Impractical Joker Joe Gatto | This Past Weekend #234

You know him, he's one of the impractical jokers, and this guy has probably made more people laugh than anybody. Maybe any, I'm trying to think of somebody that tickles people that's real famous, I don't even know, but he's probably one of the top 40 or 50 funniest people that you've probably ever even heard of or not heard of. And he's here today, he has a new show on TBS called Misery Index. He has countless seasons of his hit show, The Unpractical Jokers.

He's one of the tenderloins, and that's their original group of improvists. Ladies and gentlemen, my guest, my friend, Mr. Joe Gatto, or Gatto. I'm not sure I'm gonna ask them right now.

How's that right now? How's that right now? They call it the Caribbean of the New York Harbor. That's cool, man.

I didn't know that. Yeah, I gotta go to Staten Island, man. You've never been to Staten Island? I don't think I've been there.

I mean, always hear you guys talk about it, you know, and you hear a lot of people talk about it. Most people go through it. It's the Connector between Brooklyn and Jersey or Long Island and Jersey. So people go through it, but a lot of people, it's the free way to see the Statue of Liberty.

Oh, really? You think it's down on ferry, which is free. Yeah. As opposed to the Liberty Ferry, which takes you to Liberty Island, then you have to get off and look at the feet of it.

You can't get a good look at it. Right. You can't get the best look from the ferry. So you see everybody on one side of the boat on the way there and then one side of the boat on the way there.

Dude, you used to work on the ferry, didn't you? No. Did you? Yeah, did you ever?

Time was tough. Did you ever? No, no, no. You didn't work on the ferry?

Yeah, I thought somebody told me that. What was the job that you had that you actually missed that was a long time ago? I love sales. I love sales all the time.

When I came out here to chase the dream, I was gonna be a screenwriter director. That's what I hope I'm hoping end up. And I came out here to do that in 2003 to 2005 and I ended up working at Nordstrom's at the Grove. Oh, wow.

And I crushed the retail game for a while. Did you really? Yeah, I crushed it. What was one of your go-to moves that somebody wandered in?

I worked in the rail, which is the men's section to sell high-end jeans and teachers. Oh, yeah. That's a quality section. It's a quality section.

We actually put it on the map. I don't want to break it. I was a platinum pay center. Salesmen.

Number five. Cross the country. Really? Yeah, $1 million in a year.

But that's neither here or there. I knew it was bragging. No one. And you got just selling some real wild stuff in there.

Yeah. Even newborns. That's it, man. You know $1.00 a day.

That was a $60.00. That was a $60.00. Yeah, I used to do the thing because we worked in the men's section when I had a great scheme. It's all commission.

Really? No hourly. You don't get paid if you don't sell, right? It seems illegal.

Yeah. I think it is. I think it is. That's a drug.

It's almost like contracting. Yeah, it's it. It's the vond, the past the vonduch. So I did the, I had like girlfriends who would come up with their boyfriends and when the boyfriends would come to shop and I'd be like, oh, I'm sure you need some, let me take upstairs and introduce you to Chelsea.

I would have a deal with Chelsea upstairs. Like whatever you sell them, I get 50% of. Damn. And it was such a great scheme because you'd sell anything in the store and then eventually I became known there as like I was fun and funny, you know, and I really, I'm pretty good with people and I could sell anything.

So I'd be like, oh, I need to watch them. I know, I know, I know, I'll walk over. I get a key from some guy. I'd be like, oh, you got to get the guy on a Nordic track.

Yeah. On the fifth floor. They sell like Teslas at the Grove now. Yeah.

Is it Tesla? Oh, yeah. Inside the Nordstrom. Is that Tesla?

I was like, can we sell Teslas? I'll go back. I'll forget to you, man. I got a, I got recruited.

I got poached from Nordstrom to this high end called HD Buttercup. It's a furniture. I opened that store. Did you really?

I did. I was their first personal shopper. Dude, it's pricey over there. It's crazy.

And I worked out a deal with them that, because they have little, they're set up. It was called Manutellers. They have little stores within a big store. So it's a huge big.

Oh, kind of like that Fred Seagull. Yeah, exactly. Right. So they had that whole setup and I was like, oh, okay.

So I want to sell the whole store and they're like, oh, no, you would just work for this one company. I'm like, oh, that's not what I was told. And they're like, what? Like I was my big thing for a while.

I held her, like I was shooting her, brother, and I held her with some drugs and stuff and I was like, I went around. I was like, yeah, I sold drugs, you know, like, I just jumped it up. Magic carpet. We called.

But there was, uh, they had an antique section and it was one guy that worked at it. It was at a TV Buttercup inside. One of the Manuteells was an antique guy. Okay.

And it's all commissioned there too. I worked at the other was Hourly Plus. So I got like 3% or 5%. I think I got 5% there.

And I said, okay, I was like, you know whatever. I said, I got 5% in this guy and I was like eating tuna fish. It's like when you bow you're like I had like a peanut butter I couldn't for the jealous I can't put sandwiches Yeah, you know so I didn't squeeze the pat and jelly in your mouth I would get a bite of the mail but it's actually a little bit of jelly. Yeah, just feel your pockets and any kind of pop eyes That great jelly too.

Some things have shady jelly, but that's a different chat. I don't know if you want to get into that now Let's go back. Let's say sorry. Hey, you better come you got the antiques action.

So what happened? What was that? I don't know I don't know shit about antiques the guy goes on break He's like hey, I gotta go pick up order I think it was door from school or something. Do you mind just watch us the week?

Nobody? Oh, it's all white privilege and that guy's like Yeah, I'm gonna pick her up whatever you have to do or a doctor appointment or if you don't like it remember If he's antique it probably Like research, you're like let me go get a bureau, right? He goes on break and a woman walks in I was like oh could you help me with I'm looking for an antique a chest I'm sure so I walk in and I hadn't hardly ever walked into this because I didn't know anything about it Yeah, and there's only so much you could fake right so I get in and she's like this is from a battle Yeah, I'm like it's all just smells like a Lincoln. Oh, yeah, this is got mahogany and Lincoln.

That's what this is right here I'm just throwing out terms. So she's like she walked in and she fell in love with this like on my this like big Oh, yeah, there's a real nice and I was like oh this is like I think my husband like this I was like I think I was like an anniversary gift for some I was like okay I was like I can get you the information she's like oh no I'll take it and this guy's on lunch and I work on commission five percent And I'm like all right and I look at the price goes $40,000 and I was like where would you like that delivered? And I was like it was like I got a Uber for I'll walk all the Culver City Yeah, you know a couple tongs are Hawaiian Before they came here there was a stater You move to the furniture like this is my dresser I live here now Yeah, but that was that was my big thing and then I move back to New York And so whenever you move when you made that move back to New York had you like kind of given up on some of that that Like that dream a little bit like was it a little bit of that move? Yeah, I mean I've all done a little bit of that move at some point I think like there was a point I was out here for like six years and then I'll move back to Louisiana for a while and I was Doing margaritas or something or making margaritas for so you know at a shit at a real halfway house of a fucking taco Tarka you know it was like a tacos head like a little shady cafe with tacos and then they had a bar like hook to it Really?

Yeah, they had the margarita machine and I broke it. I said that the settings wrong and they had to pretend like it wasn't broke It was like Johnny Buffett's margarita Yeah, it was like yeah, it was like Chewavara's margarita So when you move back was it was it because of um when I move back my grandma passed away my grandmother My mother became widows together like within like five days of each other so they always had each other So my mom's like alone. Oh, I felt like you know what I was like it's at my grandmother's funeral actually My hand was kind of force at my grandma's funeral I had coming from LA and I said I said my mom was like You know, maybe I'll move back to New York just out loud like just shrimp. I was like, oh maybe I'll move back to New York in a little bit And she started crying and homies to thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I guess I'm moving back to me I can't be like back off lady.

You know, it's like I'm gonna move back. So I decided and you guys are pretty close to your mom Yeah, we were yeah, so uh and so yeah, so at that point you don't really have a choice Then if she's you guys are close as you want you back. Yeah, so I came back and I moved back into her basement as a good 30 year old Sons do yeah, I'll say a fire of the record player. Yeah, we It's the same basement actually where before I move this where the tender ones used to rehearse my company We used to rehearse down there be Selmar and our friend Mike used to before we did our shows we used to say basement So I ended up living where I was doing improv rehearsal Oh, you know, I was in a good mental space and I ended up getting a job because about here in retail at that one of the Man-new-tailers there Uh-huh brought me into a show that Jacob Jamison was just a big furniture show at the Javits Center like where people called the meeting you know You know vendors and stuff.

