- There's no surprise. Why you guys have a successful show.
As soon as you see your faces, you just kind of chuckle.
You're like, alright I can hang with these.
- Thank god, we're funny looking.
- [Announcer] This is What A Joke With Tom Papa and
fortune Feimster on Netflix is a joke radio.
- But it's hard to be mad at y'all because you have this
sweet smiley faces.
- That's how we get away with it all, the grins help
- So what's going on, guys?
What have you been up to?
- You know, getting reacquainted with the,
with the family, you know, lock down was nice
I got to meet my kids, two nice kids.
I had, they really
- Oh yeah?
- Being off the road, coming home for a while
was really nice to be able to connect with the,
with the fam a little bit and pick up a couple more rescue
dogs and, you know, get the whole thing going.
So it's been, it's been good,
but we're looking forward to get back out on the road.
You know, we,
we hit the road in November for our scoopski potatoes tour.
So we're excited to get back in front of the people.
- Yeah. I got to, I got to get married,
- I saw that.
got to celebrate my one-year anniversary in days from now
literally,
- Whoa!
- They say the first year is the hardest one
we got through it.
- I saw the pictures. You guys look great.
Did you go to the Maldives?
- We did. You know what's funny?
Years ago I saw this ad for this resort in the Maldives,
one of these kind of like over the water things.
And I said to myself was like one day I want to go there.
But honestly I never thought I would because it's clearly a
honeymoon place and I never thought I'd get married.
So I was like, all right, one of
those places it's pretty to look at on Instagram,
I don't ever see it.
And then I somehow, you know, tricked Melissa to,
into loving me.
- Into loving me.
- If you read between the lines,
Murray found the resort first, it was like, okay,
now I need a woman.
- Ah, I've got to go to this resort and we're twins, I,
I got married in the pandemic and also went to the Maldives.
I was, I was like, I'm just going to do what you're doing.
- As a ceremony.
- How did you meet her Mur?
- The first book launch ever had for my very first book
awakened.
She came to the after party that night and I was a little
drunk.
And so was she. And she was there with her
then boyfriend, I drunkenly said to her, I was like,
if you're ever not with him, let me know.
I said it in front of him. Right.
- Nice
- That kind of confidence you get when you've had too much
alcohol.
- Liquid courage, yeah
- We didn't share any phone numbers.
cause I would never disrespect somebody with a
relationship obviously like that. But unbeknownst to me,
like days later they broke up for unrelated reasons.
And then three months later she finally let me know.
And that was over three years ago and I never believed
people when they said, you know, when you know,
I never believed it. And then I met her and I knew.
- Wow, that's amazing.
- I hope you said, if you want to drop the zero
and get with a hero.
- That's straight up like a comic book.
- I mean, that's literally the only opportunity
to say it was right there in that moment.
- It is!
- Oh, I'm glad it worked out.
- Did you get to go to the wedding?
- Yeah. Mur was there. Oh me?
Yeah. I was actually, I did double duty.
I was Mur's best man and I actually was
the minister that married them.
- Oh nice!
- So I performed a ceremony. It was really, really sweet.
It was, it was great to be a part of it.
- Oddly Joe was Melissa's maid of honor too.
It was very.
- It was covid, so we had to do like a bunch of things.
They only allowed about this amount of people, so what
can Joe do? It's like you know what,
I also served during the cocktail hour.
I was really just there to help.
- Flower girl.
- Right, right right yeah but it was a, it was really,
it was really nice.
I mean, I like, I liked them two together too.
And Murr let me know early on that,
once I turned them down to the Maldives, she said, okay,
I'll find somebody else to go with. And I knew that she was
the right one.
- I will tell you the new tour that we have,
The Scoopski Potatoes Tour
One of the stories in the tour is about my wedding.
We've never told the story before,
but my wedding was incredible. It was amazing.
Obviously was mostly outdoors for obvious reasons.
And it was really beautiful.
We had a perfect day in September,
but it ended disastrously.
- Oh really?
- And we tell, as a comedian, I find it hilarious
so does Melissa and the guys of course were witnessing it.
It was a train crashing into an airplane all at the same
time,
you'll find out the whole story on tour.
- Oh, that's awesome.
So when does the tour kickoff? Where's the first,
where's the first date.
- We start in Phoenix.
November 20th is the first I believe that we were in the
19th, November 19th.
I believe it is.
It's in Phoenix and we kicks off and we go through August
with 40 cities across the U.S. right now.
- Wow, that's awesome.
- That's awesome, and how will you guys be traveling?
Will you all be in a bus together or does,
does one of you get a private jet and the rest are on a bus?
How does it work?
- Rock paper scissors.
- It's a private jet and we tie the bus to
the back of that jet.
- Yeah, yeah.
I'm actually drive, I'm doing double duty
I'm driving the bus.
- Save money, save money.
