Ep 210: Fortune Feimster & Josh Wolf

Summary

Podcast Summary: We Might Be Drunk - Ep 210: Fortune Feimster & Josh Wolf

Release Date: December 16, 2024

Hosts: Sam Morril and Mark Normand

Guests: Fortune Feimster and Josh Wolf

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Produced by Gotham Production Studios, LLC

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1. Introduction and Guest Arrival (00:06 - 00:26)

The episode kicks off with a lighthearted atmosphere as host Sam Morril and Mark Normand welcome their guests, Fortune Feimster and Josh Wolf. Sam initiates the conversation with the playful admission, “We might be drunk,” setting a casual tone for the episode.

Notable Quote:

• Sam: “We might be drunk.” ([00:06])

2. Personal Stories about Drug Use (00:26 - 01:15)

Fortune Feimster opens up about her long-term relationship with drugs, revealing a nuanced perspective. Unlike typical recreational users, Feimster prefers substances that “change your brain” rather than those with immediate physical effects like cocaine.

Notable Quotes:

• Fortune Feimster: “I’ve been taking drugs for 30 years.” ([00:29])
• Fortune Feimster: “I like drugs that change your brain.” ([00:39])

3. Anecdotes from Live Performances (00:26 - 03:07)

The conversation shifts to live performances, with Fortune sharing a humorous incident where she unknowingly conversed with herself on stage under the influence. This story underscores the unpredictability of performing while altered.

Notable Quote:

• Fortune Feimster: “At some point, there was a one show where I really was... I thought he was up there with me. He was not.” ([01:41])

4. Conversations on Sexual Behavior and Stereotypes (03:07 - 05:10)

The hosts delve into discussions about sexual behaviors, touching on topics like autoerotic asphyxiation and cultural differences in dating practices. Fortune shares a joke about German dating customs, highlighting her wit and comedic style.

Notable Quotes:

• Sam: “By the way, there's a lot of people in cities doing that right now.” ([01:52])
• Fortune Feimster: “I need to know you well enough to actually have looked at your fingers.” ([02:30])

5. Stories from the Sports World: Yankees vs. Red Sox (15:07 - 22:05)

Fortune and Josh reminisce about memorable moments in baseball, particularly focusing on the intense rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox. They recount specific games and personal experiences, adding a layer of nostalgia and camaraderie.

Notable Quotes:

• Sam: “5 in my lifetime's pretty good.” ([18:29])
• Fortune Feimster: “That kid has a podcast right now.” ([19:58])

6. Insights into the Comedy Industry and Writers' Rooms (35:23 - 43:19)

Fortune shares her journey into the comedy world, discussing her experiences in writers' rooms and on shows like "Chelsea Lately." She highlights the challenges of integrating into competitive environments and maintaining authenticity in her comedic voice.

Notable Quotes:

• Fortune Feimster: “I did not know who Leonardo DiCaprio was when he showed up in public, you'd be like, is that dude homeless?” ([02:34])
• Maddie: “I feel like a lot of things made jokes she made.” ([34:20])

7. Performing in Las Vegas and Developing Comedy Specials (40:11 - 58:37)

The discussion moves to performing in Las Vegas, where Fortune elaborates on her residency at Kimmel’s. She emphasizes the importance of testing new material in a low-pressure environment and adapting her performance based on audience reactions.

Notable Quotes:

• Fortune Feimster: “It's such a great lipness test for me to go out and try all my new shit.” ([61:42])
• Josh Wolf: “I got to do a full room at Gotham with Sarah Colon.” ([42:50])

8. Personal Life and Touring Stories (58:37 - 89:03)

Fortune and Josh share personal anecdotes about life on tour, balancing family, and maintaining relationships amidst the demanding schedule of comedy performances. Fortune highlights her time touring with her son, illustrating the blend of professional and personal life.

Notable Quotes:

• Fortune Feimster: “I'm gone so much. So when I come back, we're like, oh, hey, I really kind of like you.” ([48:29])
• Josh Wolf: “I'm sad about the baby’s coming, so I'm tired.” ([90:10])

9. Future Projects and Promotions (89:03 - 92:15)

As the episode wraps up, Fortune and Josh promote their upcoming projects. Fortune mentions her Netflix special “Four Stories,” emphasizing its authentic and unedited format. Josh discusses his tour plans and upcoming performances, highlighting his continuous growth in the comedy scene.

Notable Quotes:

• Fortune Feimster: “This special is actually... I wanted it to feel like a real, authentic show.” ([86:32])
• Josh Wolf: “I'm going back to the clubs as well to polish this hour.” ([89:53])

10. Closing Remarks and Final Interactions (92:09 - End)

The hosts and guests conclude the episode with playful banter and final promotions of each other’s work. Fortune praises Josh’s comedic talents, while Josh and Sam encourage listeners to check out the guests' specials and tour dates.

Notable Quote:

• Fortune Feimster: “She's a great person to be.” ([86:57])

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Key Takeaways:

• Authenticity in Comedy: Both Fortune Feimster and Josh Wolf emphasize the importance of staying true to oneself in the comedy industry, adapting material based on diverse audiences.

• Balancing Personal and Professional Life: Fortune highlights the challenges and rewards of touring with family, showcasing a blend of personal anecdotes and professional commitments.

• Evolution of Comedic Material: The discussion underscores how comedians evolve their material over time, testing new jokes and refining their style through live performances.

Final Thoughts:

Episode 210 of "We Might Be Drunk" offers listeners an intimate glimpse into the lives of Fortune Feimster and Josh Wolf, blending personal stories with professional insights. The candid conversations, sprinkled with humor and genuine interactions, make for an engaging and relatable episode for comedy enthusiasts and casual listeners alike.

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Where to Find More:

• Fortune Feimster: Netflix Special “Four Stories” | FortuneFemster.com
• Josh Wolf: Upcoming stand-up tours and specials | JoshWolf.com
• Sam Morril and Mark Normand: "We Might Be Drunk" podcast available on all major platforms.

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Transcript

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, we are rolling. All right. Hey, we might be drunk. Sam's making a drink.

[Sam]

Should we do paper planes, maybe?

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, yeah, sure. I didn't want to put you to work here.

[Sam]

Can we get.

[Josh Wolf]

And hand me that seltzer. Were you there, Maddie? What's in here that's yours? Just a seltzer. Don't worry.

[Fortune Feimster]

Perfect. Okay.

[Josh Wolf]

I'll take that one there.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Sam]

We're literally. We're here with Josh Wolf. We're literally just talking drug stories with you.

[Josh Wolf]

Hell, yeah.

[Sam]

I did not know you were a drug guy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, big way. Like, I stopped drinking years ago, but I. I've been taking drugs for 30 years.

[Josh Wolf]

Hell, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And not a little bit of drugs like I like. And I not like coke and stuff like that. I don't like that. But I like drugs that change your brain.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, same mushrooms.

[Fortune Feimster]

I like ecstasy. I like acid. I did. I did jump on that ketamine train for a little while.

[Sam]

Check. Isn't that the bad shit?

[Josh Wolf]

Special K?

[Fortune Feimster]

It's not. I hated it.

[Sam]

Really?

[Fortune Feimster]

I didn't like it at all.

[Josh Wolf]

Is it an upper or is it a tranquilizer?

[Fortune Feimster]

It's like a. Yeah, it's like a tranquilizer. It's a dissociative. And I don't. I don't. I like mushrooms because I. I like seeing things or I like my brain thinking about things that it wouldn't normally.

[Josh Wolf]

Sure.

[Fortune Feimster]

So you're like.

[Sam]

You're doing drugs to kind of like go somewhere interesting. You're not trying to just disconnect from society.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would take 3 grams before my Friday night shows.

[Sam]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I just. I have a lot of them recorded and on YouTube, and they're just. At some point, there was a one show where I really was. I kept talking to somebody over my shoulder, and finally somebody in the audience was like, who are you talking to?

[Maddie]

Oh.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I thought. Because I tour with my son, I thought he was up there with me. He was not. He was not.

[Sam]

By the way. There's a lot of people in cities doing that right now. Most of them aren't charging a cover.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Not great. Not great to be in that situation.

[Fortune Feimster]

This whole city, man. It's hard sometimes. I don't know if it's homeless people or somebody live streaming, whole city walking around. I can't. This is the. I don't come here enough. It always reminds me there. It's like a. Such a mix between homeless and high fashion.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. And they're not that far off.