Okay, where's Javits Center? It's a Manhattan It's the big conference under there Manhattan. So I took the design center here Whatever you know like one of those where they have those big conferences huge, you know, Comic Con is in New York, right? So um, they I Decided to work help her out with this thing and I'm just you know selling bullshit and just selling all this stuff to people Coming to open in stores and this one woman came up to me I'm named was Ali and she was the CEO of a new store called the giggle a baby store Mmm, and so I started selling some stuff and she like really like it easy to sell something to a baby I mean, I'm the money to have Make sure it makes your makes noise.

Yeah, don't check the baby the toy Kids nowadays, you know, there is a yeah, well, they had this lady They had this lady the other day and she goes man these children are cute It was me and bad she was each other like they've been here before That's a great saying I don't know True as some of these little assholes. They're like they've been here. Yeah, it's funny because my son and daughter I'm always like oh like she acts super different my daughter is for my sons too And my two-year-old son acts completely different than my two-year-old daughter did like my daughter's old prim and proper like you go like You know go color and she's in the corner for four hours. Yeah going with crayon Yeah, yeah, the little women I figure they want to change the world, you know, they have some inkling of like, you know, hope and Dumb just run around Yeah, that's my boy.

That's my re-mo It's always crazy to watch me like what is going on? They're gonna Do my little nephews to hide on top of shit like on bookshelves and shouldn't be real quiet and fucking surprise you bro Yeah, he's like 19 months old like that's insane. There's no way he got up there by Man Procolas. No, no, I'm saying this dude ain't out of my head.

He's sorry. He's so seek that out Yeah, this is we're gonna make some time. Oh, you could tell he'd definitely been like envisioning being up on that shelf and just woke up there We want to know this ain't no free solo baby right here. It's all about the angle That's strong.

Oh, yeah, dude. He was really yeah, there's some of these children that is wild. They got the egg around and po in them, you know Something's going on. They got dirty birds in the back of the brain Yeah, but um so we now tenderloins now one story that I love about you guys's group of Impractical jokers is that tenderloins is y'all's original group and was there members that we don't know about with our other members?

Could you mention a guy Mike? Yeah, there's there was two that we brought on one was Mike was the original Mike Boccea went I saw him as well and Quinn just Quinn you know cute Yeah, he didn't go that way and Bocce actually got a job and grew up and got married And everything like before all of us like he became a grown up and the rest was so like trying to improv and just didn't Match was scheduling anymore like we want to shoot like on a Wednesday at like five You know four o'clock is it guys on the work like when you're talking about I can't be there You know, so he just kind of went the way and was very successful and family and love and money on his own way You know, he runs like a he's in the PR in the PR and stuff So we see more time. Oh nice little friends of himself. Wow is it kind of is it not hectic?

What is it like is it interesting to think like oh if he would have been there does he ever like you guys ever lament on it a Little bit of positive way. Yeah, we don't like the what if it was there Oh, what if it was five what if you came on and I'm like it's not more like a cure him It's always because a lot of this cute was a huge part of the puzzle for us because we had moved into video right and scripted Writing stuff and he was a very strong writer and so he helped he helped us with that part of the deal Like really different kind of humor than us a little bit at that time We were a lot really corny and he was like, you know fun corny like people liked it But like he was like oh we're like able to edge, you know, yeah a little dark which sometimes just fun to like yeah The combination of all of our sense of abilities. I think really was the right perfect, you know that I'm making a margarita Right, you know, that was the right if you're making a jank guess longer. Yeah, you can't have the baby powder like somebody And was so anybody else was there it was a guy that jumped in for a little bit Gideon who was a actor friend of ours that moved to New York Florida, oh nice he filled in for a little bit too and he was like a fifth while botchus That was it with every day ever done an episode that where you guys had them pop in or no, we actually used botches Daughter Sienna in one of the times where we sometimes we take to the park and we have our daughter like it's an actress What do we use?

Boches daughter we did it twice we did something we just did something recently with I don't think air yet But there's what we brought it back to like surprise sounds. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, so they're in the mix You know, we see you know talking stuff, but it's fun. You know the tenderloins is where the way I came back to so like I mean I mean you got back home.

You got to know the tenderloins. Yeah, we came back in and I was like, okay So I'm back now because when I was away for two years like we don't they didn't do any lot of shows I don't do the show when I came home. So I was I came on I think the two or three shows where I came home. Okay, I'm homeless But I show up and we go and do it and what's that it was kind of defunct it didn't really right?

Yeah, yeah, everybody there Yeah, so now it's like just back and then we got into like that's when my space took off and all the like, you know Sketch comedy on the internet. Yeah, so we started to sketch is and what about videos? Nick, you know, what is a tenderloin? What is it?

I know a tenderloin is a meat. Yeah, it's a mean, okay. What is it? Can you look that up?

Do you mind? I want to see what cut this thing is so I know So you can put it to us want to visualize. Yeah, what's going on here? The tender is part of a loin pork loin of beef pork, etc.

Yeah, so that's probably Sal Taken from under the short ribs in the hind for that high court. That's my oh And this is this is this is the good one. Let's go to the second district of a city where vicing corruption or promise We just miss in me. I guess I'm the I guess I'm the short ribs Well, yeah, because in San Francisco, there's a famous Shit went down and the story drugs Actually a video on my phone or some people blowing each other off from our hotel window.

Yeah, yeah We had we had walked by when we did the San Francisco sketch facts back in the day We were saying in a we thought it'd be funny to tell one saying that I'm not knowing right So we're walking back from a 7-eleven that had had a iron, you know iron fence and like I got to come in to a 7-eleven Which I was like this is not good bulletproof glass like to enter like you went into like a little thing to walk around I was bulletproof Like a little pop car taking around watch him a call this row We're gonna watch him a little came back and there was just we walked out one tree I'm not even kidding. It was just like three separate things of fucking going on Yeah, and it was like there was like two cops that were like looking at like a body Just like this and we're like and we didn't know if they're just passed out and then we walked back to her like that might have been a murder You know they just found it was like oh well Jimmy we go we gotta find out yeah Yeah, that's not it. Yeah, that's only crazy man. I remember we went to this thing called beta breakers a while back there And it was like this it was a race I guess where people started guess at the bay and then they run like a bridge or something yep Well, we did a bunch of mushrooms and we didn't I don't know we weren't really in the race or anything but at one point we took over a Table somebody had a table where they had all the cups of water and we took it over right in the middle and I'm just Just flying on mushrooms at this point dude.

I'm looking at a Lord's looking for me You know what I'm looking for him Yeah, we're gonna meet up that afternoon but uh and people were running my in this race You know tens of thousands of people in this race and when they get close someone would try to get the water And we'd be like no it's for Asian people only So you had so many people and they're running they have to keep going There's a huge flow of people they can't argue or discuss it Right, right? Notations only they're like Just keep on passing out from behind racing a quarter mile down the road These Irish people At the next turn just from boom and all Asian people were so happy I just fly and row it was so bizarre though. So the great choice We thought we laugh or so we just sat there somebody deserted their stand, bro You know what I'm saying? This was like uh, you know this you get probably you know High-end quarter back in the military for this somebody deserted there You know their water standing and we just took it over to where I'm rushing would serve in and out The deserted stand is a way I made a lot of my jokes early in I'm not even like just me being me with my friends like yeah because just so much I was a host at any restaurant with a thing was Oh, and I would go as far as I could like I there was a Perkins by me It's that I would be and I would be working the whole bird like I'd walk in and be like, you know, 11 o'clock I'm walking I'm like how many and they're like what if you say how many to anyone anywhere with authority you'll get an answer I promise you that I do be anywhere how many how many your party to I thought answering the phone.

I would take to go all this hang up not know what the dude is people waiting Care so I used to hate those two things out. Oh, I embarrassed him. Oh my god the worst But he loved it and he lit but there was two things he used to hate the worst one was taking elevator with me Uh-huh because I would just I didn't give a shit and then to Yeah Two was what he called two was waiting for a table to restaurant me because like when I'm in a waiting situation I get bored. I'm like what can I do here?

