This Past Weekend - Impractical Joker Joe Gatto | This Past Weekend #234

Episode Date: October 1, 2019

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts http://bit.ly/ThisPastWeekend_    Theo sits down with one fourth of the Impractical Jokers Joe Gatto to talk about Joe’s life before the show, when Theo and Joe met, and Joe’s love for dogs.   Joe Gatto https://www.instagram.com/joe_gatto/    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   This episode brought to you by   MyBookie Visit https://MyBookie.ag and use code THEO to double your first deposit   Capterra Visit https://Capterra.com/Theo to try for free   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Find Theo   Website: https://theovon.com  Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend  Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEKV_MOhwZ7OEcgFyLKilw   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Producer Nick https://instagram.com/realnickdavis -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Music   “Shine” - Bishop Gunn  http://bit.ly/Shine_BishopGunn    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Gunt Squad www.patreon.com/theovon  Name Aaron Rasche Adam White Alaskan Rock Vodka Alex Hitchins Alex Person Alex Petralia Alex Wang Alexa harvey Andrew Valish Angelo Raygun Annmarie Reilly Anthony Holcombe Ashley Konicki Audrey Hodge Ayako Akiyama Ben Deignan Ben in thar.. Benjamin Herron Benjamin Streit Bobby Hogan Brandon Woolsey Christian Coyne Christina Peters Christopher Becking Claire Tinkler Cody Cummings Cody Kenyon Cody Marsh Crystal Dan Draper Dan Perdue Danielle Fitzgerald Danny Crook David Christopher David Witkowski Dentist the menace Diana Morton Dionne Enoch Doug C Dusty Baker Eric Tobey Faye Dvorchak Felicity Black Gillian Neale Ginger Levesque Grant Stonex Greg Salazar Gunt Squad Gary J Garcia Jamaica Taylor James Briscoe James Hunter James Schneider Jameson Flood Jayme Sta Jeffrey Lusero Jeremy Siddens Jeremy Weiner Joakim Joaquin Rodriguez Joe Dunn Joel Henson Joey Piemonte John Kutch Johnathan Jensen Jon Blowers Jon Ross Jordan Josh Cowger Josh Nemeyer Joy Hammonds Justin Doerr Justin L justin marcoux Kennedy Kenton call Kevin Best Kirk Cahill kristen rogers Kyle Baker Lacey Ann Laszlo Csekey Lawrence Abinosa Lea Rashka Leighton Fields Luke Bennett Madeline Matthews Mandy Picke'l Marisa Bruno Matt Nichols Meaghan Lewis Mike Mikocic Mike Nucci Mike Poe Mona McCune Nick Roma Nikolas Koob Noah Bissell NYCWendy1 OK Qie Jenkins Ranger Rick Robyn Tatu Rohail Ruben Prado Ryan Hawkins Sagar Jha Sarah Anderson Sean Scott Secka Kauz Shane Pacheco Shona MacArthur Stephen Trottier Suzanne O'Reilly Theo Wren Thomas Adair Tim Greener Timothy Eyerman Todd Ekkebus Tom Cook Tom Kostya Tugzy Mills Tyler Harrington (TJ) Vanessa Amaya Victor I tuck back and sit down to pee Johnson II Vince Gonsalves Vlog Master William Reid Peters Yvonne Zeke HarrisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 impractical 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 him right now Oh

What island is that how does that rank amongst other island? Oh, 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 never you never been does that? Oh, I don't think I've been there I mean I always hear you guys talk about it, you know and you hear a lot of people talk about it You know, most people go through it. Yeah, it's like it's the connector between Brooklyn and Jersey or Long Island in Jersey You know, so people a lot of people go through but a lot of people it It's the freeway to see the Statue of Liberty. Oh really? Yeah, you take the Staten Island ferry, which is free Yeah, as opposed to the Liberty ferry, which takes you to Liberty Island

And you have to get off and look at the like the feet of it and when you're there There's like nothing to do so you can get a good look at it, right? Yeah, the best look from the ferry so you see everybody on one side of the boat on the way there and one side of the boat on the Way back Dude you used to work on the ferry didn't you? No, did you work on a ferry? Yeah, did you ever? Time was tough Yeah, I have panhandled for a while. Did you a long time ago or no? No, no, I didn't work on the ferry Yeah, I thought somebody told me that What was a job that you had that

That you actually missed that was a long time ago. I love sales. I did sales all the time Yeah, I when I came out here to chase the dream. I was gonna be a screenwriter director That's what that's what I hope I'm hoping to end up and I came out here to do that in 2003 to 05 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 crush it What was like one of your go-to moves as somebody wandered in like, you know, I'd always We I worked in the rail, which is the men's section itself like high-end jeans and like Right. Yeah, so I wow that's a quality section. It's a quality section. Yeah, we actually put it on the map

I don't you know, I don't want to brag. I was a platinum pace setter salesman I'm a five cross the country anyway. Yeah, one million dollars in a year, but that's the here or there I mean, who's bragging no one and you guys are selling some real wild stuff in there Yeah, it was like it was like when von Dutch hats. I was every I put one on everybody Even newborns, huh? I was that's it still ones. That's it man. You know a dollar's a dollar But it was a $60 hat I was yeah I used to I used to do the thing because we worked in the men's section when I had a great scheme. It's all commissioned No, no hourly, you don't get paid. You don't get paid if you don't sell right? So that was it. What seems illegal

Yeah, I think it is I think it is So I paid it. That's like drugs. That's almost like drug Which is that yes, it is The Von past the Von Dutch so I did the I had like girlfriends who would come in with their boyfriends And when the boyfriends would come to shop and I'd like oh, and you I'm sure you need some genes too Let me take you upstairs and introduce you to Chelsea I would go up there and I would have a deal with Chelsea upstairs like whatever you sell them I get 50% of and it was such a great scheme because you'd sell anything in the store

And then eventually I became known there as like cuz I was fun and funny, you know, and I didn't really yeah I'm pretty good with people and I would could sell anything so somebody like oh, I need a watch. I'm like, yeah No, I know watches. Yeah, I don't I walk over I get a key from some guy I got you over here next, you know, you got the guy on a Nordic track on the fifth floor They sell like Teslas at the Grove now. Yeah, there's a Tesla inside the Nordstrom as a Tesla So I was like, do you guys could we sell Tesla's cuz I'll go back Forget TV man. I'm coming back at the cell Tesla. You start one or you make deals all across the Grove You're wandering out of doors. It's just a personal shop. Then I then I got I got recruited

I got poached from Nordstrom to this high-end. It's called HD Buttercup. It's a oh, yeah furniture. I opened that store Did you really did I was their first personal shopper dude? It's pricey over there crazy and I worked out a deal with them that like cuz they have little their setup was called menu Tellers right so they have little stores within a big store So it's okay like kind of like that. Um Fred Segal. 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 in the interview And they're like what I was like, well, I'm just gonna sell everything

So I would just walk around and sell everything to anybody who walked in the door Yeah, and I actually helped Jessica Alba with like rugs like that was my big thing for a while I like helped her like it was she's a brother and I helped her with like some rugs and stuff And I was like my claim of fame for a while. I went around. I was like, yeah, I sold rugs to Jessica Like I you know, I just jumped it out Magic carpets. Yeah, we call them but there was a they had an antique section and it was one guy that This is that HD buttercup at HD buttercup inside one of the man who tells was an antique guy Okay, and it's all commissioned there too. I worked out a deal where it was hourly plus commissioned

So I got like 3% or 5% I think I 5% there and I said, okay I was like, you know, whatever I sell get 5% of and this guy and I was like eating tuna fish Like, you know what? It's like when you move out here Like I was like a peanut peanut, but I couldn't afford the jelly was like peanut butter sandwiches Yeah, you know, so I just squeeze the packet of jelly into your mouth I would get a bite of the peanut butter sandwich and then squeeze a little bit of the jelly And yeah, just fill your pockets at any time pop that great jelly to some places have shady jelly at all But that's a different chat

Wait, I don't know if you want to get into that now. Let's come back. We'll circle back Let's say so we're at HD buttercup. You got the antique section. So what happened? What was that? What's it? So I don't know. I don't know shit about antiques the guy goes on break He's like, hey, I got to go pick up my daughter I think I had to pick up his daughter from school or something's like do you mind just watching us till we close Yeah, nobody ever went in. Oh, let's know the white privilege in that guy's life I thought it was at school. Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna pick her up. But whatever he had to do or he had a doctor appointment or a funeral I can't remember if he's antiquity is probably

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 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 it's only so much you could fake, right? So I get in and she's like, yeah, this is from a battle. Yeah Like it's all oh this smells like Lincoln. Oh, yeah, this has 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 Omar That's like big. Oh, yeah, those are real nice. And I was like, oh, this is when I said, oh, I think my husband will like this It was like, I think it was like an anniversary gift or something. I was like, okay