[Fortune Feimster]

They're. Somebody's using a scarf to look good and somebody's using it to wipe their ass to.

[Josh Wolf]

That's a good point.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's not that different when they're walking down the street.

[Josh Wolf]

There's a fine line between a hobo and Dirty Elmo and they're pretty much the same thing.

[Fortune Feimster]

If you didn't know who Leonardo DiCaprio was when he showed up in public, you'd be like, is that dude homeless?

[Josh Wolf]

Right. Skinny, fat, with the belly, loose clothing, scarf, looks good.

[Sam]

And then you're like, fuck. Auto erotic asphyxiation. Yeah. Not good.

[Fortune Feimster]

I've never been into that kind of shit. Is that. Well, either one of you guys.

[Josh Wolf]

No, no sweet potatoes. Just give me a hand job.

[Sam]

Yeah, the choking is crazy. I mean, with you, David Carradine going out like that, being the kung fu guy and going out like that is kind of rough.

[Fortune Feimster]

Although feels kind of appropriate. I mean, to get choked out to death.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And being the kung fu guy, I guess, feels like it should be just a.

[Sam]

It's a sad though.

[Maddie]

It's.

[Sam]

But it's on your own.

[Fortune Feimster]

Tough legacy.

[Sam]

It's a tough legacy because it's like you were jacking off.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Sam]

That just sucks.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, that's true. Not even a hooker.

[Fortune Feimster]

I, I, I, I'm not into, I don't think any weird sex stuff. I don't mind looking at it, but I've never been a guy, like, I think the furthest my weird is is a finger in the ass.

[Josh Wolf]

All right. That's pretty standard, right?

[Fortune Feimster]

Although I did have a friend of mine tell me he lived in Germany for a while and he was like, he's like, germany's crazy dude. Because first dates, these women are putting their fingers in my ass.

[Josh Wolf]

I'm like, first date, wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like the first time we're messing around.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

He goes, every woman in Germany, that first time we're messing around, their finger goes right in my ass.

[Sam]

I'm like, first make sure they wash their hands before dinner.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Out of the box.

[Josh Wolf]

Germany. Germany's weird. At least it's one figure, not nine.

[Sam]

You're the best.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, but wow, the Germans are fucked.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think first date, finger in the ass, it feels like one step farther than I'd go. I need to know you well enough to actually have looked at your fingers.

[Josh Wolf]

Right?

[Fortune Feimster]

Right. How are your nails? What's the cleanliness?

[Josh Wolf]

And what if you propose you slide a ring on that dirty. That dirty index.

[Sam]

By the way, I said finger in the ass means nothing before. But I'm like, I have told black friends of mine that are like. You're gay, dude.

[Josh Wolf]

That's true.

[Sam]

You ever tell Wilson Vince, they're like, what?

[Josh Wolf]

Well, those are Vincy's. Be eating an apple. He's like, oh, that's fucking gay.

[Sam]

I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

So, yeah, there are some people, like, if you eat a hot dog, it's. I mean, if you stick it in your.

[Josh Wolf]

All right, all right.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like eating a hot dog, that's a big asshole. Maybe eye contact.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's like eye contact with a straw. I don't love. I think that's something I could probably.

[Josh Wolf]

How about when you try to be sexy and you can't find the straw.

[Fortune Feimster]

And you're doing that.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, doing that whole thing.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm. I've never tried to be sexy with a straw, though.

[Josh Wolf]

I haven't either. I haven't tried to be sexy, period.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was gonna say trying to be sexy doesn't feel like your move.

[Sam]

No.

[Josh Wolf]

What, are you kidding? No way. This voice already the whole thing be dirty talking.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would love to hear your dirty talk. Must be terrible.

[Josh Wolf]

It's terrible.

[Sam]

You're a whore.

[Josh Wolf]

And my wife likes it too. And I'm like, ah, don't make me do this. She's like, be mean to me. And I'm like, yeah, you had. That's your dirty talk? Well, that's what. I don't want to be called a. I guess so. I thought that. Yeah, you idiot.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, that's not dirty talk, dude. That's just your dog. Looks like Paulie from Rocky.

[Sam]

Finish the drink, champ.

[Josh Wolf]

I want you to eat a street light and red, green and yellow.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I do like the sweater, though. That's a good touch.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, I did the coach. Yeah, that's a different guy.

[Fortune Feimster]

What are you guys making?

[Sam]

This is a little paper plane. This is something we. We've been doing this in the pod for, I want to say years now, right?

[Josh Wolf]

Hell yeah.

[Sam]

This is kind of our go to cocktails. It's pretty simple. It's a little bodega, cat, whiskey, aperol, amaro, nonino and lemon juice.

[Josh Wolf]

We like to think we put it on the map. This thing was slept on, this cocktail.

[Sam]

I like the old school cocktails that no one really like, you know, Obviously the classics are classics for a reason. I love them in hat and I love.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did you bartend at any point in time?

[Sam]

I did catering for like a minute, but I was. I was a shit.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, I was a shit bartender, Sam, with a job. I had no idea you ever worked.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did you ever have a day job?

[Josh Wolf]

Are you kidding? Yeah, I moved furniture. I was a busboy. I worked on a gopher as a. On a construction site. I did data entry. I did temping.

[Sam]

I worked as a hamster for Richard Gere. I don't know.

[Josh Wolf]

As a janitor. Yeah. P. Diddy. I did cleanup.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did you, by the way, man, that people have been outing everybody who's ever been at a P. Diddy party. And I. Let me just say, if in 2017, P. Diddy had been like, do you want to come to a party? I'd have been like, yeah, of course.

[Josh Wolf]

Same.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Or Epstein's plane, by the way.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

I'd go on a private jet to an island. Hell, yeah.

[Sam]

They're trying to sell Diddy's place, and it's, like, over 60. They're asking him, like, that's pretty steep. But what we know happened in there. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Although for some people, probably, like, deal, maybe. Maybe for a gro.

[Sam]

You got to do a whole gut reno, though, for that shit.

[Fortune Feimster]

You got to blacklight it.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. Do you get the oil? Maybe they leave the oil in that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Thing with the oil.

[Josh Wolf]

Thank you.

[Sam]

Cheers.

[Fortune Feimster]

Cheers. I. If I walked into a party and the first thing they handed me was baby oil, I'd been like, this is probably not my party.

[Josh Wolf]

Or is it?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, it's definitely not. Everybody gets their own baby oil. That's a lot of lube.

[Josh Wolf]

It's a party favor. Well, here's my thing with the Diddy. I got the hall. The hallway fist fight with the girl. We got that on video. Everything else is hearsay speculation. JLo and Leonardo and Bieber. I'm like, give me something concrete.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, you did hear that Ashton Kutcher came out, like, last week or the week before.

[Josh Wolf]

No, I didn't hear this.

[Fortune Feimster]

This is maybe the worst thing. He came out and said on a.

[Sam]

Cold streak, by the way.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes.

[Sam]

Yeah, he just wrote. He just wrote the Danny Mash holder.

[Fortune Feimster]

He comes out and says, hey, Diddy might spread rumors about me, and they're not true.

[Josh Wolf]

I'm like, dude, this shouldn't have said that.

[Fortune Feimster]

That means guilty.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, he got ahead of it.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's like, you're going home to your girlfriend. Being like, somebody might call you and say, they gave me a blowjob.

[Josh Wolf]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

Never happened.

[Sam]

Sounds like he's getting punked in the end.

[Fortune Feimster]

This is. This is not.

[Sam]

That's. That's the worst of fungus punk.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

He's like, I made you look stupid on camera. He's like, oh, yeah? Well, I outed you as a possible.

[Josh Wolf]

Rapist oh, they separated over this. Oh, that's horrible.

[Sam]

How much can you sit through? I mean, that's for her.

[Fortune Feimster]

You mean, how much can you sit through? Yeah, I agree.

[Sam]

That's a. There's a breaking point, because I'm sure. I'm sure the Danny Masterson note wasn't her idea.

[Josh Wolf]

Ah, good point.

[Fortune Feimster]

It is a. That's a bad look to know a guy's going away for rape, have him reach out to you and go, will you give me a character reference? And you're like, yeah, that's a friend. That is a dumb friend who you have something on. That's. That's.