That's gonna be fun for me I don't even care other people watching all that I just like do stuff for myself half the time Right, and then they would enjoy watching that, you know So did you all did you do that kind of stuff when you were a kid is it instigation you think that you kind of like or is it? I'm trying to think of what the element is that I didn't do I didn't is it surprise is it instigation like what is the thing that turned that That attracts you you know to do that sort of I'm just trying to think of the thing in your head It's like I wasn't like that all grown up by super geeky I was it wasn't till junior year high school and I started the first time I did improv at high school We did high school improv together that's how it made me go to it like I was like you should come you funny I said a bunch of them all times you should come and try and I was like now and I was like I can do it and I'm gonna do it and then in high school I like I'll believe a little bit and stuff and I use it I turned the tables in high school because I would reverse believe the football players Uh-huh like I remember the moment when one guy walked by and like they said some whatever and I knocked the books out of the line Backer's hand like on a phone like pick them up like that and he lays and I'm sorry I'm gonna do this and I just started like bullying like I was right in four pounds on the math team Bull and team like I was like not anything right so on the bullying team Yeah, some schools have a bullying team, you know, that's part of the problem. I think in America. We have a bullying team So you so you just kind of say oh I'm flip the script So I did that and I was like oh that was kind of the way I dealt with it slash it made me feel good And then also I really liked about it was it really took a turn to the whole high school We won't you know our class we went to all both Catholic high school so what are you doing besides messing with you?

I read the part right fart really right there 300 people in the class and I really felt a moment there was like Oh, everybody's having fun with this. Yeah, it's like kind of like bullying kind of like when I went to my class It kind of was just like oh, we're all just fucking around together like didn't matter like so I felt like that was pretty cool Oh, that's cool And that is kind of carried me throughout my whole career all the way here now That's a big thing for me, but I was a perception almost Yeah, it was like that gave me like a weird confidence and I think confidence is definitely my key like I'll try to pull off anything I don't you know, yeah, you're strange too I'm so being strange because I remember seeing you at the Wild West Comedy Fest and I knew about you guys as a group But I'd never spend any time with any of you. Yeah, that's where we met you. Yeah, that's where I met you Yeah, and so we're at some bar after party and and all your crews all raging and stuff and having fun and and the life of the party I mean the group and there's one guy who's just I think that's all we're not gonna take it was on or something right Yeah, and there's one guy standing on a table like right up against the wall facing the wall Just beating the wall dude and nobody else is really kind of involved in what he's doing right?

But he's like the centerpiece. It's like he's this odd ornament this Christmas ornament in the middle of summer bro, you know Damn that guy's fucked That's the thing. Yeah, I don't drink don't smoke my life. I never even try to cigarette everybody's big I am so like hi on coke.

Oh, I thought I was like that guy's fucked Yeah, I've had my body shouldn't have like I just go because I love about that moment is that gets anyone licensed in the room to be weird I'm gonna be weirder like don't worry about it because you know, we should not that guy like that's the guy I am in a party It's like all could be really this right. He's crazy Sal spent most of his life explaining that I wasn't talking to people like that's really we have to do when we go out He's like he's like he's like look at he's shirts off. He's doing a worm in the middle of the club through hot models I don't care. I was doing anything beautiful.

Yeah, so yeah wasn't aspiring kind of like oh man I want to have that much fun. Yeah, I think that's probably what people get when they watch your show some or when they watch Of jokers and watch it over the years. It's like oh, I want to have that much fun I guess well, you know, the show quickly became not anything about like pranks or anything It really became just friendship on display. Yeah, and that's what people really took to and that's why you know Everybody always feels like they know that for like if you watch a show you didn't know us I imagine you'd be like oh, I got like I got like Sal or I know I got like well No, I was very good at my but yeah, I got like I got like came in your in your click or grown up So I think there's part of that that people really that talks to people yeah, you know, you know when you when you when you When you think about like kind of like the next steps and stuff cuz at a certain point like you guys have all grown so much You know does it start to see I know you have the new show now that you're doing the misery index and but these you mentioned directing And stuff really do you start to like think about things like that?

You know, yeah, I've always had I never wanted I never thought this would be I never want to be in front of camera Yeah, you're trying to work in Nordstrom. Yeah, I'm trying to sell high-end t-shirts. What a guy work as people cotton Yeah, you know, but I'm trying to get people to the people but I did like a I always always behind the camera guy always directing That's always what I wanted to do even the 10 of one stuff like I always did like those like one of our most famous sketches I'm barely in because I was like directing and like I love ending and all that stuff right but and even with the show Like that's what I do like I hope sure on this. Oh, okay.

You do. Oh wow I was the first one I had to quit my job full-time So I kind of got like I was like guys we doing this because I gotta give up on giggles I had a quick giggle everybody else was able to work both jobs Q was still a fireman Sal still on his people still part under me. Oh, let's say look still a fireman is a unique term as well I'm not saying I love fireman, right? Yeah, it's best if there's a fire You want to see They're basically people that are training for the hot dog eating Exactly right.

Yeah, but you know good people at heart It's all fun. That's what they're professionals off of yeah discussing sports Like that they do, you know, but they you know so he was they read had their job to fall back on and I like I have to be all in When we shot the pilot she gave me two weeks off and then when I was like hey You gotta shoot the first season you need to do it next month. I was like hey CEO I'm gonna need six months off and she's like I can't do that She's like doors open if it doesn't work out you could come back, but you get in the tenor ones So you guys did a lot of you guys had years of trying 16 years and have also did a couple of pilots It didn't take out. Yeah, we had to one for spike and then one for number spikes I don't think it is I don't think it is in the end.

I think just cars like crashing No, it was called scratch and then like a music video segment, you know, oh no, it wasn't like a top ten worst list Like they become one of those stations where I'm mad. Yeah, I didn't count down shows and stuff They just rebranded it to paramount network now. So it's just like a regular channel again. Oh, okay.

It's not for men anymore No, yeah, it was very yeah, it was pretty for men I remember it was the man what's true when we we joined true the slate was insane that our show And honestly it was every toast tote show three different titles like towing South Beach Stone another one I forgot and then knock off shows for like pawn stars. It was called. Oh, yeah I think it was called no, what was it the major? It was like like the pawn brothers I saw like that so what if I had a show and then it was our comedy like in it and now true was like a top comedy network Which is so so like weird that that happened and so cool that they took that chance and all like kind of happen But like if you looked at our show on the beginning was like what the hell is this like?

Well, how does it even there so you guys gonna fit in here? Oh, I'm and you guys worry about that or did you you did yeah? Because we were on the table for MTV or true Wow and but MTV wanted to make a strip show five days a week and recast us And they were like we love the concept shows great Together and now they're basically the Rob deer deck network Basically, there's nothing on their Rob deer. Oh hardcore Paul hardcore.

Yeah, that was it. That was the knock off of the So they had their own versions of things and they were all successful for their mark Like if you liked till truck shows, that's where you were going. Oh, yeah. Yeah, if you like shit Yeah, repossession to repossession basically across the board and they're the big one was bait card No, that's your joke, but they were just like running like a BMW in the middle of projects It was plain Jay Z It's like a hot pizza in it, you know Cooler full of beer.

It's like oh, what do you know this guy? I'll get in it and drive away There was like a parole officer in the back Every day should go to entrapment every episode was just a running car in the projects. Let's see what happens out Someone's gonna steal car. I don't want spoiler alert.

Yeah, you know, I don't have to tune in. It's not much TV It's not like I'll also reach it to get back together. This guy's gonna steal this car. What do you want to see?

What's your crime with you? Do you think if you have one man? Oh mine? Yeah, definitely be as well.

Is it really for sure for sure I love like the whole like high smoothie stuff like I would think like anything like get weird like Could you have done it in the past now it is it's tough for us. It's not even much cash sitting around You know you need cash like if I could go back in time and be any like sort of like pull off at his big scheme I could definitely be like a nice bank robbery in like the early 30s. Yeah, would you be already working at the bank? I could see you have on that that fast I'm gonna change it right in the little change 30 cents back.

I'm all about that. I'm all about that life 1930s teller right here, man. Yeah, I'll be a bank manager to get the inside scoop, you know that kind of deal Then I'd make them fire me in a fantastic way and then I think I would know the lay of the land and I would get my You know my next door neighbor involved. Yeah, probably black metal somebody black metal could be fun too Yeah, this is a good old day.

Yeah before we had DNA. No, man DNA really crying for everybody. Oh, stupid science getting away Yeah, back in the day We had to actually do some detective work, you know because now every murder you watch the cops have no idea until Seven years later when I can afford the DNA test. That's right.

It's like I'm never gonna know anything about like that stupid swab You now think did you do that like the 23 and me? Yeah, I did it with man. Yeah, fuck up. You did it.

I fucked up Wait, what did you find? I'm not gonna do it anyway? I'm not gonna do it anyway. People didn't do a crime and like hide all the time.

I'm gonna go to jail I like about you. Yeah, thank you. You're right out of front all the time. Oh, yeah, I'd rather go and get my time done and get out Yeah, I did it wrong.