I was like, I could get you the information. She's like, oh, no, I'll take it and this guy's on lunch And I work on commission 5% and I'm like, all right, and I look at the price of it was $40,000 And I was like, where would you like that delivered? And that was like it was put it on your back I got an Uber for it It's back in the day. So there wasn't even that I'll carry this I will walk all of Culver City for you I didn't know, yeah, you didn't know a couple Tongans or Hawaiians or fucking you know what I'm saying now It's a big dog before they came here. There was this furniture to stay where it was Oh, it's like you you moved to the furniture. Yeah, like this isn't my dresser. I live here now

Yeah, but that was that was my big thing and then I moved 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 we'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 Uh, doing margaritas or something or making margaritas for so, you know at a shit at a real halfway house of a fucking taco Tacotiria You know, it was like a taco that like it's a little shady cafe with tacos and then they had a bar like hook to it

Really? Yeah, and they had the margarita machine and I broke it I said did the settings wrong and then I didn't pretend like it wasn't broke It was like Johnny Buffett's margarita Yeah Yeah, it was like yeah, it was like Che Guevara's margaritas You know, this is interesting. Yeah, so when you move back was it was it because of um Well, when I moved 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 was like alone now Oh, so I felt like you know and you know what I was like it's at my grandmother's funeral Actually, my hand was kind of forced at my grandma's funeral. I had come in from LA and I said I said to my mom I said, you know, maybe I'll move back to New York just out loud like just screaming cars Oh, maybe I'll move back to New York in a little bit and she started crying and hug me said thank you Thank you think I was like, okay, I guess I'm moving back to New York I can't be like back off lady, you know, so I was like I'll move back so I decided and you guys are pretty close to your mom Yeah, we were yeah, so and so yeah, so at that point you don't really have a choice then if she's you guys are close

She wants you back. Yeah, so I came back and I moved back into her basement Wow, you know good 30-year-old sons do Yeah, we we It's the same basement actually where before I moved is where the tenderloins used to rehearse might come here The boys we used to Rehearse down there me Salomar and our friend Mike just before we did our shows we used the same basement So I ended up living where I was doing improv rehearsal. So, you know, I was in a good mental space And I ended up getting a job because of out here and retail at that one of the man you tellers there Uh-huh brought me into a show with the Jacob Javitson

It was just this big furniture show at the Javitson or like what people come to meet new, you know vendors and stuff Okay, where's Javitson? It's a it's a Manhattan. It's the big conference center there in Manhattan So it's like the design center here or whatever, you know, like one of those where they had those big conferences huge You know, it's what Comic-Con is in New York, right? So, um, they uh, I I I decided to work help her out with this thing and I'm just, you know, selling Bullshitting just selling all the stuff to people who come in to open in stores and this one woman came up to me Her name was Ali and she was the CEO of a new store called the giggle a baby store Hmm, and so I started selling us some stuff and she like really like you could easily sell something to a baby

Yeah, man, I'm the money they have You're shaking make sure it makes noise. Yeah, don't shake the baby the toy Wow kids nowadays, dude, they're resilient. Yeah. Well, they had this lady the other they had this lady the other day And she goes man these children her kid was being bad. She goes these children act like they've been here before That's a great saying Well, they got nothing to lose. I don't know any better. Oh, I was like that is kind of true And some of these little assholes that it's like like they've been here. Yeah, it's funny because between my son and daughter I'm always like, oh, it's 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 was all pregnant proper like you go like You know go color and she'd sit in the corner for four hours. Yeah color and what a crayon. It's yeah, dude Yeah, the little women. I feel like they're yeah, they have they want to change the world You know, they have some inkling of like, you know, hope and the boys a lot of them are fine I'm dumb just running around knocking stuff over. Yeah, that's my boy. That's my remote Yeah, it's almost crazy to watch me like what is going on? These kids are bananas You kind of want to pull them over and be like, listen, you don't know things yet, but this is what you're doing Yeah, what's going on?

This isn't how you do it. Dude, my little nephew used to hide on top of shit like on bookshelves and shit and be real quiet I'm fucking surprised you bro. Yeah, and he was like 19 months old. I'm like, that's insane There's no way he got up there by natural causes. No, no, I'm saying this dude ain't no fucking He's so he's so seek that out. Yeah, this is we're gonna make some happen Oh, you could tell he definitely been like envisioning being up on that shelf We just woke up there one morning, you know, this ain't no free solo, but baby right now. It's all about the angle Come down strong. Oh, yeah, dude. He was really yeah, there's some of these children that is wild They got the egg-growing Poe in them, you know

Something's going on. They got dirty birds in the back of their brain. Yeah But um, so now tenderloins now one story that I love about you guys is a group of Impractical Jokers is that tenderloins is y'all's original group and was there members that we don't know about whether other members? Cuz you mentioned a guy Mike. Yeah, there's there was two that we brought on one was Mike was the original Mike Baccio Went to high school with him as well and and Quinn just Quinn, but you know cute. Yeah, he didn't go that way And botch actually got a job and grew up and he got married and everything like before all of us Like he became a grown-up and the rest of us were like trying to do improv and it just didn't match with his schedule anymore Like we want to shoot like on a Wednesday at like five, you know four o'clock. He's like guys. I'm at work

Like what are you talking about? I can't be there, you know, right 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 he's in the PR in the PR and stuff. So we see him all the time Oh, nice friends with him and stuff. Wow. Is it kind of is it has is it not hectic? But is it like is it interesting to think like oh if he would have been there Does he ever like do you guys ever lament on it a little bit? I mean a positive way Yeah, yeah, we always go down like the what if like what if it was there Oh, what if there was five like what if Q came on in him like it's not more even like a Q or him

It's more like oh what if because a lot of this that we Q was a huge part of the puzzle for us because we had moved into Video right and scripted writing stuff and Q's a very strong writer and so he helped he helped us with that part of The deal like the 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 is like oh, what if we're like gave a little edge, you know Yeah, a little dark which sometimes we're just fun, too Like yeah and the combination of all of our sense of abilities. I think really was the right perfect, you know That we were making a margarita, right, you know, that was the right if you're making a jank

Yeah, you can't have the baby powder like somebody and was so anybody else was there There was a guy that jumped in for a little bit Gideon who was actor friend of ours that moved to New York from, Florida Oh, my friend ours and he he filled in for a little bit, too And he was like a fifth while botch was still with us It would there would you ever have you ever done an episode that that where you guys had them pop in or no We actually used botches Daughter sienna in one of the times where like sometimes we take to the park and we have our daughter like it as an actress or whatever And we use botches daughter

We did her we did it twice. We did something we just did something recently with her I don't think aired yet with her as well. We brought her back to like surprise sounds. Oh, yeah, that's cool Yeah, so they're in the mix, you know, we see you know talk and stuff But it's it's fun that you know the tenderloins is really what I came back to so like when I and you got back home You got into those 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 they didn't do any live shows They only did a show when I came home So I would I came on I think of the two or three shows where I came home

I'm like, hey, I'm home. Let's put a show up right an improv show up and we'd go and do it But what's that? It was kind of defunct. It didn't really right. Yeah. Yeah, you had everybody there Yeah, so now I was like Joe's back. He's like, oh, what are we doing? 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 doing sketches and what about videos Nick, you know, uh, what is a tenderloin? What is it? I know a tenderloin is a meat. Yeah, it's a meat. So it's a cut of meat. 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 could put it to us I just 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 hindquarters. Yeah, the hindquarters. That's Mark Oh, we feel like we feel everybody in right? Okay. Yeah, and then it's also this is this is the this is the good one Let's go to the second one a district of a city where vicing corruption are prominent you We just missing me. I guess I'm the I guess I'm the short ribs Well, yeah, because in San Francisco, there's a famous That's where shit went down and the story drugs dude I actually have video on my phone of some people blowing each other from our hotel window. Yeah

Yeah, yeah, we we had we had walked by when we did the San Francisco sketch fest back in the day And we were staying in a we thought it'd be funny the tenderloin saying the tenderloin just not knowing, right? So we walk it back from a 7-Eleven that had had a iron, you know ironed fence and like that I had 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 It's like a little car like a little pope cart taking you around Watch a McCallus, bro People want to watch and we came back and there was just we walked down one street

I'm not even kidding. There was just like three separate things of fucking going on Yeah, like and there was like there was like two cops that were like looking at like a body Just like this and we were like and we didn't know if the guy was dead or just passed out And then when we walked back to our hotel, I'm like that might have been a murder scene I would they just found it was like, oh, well, Jimmy we go we got to find out. Yeah. Yeah, it was gonna start Yeah, that's an old 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 start I guess at the bay and then they run like the bridge or something