[Sam]

It's also not. It's not gonna help.

[Josh Wolf]

So it's like voting for Trump in New York. New York's gonna go blue.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

You know, but, like, that doesn't help. It's. He's still going to jail.

[Sam]

Yeah. It's like. Like, the judge is gonna be like, you raped these women. But Ashton Kutcher is a fan.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, I agree with you.

[Fortune Feimster]

How much do character referen certain crimes?

[Sam]

I think it's narcissism. I think it's like, I'm famous. This will help.

[Josh Wolf]

That's good.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think we found out recently. It hurts. Yeah, the famous part. I think we found out.

[Josh Wolf]

That's true.

[Sam]

Like, a celebrity endorsement ain't what it used to be.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, it's not at all what it used to be. No. As a matter of fact, it's almost a negative now.

[Sam]

Still works with companies, though. Like, it seems like if someone. Like, if you see a commercial, you're like, oh, shit works.

[Josh Wolf]

Nespresso.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Japan commercials, they still work. Like, if Brad Pitt tries to sell something in Japan, I think that probably still.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, okay. Interesting. Japan's 30 years behind. They still like baseball.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm a huge baseball.

[Josh Wolf]

Well, the Yankee. The World Series over there was. They watched it a million times more than we did.

[Fortune Feimster]

I heard that it was viewed more in Japan than it was over here.

[Josh Wolf]

Way more. That's Ohtani.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. But there's only seven people in Japan. There's maybe more than seven after World War II.

[Josh Wolf]

15.2.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That is a crazy amount.

[Josh Wolf]

And how many watch it here? Oh, I think it said 14. So actually, that's not a giant jump.

[Sam]

Consider how many people.

[Josh Wolf]

How many people?

[Sam]

300 million people here, and there's probably only 55 million there.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then I wonder how many of the people here were Japanese.

[Josh Wolf]

Another good point.

[Sam]

I still like baseball too, though. I'm with you.

[Josh Wolf]

How many Japanese?

[Fortune Feimster]

Here's What I like about baseball, to me, it's my favorite sport to see live. I don't love it on tv, but.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Go out to the park.

[Josh Wolf]

Same. It's great. Get a beer, a hot dog.

[Fortune Feimster]

You don't have to watch the whole. Yes.

[Josh Wolf]

Even if you.

[Fortune Feimster]

You can. Around with your friends.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I hate football live. It's not a fun experience, really.

[Sam]

Especially in New York. Just getting there is a pain in the ass.

[Josh Wolf]

True.

[Sam]

Like the bus or the train.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's never good weather.

[Josh Wolf]

The stadium sucks.

[Fortune Feimster]

And like, there are some things, like, I like the close up aspect of the football.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Slow motion. But there's. Are there any good seats at a football stadium?

[Sam]

I like. I like hockey, basketball and baseball live.

[Josh Wolf]

Good energy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Best.

[Sam]

Hockey's incredible live. It's the biggest jump in improvement.

[Fortune Feimster]

Not even close. Because on TV you can't see how fast they move and you can't appreciate how fucking big those guys are.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, those are huge. Dudes with the skates on, too.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah. And the hard ons. Yeah, mostly me, but. But they're the speed and the size. Like on tv, you're like, okay, right. But when you see them hit each other, you're like, oh, I would be dead right now.

[Josh Wolf]

I saw UFC live and I didn't love that because we had good seats. It was me and Theo. We went to some fight. He knew Poirier. They're like old friends or something. So I was like, you kind of see their feet and their thighs moving, but you can't really get a good grass. You're behind that cage. I didn't love it. I'd rather watch it at home.

[Fortune Feimster]

So it kind of looks like missionary.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like you're watching somebody fuck in their apartment. Don't go behind the pillow.

[Sam]

Like, Rear window.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Someone just get murdered.

[Josh Wolf]

Right, right.

[Fortune Feimster]

So you really. Because you're below the ring.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes, yes, exactly. So you're kind of looking up and.

[Maddie]

You miss a lot.

[Josh Wolf]

And then they go to the other side of the cage and you're like, oh, what's happening over there? It's. It's not great.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Did I. Did you.

[Josh Wolf]

What?

[Fortune Feimster]

Is that a picture?

[Sam]

That's our buddy, Gary Veder. He used to be. His dad was a con man and.

[Josh Wolf]

He met all these and he would.

[Sam]

Take them to sports games pretending they were Sports Illustrated for Kids.

[Fortune Feimster]

What a crazy hairline.

[Sam]

That's Gary with Mario Lemieux. Yes. That's how big hockey players are.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's Lemieux hairline. Look at that dude.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That looks like a backwards wig. That is a crazy look.

[Josh Wolf]

Well, that was this back when celebrities met something.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

If you had a picture with Michael.

[Sam]

Jordan, photographs back then meant way more.

[Fortune Feimster]

Listen, man, I remember. This is how old I am.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I remember being real. Real, real, real, real young. And you would write a letter to an athlete, and they would send you an autographed picture in the mail.

[Josh Wolf]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it was the coolest. Now, they probably weren't autographing him, but it was.

[Sam]

Who do you think is doing it? Some intern.

[Fortune Feimster]

I.

[Josh Wolf]

But, yeah, probably.

[Fortune Feimster]

I had. I'm a Red Sox guy.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So I had written for Jim Rice and Fred Lynn's. Those are old, like, Red Sox dudes.

[Sam]

Sure. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Autographs. And they send them back. And I remember asking Jim Rice later about it. I was like, dude, I got your autograph in the mail. And he was like, that was a.

[Sam]

That's hilarious. I did that when I was a kid. To Saturday Night Live for Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon.

[Josh Wolf]

No way.

[Sam]

Molly Shannon sent me an autograph. Hey, probably not her.

[Fortune Feimster]

She is.

[Sam]

She was like, Mary Catherine.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. That's the one you want. Yeah.

[Sam]

Yeah. No, I thought she was hilarious.

[Josh Wolf]

She was funny.

[Sam]

She's awesome.

[Fortune Feimster]

She's. For me, top four, especially, without a doubt, women who have ever been on snl.

[Sam]

She's just always funny, no matter what. She's just good in everything.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. I felt that same way about Kristen Wiig.

[Josh Wolf]

Wiig was insane the first time I.

[Fortune Feimster]

Saw the baby hand sketch.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's one of those. I can be like. I'm hard to remember laughing that hard at a sketch. Live.

[Josh Wolf]

Both attractive, too, if you really get down to the.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's my guy right there. Jim Rice.

[Josh Wolf]

There he is.

[Fortune Feimster]

That. I'll tell you what that was. He had hit a ball that hit that kid in this.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, I thought it was a Vietnam. Golly.

[Fortune Feimster]

Right after they had dropped. Neighborhood.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And he was in his uniform.

[Josh Wolf]

He's a patriot.

[Sam]

He's running the chopper like Defoe and Platoon. Just getting gunned down.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, wow. That kid looks fucked up.

[Fortune Feimster]

He went and grabbed him and brought him through the dugout. I remember that.

[Sam]

That happened to a friend of mine. A game once. We were at a game. We were kids and Mike Lowell. Who? The Red Sox. But this is when he played for the Yankees. Briefly fouled a ball off. Went, like, deep. Hit a fucking. One of those pole things. Hit my friend right in the head.

[Fortune Feimster]

How old was your friend?

[Sam]

We were young. We were really young.

[Fortune Feimster]

Huge bump. Or did he have the laces.

[Sam]

All I know is we didn't get to see the end of the game.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Fucking pussy with his big. Ruined. Ruined A hot ticket.

[Josh Wolf]

Ah, that was the funeral.

[Sam]

Well, I didn't say those words exactly.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's basically the picture.

[Josh Wolf]

I mean, come on.

[Fortune Feimster]

Basically the picture.

[Sam]

That's amazing that he grabbed the person he.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, that's a photo op.

[Fortune Feimster]

I, I, I always used to think about that. Those screaming line drives into the stands and the announcer would be like, there's a lucky fan. I'm like, how lucky. It really is because even if they try to catch it with their hand, it hurts. Yeah, I just. A ground ball with your hand.

[Sam]

Think about now, people on their phones like that. Back then, you paid attention to the game.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sam]

It's like you're on your phone, bam. You know?