I thought you said I did it wrong. I was like, what'd you swab that you did it wrong? I fucked up like what you did. I think I did the mail Back that a right Yes crazy I think yeah, cuz a lot of people I guess they're they're attaching people to murders and crimes now because of that Yeah, I never did it because I didn't really have an interest because I feel like the only way they could find out if a parrot is male or female Just you have to have it tested and I had a powerful Wow, and I was like what difference does it make to me?

I don't care if at least an egg oke mystery solved if not no difference. Yeah, you know, so for me I'm like yeah, we animals differently if they're male or female. No, you have animals? I never have no one I was young I never have as an adult, but I'm meant I never have treated animals differently whether we're male or female Oh, but I get I remember asking like I'll ask like a waiter like he has this fish male or female Sometimes if I were like a sass saying that or so, you know, that's a good one just to kind of see you know And a lot of times a good check and sometimes they'll come back with an answer.

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I mean when do you run out of ideas honestly for your shows? We've been when do you get to bring and help? We've got well it wasn't that we had to is that we could afford to right? So in season we're going in this season.

We just wrap season eight and season nine we start up in January and we actually had Out to one of the episodes this season and like literally we had the conversation at the end of season one was like Okay, now what do we do like cuz we were like so many ideas you have to go through because never mind the ones that make the TV Right because our episodes if you think about we do 26 episodes of the season and there's three to four bits per Episode right so right matter of it. Yeah, that's 14 million quick math So like that's bits that you have to come up with right inside those bits are jokes right so you have to do all that And you break down it really could be very very it could be very overwhelming so then we start to say okay What what's just fun and what's just funny? What's weird to do? So like we went from that and we and there's so much if you think about like it's like let's just try to hold somebody's hand See how it goes and we try with four different people and we get four different outcomes and there's a bit You know and then we would start thinking about okay instead of the goal of just being in this or that Let's think about what could be something different and one thing that we had was try not to laugh like that when we broke that I made out a goal that opened up a whole new stream I think so I was just like oh only do one Comfortable stuff it's like oh do shit that's really funny.

That's gonna make it front left And if you can't laugh yeah, so that opened up a whole thing a couple of our big bits like the cringey cringey Best of all where we say weird names in the waiting room Well like when we did the two-way mirror where like stuff's going on behind you You have to watch it. Uh-huh and you'd rather continue to do this focus group with somebody and not laugh You know so a lot of that happened one of our favorite you guys did it's like a um, but I see what you're saying So people so once you open up like a new kind of a new yeah like edge to it Like oh here's a whole week the whole new world of stuff we can do now that we have goals now that we you have to try not to Laugh that's a whole thing. Yeah, it's everything already did before and then just make sure the other guys aren't laughing And then we had to stab a show long enough for the first four or five seasons like we wouldn't use an actor before that because we want People to know and believe us that's real. It's what the show's got to be real doesn't work for us Right, so I know so they're not on it Right, so then we brought in like actors weapons where we like one of the first bits we did was watch my grandpa like we'd be in the We were in the mall and we had to take a piss and go to me favorite You watch my grandpa for me and we had to talk to him into watching our grandfather And they watch him you win and we'd walk away and when we did that unscripted the grandpa's added such a great element Like I just went and started talking and it was like this is really funny So let's see what we do let's do kids and okay now Let's watch my kid and then we started to think that you know find my actor You know like we would plant an actor inside like a like Mario was a waiter for one of his punishments in Delmonico's high-end State yeah, and we hit an actor with a wig on like you had a fun wig so he's walking around people's hairs We're eating trying to find the wig and you know people like what's not really no kind of deal so all those little pieces You know the first six weeks, you know the first four weeks of our pre-production it's a six-week thing the writers together are Commoders you get paid extras the writer or producer you do yeah, yeah So they're in the room and then we come up for the last two weeks of the six week and we start hearing all they pitched and then We like something we'll all talk it out figured out and then we'll start stacking it up and be like okay Here's our production schedule so if you like to be the most involved Who is just kind of the most like show up and he did they do it every time and they it's just better for them to do that way Yeah, yeah, he was very much trusting over he'll also have his mom's words like oh I got this idea I want to do this but you for the most part when he shows up He's like what are we doing today?

I'll let's get in there and do it yeah Sal is very analytical. Oh, he's a student economy Yeah, you know he's really just like that's always brain works He really just but I always say that sound like normally get to the same place I just get their way faster because I'm like got kind of guy like this is I'm very decisive What we're doing is we're not and he'll you know just work out every permutation tell you why it won't work break holes in it And you know sometimes we've been wrong and sometimes you produce us wrong You know it's like it's a good balance and then mr. Murs like in the middle of all that like I would say Sal's on one And I'm on the other and moor is like pretty much dead center between has to think something about for a little bit and then get there Or you know he'll have ideas where it's like that's funny because sometimes they'll say something It's like what if we make Joe massage chair, right? It's funny, you know, I mean you don't have to think about anything like it's like it's funny to see it have string just in me in costume I'm a fake massage.

They make this fake massage chair. Yeah, you guys have there was one of my favorites that it's uh, it's at a buffet And I think it's like taking they putting things on people's like we've done a bunch of different ones one of them was Because I love buffets, bro. Yeah, when I was growing up They had finally got a buffet and our town doing the people fucking losing their mind. Oh, dude Somebody shot out the windows bro from the inside dude.

That's how excited people are you know, it wasn't like a drive out I get more chicken. Let's do fucking went in there. You're so fired up. Yes He couldn't stand there being anything between him and the fucking lower You know, so you shot those windows out, but yeah, it's uh, I mean, I remember yeah buffets were everything man back when you you you know If you were in a place just imagine they can have all that stuff in one place Yeah, I remember when I went to Vegas on my family growing up the first time we went to a went to a buffet and I was like a Vegas buffet Stand alone.

Oh world class. I remember dude. They would I remember yeah, our buffet was decently long I wouldn't say it was real long But I remember we were kids we were trying to hold our breath and walk from one end of it to the other You know just to try and you know just because we're just a name about it link them just you know food and different Like a pool like so we're trying to go on the wall. Oh, I try to make one of the other Yeah, the salad Do you remember when I don't know when these out in New York they did the salad bar which was basically a buffet But it was open salad bar so you could just make it on so you buy the salad bowl and it was all you could eat salad Why I want these in Santa and they had a huge Toppings like but it's so they had everything like beside your croutons and your norm.

They had like buckets It was like you know just all these different things sometimes they put some while you see it you know You know like it was like beats that's how to introduce the beats I was like I don't know that's a torn dog. It's like yeah, yeah, so like all these weird don't pick a lot of things Yeah, so it was like I remember that and I remember being like I'm gonna get a salad And I was like that's an ingenious way to make kids eat like I like I don't think it's like a fun way to eat salad, you know, right? Yeah, yeah, but fame and I remember the yeah, I just came I think I saw myself so sick on shrimp cocktail. I would just get so norse.

I would just crunch off and pop them things Oh, man, you know, I eat the tails for the first two years in a dream cocktails, dude No, I need to hold tail. No, I did a much choice. My good friend does you know Justin? He's the DJ on the cruise Justin race the details today.

Yeah, dude One of my favorite things in the cruise and we'll talk about the cruise in a second. Um, Michael Ian blacks I went on you guys as first cruise Michael Ian black. Um, what has on the cruise right? So He had to do bingo like everybody on the cruise kind of you like you performed and you also like did a game or did something You were just involved, you know, and he did bingo and he was like trying to be all funny and stuff and the people that came to play bingo They didn't give a fuck, bro.

Okay. No play bingo man. Read it. Read it Lady beating her cane against the wall Real stakes.

Oh yeah She just fired her all It was so funny, but he almost couldn't handle the fact that it didn't want to come to get it It's a comedy cruise. It was not a bingo cruise. It was that was so much fun Gilbert God's trip was on there And he looked just like a baby that was on the cruise ship to some lady had a baby like an 11 month old I'm just like yeah, I did this on my side to the picture. Yeah, yeah beautiful That was where we going out for the first time in real like we did the while when we did the comedy festival We hung out a little bit.

There's a lot of people. Yeah, it was a lot of time. You know, I spent a lot of time on it first Yeah, that was great. Yeah, that was great.

God that thing was so much fun. Do you because I'm from one thing you and I I found out. Yeah, you're the gambling. You guys shut the gambling night They ran out of chips one It's like 19 people working there just shut down That skill crane so many alcohol guys playing that skill crane on the ship and they're making my t-shirts for about four years really Couple beautiful guys.

It's got Kevin and his brother who actually turned it a little bit green last time I saw him He's turning green the brother, but but yeah amazing people now, but let's see what they got here, man Hey Theo. Hey, Joe my question for Joe is How do you think your kids are gonna react when they get older and you tell them what exactly it is that you do for a living? Are you looking forward to that or you kind of dreading it? That's a really good question.