Yeah, 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 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 mean, I'm look, you know, the Lord's looking for me, you know what I'm looking for him You know, we're gonna meet up that afternoon, but uh and people were running by in this race You know tens of thousands of people in this race and when they get close someone would we'd 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 there's a huge flow of people They can't argue or discuss it. He'd be like Otage's holding it. They're like Pass it out from dehydration a quarter mile down the road Oh, these Irish people stacking up at the curb at the next turn just from boom and all Asian people We're so happy Such a great choice dude, we thought we laugh or so we just sat there and somebody deserted their stand, bro

You know what I'm saying? This was like, uh, you know, this you get probably, you know Hind quarter back in the military for this somebody deserted there, you know, their water stand and we just took it over They were a mushroom we're just serving it out a deserted stand is a way I made a lot of my jokes early in Not even like my girlfriend just me being me with my friends like yeah, because you're so I was a host at any restaurant where the thing was oh and I would go as far as I could like I there was a Perkins by me in Staten Island. Oh, yeah So I would be and I would literally end up working the whole Perkins like I'd walk in and be like, you know 11 o'clock at night people walk in 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 and I promise you that You could be anywhere. How many how many in your party to That's it. Let's get you a table too. I thought answering the phone Yeah, I would take to go all this hang up not know what to do these people waiting Didn't kind of care Sal used to hate those two things I used to hate would embarrass him. Oh my god, but he loved it and hated it But there was two things he used to hate the worst one was taking an elevator with me Uh-huh because I would just I didn't give a shit and then to

He's like, oh, how many floors is this? Yeah, he used to think there's all time to was what he called to was Waiting for a table to restaurant with me because I can 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 or later I just like do stuff for myself half the time, right? And then they would enjoy watching that, you know, so did you oh 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 turt 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. I was super geeky I was it wasn't till junior high school when I started the first time I did improv at high school We did high school improv together. That's how Jesus that and Sal made me go to it like he's like you should come you're funny I used to have lunch from all the time He's like you're funny you should come and try and I was like no and as like I couldn't do it And then in high school I like I bullied a little bit and stuff and I used it

I turned the tables in high school because I would reverse bully the The football players, huh? Like I remember the moment where one guy walked by and like they said something whatever and I knocked the books out of The linebacker's hand like on a phone I'm gonna pick them up like that and he legs and I'm sorry sure and he picked them out and laughing I see better and I walked away and everybody lost it laughing and I was like, oh, you know what? I'm gonna do this and I just started like bullying like I was 104 pounds on the math team bowling team like I was like not anything right so on the bullying team

Yeah, some schools have a You know, that's part of the problem. I think in America we have a bullying team So you so you just kind of said oh, I'm a flip the script and 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 the thing I really liked about it was it really took a turn to the whole high school We won't you know our class we want the old boy Catholic high school So what are you doing besides messing with each other at the part right fart and really right there 300 people in the class And I really felt a moment there where I was like, oh everybody's having fun with this

Yeah, there's like kind of like bullying kind of like went away from my class. It kind of was just like Oh, we're all just fucking around together like it didn't matter like so I felt like that was pretty cool Oh, that's cool And that is kind of like carrying me throughout my whole career all the way to here now Wow, that's a big thing for me, but I was a perception almost yeah It's perception and then I was like that gave me like a weird confidence And I think confidence is definitely my key like I I'll try to pull off anything. I don't you know Yeah, you're strange to also 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 spent 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 song we're not gonna take it was on or something, right? Yeah, and there's one guy who's 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? Yeah, 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

Yeah, damn I said damn that guy's fucked That's the thing. Yes. I don't drink don't smoke never took a drug in my life I never even tried a cigarette and everybody thinks I am so like high on coke Oh, I thought I was like that guy's fucked. Yeah I have an energy my body shouldn't have like I just go because what I'd love about that moment is that gets anyone licensed in The room to be weird because I'm gonna be weirder Yeah, like don't even worry about it because it always be like well at least you're not that guy like that's the guy I am in a party. It's like oh, it could be we're looking at side. He's crazy

Sal spent most of his life explaining that I wasn't talking to people like that's really what have to do when we go out He'd be like these guys like he's fun. Look at he's shirt. So off He's doing the worm in the middle of the club through hot models like I don't care. I was doing anything beautiful Yeah, so yeah, I was inspiring 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'm gonna have that much fun I guess well, are we 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 friend like if you watch a show and you didn't know us I imagine you'd be able like oh, I got a guy like Sal or I know a guy like well Nobody's really got a murder, but yeah, I got a guy like him, you know in your in your clique or growing up So I think there's part of that that people really that talks to people. Yeah. Yeah, do you um when you when you When you think about like kind of like the next steps and stuff because at a certain point like you guys have all grown so much You know does it start to see I know you have a the new show now that you're doing The misery index and but do you you mentioned directing and stuff really do you start to like think about things like that?

You know, yeah, 100% yeah, I've always had I never wanted I never thought this would be it I never want to be in front of the camera. Yeah, you just are trying to work and work at Nordstrom. Yeah Just trying to sell high-end t-shirts let a guy work as Pima cotton, you know Yeah, but I'm trying to get female cotton to the people, but I I did like a I always always behind the Camera guy always directing producing. That's always what I wanted to do even the tenderloin stuff Like I always did like those like what like one of our most famous Sketches, I'm not I'm barely in because I was like directing and like I love editing and all that stuff Right, but and even with this show like that's what I do like I I help show run this whole thing

Oh, okay, you do I jump. Oh, wow I was the first one to have to quit my job full-time. So I kind of got like I was like guys are we doing this because I got To give up on giggle like I had to quit giggle Everybody else was able to work both jobs Q was still a fireman Sal still owned his it was still bartender And you know, let's say look still a fireman is a unique term as well. I'm not saying I love firemen, right? Yeah, especially if there's a fire No, one person you want to see They're basically people that are training for the hot dog eating

It's exactly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you know good people at heart is awful. That's what they do professional softball That's what they're doing. Yeah discussing sports like that's what they do You know, but they you know, so he was they already had their job to fall back on it I was like I have to be all in when we shot the pilot She gave me two weeks off and then when it was like, hey, you got to shoot the first season You need we're gonna do it over the next six months. 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 tunnel and so you guys did

A lot of people know you guys had years of trying 16 years and have also did a couple of pilots that didn't take Yeah, yeah, we had two one for spike. Yeah, and then one for remember spikes. That's still a network I don't think it is. I don't think it is in the end. I think it was just cars like crashing into each other No, I think it was crashing and like a music video segment, you know Oh, no, it wasn't like a top-10 worst list like they become one of those stations where I just had a countdown shows and stuff They just rebranded it to paramount network now. It's just like a regular channel again Oh, okay. It's it's not for men anymore. No, yeah, it was very yeah, especially for men I remember it was the men well true when we when we joined true

The slate was insane that our show even on it was ever it was every tow tow truck show three different titles was it like towing south beach tow and another one I forgot and then knockoff shows for like pawn stars it was called a Oh, yeah, they had that. I think it was called pawn No, what was the major it was like like the pawn brothers It's all like that so whatever they had to show and then it was our comedy like in and now true was like a top comedy network Which is so so like weird that that happened It's so cool that they took that chance and it all like kind of happened But right like if you looked at our show in the beginning was like what the hell is this like well?

How does it even there so you guys gonna fit in here fit in here at all? And did you guys worry about that or did you yeah, you did yeah, cuz we were on the table for MTV or true Wow, and but MTV wanted to make it a strip show five days a week and recast us and they were like We love the concept of the show's great friends do anything together and now they're basically the Rob Deerdeck network Basically, there's nothing on there Rob Deerdeck. Oh hardcore pawn hardcore pawn. Yeah, that was it. That was the knockoff of the So they had their own versions of things and they were all successful pretty successful The further they are more like if you liked tow truck shows, that's where you were going, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, if you like shit get yeah repossession to repossession basically across the board

And they're other big one was bait car remember that shit show where they would just have a car basically like running like a BMW in the middle of the projects with the door open. It was playing Jay-Z There's like a hot pizza Cooler full of beer. It's like, oh, what do you mean all this I'll get in it and drive away There was like a parole officer in the back seat. Yeah, I was crazy And that was every kids like they should have called it entrapment. Yeah, every Episode was just a running car in the projects. Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens out. Someone's gonna steal a car I don't want spoiler alert. Yeah, you know, I don't have to tune in. It's not my seat TV

It's not like a roster rich are gonna get back together. This guy's gonna steal this car. What do you want to see? What's your crime of choice if you think if you have one man? Oh mine. Yeah, definitely embezzlement. Is it really oh for sure For sure. I love like the whole like heist movie stuff Like I would think like anything that like get weird like Could you have done it in the past nowadays? It's tougher. There's not even much cash sitting around Yeah, unique unique cash like if I could go back in time and be any like sort of like pull off any big scheme We're gonna be like a nice bank robbery in like the early 30s. Yeah Yeah, would you be already working at the bank because I could see you having that pot that vast