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, they put up the screens, I think, in every stadium now. Yeah, Right down there. I think they put up the screens down on every stadium because people were getting hit in the fucking head with a hard.

[Josh Wolf]

Well, you saw that. I know it's old news now, but the scene where the guy was pulling the ball out of that guy's glove. Yeah, that was. I mean, in Japan, that wouldn't fly. They would cut that guy's hand off.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was it. Wasn't that in the World Series one?

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, it was in the World Series, but it was so egregious.

[Sam]

That was hilarious. Of course, that was a classic Yankee guy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Exactly. Dude.

[Sam]

That was so funny, though.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, you gotta love the crack of that bet.

[Sam]

And you saw Gronk said he knew this guy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, no, look at this.

[Fortune Feimster]

He went, he said he went to college with his friend. Can I tell you now, as a Red Sox fan, can I tell you what my favorite part of this World Series was? And in the last few playoffs, that the Yankees have been in them, choking. There's nothing that, as a Red Sox fan, that I like more than cutting to sad Yankee fans in the stands. They are the sat. The saddest. There's no group of people that look sadder. And let me tell you something else that's crazy, because my generation and this young generation. So after the Yankees lost, right? I was actually in LA at the time, and there was a Yankee fan in the hotel lobby, and there's some Dodger fans. And the Yankee fan said something about 28 or 20, however many rings they have. And the Dodger, he was a kid, like 20. He goes, what are you talking about? The Yankees are like the 49ers. They can't win the big one. That's how long ago it was for this generation of people since the Yankees have won. And my thing about the 28.

[Sam]

5 in my lifetime's pretty good.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, but, dude, even dinosaurs walk the earth.

[Sam]

Like, that's a reach right there.

[Fortune Feimster]

Look at this, dude.

[Sam]

We're going from five in the last 30 to the big bang now.

[Fortune Feimster]

Late 90s, man.

[Sam]

So they won one in 09.

[Fortune Feimster]

You look at people that my son's age, he's 27. Right, that 091. Yeah. But mostly it's, oh, this is my.

[Josh Wolf]

Favorite, you know, Parkland.

[Sam]

You know what? That builds character. That's good for the kid.

[Fortune Feimster]

Dude, as a Red Sox, I understand that picture very well.

[Sam]

And also pull up, pull up the Jeffrey, what's his name? The guy the Baltimore Orioles game. Oh, Jeffrey. Jeffrey Mayer. Wow, good. Pull this up because this is a fucking hilarious one. This is, this is Yankee fans being absolute piece of the shit. But this kid, this kid was a hero. He was for a few days. Because look at this. I mean, this is what year, Dude.

[Fortune Feimster]

I remember this so well.

[Sam]

Me too. I was, I was 10 years old. This is before instant replay, Mark. So this, this, yeah, Good.

[Josh Wolf]

Okay. I. Tony Tarrasco pops it back to the wall. Kids stole it.

[Sam]

That's a home run.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. And he was, he was a hero.

[Sam]

He was a hero.

[Fortune Feimster]

He was a hero. Look at this kid right there.

[Sam]

Look at that.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, that was interference.

[Sam]

Every moment as a kid, you want, you're like, I helped the Yankees win.

[Fortune Feimster]

By the way, a thousand percent. That kid has a podcast right now.

[Sam]

I got. Remember Jim Larritz? Yes, I got. He was like, the Yankees hired assassin. Do you remember him? Jim Larritz, the third baseman. He was a DH Toward the end, he was the guy they just called up because he was clutch. Like, he didn't do shit in the regular season, but he would always hit the big shot. He wiggled the bat. So I got hit up to do his podcast years ago, and I wonder what Jim Larris has been up to. And it was like he killed someone in a drunk driving accident. I guess he lost the clutch gene.

[Josh Wolf]

Drink Bodega cat, folks.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wow, was that the name of the podcast?

[Josh Wolf]

Holy.

[Sam]

But he was a fucking.

[Fortune Feimster]

Isn't he the guy who hit the home run off the Braves?

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Mark Wallers.

[Sam]

I, I, he was clutch as hell.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. This was not. I'd hate this.

[Sam]

This dude always hit the big one.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Sam]

I mean, he was like.

[Fortune Feimster]

And this was the last.

[Sam]

Look at this stance, too. It was so cool. Jimmy Laritz, Jim.

[Fortune Feimster]

Mark Wallers, dude. And Mark Wallers up to that point was as money as any closer ever. And he never pitching. Dude never had a good game, like a good year. He broke him. That game broke him. I faced him in high school.

[Josh Wolf]

Come on, Wal.

[Sam]

So you're a good baseball player?

[Fortune Feimster]

I was all right.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I faced him in high school. I played some college baseball, and I faced him in high school, and he pitched for Holyoke. And I grew up in Amherst, and man, it was like 34 degrees and with those metal bats and he was pumping 92, 93. Nobody even wanted to. The first kid who swung a bat, that foul ball, he walked back, he was like, it hurts so much. We were all like, mom, not even gonna try to touch the ball. Yeah, he was. It was crazy how hard he was throwing.

[Sam]

That's what I see. Baseball players get hit by 100 mile per hour. I'm like, how do you not just break the bone?

[Fortune Feimster]

Especially in the back or the ribs or the wrist. I played for a school called Trinity, but there's an actual guy named Josh Wolfe. I think he got drafted by the Mets.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, damn.

[Sam]

But just living a different. There's a guy in the cast.

[Fortune Feimster]

I played baseball for a school before the Internet.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I was. I can pull up a picture on my phone if you want to see it, but.

[Josh Wolf]

All right.

[Fortune Feimster]

But, yeah, man, I.

[Josh Wolf]

How was the. The trim with the college baseball? Were you just cleaning up?

[Fortune Feimster]

No. Okay. I went to school at a school in Texas, and I had really long hair at the time.

[Josh Wolf]

Okay. All right.

[Fortune Feimster]

And my first of all, my coach was casually racist. He was this dude named Slim. We called him Slim. And he was. He. Okay, so he was trying to. Every time he would give us. He would prep us for what team we were playing.

[Josh Wolf]

Huh?

[Fortune Feimster]

And he was like, so, guys, this next team we're playing, they got a lot of skill players. And we were like, skill player.

[Josh Wolf]

That doesn't sound so bad.

[Fortune Feimster]

And he was like, you know, skill players. You know, like five tool skill players. And I was like. We were all like, what are you talking about? He's like, a lot of them are black. And I was like, oh, all right.

[Sam]

By the way, that's complimentary racism.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

I had a coach, and he was way. He would go way harder, but, like, he would fuck with all of us. That was his thing. We loved him. But it was a black kid, good friend of mine, and he would call him California Raisin. That was like. And then when he would call him Out. And he goes, you're fucking racist. He'd be like, oh, I'm racist? I played high school, college baseball at this school. This many black kids, this many Christians, one Jew. I don't think that's doing the work.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, right.

[Sam]

But God bless him, he was the best.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. By the way, I was the one Jew. I went to college in San Antonio.

[Sam]

You don't seem to.

[Josh Wolf]

You hide your Judaism like Anne Frank.

[Fortune Feimster]

Can I. I am. I'm whispering in the attic.

[Josh Wolf]

Camo hat, the hoodie.

[Sam]

I know.

[Josh Wolf]

The high top.

[Sam]

I never would.

[Fortune Feimster]

I see Wolf 100 Jewish, got bar mitzvah. When I was in college, my roommate had. I went to his house for Thanksgiving, and he had a relative who had never seen a Jew before. And he was just staring at me, and I was just over. He was the whole week, like Danny hall scene. So one day I just look at him and I go, what's going on? He goes, I just never. I just never seen a Jew before.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, but you don't look particularly Jewish.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's what I said. I go, what do you think? He goes, not what I thought you'd look. So are you saying, by the way.

[Sam]

Like, when you eat vegan food and you're like, it's kind of.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, but you're like a black albino, where somebody could be like, these hebes, I'll tell you. And they're saying it to you, and you're like, you don't know that I'm one of them.

[Fortune Feimster]

I get a lot of Jew jokes. I. I love the fact when people say, you don't look Jewish. When people ask me, does that bother you? I'm like, no. I take it as a compliment. I know what they mean. Curly hair and nose and no chin and saggy face. Yeah, I get it.