- Yeah, it depends on sometimes we bus it and
sometimes we do a, we do the flight thing.
but we're trying mostly to bus it just because of the ease
and you know, not having to go through airports as much,
but I love being on the bus with the guys. It's really fun.
We're like,
we really like crotchety old men and like a mobile home
together trying to like drive through Yellowstone.
It's really great.
- Y'all never get tired of each other?
- We can't contractually. We're not allowed to,
they don't let us stop.
- We'd get sued if we got tired.
- I'm so mad at you, but this show's huge.
- Gotta keep it going be my friend, be my friend.
- How do you handle the food when you're on the road?
I know you don't suffer like bad food normally in your
lives.
- Is that a nice way to call me a fat fuck?
- I wouldn't say fat. I'd say
- You like what you like.
- let's say you just like the finer things.
- You guys don't look like you're "starving"
- No, I, I we searched stuff out.
But it's funny that you say that because a lot of fans will
tell us where to eat under that same assumption.
People be like Joe, you got to try these donuts
at this place.
Like recommendations when coming to town all the time.
They'll even bring food to the shows and said that in the
back. And we'll be in the back of your local cannoli's.
- Oh nice.
- The best, it's the best
do you ever get when people make stuff at home,
it's so sweet. Like it comes like wrapped in cellophane.
It's like, this is a little thing.
You're like, this is really nice,
but we're going to have to have a roadie taste this first.
- We grabbed the package,
thank them for giving it to us and promptly throw right in
the got damn trash. I don't want your home baked goods.
The weirdest thing we ever got was a fan years ago.
There's a bit of the show where Joe describes somebody who's
a as looking like a bag of like loose taco meat or something
a fan delivered it to the office,
like 10 pounds in Tupperware of cooked, loose taco meat.
Which is weird.
- That's really weird.
- It was a good lunch that day though,
if we're going to be honest guys.
- Yeah, for a second it felt like "Silence of the Lambs".
And then you just decided we might as well dig in.
Mur what's your opinion on, on this whole dog rescue thing.
And do you ever get roped into it?
- You mean that Joe does?
- Yeah.
- I think it's amazing, I think it's absolutely
amazing in particular what I love
dearly about my friend and his wife are that specifically
that the rescue senior dogs,
my best friend and his wife give them the best,
last moments or last year of their lives.
They come into this house where they're surrounded by love
and company and good food and good, good shelter.
And gosh, I think it's amazing what they do.
You know?
- Aw thank you Murr.
- Tom was trying to get you to shit on them
- No.
- I didn't realize I didn't.
I didn't realize until he started talking,
what Murr's long-term plan is. It's when he gets old,
he's going to need someone to take care of.
- That's exactly right.
- Good karma.
- Rescue person.
- I think it's funny because I think in there
Murray was just trying to loosely veiled.
The way that Tom did calling me fat was he just,
he listened about my fear of commitment was like he gets the
old ones where they're only around for a couple of weeks.
- And allow us to plug the book, The Dogfather:
My Love of Dogs, Desserts and Growing up Italian
So I think we were all we were all right.
- That's right and one of my,
one of my favorite activities is to actually read to my
dogs, James Murray's collection,
most specifically the newest one that just came out the
stowaway. Because James is a long time author.
The stowaway is, is available, you know, this next week.
So Murr's busy as well.
- Come on now.
- That's awesome. How long have you been writing for Murr?
- The Stowaway's my fifth book out in stores.
- Wow.
- Three more coming out next year.
This is about a serial killer on a cruise ship.
It's a great read. Exciting.
I write thrillers.
- Is that inspired at all by your comedy cruises?
- It's a true story.
- Yeah, it is based on the cruise.
You got to come on one
- The Impractical Jokers cruise.
I've seen, I've seen the videos from them. It looks fun.
- Yeah they're a lot of fun.
- The cruises are crazy, the cruise are great.
We literally had the last cruise before the pandemic.
- We might have caused COVID. I'm not sure.
- They let you into the port and then went shit.
- I mean, of course the,
the Impractical Jokers television show just keeps on
rocking. How many seasons now?
- Just a, we're doing 9's on the air now. And then 10,
we got renewed for.
We start production on that next year. So we're,
we're still going.
- We are green lit through a season 130.
- It's raining.
- I know
- I love it.
- I saw lightning.
- There's lightning and thunder.
- Woo.
- What's going on?
- Whoa
fortune what's going on?
- Fortune what's happening?
- This just became a horror movie.
- This is a horror movie.
- Oh my goodness.
- That was the weirdest thing that I've seen.
- That really was wild.
- Lightning or something. I don't know if it hits something.
- It was, it felt like one of those
like horror movies they make for teenagers
where everyone's online and like,
you know what I mean? Like.
- Yeah. and then, then Dave, you and I would have to meet,
like, we'd have to like take scooters to
each other's house and go
- Yes.
- Rescue Fortune.
- Yes
- I'm okay. You guys I'm okay.
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