I'm gonna change. Yeah, like you know what time it is right in the little changing chichin chichin 30 cents back I'm all about that. I'm all about that life 1930s teller right here, man. Yeah, I'd 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 I probably blackmail somebody blackmail could be fun, too. Yeah, those are the good old days We could do a crime. Yeah before we had DNA. No, man DNA ruined crime for everybody Stupid science getting in the way. Yeah back in the day when you 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 they can afford the DNA test That's right. It's like I'm never gonna know anything about like That's stupid swab you mouth thing. Did you do that like the 23 and me? Yeah, I did it I didn't yeah fucked up. You did it. I fucked up What wait, what would you do crime? I want to go to jail for it anyway I'm not gonna be one of the people who's gonna do a crime and like hide all the time. I'm gonna go to jail That's all I could buy you. Yeah, thank you. You're right. Oh, you're right up front all the time Oh, yeah, I'd rather go and get my time done and get out. Yeah, I

When you said I did it wrong. I thought you made one. I was like, would you swab that you did it wrong? Oh, I fucked up like what you do remember exactly. I think I did the mouth. Yeah Yeah, back in that they're like whoa said send Vaughn back that ain't right Yeah, it's crazy. I think yeah, cuz a lot of people I guess they they're they're attaching people to murders and crimes You know because of that Yeah, I never did it because I didn't really have an interest because I feel like like the only way that you could find out if Parrot is male or female. So you have to have it tested and I've had a parrot for a while And I was like what difference does it make to me? I don't care if at least an egg

Okay, mystery solved if not no difference. Yeah, you know, so for me I'm like, I always treat animals differently if they're male or female. No, do you have animals? I never have no Oh, well when I was young I did but I never have as an adult I'm but I 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 yeah Is this fish male or female sometimes if I order like a sat a salmon or something? You know, that's a good one just to kind of see you know and a lot of times they'll go check And sometimes they'll come back with an answer. That's amazing. It's like oh, I guess there's no

You know what I would love and that scenario is when they came back with an answer You just go wrong and get up and walk out. Yeah, because you know, they're trying to pull something Wrong. Yeah, and open something up with a knife just show them part of the fish. What is that? You tell me that that's a fish deck Yeah Hide something in there Now you know what it was like Alright Today's episode I got to let you know if you if you're a gambling person man or woman or

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We've been when did you have to bring in 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 into season We just wrap season eight and season nine we start up in January And we actually hit our 200th episode this season and like literally we had the conversation at the end of season one was like Okay, now what do we do like because 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 a season and there's three to four bits per

Episode right so quick matter of it. Yeah, that's 14 million quick math So like that's bits that you have to come up with right and inside those bits are jokes Right, so you have to do all that and you break if you break it 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 and 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 would 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 and made that a goal That opened up a whole new stream of things. So it wasn't just like oh only do uncomfortable stuff It's like oh do shit. That's really funny. That's gonna make your friend laugh and if you you can't laugh Yeah, so that opened up like a whole thing and a couple of our big bits like the cringy cringy Big basketball where we say weird names in the waiting room or like where we did the two-way mirror where like stuff's going on behind you And you have to watch it and you had to continue to do this focus group with somebody and not laugh You know, so a lot of that happened one of my favorites 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. You're like, oh here's a whole week a 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 whole thing. Yeah, it's everything you already did before and then just make sure the other guys aren't laugh And then we had to establish our show long enough for the first four or five seasons Like we wouldn't use an actor before that because we wanted people to know And believe us that it's real. It's what the show's got to be real. It doesn't work for us, right? So if somebody knows our show they're not on it, right?

So then we brought in like actors as 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 pretend we had to take a piss And be like do me a favor could you watch my grandpa for me? And we had to talk them into watching our grandfather and if 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 they just went and started talking and it was like this is really funny So let's see what we do. Let's do that with kids And okay now let's watch my kid and then we started doing things in that, you know find my actor You know like we would plant an actor inside like uh like Murray was a waiter for one of his punishments in uh

Delmonico's a high-end steakhouse And we hit an actor with a wig on and we're like you got to find a wig so he's walking around people's hair As we're eating trying to find the wig and you know people like what the hell, you know kind of deal So all those little pieces, you know the first six weeks Um, you know the first four weeks of our pre-production. It's a six-week thing the writers are together our comedy Do you get paid extra as a writer or producer? You do. Yeah. Yeah Yeah So they're in the room and then we come in for the last two weeks of the six week and we start

We're hearing all they pitched and then when we like something we'll all talk it out figure it out And then we'll start stacking it up and being 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 either just they do it every time And they it's just better for them to be that way. Yeah. Yeah, cue is very much trusting of a hill He'll also he'll have his moment where he's like, oh, I got this idea I want to do this but cue for the most part when he shows up. He's like, what are we doing today? All right, let's get in there and do it. Yeah

Sal is very analytical. Oh, he's a he's a student of comedy Yeah, you know, he's really just like That's the way his brain works. He really just but I always say that sound I normally get to the same place I just get that way faster because I'm a gut kind of guy. I'm like, this is I'm very decisive I'm like, this is what we're doing. This is what 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 prove him wrong and sometimes he proves us wrong, you know, it's like it's it's a good balance and then mur Mur's like in the middle of all that like I would say Sal's on one end

Uh, I'm on the other and mur is like pretty much a dead center between those two things I'll think about something for a little bit and then get there or you know, he'll have ideas where he's like That's funny. That's a story because sometimes I just 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 been funny to see it Have strangers sent me in costume and I'm I'm a fake massage chair. They make me 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 face are taking we've done a bunch of different ones one of them was Because I love buffets, bro. I grew up. Yeah when I was growing up. They had finally got a buffet in our town, dude

and people were fucking losing their mind Oh, dude, somebody shot out the windows bro from the inside dude. That's how excited people were You know, it wasn't like a driveout. I get more chicken This dude fucking went in there. He's so fired up. Yes. He couldn't stand there being anything between him and the fucking lord You know some shot those windows out But yeah, it's uh, I mean, I remember yeah buffets were everything man back when you you know If you were in a place just imagine they could have all that stuff in one place

Yeah, I remember when I went to vegas and my family growing up the first time we went to uh, went to a buffet in vegas And this is like a vegas buffet Stand alone 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 were just enamored by the length of just You know food and different it's like a pool like

Trying to swim on the wall. Oh, I'm trying to make it one of the other. Yeah, I mean a salad to the salad Do you remember when I don't know wendy's 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 your own so you buy the salad bowl and it was all you could eat salad Why? Oh, yeah wendy's and stand on that and they had a they had a huge Uh toppings like but so they had everything like beside your croutons and your norm They had like buckets. It was like, you know, it's just all these different things

Sometimes they put some flowers in right pumpkin seed, you know, you get like but then it was like beats That's how I was introduced to beats. I was like, what are these red? I remember that being a topping once I was like, I don't know if that's a corn dog. It's like, yeah Yeah, so like all these weird they'll pickle anything Oh, yeah, so it was like I remember that and I remember being like I was gonna get a salad And I was like that's an ingenious way to make kids eat like Healthy because it was like a fun way to eat salad, you know, right? Yeah. Yeah buffet man. I remember the yeah I just came believe I used to get myself. I used to get myself so sick on shrimp cocktail

Like I would just get so nauseous. I would just Run from fucking pop them things Oh, man, dude, I'm right the tails for the first two years when I had shrimp cocktails, dude Nobody explained that to you. I'd eat the whole tail. No, I did it by choice, dude My my good friend does you know him Justin? He he was the DJ on the cruise Justin Jarris DJ Jarris He eats the tails to this day. Yeah, dude, one of my favorite things from the cruise and we'll talk about the cruise in a second Um Michael Ian Black. So I went on you guys his first cruise. Yeah, Michael Ian Black

Was on the cruise right so Uh, 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, yeah, and he did bingo and He was like trying to be all funny and stuff and the people that came to play bingo Didn't give a fuck bro. Okay. They came to play bingo, man. Read it Read it Lady beating her cane against the wall

The real stakes He's like oh shit. All right. Yeah, it makes his job easier. She just fired through all of his It was so funny, but he almost couldn't handle the fact that they didn't want any comedy with it It's a comedy cruise. It's not a bingo cruise Dude, it was that was so much fun. Gilbert Godfrey was on there and he looked just like a baby that was on the cruise ship too Some lady had a baby like an like an 11 month old. I look just like it So I did this side by side at the picture right there. Yeah, yeah, beautiful That was where we hung out for the first time in real like because we did the while when we did the comedy festival