[Sam]

I think, as a compliment, though, you don't look Jewish. Thank God.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That, to me, is a huge compliment.

[Josh Wolf]

Hey, Adam Brody is very attractive.

[Sam]

This is the classic.

[Maddie]

We really had a good time.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Sam]

So good.

[Maddie]

Psychiatrist for 15 years.

[Sam]

So good.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't want to look like that.

[Josh Wolf]

Right?

[Sam]

You don't act like that either. God damn. Is that a great movie.

[Josh Wolf]

Great movie.

[Sam]

Oh, good. Great.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's. I'm with, like, I. Watching his movies is kind of like listening to Michael Jackson's music.

[Josh Wolf]

For me, it's like, I still love it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Right?

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, it's great. The talent is talent, you know? If we could separate.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right. I don't have to watch him diddle.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, exactly. I know. Roethlisberger was doing who knows what, but he could still play.

[Sam]

We know what.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Were you a Steelers fan?

[Josh Wolf]

No, I'm just. I just use an example of a Steelers fan.

[Sam]

You just have to be like, that's our guy.

[Fortune Feimster]

If it had happened now, it had been such a much bigger deal with social media. Like some of that stuff, those dudes who got away with it just kind of went away.

[Josh Wolf]

That's true.

[Sam]

Things don't pre me too.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Sam]

I mean, look at Clinton pre me 2 versus after. It's like, I guess it settled down a little. But the vibe is to look at Bill Cosby. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I said. I said to somebody once, they were like, who's one of your favorite comics? I said, bill Cosby pre rape. And I was like, well, actually there's no pre rape. Probably during rape.

[Josh Wolf]

Probably our knowledge. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But like, people got away with or it just kind of went away.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

There was no way for it to spread like wildfire like there is now.

[Josh Wolf]

True.

[Fortune Feimster]

All it took is Hannibal to tell.

[Josh Wolf]

Right, Right. Well, it makes you wonder who's next? Like, is the Tom Hanks shoe gonna drop or bite your tongue?

[Sam]

Tom Hanks thing is.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, I'm just saying Hanks thing.

[Sam]

That's what I'm saying. I don't. The qanon thinks.

[Josh Wolf]

I don't think it's real either, but I was just throwing out an example of legitimacy.

[Sam]

Why are we like QANON reports? Like, they're.

[Fortune Feimster]

This is what I'm saying. The problem is right now is that you can be any news source and report and then somebody's gonna be like, I believe it.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes. Well, you want to believe it. It's juicy. Like, oh, let's leave it with Tom.

[Sam]

Hang me.

[Josh Wolf]

I'm not saying I want to either, but I'm sure people enjoy that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Dude, that's like saying something bad about Dolly Parton.

[Josh Wolf]

People have schadenfreude. I'm telling you. Like, when Ellen gets popped for being a. Everybody's like, woo. I'm like, well, she was never to you.

[Fortune Feimster]

But they love it the way everybody whose boss hasn't been.

[Sam]

I know, and I love Dolly Parton. Human trafficking aside, that would be a.

[Josh Wolf]

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[Sam]

I got you. Got your drink right there if you want.

[Maddie]

I'm so sorry.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Great to see you.

[Josh Wolf]

It's funny. We talked about a Dolly Parton and a lesbian shows up. It's like, it has to happen here.

[Maddie]

I am.

[Josh Wolf]

How the hell are you coming?

[Sam]

Straight from Kelly Clarkson. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa. You got a lot of range.

[Maddie]

You listen, you know. Okay.

[Sam]

I hear she's. I hear she's awesome.

[Maddie]

She's really. She's really cool. I love.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you remember sharing a Kelly Clark love for Kelly Clarkson?

[Maddie]

Absolutely. We talked about her all the time on Chelsea's show. I've now done her TV show 10 times. Whoa. Yeah. I love her.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Maddie]

I want to be able to see.

[Fortune Feimster]

Have you sung with her?

[Maddie]

No, I tried. I angled for it today, and she's like that. So funny. And I was like. Because I. We talked about us saying. With Alanis Morissette.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa.

[Maddie]

Stage. And I've sung with the chicks on stage.

[Josh Wolf]

Damn.

[Maddie]

We talked about that. And I was like, and if you ever want me to sing. And she's like, those are the funniest stories.

[Josh Wolf]

I didn't know you sang. Are you a talented singer?

[Maddie]

That was. The mic was hitting my man boob. I'm a shower singer. Like karaoke. I can carry a tune.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

But, yeah, that was it right there.

[Fortune Feimster]

This is amazing.

[Josh Wolf]

Nicely done.

[Sam]

This is you singing?

[Maddie]

That's me. I, I. Well, that's me coming out on stage. There's a whole lead up to it.

[Sam]

Let's get to it.

[Josh Wolf]

Who's this? Oh, wow.

[Sam]

Paper plane.

[Maddie]

Oh, I like paper planes. Thank you.

[Josh Wolf]

I love Alanis.

[Maddie]

That's me right there singing, guys.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, my God.

[Maddie]

Thanks, Sam.

[Sam]

You know, you. You played it down because you gotta lower the bar.

[Josh Wolf]

Are you nervous? Eye contact. Singing with one of the girls.

[Maddie]

I want me to sing it to her. So I. I, like, stared into her eyes.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, are you guys gonna make out or sis?

[Maddie]

I mean, we're close.

[Fortune Feimster]

That would be amazing.

[Maddie]

My wife wouldn't like that. Actually. My wife would be like, good for you.

[Sam]

Yeah. She's ironic.

[Fortune Feimster]

I got. I sang with You. I think I sang Backstreet Boy song with Jewel.

[Josh Wolf]

Pull it up.

[Fortune Feimster]

Can't figure.

[Sam]

Oh, please.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. It Winnie Joshua Jewel. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

She's underrated hot.

[Fortune Feimster]

Jewel is one of. In person. Was one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen in my entire life.

[Josh Wolf]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

I could not.

[Maddie]

There you are. Look at us. Just singing with people. Josh is a very good singer. He's a. Look at that.

[Sam]

Where like the bad room at the Diddy party.

[Josh Wolf]

What is going on here?

[Fortune Feimster]

Why are you at a talk show for a minute it. And we had people come on to sing their guilty pleasure songs.

[Sam]

Wow.

[Josh Wolf]

What?

[Fortune Feimster]

And so Jules get this was her guilty pleasure song. One she had always wanted to sing. So we messed up.

[Josh Wolf]

And I wish I'd never seen this. You and the Durag. The white feeder.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Your outfit is pretty intense.

[Fortune Feimster]

Not as Jewy as you. No, no.

[Josh Wolf]

The Jew is supposed to manage the boy band, not be in it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. It was an interesting time.

[Josh Wolf]

But yeah, she's great. I watched the whole documentary on her. How she slept in her car. Incredible story.

[Fortune Feimster]

And. And what happened when she. When her mom managed her and her mom taking her money. Amazing.

[Sam]

The story is never a good story with the parent.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

My mom could never be in charge of my.

[Fortune Feimster]

That would be hilarious.

[Maddie]

Like, this is mine. Right? She'd be like, is this how much you're making?

[Josh Wolf]

That's true.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. My dad was an educator his whole life. He would not believe. He was like, this is one weekend.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

He would not be able to wrap his head around same.

[Josh Wolf]

My mom's like, you have to save this. This is going into savings.

[Sam]

You're like, you're investing this? I'm like, I guess not.

[Maddie]

Anything.

[Sam]

No, I invest.

[Maddie]

Okay, good.

[Sam]

But Jew.

[Josh Wolf]

I gotta do it.

[Fortune Feimster]

See, now you don't look so Jewish.

[Sam]

Neither do you.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right.

[Sam]

We're undercover Jews.

[Josh Wolf]

He's got the hair.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's our next TV show.

[Sam]

Undercover Jews.

[Maddie]

You're telling each other. You don't look so Jewish.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's such a compliment.

[Sam]

I know. Thank you.

[Josh Wolf]

Is it?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Look how Jews really look.

[Sam]

Ellen DeGeneres has moved to Great Britain.

[Josh Wolf]

See, that's so mean of this lady.

[Maddie]

For real.

[Sam]

Yeah. That's in the news.

[Josh Wolf]

Good for her.

[Maddie]

If it's in the news, it might.