Should I impress myself? Well, that's these millennials I just crushed it. I will say that is pretty good question I guess I will think about that. Yes, it embarrassing is it It's definitely a shift when I had my daughter and I was like oh She got father's gonna be doing this and in my comedy you feel different responsibility I think we have kids and you know that this is what you're going your legacy.

No, oh I think I was always I was always even growing up in for anything. I was worried about what I remember for really I was very heavily yeah Yeah, she's a man some guy name was my man one hell of a second grader. I was like I was like all I was very aware of it Yeah, you know for not doing your homework, you know quit daydreaming. That's right So I was when I had kids I was like alright and I feel like there was sometimes there's only a couple times when I was in the The show and I was like I don't want that to be out there for my daughter to see one day or my I was always about us to it doesn't matter our show is that it's like I'm trying to make you fail So I'm gonna tell you the most screwed up stuff to say or do or whatever But there's only a couple times I was like mmm I don't think I want to make that joke anymore where that because being a father feels different Yeah, you know and is that kind of stuff the the being a father feels different is that stuff that you can you couldn't know that Before definitely I didn't so I don't know how the people did but I think it really it's kind of weird too Because the other guys don't have that right so it's like kind of like where you know I'm the father figure of the group Which is so weird and scary, but like you know like it's it's your best friends You always can find and have the same exact journey on the same ride my forefront I'm the first every first big thing in my career is with these guys and it's their first two You know first I'm gonna play mazz square garden all together first cruise together all that all that you all the way through you know Yeah, and this is like the only one where you can't like connect with them on something about that You know so it feels a little bit in a vacuum you're trying to do your best with it You know so I think that's uh, that's where it kind of weighs a little bit more and it's just ready best Has it been hard over?

Oh, sorry, let me show you a full answer this question did we get a nike you think yeah, yeah Well, I am what my daughter does watch the show sometimes I watch the edits at home and if I'm working at home my office Come in and if you watch and you and your friends on the TV that's she says yeah And I'll say yeah, no and then she'll uh she'll just watch and you know what the end We give a green thumbs over thumbs down and she just doesn't she just sit and watch and wait for the thumb And if it's a thumbs up she'll go yes, and if it's thumbs she'll go oh dad you gotta fat you gotta thumbs down And she'll be like man, so it's really but now I feel the pressure Oh, I was like I can't have my daughter you know that's so that's good But she doesn't really get what's going on yet at all but um I think she'll enjoy She likes my humor I make a laugh. Oh, that's good. I can see that she's a little mini me she looks like my looks like my wife My spirit really hundred percent me 100 weird quirky laughs like at anything like she's really very much Mike Well, do you see yourself having one of those shows like the Australian guy that died? Talking about yeah, I'm talking about yeah, I'm taking over yeah They have a new show that's out now, and it's like yeah, they're taking over yeah I don't I don't I think it's too big of a gap yeah between that I think you know and and there's so many reruns of our show No, it's not good.

You know my time. It's over you have a back like 250 episodes I can probably still be well. Yeah, that's true. I remember when I was growing up I'm trying to think they had some of my favorite game shows on do you remember the one where it was in a how it was Each it was like a fake house.

There was three contestants They were I think a team maybe three teams of two and it was like a fake house And then if they if they got a certain prize or something they would compete on the floor And then if they got a prize and they didn't want they had to run through the house and get different gifts These boxes vaguely vaguely remember what you're talking about I kind of felt like super market sweep a little bit Yes, a little bit like that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but it was like yeah They had these big houses and they would put them on this conveyor belt or something at the bottom And they would open them and see if they had one what box they grabbed what was in it Yeah, like and in the end they had a whole bunch of boxes the final group and then they would open them all and I think they some of them could have Money in them. It's basically like watching those stupid Christmas videos, you know those videos that are on now that all it's just videos of kids opening toys I don't want to see that.

No, it's like a weird thing Oh, you're gonna now you watch one you're gonna go do it because you're full on a rabbit hole It's just kids like opening stuff and be like oh blah blah and all kids flip out and watch it It's like it's good. We don't have to buy your kids toys Save your money man. You pay for YouTube subscription. You think rabbits are in holes and like how do we get the fucking?

We'll do that shit. No, we're not here fucking We're not watching YouTube you're what? Over here. I'll be That's my thing out there trying to live Throw a carrot down.

Yes, I'm trying to hide from a fuck You're watching YouTube. What do you think they say people hole? I went into a rabbit's talking to go. I'm going down that people Jesus I went down to people hole over there Dude, they're going everywhere.

Somebody's got CDs. They got no everybody's got everything from a Mixtape's to bring into max. Yeah, mix crotch. Yeah, all of it.

What that makes crotch And it was a oh, we got a question right here from somebody using witness protection actually to this Ever been punched in the face for a plane a joke on somebody Okay, I have questions. How do you source this material? How do you source this material? How did you how did you get this guy's video?

Do you know this guy? No, that's a fan of a practical proctor with your We get a lot of questions for you, but a lot of them are like kind of the same. What's your favorite prank? Yeah, so have you ever been punched in the face?

But it's not so much the question is it's how the creepy guy in the dark couch It started punching his phone very dark and also that guy could be anywhere from the age of 13 If probably 51 of it is like very unique child's body The angle to and it looks like a light-shade a lipstick on him. See that. It's got a wet lip We're right there like it's a listening lip. He's got a wet lip Jesus to answer your question.

No, but also I have so many questions Yeah, this guy I wonder if he's all right, yeah, we should maybe send some Send a video back. Yeah, that's the people who we were talking about I remember one time I was working with Howie Mandel on the show it was called deal with it, right? It's I was working as a host for him for a while and so you would get people off the street and you would give one of them a They would become a restaurant and then you give one of them in your piece you sneak them off the waiter Well, and they went to it with the bathroom So I'm like are you gonna put in your piece or start telling you things to do the more you can do without the person at the table Realizing your own game show. That's the only thing they can't realize the more money you're gonna make So one time we get a couple to sit down and it's a pimp and a prostitute We didn't know right so they get the lady to start messing with the pimp, right?

So they start telling like little things to do and the third one It's like okay reach over and take a piece of your man's food off of his plate or something And she's like no, I can't do this shit, right? I think she was worried that she was gonna get abused So we had to like we had a call called the episode that's a bad problem right the bit Yeah, but that was one of the craziest ones that I ever saw we always had trouble with couples We were in Ikea and I did a thing I started Friday night pillow fight I just gave everybody like 40 people to the pimp fight all over was fun But there was they did a thing where they wanted me this is my second on-wall story They want they want me to say they like joke to help this guy tell me got to see this on one You know how you know how they have that path in Ikea where you run right? Go and make this guy thought this guy started running I think so we hit no over here and I just started basically jogging around all this furniture Just got keeping up with me whatever and this is when I was bigger and fatter And I was like I'm a brother of the father was funny and then they're like getting on more getting on more So me and him getting the home more and it shuts all you here in the almost me Panicking right now, so I'm like whatever and it's really fun. Like it's great.

So now we go to sign the guy You know they have to agree to be on TV It's right, you know to party state where they you can film somebody but then I have to agree to be on TV in New York in New York Is only like five or six days out of that way so it's a one party state here. I think Democrat. Yeah Yeah Yeah, so we actually filmed it out in our life for our episode it takes place here and I like yeah So it was a different procedure You had to do like people had to know that they were being filmed they had to be conducting close space could do any Storage had to be out in public or the cameras had to be exposed like somebody walking like this They know they're being filmed at time right then it doesn't really work together like we had a couple things are weird But anyway, so we're in the arm We're gonna do it so funny. We'd love to be on the episode and I was like oh it was really fun I can't do that he's like, you know, I'm married and this is my wife Wow, so he was shopping for discount furniture and I can't get bought a sign I got bought a sign these days Like I can't and you know, so that was such a weird thing that we had happened and then that has happened multiple times I'm a film where guys are like, oh, I can't mister.

Yeah, I'm with somebody that I'm not supposed to be with Wow Yeah, you know what? Oh, here's somebody else actually and this is hopefully this person's all right Hey, Joe. Hey, Theo. This is Tim from Memphis, Tennessee I'm a big fan of both of y'all.

I want to be a comedian eventually whether that's doing stand up or getting like a show like a Practical Joker's and I just wanted to hear you guys's advice on you know being a comedian what do you do coming up? What can I open mics or whatever? You know, I'm 17 selling high school I plan on going to college but my dream job is to do something. You know like you guys do and you can really tell with you guys You're very genuine and you really enjoy doing what you do and I want to do something like that.