We hung out a little bit, but there was a lot of people around. There's a lot of you and I spent a lot of time together On the first yeah, that cruise was great. Yeah, that was great. God that thing was so much fun Dude, we caused some trouble one thing you and I had fun on that. Yeah, you were yeah the gambling you guys shut the gambling down There's no chips or no, they ran out of chips. We won Yeah, you fucking won We have to like we have to get more chips like go get chips man. I gotta get paid There's like 19 people working there and they just shut down suddenly Uh that skill crane so many alcohol. I met two alcoholic guys playing that skill crane on the ship

And uh, they ended up making my t-shirts for about four years. Really a couple beautiful guys It's got kevin and his brother who actually ended up turning a little bit green last time my son He's turning green the brother, but um, but yeah, amazing people man, but uh, let's see what they got here, man Hey, Theo. Hey, joe. Uh, my question for joe is uh Uh, 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 living? Are you looking forward to that or are you kind of dreading it? That's a really good question. Shit. I impressed myself Dang, well this is these millennials

One question and they figure you know, he knows the word. I don't think he even wants an answer It's like I just crushed it. Uh, I will say that is a pretty good question. It is a good question, man I guess yeah, I wouldn't think about that. Yeah, is it embarrassing? Is it There's definitely a shift when I had my daughter and I was like, oh She her father's gonna be doing this and in my comedy you feel different responsibility with comedy I think when you have kids and you know that this is what you're going your legacy, you know Oh, I see what you're saying legacy was always a thing with me always even growing up even before I had anything I was worried about what was I gonna be remembered for really? Yeah, I was always very heavily. Yeah. Yeah

Jesus man, sometimes nameless my man one hell of a uh second grader Yeah, that was like I was like all I was very aware of it. Um You're gonna be known for not doing your homework if you don't quit daydreaming. That's right So I was uh when I had kids I was like, all right And I feel like there was sometimes there's only been a couple times when I was in in the edit of the show and I was like I don't want that to be out there for my daughter to see one day or my son because our comedy is always about us too It doesn't matter and our our show is edgy. 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 been a couple times where I was like, hmm. I don't think I want to make that joke anymore Or or that because being a father feels different. You know, yeah, you know And it is that kind of stuff the the being a father feels different. Is that stuff that you can You couldn't know that before no, definitely. No, I don't I didn't so I don't know how other 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 I'm the father figure of the group Which is so weird and scary, but like, you know, like it's It's it's your best friends that you always confide in and have the same exact journey

Right on the same ride my four friends The first every first big thing in my career is with these guys and it's their first two, you know First time we're playing Madison Square Garden all together first cruise we did together all that like all that 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 and 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 you just try to do best Has it been hard over uh, well, sorry, let me make sure we fully answer this question. Did we get it? Nick? You think yeah Yeah, um, well, I am my daughter does watch the show

Sometimes because I watch the edits at home and if I'm working at home in my office She'll come in and she's like are you watching you and your friends on the tv? That's what she says Yeah, and I'll say uh, I'll say yeah, no and then she'll uh She'll she'll just watch and you know at the end we give a green thumbs over thumbs down and she just doesn't she just sits there And watches and waits for the thumb and if it's a thumbs up she'll go yes And if it's thumbs down she'll go oh dad you got a that you got a thumbs down and she'll get like mad So it's really but now I feel the pressure at all. I was like, I can't have my daughter You know, that's so that that's kind of cute, 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 her laugh. Oh, that's good. I could see that great. She's she's a little mini me She looks like my it looks like my wife My spirit really hundred percent me hundred weird quirky laughs like at anything like she's really very much my Do you see yourself having one of those shows like the australian guy that died? I'm talking about steve erwin's daughter like taking over. Yeah, they have a new show that's out now and it's like, uh Yeah, they're taking over. Yeah, I don't I don't I think it's too big of a gap Yeah, yeah between that I think you know and and there's so many reruns of our show who knows

You know, my time it's over. You're gonna have a back in like 250 episodes. You could keep this thing. Go Probably still be well. Yeah, that's true, huh? Yeah, 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 there was like 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 then what they had to run through the house and get different gifts these boxes vaguely

vaguely remember what you're talking about It kind of felt like supermarket sweep a little bit. Yes. It felt a little bit like that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah But it was like, yeah, they had these big houses and then they would put them on this conveyor belt or something at the bottom And they would open them and see if they had won 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 the stupid videos that are on now that all it's just videos of kids opening toys

I don't want to see in that. It's like the weird thing You're gonna now you watch one you're gonna don't do it because you'll fall down the 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 though because you don't have to buy your kids toys. Do you think rabbit Oh, that's a good point, huh? They just go ahead and save your money man. You pay for a youtube subscription Do you think rabbits are in holes and like how do we get the fucking we don't do that shit? I know. Yeah, we're down here fucking We're not doing watching youtube. You're what get over here hoppy

This has nothing to do with us. Why do you keep using the term rabbit hole? They're probably fucking pissed, bro Oh, that's my thing. I'm down here trying to live. Yeah, we're just staying warm Throw a carrot down. Yes. I'm trying to hide from a fucker You think we're down here watching youtube. What do you think they say people hole? What are two rabbits talking to go? Yo, don't go down that peeping hole Jesus, I went down a people hole over there on third street. Yeah, careful over there That's a nintendo one district. Don't go down that people hole

Dude, tenon loin everywhere. Somebody's got CDs. They got dope. Everybody's got it They're selling everything from mix tapes to bring in the mix. Yeah mix crotch. Yeah, all of it. Who wants that mix crotch? Um, oh man, it was oh, we got a question right here from somebody who's in witness protection. Actually, let's get to this Have you ever been punched in the face for playing a joke on somebody? Okay, there you go I mean, I don't know this First of all, how do you okay? I have questions. How do you source this material? How do you source this material open source? How did you how did you get this guy's video?

Do you know this guy? Is that no, that's a fan of impractical practical jokers We had a lot of questions for you, but a lot of them are like kind of the same What's your favorite prank? What's your favorite prank? So they're always the same again Yeah, 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 Started punching his phone very dark and also that guy could be anywhere from the age of 13 Probably 51 or 52. I was gonna say very unique child's body Um, the angle the angle too and it looks like a light pet shade of lipstick on them

See that it's got a wet lip. Look at right there. Like see it's a glistening lip. He's got a wet lip Jesus to answer your question. No, but also I have so many questions to you Yeah, this guy I wonder if he's all right. Yeah, we should maybe send somebody We'll send a video back. Yeah, that's the people hole. We were talking about that's what the rabbits are talking about Um, I remember one time I was working with Howie Mandel on the show It was called deal with it, right and so I was working. This is a host for him for a while and So you would get people off the street and you would give one of them a um

Uh, they would be coming to a restaurant and then you give one of them in your piece You'd sneak them off the waiter and they went to the bathroom or something would be like, all right Here we're gonna put an earpiece. We're gonna start telling you things to do The more you can do without the person at the table realizing you're on a 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, nope. I can't do this shit, right? And I think she was worried that she was gonna get abused So we had to like, uh, we had to call call the episode That's a bad call to prank 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 Uh, I started a Friday night pillow fight like I just gave everybody pillows and we had like 40 people doing a pillow fight all over It was fun, but there was they did a thing where they wanted me. This is my second armoire story

They want they wanted me to say they like Joe to help this guy tell me he's got to see this armoire And you know how you know, uh, they had that path in in Ikea where you just run, right? So he's like go and make this guy fall. So this guy started running. I was like, it's over here. No, it's over here It's over here And I just started basically jogging around all this furniture and this guy was keeping up with me Whatever and this is when I was bigger and fatter and I was like out of breath huffing the puffer It was funny and then they're like getting the armoire getting the armoire. So me and him getting the armoire And it shuts all you hear in the armoires. I mean

Panting right that's what and it's like whatever and it was really funny like it's great So now we go to sign the guy, you know, they have to agree to be on tv It's a right, you know two-party state where they you could film somebody but then they have to agree to be on tv In new york in new york. There's only like five or six states that are that way. So it's a one-party state here I think democrat. Yeah, most of california But yeah, you can't yeah, you have to let them know in advance really. Yeah. Yeah, so let their parents know Yeah, so when we uh, we actually filmed out in LA for our two hundredth episode it takes place here in LA Yeah, so it was it was a different procedure you had to do like people had to know that they were being filmed

They had to be couldn't do anything close space You couldn't do any store you had to be out in public Or the cameras had to be exposed like if somebody walked in like this, they know they're being filmed It's fine, right, but then it doesn't really work. So you had to like we had a couple things that were weird But uh, anyway, so we're in the on-world we get out of the on-world like dude You were so funny. We'd love for you to be on the episode and the guy was like, oh, it's really fun He's like I can't do that. He's like, you know, I'm married and this isn't my wife Wow, so he was shopping for discount furniture and

I can't he bought a soda So yeah, he was like he's like I can't he's like and you know So that was like such a weird thing that we had happened and then that has happened multiple times over filming where guys are like Oh, I can't mistress. Yeah, I'm with somebody that I'm not supposed to be with. Wow. Yeah You know, uh, oh here's someone 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. Um I want to be a comedian eventually whether that's doing stand-up or uh getting like a show like in practical jokers and uh I just wanted to hear you guys's advice on uh, you know being a comedian. What do you do coming up?