[Sam]

Why is she doing it? Cuz it's. I think it's. Yeah. Probably still got a good life.

[Maddie]

She. She probably got five houses in the U.S. there's no way that she's moving full time.

[Fortune Feimster]

She's just not living full time here.

[Maddie]

Right.

[Josh Wolf]

You watch her special?

[Fortune Feimster]

I did.

[Josh Wolf]

I watched it too. It was funny, but there was too much applause.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think as soon as she really started talking about what was happening with her was when it fucking really kicked in as I was like, oh, this is super interesting.

[Josh Wolf]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

Until her feelings were hurt. Like, that was. Yeah, it was such a. From that spot was so good for me.

[Josh Wolf]

Well, you got it. It's progress that she was fired for being a lesbian. And then she got fired. No one cared about the lesbian thing. And then she got fired for being mean. That's progress.

[Maddie]

That is progress.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

You don't care if you're gay. Don't be a dick.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, she's a cunt. You are what you eat. I had to get that out.

[Maddie]

Come on.

[Sam]

Well, I guess we're not cunt smart.

[Fortune Feimster]

You know what I was thinking about? There are so many things that we did on Chelsea show that it's such a good thing they aren't on the Internet.

[Sam]

I thought you and blackface was a.

[Maddie]

Bad look, but, dude, I'm like, did that happen? There was a lot of things. I feel like a lot of things. Made jokes she made.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, my God.

[Maddie]

That probably are good.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you remember the sketch we did?

[Josh Wolf]

Pull it up.

[Fortune Feimster]

We had. It's not on the Internet. They wiped the Internet of her show.

[Maddie]

But like a long time ago, not in recent times.

[Fortune Feimster]

We did a sketch, remember? Where the. The two Asian people who worked at the office carried us around on Rickshaws.

[Maddie]

Now, we did not. You did.

[Fortune Feimster]

So they. I was.

[Maddie]

I was not in that.

[Fortune Feimster]

They carried us on Rick Shaws. They dubbed the Asian people's voice with white people's voices. And the name of the sketch was a Ree Me Aon. And then a Gong with him.

[Maddie]

I think I had forgotten that from memory.

[Sam]

What were the sketches you shut down?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, there were none. If she. This is what was great about that. Especially the first couple years. It was such a.

[Maddie]

It was one of over there in the good old days.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. That show is huge, by the way.

[Fortune Feimster]

What? But there was no notes those first couple years because it was so lowly rated.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That they were just like, yeah, do whatever.

[Josh Wolf]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

And she pushed the envelope.

[Maddie]

But then the show became huge.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

When I joined, they were like, the Beatles.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

And I was like, what's happening?

[Josh Wolf]

It broke. I mean, Joe Coy and Moshe Caster and not Natasha Leggero and you guys. I mean, Sarah Colona. Heather McDonald's.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. It was kind of crazy. And she really in the room. Especially the first couple Years ago. Different as it. But in the room, if it was weird and she thought it was Be kind of funny, she'd be like, yeah, let's do it.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

It was just kind of like whatever you came up with ended up on tv. Yeah, I played a lot of. I did a lot of celebrities.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

I played Adele, obviously. Christina Aguilera, Honey Boo Boo. Honey Boo's mom.

[Sam]

We did Honey Boo Boo. You kids are listening. Pre Rizzler.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, that was.

[Sam]

That was kind of what that was.

[Maddie]

I played Amanda Bynes. I played a lot of people that I look nothing like.

[Fortune Feimster]

And the man. It was reversed. However sexually harassed or exploited she had felt women had been is what she was doing to dudes. So we were the ones in shirtless skirts. Shirtless. We were the ones who were being sexualized. And she did not. She did one show, man.

[Sam]

But for you, if you're, like, very fit, I feel like it was all right for you.

[Maddie]

Yeah, he was fine to do.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was fine to do it.

[Maddie]

Sure. I'll take my shirt off.

[Fortune Feimster]

She did things like she would humiliate dudes. There was one show she didn't like Bobby Lee's first two jokes. So she. She was like, bobby, get under the desk for the next. I don't like these jokes. Tell your jokes from underneath the desk and then.

[Sam]

And then carry the rickshaw.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. But, yes, she was. She was the first thing she said to Ryan Lochte when he came out for an interview.

[Josh Wolf]

Remember who he. The swimmer.

[Fortune Feimster]

But he's not the brightest.

[Sam]

And he was also like the other Michael Phelps was the guy. No matter how good you were, you were kind of in his shadow, and.

[Fortune Feimster]

He was not known to be the brightest person. He sat down for the interview, and the first thing she said to him was, so do you think you're stupid?

[Maddie]

Oh, I don't remember either.

[Sam]

What do you say?

[Fortune Feimster]

I forget. I was laughing too hard.

[Josh Wolf]

I can't believe. You got to be kidding me.

[Fortune Feimster]

She said that she.

[Maddie]

Yeah, she was the only impression I didn't get to do, which I thought was a good idea. And they had pitched me the idea of playing Girl Fieri, so the girl version of Guy Fieri. And they ended up being, like, taking it. They pitched it, and I was like, that's a good idea. And then they had somebody else play Guy Fieri. I'm like, well, that's not funny.

[Fortune Feimster]

Right.

[Maddie]

You're just having someone play Guy Fieri. But he has a sister with a goatee named Girl Fieri.

[Josh Wolf]

That's funny.

[Fortune Feimster]

And the Things that. That we would have of Chewy, which was her little Mexican sidekick do.

[Josh Wolf]

Little, little guy.

[Fortune Feimster]

First of all, he would always ask how much does the Holocaust.

[Josh Wolf]

Which was fun always.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then we would always put him in a type. Remember he would dress up like a baby and put him in a little diaper.

[Maddie]

This feels like 50 years.

[Sam]

Where did Chewie come from? What happened?

[Fortune Feimster]

He had done porn before.

[Josh Wolf]

No.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

He's still on the Internet.

[Josh Wolf]

Pull it up.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, it is still on the Internet. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Chewy.

[Maddie]

Yeah, he.

[Sam]

This guy's had a real forest gump like life.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

But he. When he was on this show, he was still so popular with girls. They threw themselves walking through the airport with him. Oh yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like walking through with Elvis.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Sam]

What?

[Maddie]

And. And he'd just.

[Josh Wolf]

Or like elus.

[Maddie]

Have his hand.

[Fortune Feimster]

Remember where he would put his hand? He went. If he was standing next to a woman, his hand would come.

[Maddie]

Oh, wow, here we are.

[Josh Wolf]

He's not just.

[Fortune Feimster]

C H U Y. Yeah.

[Maddie]

Make sure you get the spelling right on pornhub.

[Sam]

Don't act like you've never searched.

[Maddie]

No grammatical errors on porn.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, please. Wait, I cut you. What were you gonna say?

[Maddie]

Oh, just that he was always. He was right in line with ladies butts. So it would just naturally land on the butts.

[Fortune Feimster]

It does feel like a different lifetime.

[Maddie]

I mean, it feels like a thousand years ago for sure.

[Josh Wolf]

But now here's. Here's the annoying question that I gotta up because I'm a cunt. This is still funny. The rickshaw thing is funny. What do we do now? Because you can't have this on tv, but it's still. We still find it funny. Like Chelsea is still this person, but I know she can't be that person in the public eye. So what do you do now to be funny? Do you just go on the Internet?

[Maddie]

You mean for her like you do it on YouTube?

[Sam]

I think it means for the audience.

[Josh Wolf]

Right? Yeah. Because the audiences still like this kind of humor. But you can't do it on TV anymore. So now what?

[Fortune Feimster]

It's.

[Sam]

It'll be back. It all swings back.

[Josh Wolf]

You think?

[Sam]

I think it's all coming back. I mean, look, irreverent always swings back around. I think.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think it is swinging back right now.

[Sam]

Because in the end all they care about is money, right? So if that's making money, they're gonna be like, let's try it.

[Josh Wolf]

But if that's the case, can we stop going, hey, this is immoral. This is inappropriate. You're like, well, if it's gonna come back anyways. Why waste the time of yelling at everybody? And did we.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't ever remember thinking in the joke room, we can't do that.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, yeah. That's how I used to be.

[Maddie]

I think. I think it was pretty much anything goes. I just kind of sat quiet until people told me what to do. Go play this person. Go do the sketch. Do this thing. And I was like, okay. Because it was a lot of big personalities in that room. I don't think I talked for the first year and a half.

