writer and
he did such a great job.
His kids are little though.
And we were talking about a teenager.
And so there were things that he wrote
without really understanding.
And so he kind of wrote the teenager originally
to be really snarky and really hardcore teenagery.
And I said, it's not about that.
It's about the pain of just growing up.
It doesn't, she can, it's even harder
if she's lovely.
So let's let her be lovely.
It was really just the development and kind of digging in
and making sure that it felt there was some truth to it
and that it didn't go so overboard.
Like originally you, Fortune, were, had a helicopter.
You were rich and had a helicopter.
(everyone laughing)
So then like taking it down to something accessible and fun.
Like, you know--
- An ambulance.
(everyone laughing)
- It would have been hard driving a helicopter.
- Driving a helicopter.
- Was it scary driving with Fortune?
I was very concerned for the reckless driving.
- I was concerned for Jen.
- Yes we were,
I mean, we asked a lot of Fortune.
We were definitely like, okay
I mean, we had some long days with you Fortune.
- Oh man, it was so fun.
But our first day though, I had just met you,
you were so lovely.
And they were like
we're going to show you how to drive this ambulance.
I'm like okay.
(everyone laughing)
- It was complicated wasn't it?
Like, it was complicated driving that ambulance.
And you had to think about what you were doing
and getting the siren going and...
- Yeah and I didn't want you to think that I,
I didn't know my lines
but I was so nervous just like
delivering the lines to you
but also not running us into a car.
- Are you kidding?
It was impossible.
I mean, I was nothing but impressed.
- I think I might be coming down
with Magic Mountain Fever!
- Wooo!
(triumphant music)
- Wait, but how are we going to get there?
- Yeah.
- Because the SUV is at the Kablooey field
and even with traffic
it's just going to take forever.
- Uh duh, it's yes day!
(rock music) (sirens roaring)
- Are we ready for some roller coaster madness?
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Just so we're clear,
if an emergency comes in
I got to leave you on the side of the road.
Uh oh, whoa!
- What if we are the emergency?
(laughing)
- Good one!
(sirens blasting)
Oh boy, hold on!
- All right, you guys can make fun of me if you want but
I brought clean clothes.
Just in case.
- Oh my gosh, thank you so much, mom.
- Oh that is a nice mom.
- I know you hate when I dress you
I just took a stab.
- Beats smelling like Kool-Aid.
- Woo!
It's Magic Mountain, baby!
(everyone yelling)
(sirens blasting)
- [Dad] Eyes on the road, please.
- [Driver] Got it, my bad.
(sirens blasting) (horn honking)
(upbeat music)
- Fortune I just feel like
I see you come up in everything.
It's so much fun to watch something and, you know,
Barb and Star and there you are.
And how are you deciding,
how did you decide to take on our little movie?
Or how are you just deciding?
It just seems like there's so much coming your way.
- Well, for me, it's, I mean, it's easier than you, you know
you have these monster projects that, that
that you are deciding on.
For me, it's these, you know
smaller parts where I get to come into a movie
and try to add a little sunshine, add a little funny.
So it's not as big of a commitment, you know
but for me it truly was,
I loved the script.
I loved the idea.
I had not read the children's book.
But Jen you were a big part of that.
I mean, for me, I really wanted to work with you.
I was a fan of Edgar's and I just
I knew it was going to be a cool project.
I was like
I get to have all my scenes with Jennifer Garner?
(chuckling)
Yes, Yes Day.
(everyone laughing)
- But you know, now I realize how much
our childhoods were alike, Fortune.
Like, even though I'm so much older than you are,
when I see you post something
and you're in a dress with a collar that goes
like this I'm like that's a simplicity pattern.
The Garner girls all had it.
- That's right. - Like matching Calicos
and with the little rick rack on the edge.
- Yes. - There's so,
like you going to church, you and your white shoes.
Like the whole thing-- - Yep--
- It's like, yep, nope--
- You're West Virginia.
- [Jennifer] Uh huh. - I'm North Carolina.
I feel like not too, not too different in--
- Definitely not too different--
- Probably our upbringings, yeah.
- Mhmmm, mhmmm.
- Yes so, I always loved talking to you on set
'cause it was, oh me too, me too.
And-- - Yep.
- You're so involved in like
things with kids and my wife's a kindergarten teacher
and it was our world's just kept being very similar.
It was-- - Yeah.
- Cool to get to know you like that.
- Mhmmm.
(everyone chuckling)
And congrats on your comedy special.
It's hilarious. - [Fortune] Thank you.
- I ended up doing press for it a bunch this week.
I don't remember who, how many times it came up.
- You were promoting it, yes!
- I'm promoting it.
(everyone laughing)
I'm like wait a minute,
you know about her comedy special, right?
(everyone laughing)
- Aw, you're the best.
No, you've been, you've both been so lovely to me.
And I'm so glad I got to be a part of this with y'all.
- Well guys, if there's a Yes Day Two, you know, I could
I could play Fortune's sidekick.
Maybe I could be a part of it too.
- For sure.
- Are you from the south, where are you from?
- I can be.
I can be.
- You can be?
- He's Jersey.
- I wore collars like that, too.
(everyone laughing)
(upbeat music)