Yeah, that's nice. Yeah Yeah, it sounds like a nice young man. It's got great. I mean it tastes obviously that's true.

You might not I mean that's when the guys get the genius. Yeah Well you said earlier like you know, it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen quick. Yeah, it doesn't happen quick That's the thing at all.

You know, there's times where I wanted things to happen faster in my career and I'm glad that they did it in hindsight. You know, there's no way I could have known that man No way and I would be like I would talk to my managers and age. I'm like, why do you know? Why does this person get this opportunity and then you see other people get opportunities where they're not ready for them, right?

So that's a that's a big big pit falls to compare yourself to other people. Yeah, they're back at their own path They're gonna journey about their own time. Yeah, it might just not be your time Yeah, and also you have to be prepared that it might not work out. You know, I was always fine with okay Then happened to happen.

You know, I still was doing it because I enjoyed it Yeah, I think that's a big thing because no one could take that enjoyment from you. Nobody has a value that enjoyment Yeah, you might not be getting paid for it, but if you're enjoying making people laugh then that's it, you know Yeah, you know, it's funny. I've always felt that way and then in the past like I think six months for somebody I think started getting more stressful. I think just busier And so it's like I've had like an adjustment period of like just figuring out okay.

What's going on? What do I want to be doing? What's really important to me choices of the worst? It's hard on you have a decision like if you want to do this like that because you know that you're leaving some behind You know, we went through that a little bit with our we figured it out finally, but with our movie I'm gonna film movie film by movie last year We had to do it in between the season.

So we filmed the first half of season seven took a break to film the movie came back and film The second half of season so we're basically filming for like 16 months straight up Like we're jokers and like being away from home and everything the only way to do it was that or not do it Right and we're like are we gonna kill ourselves and do it which we did or we just gonna be like alright Let's try to hopefully the movie still be around if you would after season seven So when we had that choice and like thinking about that It was always like alright, what if we don't and that I always feel the heaviest you're always the heaviest there What that if you don't do it to absolutely be gone, right? Now what were the stresses I was pretty stressful especially if you had like young children Yeah, I mean you're you know, that's a lot of time of straight work. Yeah, I was you know I was got the force of stuff. Yeah, for those five months five weeks away from home my wife had a newborn son My daughter just basically like single-parent in New York come talk to her I was on set for six years told him right show I'm on a movie set for 16 hours a day like in our show like I go we filmed three hours You know I do some meetings and stuff and then I talked over the whole time You know here I couldn't I'm in Atlanta right away from home, you know, that's such a reds feel so Yeah, that's intense like I don't know.

Yeah for me sometimes the stress of too much work I've just realized it's like it's too much sometimes Especially since I want to be a comedian I want to be able to have my thoughts and you know I need my brain to come up with fresh fun ideas And if I work too much or if I'm overwhelmed and stuff then I can't do that you feel like it changes you feel like it changes your mindset is 100% you can't not be in a good mindset or a good move to be funny Yeah, it's impossible like you're it's totally counterproductive what you're trying to do and then that frustrates you and you're like, oh I wasn't thinking this way. Yeah, you go down a person hole Yeah, that happened me a lot this year, man It was just like just figuring out like because he started podcasting so much and it was it's all been fun But it's like okay, we know what so now I'm just I'm a podcast host Or am I like what am I am I comedian? Am I you know what's going on? You know to the point because you just you know I'll just go from one thing to the next like I want to come back do and then go and I'll just be like I don't even know yeah I'm starting to know what's going on.

Yeah, it's what you mean creative. I think you're a creator I was I was I was creating but I didn't feel like I was being created. I think I'm kind of a slow I'm better if it's a little bit of a slow role. Yeah, then we only gets going too fast I just I think I just can't hit I just I don't know I don't function that well in that space Yeah, so some of us for me.

It's just been learning where who went where how do I function as a yeah as an artist or as a communicator? But I think for this young guy I think there's a lot of ways you can do entertainment now so much more Yeah, I mean you can put out your own videos you can find you can you can even see guys doing like voices of like Animals that are fighting are you in the wild? Yeah, yeah, they do anything But I mean if you think about like how crazy like I wish like so much is lost Yeah on these kids today as far as like people want to do to do stuff and everybody's always worried about you know The followers and this and that but if you just realize that this kid has two heroes and comedy Yeah, and he just because he has a cell phone has a camera was able just to ask him a direct question and they were talking about him to him Yeah, that how does that not blow everybody's mind. How does that just not like you kidding me like that's where we're at in the world Yeah, you have such access to people to celebrities via Twitter Instagram any Pocket yeah, that's last night.

I'm a Saints fan last night. I'm a big Saints fan Yeah, he calls a fumble last night and I was just so And he wrote me back and I'm like safe and I'm like great It's gonna be like the highlight of my day later. Yeah, but yeah, it's just crazy You can't communicate yeah, but also just how you can create, you know And how you can put stuff out there you can be an impersonator you can try different things Yeah, you could try and fail with no risk like you could try like you think about like back in the day Like if you want to do like a short film yeah, you have to find them on you have to shoot it You have to digitize it like capture the tapes and bring it over to that Then you have to edit it and do all the stuff and you have to put it out where where you putting it out there like show people or send it out Yeah, yeah, I do it now no like and then it's bad. Yeah, everybody's is bad And then you just go and do it every short film is that every short film is miserable across the board first one So I was an only bad like anybody's first short film you be hard-pressed off my first short film like that was Oh, they're like the CBD oil of entertainment I don't think CBD oil does anything I was talking to some dude.

He's like yeah I've been using a lot of drugs, but I've also been using the oil But he only seemed like he'd been using drugs and then I thought about like all the CBD I've rubbed into my body and it's like shit I'm super I don't think it does shit man. I think CBD stands for snake Well, it used to be central business district, you know, and that was just a body cream, you know It just I don't know things have got this but yeah I think if you're 17 and you like humor, you know, there's so many ways you can end up in it But I do though miss I mean my favorite things to do were to make my friends laugh man You being at school with me at the lunch table That's was weird for me because that is my job and that's I still get that that's not taking for me We always say like always like oh I wish I knew the glory days and I look we know this is the best job We'll ever have this is the best scenario for anybody anybody in the world comedian I'm not you get paid to hang out with your friends and make them laugh like it's insane Yeah, so like there's and we can't really point a finger at many other groups that had even a similar kind of thing Everybody else's cast together any big successful show was a sitcom It's always writing for them, you know, it's not like all this gonna make sound laugh like you never said that like I knew Right, it's like all this like that's there's a sense of like accomplishment when you make your friend laugh. Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, we always oh yeah, you guys are sure for sure I mean yeah, there's so many it's like yeah You can always kind of relate yourself to one of the characters you always yeah every guy wishes they got to do that with their friends Yeah, one of them was pretty funny that one of our One of our agents was talking and we're going back in for negotiation like one of the points I was making you know what agents always ramp themselves up by talking to you, you know So they're going for I think like season five whatever and he was like he's like tell me another reality show where somebody's like Oh, you know everybody was just say oh, I'm a Ross I'm a great show right from friends like oh, I'm George, you know like that they're like people say I'm a sal He's like who cares that much about a reality show He's like nobody cares about that and it's just like a little bit around one of the carnations I was the only other one with people like I'm like that with the carnations Yeah, and it was like nobody does a reality shows nobody you know is like that everybody forgets a name of everybody when it's over in Season you guys from your fifties and your characters, but you're not yourself right so he's like that doesn't exist and that was always The way you see the way that fans interact with us. They always feel like they know us Oh, you know my my greatest fans of my comedy to this day I think that I still meet up with when I'm on the road whether it's for a meal or something like that or fans that I met from you guys Cruz no, yeah, I mean that guy Kevin.

There's a car. There's uh There's a girl in her mom down in Florida. I meet up with him another group to a Disneyland one time. That's awesome.

Yeah, it's uh I didn't know what to mean I just took my daughter didn't I pay full price for you? Yeah, did you get the guy did you get the guy? Yeah, I get the guy's expensive, but worth every pal worth everything, you know what we crushed that park We got in and out everything was great. Yeah, somebody told me that I got I had my family come in town And I was like, uh, you know, you gotta get this guy.

I talked to Joey D I said you get the fucking guy you go over there fucking look somebody dies. That's not on you Papa, you know You get it. They walk you in so it's so great, but the same day I was there Stephen Tyler was there really and there's this paparazzi That's called I forgot to hold on Instagram. I think it's called day at Disney.