Uh, what kind of 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 uh, you can really tell with you guys Um, you're very genuine and you really enjoy doing what you do and I want to do something like that. You know, that's nice of Tim Yeah, sounds like a nice young man. It's got great community taste. Obviously. That's true. You and I mean, that's I mean the guys the kids are genius Yeah, uh, um, well you said earlier like, you know, you know, it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen quick Yeah, it doesn't happen quick. That's the thing at all. There's times where I wanted things to happen faster in my career and

I'm glad that they did it in hindsight Even though there's no way I could have known that man No way and I would be like I would talk to my managers in agent. I'd be like, why did it? You know, why does this person gets this opportunity and then you see other people get opportunities where they're not ready for them That's right. So, uh, that's uh, that's a big big pitfall is to compare yourself to other people Yeah, everybody's got their own path. Everybody's got their own journey. Everybody's got their own time Yeah, it might just not be your time yet. And also you have to be prepared that it might not work out You know, I was always fine with

Okay, if it didn't happen didn't happen, you know, I still was doing it because I enjoyed it Yeah, and I think that's a big thing because no one could take that enjoyment from you. Nobody has to validate 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 I've always felt that way and then in the past like I think six months For somebody that things 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? Um, choices are the worst It's hard on you have a decision to like if you want to do this like that because you know that you're leaving something behind

You know, we went through that a little bit with our we figured it out finally But with our movie when we were going to film when we filmed our 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 filmed the second half of season seven So we're basically filming for like 16 months straight I mean braggled 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 going to kill ourselves and do it which we did or we're just going to be like All right, let's try to hopefully the movie will still be around if we do it after season seven

But uh, so when we had that choice and like thinking about that It was always like, all right, what if we don't and that I always feels the heaviest You're you're always the heaviest there what that if you don't It the opportunity would be gone right now. What were the stresses that I'm sure that 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 worse. Yeah, I was you know, I almost got divorced. It was tough Yeah, yeah for there's a five. I was five weeks away from home My wife had a new newborn son, you know, my daughter just basically like single parent and New York couldn't talk to her

I was on set for six. It was totally different than the show I'm on a movie set for 16 hours a day like in our show like I go we filmed for three hours You know, I would do some meetings and stuff and then I could talk to her the whole time, you know Here I couldn't I'm in Atlanta. I'm away from home. You know, that's such a it's feels so Yeah, I mean that's intense. Like I don't know. Yeah for me sometimes 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

Do you feel like it changes you do you feel like it changes your mindset is 100% and you can't Not be in a good mindset or in a good mood 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 If I wasn't thinking this way, it would be funny. It's like you go down a person hole Yeah, I went down a person hole. I went down a people hole. Yeah. Yeah, that's what happens Yeah, that went down a people hole. Yeah, that happened to me a lot this year, man It was just like just figuring out like because we started podcasting so much and it was it's all been fun, but it's like Okay, well now what so now I'm just I'm a podcast host or am I like, what am I am I a

comedian am I You know, what's going on, you know to the point because you're just you know I would just go from one thing to the next like go on tour come back Do and then go and it would just be like, I don't even know. Yeah, it's already black. I don't even know what's going on Yeah, um as long as you're being creative. I think if you're you're a creator like I was it Yeah, but 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 if it's a little bit of a slow roll. Yeah, then we are when it gets going too fast I just I think I just can't hate 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 as an artist or as a communicator Um 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 could put out your own videos. You can find you can You can you even see guys doing like voices of like, uh, They'll have animals that are fighting or are doing in the wild. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they'll do anything But I mean if you think about like how crazy like I wish like so much is lost Oh, 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 in 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 are you kidding me? Like that's where we're at in the world where you have such access to People to celebrities via twitter instagram any podcast? Oh, yeah last night. I'm a saints fan last night a j. Klein I'm a big saints fan. Yeah, he caused a fumble last night and uh, I sent him a man I was just so fucking ecstatic and he wrote me back and I haven't even read it. I'm like saving it Oh, that's great. It's gonna be like the highlight of my day later. Yeah, uh, but yeah, it's just crazy how you can communicate

Yeah, but and 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 Um, yeah, you could try and fail with no risk Like you could try like if you think about like back in the day like if you wanted to do like a short film Yeah, like you'd have to find the money you have to you'd have to shoot it You'd have to digitize it like capture the tapes and bring it over to let then you have to edit it and do all the stuff Then you have to put it out where where are you putting it out? Yeah, like show people or send it out. You gotta sell it. Yeah, you gotta do it now

No, and like and then it's bad because everybody's is bad And then you just go ahead and do it every short film is back every short film is miserable Across the board first one second wasn't all we better Well, like anybody's first short film you'd be hard pressed to find somebody's first short film like that was They're like the cbd oil if entertained You know what I realized the other day I don't think cbd oil does anything That's what I realized bro

I was talking to some dude He's like, yeah, I've been using a lot of drugs, but I've also been using cbd oil But he only seemed like he'd been using drugs and then I thought about like all the cbd oil rubbed into my body And it's like Shit hadn't been that super. I don't think it does shit man. I think cbd stands for snake Snake oil. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Well, it used to be central business district, you know, and that was just a body cream You know, it's just I don't know things have gotten strange 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

Um, but I do though miss. I mean my favorite things to do Were to make my friends laugh man 100% do being at school being at the lunch table That's what's weird for me because that is my job and that's I still get that that's not taken from me We always say like always like, oh, I wish I knew the glory days when I live We know this is the best job we'll ever have this is the best scenario for anybody Anybody in the world comedian or 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 is cast together or any big successful show was a sitcom that somebody's writing for them You know, it's not like, oh, this is gonna make Sal laugh like you never said that like any of it's like, oh, this like that's There's a sense of like accomplishment when you make your friend laugh, you know, yeah And that's what it helps it. Yeah, I was oh, yeah, well you guys are sure for sure. I mean, yeah, there's so many it's like Yeah, so 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 what it was pretty funny that one of our One of our Agents was talking and when they were going back in for a negotiation like one of the points that he was making

You know what agents always ramp themselves up by talking to you, you know, so they're going in for I think it was like season five Whatever and he was like, uh, he's like tell me another reality show where somebody's like, oh, you know, everybody always just say Oh, I'm a Ross. I'm a Rachel right from friends are 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 this is like a little bit around the one the Kardashians He's like he and that was the only other one with people are like I'm like that with the Kardashians Yeah, and it was like nobody does a reality shows nobody, you know is like that Everybody forgets the name of everybody when it's over in a season

He's you guys are on your fifth season and your characters, but you're not you're yourself, right? So he's like that doesn't exist and that was always He's the way you said the way the fans interact with us. They always feel like they know us Oh, it's crazy Dude my my greatest fans of of 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 no

Yeah, I mean that guy kevin. Um, there's a there's uh There's um A girl and her mom down in florida meet up with them. Another group took me to disneyland one time. Um, that's awesome Yeah, it's uh, I didn't know what took me to disneyland How you getting taken to disneyland, you are disneyland I just took my daughter to disneyland pay full price free tickets. I want yeah Did you get the guide? Did you get the guide that takes you? Yeah, I got the guy that's expensive But worth every penny, but worth every penny, you know what we crushed that park

We got in and out of everything was great Yeah, somebody told me about that guy. I had my family come in town and I was like, uh, and like you got to get this guide I talked to joey d. I was like you get the fucking guide You go over there fucking look somebody dies. It's not on you papa, you know You get they walk you in it's so it's so great But the but the same day I was there steven tallow was there really and there's this paparazzi that's called I forget what it's called on instagram. I think it's called day at disney. I think it's called grand paparazzi Yeah, it's like the day at disney like instagram account

It's like it's it's celebs were at disney and there's a picture of me and my family me my wife and my daughter But they blur our kids faces at a respect which is cool And it's me and them and then the next picture is like steven. Tyler buying like a t-shirt. I like the merch station You know i was just in mali and that's where he lives So I heard all kinds of stories about him while I was there Yeah, just uh, and I went and saw them actually I saw aro smith about me and nick went Yeah, they're playing vegas now right three months ago. We went and saw dude. It was 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

So he couldn't uh, yeah age finally catching up to him, I guess. Yeah What happens, you know, we all get old. All right, don't judge so hard in the booth. Do you This is nick's first time in the booth. The booth is just open. Oh, wow. Where are you normally? Sitting out there at the table set up. It was it was cumbersome. Okay, so you like this better It's all right. I kind of feel like I'm visiting you at jail right now Yeah, nick probably should be in jail. So we don't talk about that Um, has there been any points where uh Where any of the group has thought has you guys had to have to talk anybody to stand people wanted to change your

