♪ She's putting on her earring, putting on her earring ♪
♪ Gotta get it on 'cause she's on our show ♪
(Tom laughs) - Thanks for that theme song.
- [Tom] This is "What a Joke".
- [Fortune] With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
- [Tom] On Netflix is a Joke Radio.
- Oh my gosh, I was watching your show last night.
I'm in a hotel room in Des Moines by myself,
don't be jealous.
- You on vacation? (Fortune and Tom laugh)
- You know how I love to visit Des Moines in the winter.
No, I'm on tour.
It's so funny, oh my God.
- Yeah, so good. - So funny.
- Thank you.
Yeah, the goal was to make a satire
of this psychological thriller genre,
but keep the suspense, 'cause I mean, you guys know
that in comedy, you can have the funniest movie ever,
but if no one cares where the characters are going
or what the outcome is, people get bored
and they don't even know why,
so we wanted to keep the suspense high,
but while increasing in the absurdity,
and I'm so happy that people are loving it,
and I'm actually almost more thrilled
with the people that aren't loving it
because they don't get it.
- Right. - And the tweets are hilarious
of like, this is bad dialogue.
It makes me so, it's like, yeah, that's the point.
- Yeah. - They're taking it literally
and missing all the subtle jokes.
- Yeah, there's like three layers to this.
There's the people who get it, which makes me happy,
then there's the people who just don't get it,
and then there's the people like my mom
who just think it's like a real murder mystery.
- Yeah. - Right?
(ominous music)
♪ Rain, rain, go away ♪
♪ Come again some other day ♪
(dramatic music)
(she screams) (dish shatters)
(she cries)
- [Anna] My husband used to tell me
that I have an overactive imagination,
that I drink too much,
that I can't let go of the past,
that I make plans and cancel them,
that I never wear a jacket but then complain that I'm cold,
that sometimes I speak with a British accent
even though I'm not British.
He's right.
About all of it.
That's why he left me.
- So I was caught in some backlash, which is exciting.
I don't normally get entangled in social media backlash,
but apparently those Pyrex dishes are very expensive now.
They're like,
you know, a Hummel. - Oh, a vintage.
- Vintage, they're worth a lot of money,
they're worth like a thousand dollars.
- [Fortune And Tom] Whoa.
- And people were like, how dare you break them,
they're so expensive.
And the fact that we would take that much money
and waste it is ridiculous,
obviously we were getting cast white ones
and painting it on, but they're a vintage commodity now.
And in my head, I was also like,
listen, if you own one of these, you should be happy
that I'm lowering the number there are in the world.
- That's right. (laughs) (Tom laughs)
- It's totally gonna make yours skyrocket.
- But it's so funny that it would go over people's head,
because you're sitting there going,
if you don't do everything, then you do nothing,
but you wanna do everything.
Clearly this is satire. - The past and the present,
and the present and the past. - And if you don't risk
everything, you're actually risking nothing.
- Yeah, something like, yeah.
- Almost after every scene, I would run back
to Rachel and go, "Did it work?
Because to be honest, I feel like I'm in no man's land.
I don't feel like it's funny,
and I don't feel like it's real."
And she was like,
"That's the sweet spot." - Yeah.
- And then we realized we just had to surrender
to the genre, and the genre had to be priority
if it was gonna actually be funny.
- Right. - Well it works
'cause you play it real.
We believe your performance, you know what I mean?
But then your voiceover brings in that satire.
It's great. - That makes me so happy
that you guys liked it.
'Cause it's also like, I think Rachel was right.
This genre deserved a bit of satire.
It's about time someone poked fun at this.
- Right. - Yeah.
- Yeah, this has to be poked now.
And this is a failing of myself,
is watching it, and you're making so many great jokes,
subtle jokes about drinking wine,
and the wine thing is so dominant
and the corks and all the way up
and drinking it like a kitten,
and then my wife and I are like,
I know this isn't supposed to be happening
but she's making us wanna drink wine.
(laughs) And we started-- - You know what that means?
That means you're not a psychopath or a sociopath,
it means you have mirror neurons.
I went through the same thing, I never drank ever,
and I still rarely do now,
but when we started watching "Peaky Blinders",
did you guys watch "Peaky Blinders"?
- I never watched it. - Yes.
- Oh my God, Fortune,
it's so good. - It's so good.
- I gotta see it.
- I was like, "I need a whisky."
And this is from someone who doesn't drink,
and my friends were like,
"You need a whisky, you need a what?"
You know how we did the thing with the wine?
- No. - We had a wine glass,
we didn't want it to look enormous
like it was already a joke, like from the SkyMall catalog
or something. - Right.
- But shout out SkyMall catalog,
RIP. (Fortune laughs)
But we wanted it to be big enough
that it was like, oh, this girl can handle it,
and so the wine bottle,
we were corking them and putting hibiscus tea in them,
and Dustin, our excellent prop guy,
he would cork all the bottles with hibiscus tea
to exactly the surface tension line of the glass.
- Yeah, I would notice - Oh, man.
- it filled the whole glass. - Yeah, yeah.
- And he was measuring behind the scenes,
so every time I poured, it was exactly surface tension
which forced me, before I moved, to have to go (slurps).