I think it's called grandpa Parazzi It's like the day at Disney like Instagram account It's like it's a celebs where Disney and there's a picture of me and my family me my wife and my daughter But they blur our kids faces at respect which is cool and it's me and then the next picture is like Stephen Taliban like a t-shirt You know, just in Maui and that's where he lives. I heard all kinds of stories about him. I was here Yeah, just saw and I'm installing it makes us all air a Smith about me and Nick went yeah, the point Vegas now Pretty much ago. We went to do is awesome.

Great. Yeah, it was incredible He just canceled a show last week. They're still doing like a Vegas residency because he had a sore throat Mmm, so he couldn't yeah, he's finally catching up to him. I guess yeah, hmm happens, you know, you all get old All right, don't judge so hard do you do you?

This is next first time in the booth. It was just open Wow. Where are you normally sitting out there at the table set up? It was cumbersome.

Okay, so you like this better. It's all right. I feel like I'm visiting you with jail right now They probably should be in jail. So we don't talk about that as there have been any points where Where any of the group has thought you guys had about to talk anybody to stay and people wanted to change or just before he's just before we did this Just before the show took literally like our last meeting I was I was gonna be like don't let we were at my apartment We had gone down a path of doing a lot of sketch comedy and I don't really feel like I'm very funny in sketch I don't feel funny when I'm acting right people like oh you only talk about like I just don't feel like my best way to make people laugh so I wasn't really feeling what we were the path we're going down scripted shows we're thinking of and blah blah blah and I was like I was like I don't do that and then the opportunity came up They're like hey, you know prank shows are big right now I was like what if we did our version of a show like that I was like well this embarrassment comedy is always how I made my friends Left sure let's try it and that's how we came up with jokers But we're gonna go down another script to one I would be now there's a guy I met when I did a bar here called the mint It does uh I was there for some I don't know something I don't want to be at or something probably um Like I think now it's actually a pet restaurant you believe they have this shit on you really you bring your pet and eat with it Yeah, we can meet up and have fucking that with other fucking positive.

That's weird I've heard of the cat place where you have tea with a cat They're like just fucking it's basically just feral cats inside and it just roaming around And you just sit down at cats like sit on your lap while you drink tea Yeah, you don't think Satan's watching that? If he's watching anybody as people that are meeting up with cats for tea By themselves easily divin a biscotti into an over a like that's how you fucking watch Even more than anybody meeting a technical district. I do not watch trust the guy that walks in with his air pods It sits down with a straight cat. Yeah, and it has a snack.

Oh, yeah, dude Somebody fucking split up a little butterscotchy with a fucking person There's a cat there. What's a word? There's a original in I'm out. I'm out Jesus Christ, man It's just a different world out there now, but yeah, this place they had a guy I met in there one night and he Starts talking starts talking It was white glove and it karaoke in there as well and It's one of those places I wasn't gonna make it Let's do it But it's a wedding so this guy he wore white glove and he kept saying karaoke and he had been like the fifth member of a band That had made it huge like I could have been motley crew I feel like and he got out like literally the week before and I went and read the stories And it's really and he was still singing the songs and wearing like this white glove like he could tell he was still like living And I guess he'd kind of become like a kind of a fixture within that karaoke place, you know, and so I think you know he had like it, you know at least he had his thing You know, yeah, but he got not this yeah, he got not of this group right before that's I mean that's a little tragedy Yeah, if you don't recover from it, you know, right?

It's a get out of it because you want to get out of it and not be in that world anymore It's one thing because then you're okay with it doesn't matter who cares what happens But if you get out of it because you don't like the people you don't have faith in what's going on with that group Yeah, you know, I'll try it on my own and make it that sucks like that is the worst to be like Oh, you know, I'll just go on my own way that they're holding me back and next thing you know They break and just sit there with your white glove, you know trying to serve you know, jello button pops people That's crazy, man. Do you remember when you were a kid like this some of that like just like the kind of stuff that made you laugh Do you remember who made you laugh a lot? Yeah, I definitely entertainers or just people like it just oh yeah people my wife my I come from a funny family You know my uncles were always funny in 10 I got the old Italian uncle's are fun, and you know my sister's probably the funniest person I know my sister's crawler She's like she's a virgin I mean like it's a star like she's great. She's loud just fun My parents were both very funny, but in very different ways Am I they always said my oldest sister got my dad's humor my middle sister got my mother's and I was a perfect match Of both of them Oh, so like my father's like that dry kind of delivery could make the room crack with three words Like that's it, you know, my mother was just loud boisterous center attention everybody looked at her to make a you know Good time like that kind of thing so they were very interesting You know my father was he used to go we used to go We used to go we I play craps, you know that like so I was water I definite, you know, okay, we uh We he played craps all the time in Google Atlantic City and he'd been landing the Atlantic City playing in like the 80s Whenever and this is two gangster guys with cigars at the end He's two big Italian mops.

They're like guys and he's playing craps And I'm next on and there's this woman her he's your woman at the end rolling and she's rolling she's rolling for a while And the two guys having a good time so every time for she rolls like all right come on your fat bitch They're like yeah, you know they would say that loud enough whatever and so, you know, she's rolling and win everybody money Whatever and so I don't know these she's just about the wrong like come on We need a hard six you fat because I'm on your pig like that and she like I'm a father just turns at these two moms I goes sorry guys Can you stop talking about my wife that way and just turns back and looks and then he looks like I just fucking I love these two like big fat moms like Like that funny like drive like they're George Rop like they look what the fuck you know kind of idea So like yeah, that's something you were like that where he would just like say weird shit Just like just enough to get people really uncomfortable and then break them. Yeah, never mind You know I'm normally Donald. I was somewhere with him I was in I was doing a show in Oklahoma City or Oklahoma somewhere and he always a poker tournament to Jerry Madison's That me Wow, man I'm like I pictures all over my room growing up because it was Theodore, right? Yeah, so I was like a huge fan and I even talked to him.

I was like, hey, man I said I'm a big fan. He goes. Oh, where do you live? I was like I live in Santa Monica and he goes where to go.

I used to go get some I don't know what happened then I just fucking went down a hole It was just crazy all these years that I built up my head was running into each other That's the same as he said and he's like he was 80 years older 77 It was him and that got Ralph mouth, but anyway Norma Donald was there and there's like we're standing there was a mostly men there and a couple of women not attractive women to Norm said oh man a lot of real hot You see her and I'm thinking oh, you know norms older than me and you know He probably didn't even mean any women so these women are probably very attractive to him You know and I was just play Kate and I was like yeah Yeah, a lot of real lookers, you know fuck I'll take my eyeballs out and just set them on one of these ladies shoulders You know a lot of real beauties and he goes yeah, right and he was joking he was totally joking like he was like oh These are the fucking most busting of my life Yeah, right I was like damn Well, okay so much for being nice here elders Fucking yeah, I went to Mel Brooks is a huge number one I actually got to meet him that was two weeks after we had played Radio City I'm he was doing he does that live to her now and again He's still doing it 91 years old he shows blazing saddles or you know frangin's on screens it and then does a Q&A after fucking out Wow, so we went I took my two sisters we grow up watching I was like for Christmas gift I'm like I got this view so we went three of us we all grew up watching the movies was great We watch him after we're about to leave and I see the little security guard that I had met weeks before and we played Oh nice to whatever he goes. Oh, I said hey, you want to go down to come in and say hey And I was like yeah, of course I had him over so he takes it down So underneath Radio City There's just like old bar that they just keep open for family friends and it's a big room So we go down we sit in there and then he comes mellie's walking in and comes behind I'm like this is like this is my hero all time whatever so I walk up and I'm like, you know He's like the guy just like this is our friend. Joan. I was like hey John.

I was like There's a brook is a huge fan yours. I just want to say thank you know I got comedy because you know you made me laugh and I was like me and my sisters were both huge fans and Or all fans are you know watching you and my sister's like behind you goes your sister's yeah He goes I go yeah, my sister's there here with me I brought them and he goes okay, okay, my sister's grinnest is any pushes me away musher's me and he gets it He's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like a picture's why I said this or whatever And it was so cool. I was like and I get one you think it's like I just wanted we all got in and I was like that was like the coolest Like thing ever like this. Wow 91 old dude is no trust.

I'm going to get the ladies like come here. Yeah, it's so great Really cool. That's beautiful man. That's a really really cool moment from her Vint out a little bit age.

I love it I saw Bob new heart about six years ago or seven years ago in Chicago and it was oh he was I thought the jokes I think he's just reading these jokes off the internet like I think he literally printed some jokes off the internet Well, he's all delivery anyway, right, so then I thought to myself well, maybe the game made those jokes off because they were just like Internet joke, you know, yeah, so but it was pretty wild to see him Don Rickles means Oh really? Yeah, I knew he love records my mom was a big gambler and he was playing in the Linux city So I said my mom gonna stick it and I took him. Yeah, was that awesome? Probably one of the most unbelievable before like you can't even like you see it And you're just like and all that it's happening and then it's over before you know it like you can't even Was he on stage all time?