Just before we just before we did the just before the show took literally like our last meeting I was uh, I was gonna be like done with it. And we were at my uh 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, you know people like oh you already told me I'm like I just don't feel it You know what it's like So I don't feel like it's my best way to make people laugh So I wasn't really feeling what we were the path we were going down scripted shows

We were thinking of and blah blah blah and I was like I was like I don't want to do that And then the opportunity came up. They're like, hey, you know prank shows are big right now I'm like, what if we did our version of Of a show like that and I was like, well, this embarrassment comedy is always how I made my friends laugh Sure, let's try it and that's how we came up. We came up with jokers But if we were going to go down to another scripted one, I would have been out There's a guy I met one night at a bar here called the Mint. It does uh I was there for some I don't know something I didn't want to be at or something probably um

Like I think now it's actually a pet restaurant. Do you believe they have this shit out here? Really? You bring your pet and eat with it? Yeah, or you can meet up and have fucking dinner with other fucking pets, dude That's weird. I've heard of a cat place where you could have tea with a cat Like they're like just fucking it's basically just feral cats inside and they're just roaming around And you just sit down and cats like sit on your lap while you drink tea. Yeah, you don't think satan's watching that? If satan's watching anybody is people that are meeting up with cats for tea by themselves Easily dipping a biscotti into an Earl gray like that's somebody you fucking watch

I don't trust that even more than anybody I meet in the tenderloin district I do not watch trust the guy that walks in with his air pods and sits down with a straight cat Yeah, and it has a snack. Oh, yeah, dude somebody fucking splitting up a little butter scotch Biscotti with a fucking Persian If he pops a bar, yeah, if you hopped in Make sure he's a cat there. Yeah, what's the word this is 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 He starts talking he starts talking he had on this white glove and they karaoke in there as well

And at one point you can't casually add That they have karaoke in there as well. That's a big point Yeah, it's one of those places that wasn't gonna make it They're trying everything that's our shit at the wall like what have we brought in karaoke and one of those indoor like skydiving things Let's do it Yeah, yeah, but it's a wedding But it's a wedding you guys don't get it. Yeah So this guy he wore a white glove and he kept singing karaoke and he had been like the fifth member of a band

Uh that had made it huge like I could have been motley crew I feel like um and he got out like Literally the week before And I went and read the stories and stuff about it and it's really and he was still singing The songs and wearing like this white glove like you could tell he was still like living and I guess he he'd kind of become like a kind of a Um a fixture within that uh karaoke place, you know, and so I think you know, he had like it You know, at least he had his thing, you know, um, yeah, but he'd gotten out of this. Yeah

He got none of this group right before that's I mean that's a little tragic Yeah, if you don't recover from it, you know, I mean right to get out of it because you want to get out of it And not be in that world anymore is one thing because then you're okay with it It doesn't matter who cares what happens But if you get out of it because you don't necessarily like the people who don't you don't have faith in what's going on with that group Yeah, and you go like 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 go my own way That they're holding me back and next thing you know, they break and you're sitting there with your white glove

You know trying to serve, you know Jello putting bops to people That's crazy, man Do you remember when you were a kid like just some of the like just like the kind of stuff that made you laugh Do you remember who made you laugh a lot when you were a kid? Yeah. Yeah, I definitely not even entertainers or just people like it just Oh, well, yeah, people my my my I come from a funny family. You know, my uncles were always funny and That's hilarious. I got the old Italian uncles which are fun And you know, my sister's probably the funniest person I know my sister Paula. She's like she's a version of me like it's hysterical

Like she's great. She's loud. She's fun. My parents were both very funny But in very different ways and my they always said my oldest sister got my dad's humor my Middle sister got my mother's and I was the perfect match of both of them So like my father was 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 my hair. It's hard about my father was He used to go we used to I play craps, you know that like so I there's water right there if you need, you know, okay, uh, we uh

We you play craps all the time and we go to Atlantic City and he'd been He was in the Atlantic City playing and like the 80s whatever and There's these two gangster guys with cigars at the end. These two big Italian mobster like guys and he's playing craps And you roll up next woman There's this woman a heftier woman at the end rolling And she's rolling and she's rolling for a while and and the two guys are having a good time So every time before she rolls they're like, all right, come on. You fat bitch like sir And then she did it like yeah, you know, they would say that loud enough or whatever

And so, you know, she's rolling and winning everybody money or whatever and so my These she's just about the wrong like come on. We need a hard six. You're fat But you know, come on you pig like that and shit like that and my father just turns to these two moms He goes, sorry guys, could you stop talking about my wife that way? It just turns back and looks and then he looks and he goes, ah, just fucking when he ended fucking lost in these two like Big fat moms are like, ah, this guy's crazy. You know, shit like that So he had that like that funny like dry like they they're George rock like they look what the fuck, you know kind of idea so like

He had that sense of humor like that where he would just like Like say weird shit. Just like just enough to get people really uncomfortable and then break them. So yeah That reminds me of newer mcdonald. I was somewhere with him. I was in I was doing a show in Oklahoma city or Oklahoma somewhere and um, he Oh, it was a poker tournament to Jerry Mathers is where the the beef. Wow, man Who I love I had pictures all over them of my room growing up because his name was Theodore, right? Yeah, so I was like a huge fan and I even talked to him. I was there. I was like, hey, man, uh, I said, I'm a big fan He goes, oh, where do you live? And I was like, I live in Santa Monica. He goes swear to god

He goes I used to go get some pussy in Santa Monica And it just I didn't I didn't know what happened then I just fucking Went down a hole Pussy hole I went down something it was just crazy all these years that I built up in my head and must run into each other That's the sense. That's what he said and he's like he was 80 years old or 77. That's crazy. It was him and that got Ralph Mouth but yeah, anyway, norm mcdonald was there and there's like we're standing there

There's a there's a mostly men there and a couple of women not attractive women to me Norm said, oh man a lot of real hotties here, huh? And I'm thinking, oh, you know norm's older than me and you know, he probably don't even meet 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 he was like, oh, these are the fucking most bust I've ever seen him alive, you know

He was like, shit Yeah, he was like, yeah, right I was like, damn, bro. Oh, well, okay, so much for being nice to your elders. Yeah, I went to uh, Mel Brooks is huge Number number one. I actually got to meet him that it was two weeks after we had played radio city And he was doing he does that live tour every now and again. He still doing it 91 years old He shows blazing saddles or young frankenstein screens it and then does a q&a after like an hour So we went I took my two sisters and we grew up watching I was like for christmas gift I'm like, I got this for you. So we went three of us. We all grew up watching the movies. It was great

We watch them after we're about to leave And I see the little security guard that I had met weeks before at when we played Real nice to whatever he goes. Joe. I said, hey, he goes you want to go down to you want to go come come in and say Hey, and I was like, yeah, of course I want to say hey to Mel Brooks So he takes us downstairs and underneath radio city There's just like an old bar that they just keep open for family and friends and it's a big room So we go down and we sit in there and then here comes mel. He's walking in and he comes by and I'm like, oh This is like this is my hero of all time or whatever. So I walk up and I'm like, uh, you know

He's like the guy introduced me. He's like, this is our friend. Joe. And he's like, hey Joe I was like, there's a Brooks. There's a huge fan of yours. I just want to say thank you You know, I got a comedy because you you know, you made me laugh Whenever I was like me and my sisters are both huge fans and all fans are you know We grew up watching you and my sister's like behind me. He goes your sisters. I said, yeah, he goes I go, yeah, my sister's they're here with me. I brought them and he goes Again, my sisters bring the sisters and he pushes me away pushes me and he gets you and he starts taking pictures I kiss my cheeks kiss my cheeks and he starts taking pictures with my sisters or whatever

And it was so cool. I was like, can I get one you think he's like, all right Just one and we all got in and I was like that was like the coolest like thing ever like this 91 old dude is you know, he's still going to get the ladies like come here. Yeah, it's so great really cool That's beautiful man. That was a really really cool moment for me pervin out a little at that age I love it. I saw bob newhart about six years ago. Oh really or seven years ago in chicago and it was Oh, he was I thought the jokes. I was like, I think he's just reading these jokes off the internet Like I think he literally printed some books out off the internet It was reading well, he's all he's all delivery anyway, right? So then I thought to myself well, maybe

Though he made those jokes off because they were just like internet jokes, you know, yeah Yeah, so but it was pretty wild to see him Don Rickles means south. Oh, really? Yeah, I knew he loved Rickles And my mom was a big gambler and he was playing in Atlantic City So I asked my mom to get his tickets and I took them Dang, was that awesome? Probably one of the most unbelievable before like you can't even like you see it and you're just like An awe that it's happening and then it's over before you know it like you can't even was he on stage the whole time