[Fortune Feimster]

You didn't.

[Maddie]

I was very, like, you know, minding my P's and Q's. They were all very loud and very, like, one upping each other in the room. And I just was like, I'm just excited to have a paycheck.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. That show sold tickets.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But it put us on the road. A lot of us before, we should have been in front of audiences.

[Maddie]

Oh, you think?

[Fortune Feimster]

I think when I look back at.

[Maddie]

The comic, I was like, I was ready.

[Fortune Feimster]

I can only speak for me. But when I think about the standup that I was doing at that time, in front of the size crowds that we were, it was a little disproportionate.

[Josh Wolf]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

For me. I mean, I think people were still just happy that we were there. Yeah, it was one of those situations. But it's.

[Sam]

But you look back now that you've kind of done the work and you're like. And you see it. I get what you mean.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you know what I mean?

[Sam]

No, because I was the opposite. I wasn't like the papered funny bones thing for so many. But, you know, by the end of it, you're like, it's. I mean, you probably have a different audience now than you did then.

[Fortune Feimster]

Way different.

[Sam]

But that's kind of cool that you've kind of. You didn't just fall down. Like, it didn't take you out. You kind of grew with an audience.

[Fortune Feimster]

You know, I actually had to change my audience because I really. So the Chelsea glow was off of me. And I wasn't talking about the things on stage that Chelsea's was interested in listening.

[Josh Wolf]

Interesting.

[Fortune Feimster]

So it was like, oh, I better find a group of people that actually want to hear what I talking about.

[Sam]

But it's hard to figure that out for, like, rooms that. That size or that kind of pressure.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Because you don't want people to pay that kind of COVID and not get a good show.

[Fortune Feimster]

I agree.

[Sam]

But, yeah, that's. That's a dilemma.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Damn, that is tough. But I. I open for all those people. So selfishly, I loved it because I. I got to do a full room at Gotham with Sarah Colon.

[Sam]

Same. I opened for her once too.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, nice lady. Great hit on her. But did you really? I hit on everybody in the early 2000s.

[Sam]

Yeah, I saw her, and she. You again. I was like, I'm not Mark Normish.

[Josh Wolf]

I was like, Judy Gold. What's up?

[Maddie]

I would. What is your version of hitting on people?

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. You want to get a drink? Let's hang out after.

[Maddie]

Oh, gotcha.

[Josh Wolf]

You know, 50. 50.

[Maddie]

Okay. You got to shoot your shot.

[Fortune Feimster]

A 1 through 10. How effective would you feel like you hitting on somebody is?

[Josh Wolf]

Well, I think with ladies, it would really depend. Because I'm not. Not a hot guy, so it would depend on the set if I killed. It was a lot easier to. To hook up.

[Maddie]

What about with guys? Yeah, you did say with ladies. Oh.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, well, with guys, they'll just beat me in a bathroom. Guys are easy. You ladies are the ones putting all the roadblocks up.

[Maddie]

You guys are making me buy you dinner.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So much work. But guys. Yeah, my friend is gay, and he's on the. What is it? The sniffler.

[Maddie]

Oh, what's that?

[Josh Wolf]

Sniffies. What is the new apps?

[Maddie]

I don't know what this is. Sniffler.

[Sam]

What is mean.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

What is it?

[Sam]

I don't know what it means. I know what it is. It's like a way dirtier Grinder.

[Maddie]

Oh, Grinder.

[Sam]

Grinder was.

[Maddie]

I didn't know. Yeah, I was like, was that not dirty enough?

[Josh Wolf]

This is quicker than Grinder.

[Maddie]

It's a banging in the bathroom.

[Josh Wolf]

Meet me in this bathroom or this bar in five minutes, and that's it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wow.

[Maddie]

I don't know. It's dirtier. I don't want that.

[Sam]

There's a little thing you can hit on the thing. It's called a cum dump.

[Maddie]

Oh.

[Sam]

And you have to believe this. There's just a gentleman in a stall, and then. Then he says, I'm here. Find me. It's like, where's Waldo? Adults.

[Maddie]

And then what?

[Sam]

And then you have sex with him. He's.

[Maddie]

Oh, in the bathroom.

[Sam]

Cum dump.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's what it's called, by the way. Can't they designate a stall for that? So I know that I'm.

[Josh Wolf]

Good point.

[Sam]

You know what I mean?

[Fortune Feimster]

Like, this is the cum dum stall. Cool.

[Maddie]

Just stick.

[Sam]

Josh is taking a. He's eating a little too much jerk chicken. He's like, God damn it. I'm next to the cum dumpy.

[Josh Wolf]

The floors are sticky.

[Maddie]

That's crazy.

[Sam]

That's the worst.

[Fortune Feimster]

That is that. But what a.

[Josh Wolf]

Well, that's man. If you leave men to their own devices, you get a come dump.

[Sam]

It just shows you that men just get right to the point. They do. I mean, for better or worse. That's like. It is pretty cool.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, it's a win.

[Maddie]

Pretty cool. I like what you fellas are doing.

[Sam]

Over there, but lesbians. I mean, this is such a.

[Maddie]

It's a lot of talking.

[Sam]

Yeah, a lot of talking.

[Maddie]

A lot of sharing feelings. Where are we going? What does this mean?

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, out of here.

[Fortune Feimster]

Mutual sharing feelings. Or is there one who's more like let's get close?

[Maddie]

There are those that are like, let's get to it. But mostly it's emotional stuff first.

[Sam]

Why is that?

[Maddie]

Because I think that's just how ladies are wired. You know, some of them want to just, you know, get to it. The. The real slutty ones. But yeah, for the most part, women like that connection.

[Josh Wolf]

Where are you at, honey boo Boo?

[Maddie]

Oh, this honey boo boo likes. I like a little bit of a connection.

[Josh Wolf]

Okay. Okay.

[Maddie]

I was never like going wild in my. Even in my single days.

[Fortune Feimster]

I remember your single days.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Yeah. It was just. I just didn't date ser. A lot of serious. I didn't have a lot of serious relationships because I was always working and.

[Sam]

Touring and kills your nights.

[Maddie]

Yeah. And that. And so I just kind of had fun.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. Good for you.

[Maddie]

Yeah. But I wasn't like. It wasn't a lot of girls. It was just like, you know, here and there.

[Josh Wolf]

I don't want to to be a party pooper, but I think the lesbian divorce rate is through the roof.

[Maddie]

Is it? No way. Do you know. Do you know the stats?

[Josh Wolf]

I read divorce rates every day.

[Fortune Feimster]

How is that?

[Maddie]

Oh, what's happening?

[Sam]

That's a hilarious statistical out there.

[Maddie]

I bet I know why.

[Fortune Feimster]

Higher than game.

[Maddie]

Oh, I. I think I. I think I know why. A lot of gay men have open relationships. Ah, so they are not. But it's more sex. It's not like I. I some of like a husband and a boyfriend. But a lot of it's. I'm married and both of us also if we want to sleep with someone, we sleep with someone. Lesbians get what's called lesbian bed death. Yes, that sounds something like that.

[Josh Wolf]

I've heard of this.

[Maddie]

And so because you become best friends, you ha. It's like your family. You stop boning as much.

[Fortune Feimster]

That kind of happens and get heterosexual marriages too.

[Sam]

Oh, does it Lesbian Bed death. Sounds like the worst death on Oregon Trail or something. That's rough. Damn.

[Fortune Feimster]

What happened in the back of that wagon?

[Sam]

We lost her.

[Josh Wolf]

Good punk band, though. Lesbian Bed Dad.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

But women aren't capable. I. I don't think women are as. Are as capable of the open stuff to the extent men are.

[Josh Wolf]

Sure.

[Maddie]

I feel like men can really compartment. Compartmentalize. Sex and love, they're two different. Yes. For women, they're very intertwined. Because there are physical things that happen with a woman's body. You're. That connects you to a person when you have the sex.

[Fortune Feimster]

Can you explain a couple of those things to me? So I know.

[Maddie]

It's just like. It's like I've been married for 20 years.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

With women. So. Yeah. But I don't know what happened, but yeah. I guess with your. If you're with anybody for many, many years, that stuff gets stagnant. Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

You know what helped? Honestly, I think what's helped my marriage the most is that I'm gone so much.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, I completely agree.