- Wow. (laughs) - That was so great. (laughs)
(somber music) (wine sloshes)
(phone buzzes)
- Shit.
- Hey. - Hello, Anna.
How are you feeling?
- Crazy.
- [Therapist] Crazy how?
- Where do you want me to start?
I've been hearing noises in the attic.
- [Therapist] You live in an old house, right?
Old houses creak.
- I saw Elizabeth playing in her room again.
What's your explanation for that?
- [Therapist] Well, we talked about that.
Imagining you see her is part of the trauma.
How's the drinking?
- Great, I'm really cutting back.
- [Therapist] And the pills I prescribed?
You know not to combine them with alcohol right?
- I'm not.
- [Therapist] I'm serious, Anna.
That could contribute to the hallucinations
and can even cause a psychotic episode.
- I said I'm not.
Jesus, I'm so sick of talking, I could scream.
I mean, I feel like I could kill somebody.
- Well, you're killing it.
You're in so many cool projects.
So anytime I see your name on something,
I'm like, this is gonna be good.
- Thanks.
Well, I don't know,
some of them were stinkers. - Yeah, girl.
- Some of them were stinkers, okay?
(Tom laughs) - Not to me.
Not in my Kristen Bell collection.
- Yeah, come on now.
(Fortune and Tom laugh)
- And when people are like, what do you wanna do next?
I'm like, I don't know.
I wanna read things and see if they're good.
Like, I fell into "Veronica Mars".
I didn't manufacture that, I wasn't like,
let me look for a great, niche, delicious show
that will have a life for the next 15 years.
Like, I don't know, I just stumbled into Rob Thomas,
he's brilliant, and was lucky enough to be a part of it.
And I feel that way about every project,
but the last five years, or maybe since I've had kids,
my main goal in picking something is like, would I watch it?
And then do I think the day-to-day is gonna be fun?
'Cause I don't fuck with things that are gonna be miserable.
If you're shooting a comedy,
you should be having fun on set.
You should be laughing, it should be fun,
and when I look at the people I'm gonna work with
or the projects I'm gonna do,
I have a very strict no jerks policy.
- Yeah. - That's great.
- It's just not worth it anymore.
I don't have any desire to go to Greenland,
which is the one that's icy,
'cause Iceland is the one that's green,
to go to Greenland and shoot some Arctic movie.
That's gonna be fucking miserable.
- Right. (laughs) - Yeah.
You do seem to have a pretty great work-life balance.
I am jealous of your friend group.
You guys are always doing some sort of dress up party.
- I am very grateful for my friend group, I will say.
But I'll say that I love people who love things,
like I've went to Comic Cons
and done like a dozen Comic Cons.
The authenticity and the passion
of you come in your "Star Wars" shit, you know.
I love that, that's so beautiful to me.
Again, when we watched "Peaky Blinders",
we decided after the finale we would all dress up
like "Peaky Blinders" characters.
So I went into the vault at Universal
and got a bunch of 1930s suits,
and then yeah, for "Game of Thrones",
we do, one time I rented a wheelchair for Dax.
He's not as into the dress up as I am.
- (laughs) He's like, fine.
- 'Cause of the pre-production of it all,
but that's like my, I love that.
So I'm like, where can I rent a wheelchair?
You're Bran, you don't need to think about it.
(Tom laughs) - Just put on a faux fur.
(Fortune laughs) - Yeah.
(car horn beeps)
- It's time for name that tune.
♪ It's time for game time with Papa and Fortune ♪
- You yell out the name of the song.
That's what we're looking for.
- Name of the song. - Yell it out.
Who gets it first gets the point--
- "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
- Roof, roof, roof. - We haven't started.
And then if you do get it right,
we'll give you a bonus point if you can name the artist.
- I'm hungry. - "Man in the Mirror",
Michael Jackson.
- I'm hungry.
- Fortune's hungry.
- Oh my God. (gasps)
- Did you find a Reese's?
- Is it my birthday? (laughs)
- How did you find a Reese's in your backpack?
- Mwah.
- Here we go.
(guitar chord plays)
- "Wild Thing".
(bell dings) - Wow.
- Whoa. - Whoa, Tom,
you're in trouble.
- My Reese's cup.
- I think that was one beat. (laughs)
(upbeat jazz music)
- "Hit the Road Jack".
- "Hit the Road Jack". - Oh my goodness.
- Ray Charles. (bell dings)
- Oh, and the bonus.
Shall we just stop, Tom?
Segment over?
- No, I'm gonna make my comeback.
I'll find some treats in here.
(upbeat funk music)
- "Another One Bites the Dust", and that's Queen.
(Joe laughs) (Fortune laughs)
♪ It's time for game time ♪
♪ With Papa and Fortune ♪
- What the hell is happening right now?
(upbeat music)
- "YMCA",
- "YMCA". - by the Village People.
- Oh my God. (Fortune giggles)
- [Fortune] I got it right, (indistinct).
- [Joe] That's seven zero, Fortune.
- [Tom] She's back in Belmont,
and she is feeling the hometown vibes, and she is on fire.
- I don't actually have enough songs loaded
for Tom to catch up at this point.
♪ Bum bum, ba bum, ba bum bum ♪
(relaxed funk music)