The whole time just ripping apart. It was great. Yeah. He was really he was unbelievable. Yeah That's probably one of the best live performances. I did but growing up I like like Richard Jenny was big my dad liked Richard Jenny the comic and he got murdered. Yeah, you got murdered Yeah, they this before 23 me. So we still don't know who did it and So, uh, he uh, he was big and then Tim Allen. Uh, we used to watch yeah, we used to watch a show all-time home improvement Yeah together. So that was another big one for me Um, yeah, you remember super super market suite. Yeah. Yeah, that show was great. I love I just got to play

$100,000 pyramid me and they invited us to play in the reboot that straight hand. Oh, really? Yeah, so we just played it this summer we played it was it fun dude. It was so fun So fun. It was so it was such a good time Yeah, and now this is the thing about doing misery index like you're playing a game show and it's like that gloss It's like legit. It's like a legit like we walked in I was like, oh my god This is they like spent some money on the set like it's a legit like you they got the big like, uh, you know The big uh display that's like super led and like the the buzzers and all that I was like, this is really really cool to be in part of like a real like game show

Yeah, because I grew up I think all our generations like that was huge for that was that was tv. Oh, yeah No whammy's all that That was the super market suite was so good. Yeah, so it was works. We've seen somebody just bite the just bite Running to get a hand and yelling at them because they get right. It's like, why are you getting right? There's one where somebody had a stroke during that I remember too. Really? I don't know that one You can't they don't really know it on the show, but it seemed like they think the guy was just kind of having a blast But you could tell he had a stroke. I know a stroke. You know stroke. We see one. I mean Yeah, I think I do

You guys see a stroke coming away. I had one about 20 minutes ago You really? Oh, damn, bro But you have those like a slow stroke. Oh, yeah, I do. I like to pace them out Pretty sure the guy who asked us a question with the wet lip was in the middle of one Um, any more questions that came in we just had one patreon question Marissa Bruno asked how did you become so passionate about animals, especially senior dogs? Uh, my wife she introduced me to that. We bought a dog. I have five dogs. I have a cannoli biscotti

Tartuffo sprimony and pineoli right now. Oh, damn. That's five dogs. Yeah, we're putting yollies in the rotating That's it. That's right. That's all they're all I'm fat Italian So I name while we also had zeppely and mischina or not with us anymore. God bless. Um, but we have like, uh, She we bought our first dog cannoli together when she was living here because um She needed something and I was like, let's get a dog together So we got it We bought the dog and then it instantly was like all sick and we spent like in the first year We spent like two grand on like 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 how many good dogs are needed? But why she found a lot of good adoption agencies. So we just started adopting Um, so it was really because of her and then I fell in love with it on my own And then I honestly believe that no dog loves you like a rescue dog. It's insane It feels like okay. Yeah, because cannoli be walking around the house kind of entitled like you'll call them She'll come last You know, she was like, I'm here now, you know, like that, you know

But like the other ones like this 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 from like 10 days or whatever on the day it's I can't get them off me It's insane. Like they just attack you and want to be on you. You sit down. They're all jumping on you You know, you lay in the bed. They're all on you. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it's nuts. But it's it's good And do you trust all of them? No There's one. I know that shit in the really no, it's actually it gets easy when you have a pack like biscotti. Who's my favorite? They listen if they're listening, they know

So my biscotti is my favorite. She's the second one and she's like the the pack leader It's easier with a pack like I'll bring in a dog once biscotti shows them what to do. They it's insane They just all right, we all go we'll go in this room now. We all the time to go outside. They'll go eat. They just follow her It's crazy. She's like the pack little little pack 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 could do for it If you're going to introduce a new dog in the house, it's better to have the dog in the house by itself for a day

And then when the dogs come home, the dog's there So it's like a great trick that we had found out in the beginning So I'll send the dogs a way to daycare or whatever and they'll sleep out And then we'll have the dog make it move around the house or whatever they come home. There's a dog in the house 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 when it's time to go to bed Wow, who sleeps where? Yeah, because I lay we have a you know

We have a king bed and my wife's on one side and then little pineoli who was like I got a picture of pineola I'll show you get that animal out here, bro Or you could draw it too. I wish I had some in god This this is this is I just want your reaction when you see pineoli because pineoli something special But pineoli's in our rotating spot. We have we have a fifth dog spot Which is this senior spot and that's a pineoli Pineoli you're working freelance, huh? You always got one out. Yeah, I used to work on the highway, huh? Wow boy, basically roadkill. That's just rolling around my house

The sweetest dog in the world man super cuddly, but uh, she they found her in a tenement building just in the All matted in the uh in the lobby under living under the stairs So they don't even they think it just maybe just came out of somebody's apartment and whatever, but she's got no teeth She's deaf blind one eye Uh, a little bit of dementia. Oh, wow. Take her to one of these restaurants. Oh, I've got him But she's she's super cute and cuddly. So we just we'd like to for the senior dog We just kind of give him a good way out like we had a couple dogs before this that one last seven months One lasted a year and a little bit and pineoli we have for about what I got pineoli two months now

Yeah, I brought two months now So have you this the last question I have so is there have you noticed like That like your success and stuff was there any point in 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 just in a way. Anyway. 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 and I still struggle with that and me my wife are very open and honest about like 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, right because I'm 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 In 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, I got married we were in it, but when when we got together I was a salesman So this kind of got rusted upon her as well to be like, oh your husband's going to be famous Yeah, so now you have to share him with the world. So she's like I fucking yeah, you know, I was just trying to get 20% That's it, you know, you know, I know that's all I'm looking for coupon, you know now now she's got to deal with this So I think that's probably the biggest challenge, but the good thing about getting famous together with your friends is everybody keeps each other in check Yeah, you know, you are with your boys. So I can see that on your smack. I mean, what are you doing? Yeah, I could see that. Well, that's one thing it's about improv and then one thing that's a little bit different on stand-up

You're just kind of by yourself a lot So with improv, yeah, or 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 if somebody starts going their own way, it's like come back Viscotti's like hey, Viscotti rings it back in. I'm like, oh my Viscotti goes out and says come on get back in here for a second You know, yeah Joe, thank you so much. Is it gato or gato gato. Yeah gato. This is great, man. I really appreciate it Dude, thank you so much, man. You've always been just one of the every time I see you

I just remember what a console you are. So I appreciate you coming man. Thank you. Yeah, it's an honor and uh Yeah, you guys have so many friends dude. How do you keep? How do you? Everybody I know y'all's friends We're from the guy Yeah, you know, we try to you know That's why I like coming out to LA 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 there's some people I like to see when I'm out here because it's good to keep in contact with people like I said earlier

You know this there's a commonality between us that it's kind of fun I'm enjoying that like I'm in the being in the comedy world with people that make me laugh and Yeah, we have cool opportunities like to have people work with us and work with people, you know, it's fun 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 favor? Yeah, my cousin Michael Polano is a huge fan of yours. He is. Yes. He's a huge fan. Michael Polano Michael Polano, wait, he works on your show. Yeah, he's he's he's a he's my cousin and he's a cameraman and Isn't it true that you guys now have everybody from your neighborhood and family working on your show such nepotism? It's literally like it's so many like people. Well, so maybe work for us for free for so many years

I was like had to be like, uh, you know, I love that though. It's so great Michael Polano, huh? Yeah, that hitter brought up to send him something nice. He wanted to he I actually almost flew him out here to come He's a teacher. We're in where he's in Jersey. We're at ocean township high school Because I'm supposed to be in Sayersville coming up sometime soon. I don't know how far away that is. No, it's not that far It isn't yeah. Yeah, I let the hook and he said he said to say gang gang. He did What does he teach you? He teaches television production. Does he? Oh, that's awesome, bro. He got a scheme going on there, man. That's great I It's great all the kids there. Mr. Polanco. That's his name. Polano. Mr. Polano. Yeah, that's awesome, man

I would take his class Michael I'd be in there Gang gang. Mike. Thank you. Uh, thank you for sending. Uh, thank you for sending Joe my way, Michael. I appreciate it, man And uh, whenever I get over there to Jersey, I'll have to pop in. Yeah, you know, pop into the class I might be cool. Oh, that was they would lose their mind. You kidding me? That'd be great. I'm gonna have to do all that Well, now I've kind of sentenced myself. No, I mean I did come all the way here from New York All right, we'll figure it out. We'll make something work. I love you, dude. You're awesome. Love you too, man

Thank you so much, bro. You got it. Now. I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be cornerstone But it's gonna take a little time For me to set that parking brake and let myself on Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you my stories Shine on me And I will find a song. I will sing it just for you

And now I've been moving way too fast, on the runaway train with a heavy load of my hand