It's written part is great. Yeah, he's really who's unbelievable. Yeah, that's probably one of the best live performances But growing up I like Richard Jenny was big my dad like Richard Jenny the comic and he got murdered Yeah, I murdered yeah, they did this before 23 me so we still don't know did it So he he was begging that Tim Allen we used to watch a show at home improvement. Yeah, so that was another one for me You remember super market sweet.

Yeah, yeah, that's great I love I just got to play hundred thousand dollar pyramid me and they invite us to play in the reboot that strand Oh really? Yeah, so we just played it this summer. We played it was fun. Dude.

It was so fun. Ah so fun It was so it was such a good time. Yeah, and now doesn't think about doing misery next like you're playing a game show It's like that loss. It's like legit.

It's like legit like we walked in I was like oh my god This is like spent some money on the set like it's a legit like you think at the big like you know It's the big display. That's like super LED and like the buzzers and all that stuff This is really really cool to be in part of like a real like game show. Oh, yeah, cuz I grew up I think all our generations like that was huge for that was TV. Oh, yeah, no whammies all that Yeah, that was the secret is sweet was so good.

Yeah, it's something just bite just bite it running to get a hand I'm gonna get right. So why you getting right? There's one with somebody at a stroke during an hour member to really that one you can't they don't really know it on the show But it seemed like they think I was just kind of having a blast but you could tell you how to stroke. I know a stroke You don't represent one.

I mean, yeah, I think I do More questions I came in we just had one patreon question Marissa Bruno asked how did you become so passionate about animals especially senior dogs My wife she introduced me that we bought a dog. I have five dogs I have a cannoli a Scotty tartufo Spomone and pinioli right now. Oh, yeah, we put gnoli's in a routine That's it. Oh, they're all on fat time So anymore we also had zeppoli and machino not with us anymore god bless But we have like she we bought off her dog cannoli together when she was living here because she needed something and I was like Let's get a dog together So we bought the dog and then it instantly was like all sick and we spent like the first day We spent like two grand on my tests and surgeries and stuff like that And she just like started doing research and realized how bad puppy mills are and then like how much adopting how good I mean the dogs are uneven but once you found like an adoption agency So we just started adopting So it was really because of her and then I fell in love with it on my own And then I honestly that no dog loves you like a rescue dog It's insane really feels like yeah, cuz can only be walking around the house kind of entitled like you'll call them.

You know last You know, I'm here now You know, but like the other one that they're so always so happy to see when I go home It's insane because I'm on the road, you know, yeah, so when I come home for my ten days or whatever all the day I can't get them off me. It's insane like they just attack you and want to be on your you sit down there I'll jump in on you and you lay in the bed. They're all on you. Yeah, yeah, that's not but it's good And do you trust all of them?

No, just want to know that shit in the really? No, it's actually it gets easier when you have a pack like biscotti use my favorite they listen if they listening they know So my office got my favorite. She's the second one and she's like the pack leader It's easier to pack like I'll bring a dog once biscotti shows what to do. They it's insane.

They just all right We'll go we'll go in this room now. We'll talk about side They'll be just follow her really crazy issue like the pack little little back later and for them to be able to pack like that Do they have to be the same breed of dog or anything? Wow, there's a couple tricks that you do for it if you're gonna introduce a new dog in the house It's better to have the dog in the house by itself for day and then we'll do some home the dogs there So it's like a great trick that we had found out in the beginning So I'll send the dogs away to daycare whatever and I'll sleep out and then we'll have the dog make it move around the house Whatever they come home, that's it. That's it.

It's insane, you know, it's just okay They're part of the family. That's it and do they have any like racial or kind of territorial issues between them the animals? Just when there's one it's time to go to bed. Wow who sleeps where?

Mmm, cuz I like we have a you know, we have a king bed in my wife's on one side and then little pinoli He was like I got picture pinoli actually get that animal out here, bro You could draw it to a wish that's a man. Well, this is this is what you reaction when you see pinoli because pinoli something special But pinoli's in our rotating spot. We have we have a fifth dog spot, which is the senior spot and that's open. You'll be Whoa You know, you're working really good.

I know he's got one up. Yeah, but he's working a highway Basically roadkill. Let's just go roll around. I was sweetest dog in the world man super cuddly But she they found her in a ten-minute building just in the all matted in the in the lobby under living under the stairs So they don't even think it just maybe just came out somebody's apartment whatever but she got no teeth I mean she's deaf blind one eye a little bit dementia.

Oh wow She's super cute and so we just we'd like to for the senior dog We just kind of give a good way out like we had a couple of those before this that one last seven months one last in a year And a little bit and pinoli we have for about what I've been doing with two months now Yeah, about two months now so have you this last question? I have so is there have you noticed like that like your success and stuff? Was there any point your career where you felt like it started to kind of change you and you had to kind of like see what was going on With yourself or was there like where you got like no? I think not in a bad way.

No, no, just in a way. Yeah. Yeah, it's a huge thing man There's a thing about when you become famous and strangers want to Want your time and energy right and you have a family I think that was a thing for me like it's like how do I still start with that I mean my wife a very open-ounce I don't know like when I have my daughter with me if if you see me when I'm out with my family You don't get the same me when I'm not with my family right because I'm trying to be protective of my family unit Right and this is spend time and energy with them You know so I think that's the one thing that I've always been trying to figure out and my wife We never I wasn't trying to be famous right when we met and got married like I wasn't doing this You know when we got together, you know, we got married we were in it, but when we got together I was just so this kind of got thrusting upon her as well to be like oh your husband's gonna be famous Yeah, so now you have to share with the world so like I fucking yeah, you know, I was just trying to get 20% That's it, you know, you know, I know it's all good for coupon, you know now now naturally got the others Getting famous together with your friends is everybody keeps each other and chat. Yeah, you know your voice I can see that I'm going to go on you smack them.

You know what you don't yeah I can see that well that's one thing I see about it I'm probably the one thing that's a little bit different on standard You're just kind of by yourself a lot so with them probably are with your group, you know with with the tenderloins and with the jokers It's like you guys have that group. Yeah, the group mentality helps because somebody starts going their own way It's like okay, it's got a ring like that. I'm like, I'm on this guy Come on get back in your head like that, you know, yeah Joe, thank you so much is God or gato gato. Yeah, yeah, this is great man.

I really appreciate it Thank you so much, man. You've always been just one of the every time I see you. I just remember what a kind soul you are So I appreciate you coming man. Thank you.

Yeah, it's an honor and yeah, you guys have so many friends dude How do you keep everybody? I know y'all's friends? Yeah, you know, we tried you know, that's all I'm not that way when I'm out in LA like especially if I'm able to get together some Social stuff I try to make sure I see and some people like to see one out here because it's good to keep in contact with people Like I said earlier, you know, this is a commonality between us that it's kind of fun I'm enjoying that like I'm in the comedy world with people that make me laugh and yeah I thought this is we have cool opportunities like that people work with us and work with people else on yeah, it's cool Man, yeah, it's a good point dude. I love it man.

Well, I'm grateful you came here today. Can I ask you for one view? Yeah, my cousin Michael Polano is a huge fan of yours. Yes.

Yes huge fan Michael Polano Michael Polano Michael Polano, but he works on your show. Yeah, he's a he's a he's my cousin and he's a cameraman And isn't it true that you have everybody for your neighborhood and family work on your show such an epitism There's literally like so many like people. Well, somebody be work for us for free for so many years. I would like to be like I love that though.

It's so great Michael Polano, huh? Yeah, I hit her but what to send her something nice? He wanted to actually almost flew out here to come on He's a teacher. Where in where he's in Jersey.

We're at Ocean Township, I suppose it means Sayers of Hill coming up sometimes He said this again gang he did What does he teach you? He did his television production. Does he? Oh, that's awesome.

He got a scheme going on there. That's great Great on the kid there. Mr. Polano.

That's his name Polano. Mr. Polano. Yeah, that's awesome.

I would take his class He in there gang gang Mike. Thank you. Thank you for sending a thank you for sending Joe my way My God appreciate it man, and uh whenever I get over there to Jersey up to pop in. Yeah, you know popping the class I might be cool.

Oh, that would be good. They would lose their mind. You get me? That'd be great.

I'm not gonna do all that. Well, now I'm kind of sensitive. I know I mean I'm all the way here from New York. All right, we'll figure it out.

We'll make something work. I love you. You're all of you too Me. Thank you so much, bro.

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