[Fortune Feimster]

And so when I. It's not like, oh, you again.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I'm gone for three or four days, and when I come back, we're like, oh, hey, I really kind of. I kind of like you.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

And you have stuff to talk. What'd you do? What did I miss?

[Sam]

You don't fall into that gossip trap or just watching shows. It can you just like, Rachel Feinstein has that great bit where she's like, you know, is this. She's in a. A toxic relation, but she doesn't even realize it because we're watching Breaking Bad. You know, it's like. But it's just so relatable. You're like, oh, no, the relationship's not good. The show is good.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes. That's how. That's really funny. Yeah. That's so true, too. Those shows are keeping a lot of marriages on life support. Just beep, beep.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because you sit down, you don't talk to each other.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

But you're doing something, but you're not.

[Maddie]

Right. Quality time. But. But yeah, the gay men are just still banging. Banging.

[Josh Wolf]

They're still banging.

[Maddie]

They're married and banging. Still.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Familiar with the term U hauling?

[Maddie]

I do know you hauling. Yes.

[Sam]

Explain it to these gentlemen, because they don't.

[Maddie]

Gentlemen. U hauling is when you start dating. Two lesbians start dating. And the joke is, what does a lesbian bring on the second date? A U haul. Oh, they're ready to, like, shack up, get married, lock it down. That's why lesbian bars are few and far between. Because once lesbians pair up, they stop going out. Whoa. Whereas guys are still on the prowl.

[Fortune Feimster]

Guys are bike.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Even if guys are in a relationship, they're still going to the bars. They're still trying to meet people. They're still hooking up. Lesbians are like, well, I'm done. I'm off the market. Let's stay home. Why don't we want to go get a cheap drink?

[Josh Wolf]

Don't sell toilet seats. Sell toilet paper.

[Maddie]

There you go.

[Josh Wolf]

You want to keep the toilet seats last 20 years. Toilet paper.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's the way I use them.

[Josh Wolf]

Well, you know what I'm saying.

[Maddie]

It's the same with lesbians over there.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you know, I was at. A long time ago, I was at a barbecue at Ralphie May's house, long time ago in the Hollywood Hills. And I said to him, I go, ralphie. And I had to go poop. I go, ralphie, I gotta go to the bathroom. He goes, josh Wolf, go up into my bathroom, the second floor. Nobody's gonna bother you up there. So I go up there and I sit down and I fell in.

[Maddie]

Wait, you fell in the toilet?

[Fortune Feimster]

And I go downstairs to Ralphie. I'm like, ralphie. He goes, did you fall in? I go, yeah. He goes, yeah, I knew you skinny ass would. I had to buy an extra big toilet. He had. He bought an extra big toilet. And I didn't know that. So the hole was bigger.

[Josh Wolf]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I was like, I didn't know they sold extra big. He goes, yeah, they can sell them extra big. So they were extra big. And w. Like, they were sturdier because he would break. Yeah, toilet seats. So that one, they had the. The extra, extra large toilet seats they got.

[Josh Wolf]

Wow. You felt in.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I went right through.

[Maddie]

Went swimming.

[Sam]

Hopefully. At the beginning.

[Fortune Feimster]

Very beginning. Yeah, at the very beginning. But I had all the way kicking.

[Josh Wolf]

Like Brad Williams, he's doing tricep dips, trying to have the ball.

[Sam]

Jesus Christ.

[Josh Wolf]

Damn. You hit your. Goes out like. It takes like 30 seconds.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like that coin toss of the Goonies.

[Josh Wolf]

You make a wish. Damn.

[Sam]

What was a barbecue like at Ralphie Mays? I mean, he cooked.

[Fortune Feimster]

He cooked great. Wow, he cooked a great barbecue.

[Josh Wolf]

I hope so.

[Fortune Feimster]

And man. Man, Ralphie May. Ralphie May. He was the first one of us who made money. And he was an incredibly generous dude. And I remember we were going in his car to Jack in the Box to get food for everybody in his little apartment complex. And he ordered for everybody. And then he ordered a separate bag. He was like, yeah, can I get a whatever you ordered? But it was like a legit bag of food. And I go, what's that for? And he goes, that's for me on the drive back. And he goes, he goes, open up the glove box. And I opened up the glove box and he had his own condiment robe.

[Josh Wolf]

That's gross.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, he was like. He was like. He was like, I need the cholula. I need that. I was like, you have your own condiments. He had his own condiments. A custom built, like, glove box with.

[Maddie]

Wow.

[Sam]

Pimp my ride for diabetes.

[Josh Wolf]

Jesus. Damn. It's like my grandpa with the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, the drug thing.

[Fortune Feimster]

He also. He used to watch after my kids sometimes, and he pretended to be a pinata. So when they hit him, he would throw candy at him.

[Maddie]

That's fun. That's really.

[Sam]

That is fun.

[Josh Wolf]

That's a great friend.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, he and Joey Diaz both were the. For a while, my kids, babysitters, because they would do it for free.

[Sam]

That is hilarious.

[Josh Wolf]

Your kids, like a motherfucker. The worst part, though, is your kids learn to do this with a fat guy. They see some dude on the subway and they're like, no candy. What the hell? The fat guy's like, what the hell, man? I'm obese. Like, you're ruining my day.

[Maddie]

You're ruining my day getting punched by a little kid. You are ruining my day.

[Sam]

Joey Diaz gave him candy at Edibles.

[Josh Wolf]

In it, all right, Is a Chinese star. What do they call? Oh, Star of Death? Star of Star of Death, yeah.

[Sam]

So you guys. You guys have known each other for a long time?

[Maddie]

2011.

[Sam]

Damn.

[Josh Wolf]

Hey.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

When did you move to LA?

[Maddie]

2003.

[Josh Wolf]

Okay, 21 years.

[Fortune Feimster]

What were you doing before Chelsea Layla?

[Maddie]

I was a journalist. I was an entertainment journalist for eight years. That was my day job. And so I would write during the day. And I started taking growlings, like, improv classes at night. And I. I started my own group. So we were doing shows around town. And then 2007, I started in the Belly Room at the Comedy Store.

[Fortune Feimster]

And so who saw you to get on that show?

[Maddie]

Joe Coy had seen me do. I had this character, a Hooters waitress named Darlene Witherspoon.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, that blew up.

[Maddie]

So that was like. I put that on YouTube and it was like, early days. YouTube.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

And he saw it and showed it to Chelsea, but nothing came of it for like a year. And then I submitted a writing packet when they were looking for a New writer. And she remembered me from. From that. Yeah. Well, I was trying to get on the round table.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, right.

[Maddie]

And they would. Oh, Darlene Witherspoon with. Okay. Look at that grainy video. Feels like it.

[Josh Wolf]

That's great.

[Maddie]

I was trying to get on the round table back then, before I was a writer, and they said I was too low energy, so I was on the radar, but not. But not enough to be on the show.

[Sam]

Do you think you would have been ready if you went on then or.

[Maddie]

Probably not. I was still. I was still pretty green when I. When I submitted the writing packet, I thought, there's no way I'm going to get this. They had, like, 300 submissions, and they narrowed it down to, like, 10 of us. And they came. I was more of a sketch performer. Even though I was doing standup. I had just done Last comic Standing. They came to my groundling shows, and. And I didn't know when they hired me, they were kind of hiring me more for sketch because I had no. Even though I was an entertainment journalist, I had no writers room experience, so I felt pretty, like, lacking in the writer's room for a while.

[Josh Wolf]

It's a whole different animal.

[Maddie]

Yeah. And then finally someone pulled me aside and said, we hired you more for your sketch comedy skills and to be on the show more than your writing skills. I was like, thanks for telling me.

[Fortune Feimster]

The writer's room, though. If you've never been in one, even if you're a great writer, it's an intimidating place to get your joke in.

[Maddie]

They yell jokes over each other, and I don't. I was like, can't do that. I don't like competing for.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, it's weird.

[Maddie]

Even on the round table, I kind of would, like, sit, sit, sit, Boom. I would always sort of time out the window, punch in, and then I would kind of sit quiet again.

[Josh Wolf]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, also, on that roundtable, it depended on who you were there with. Some people were competitive with you and just wanted to get your joke in.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And some people really just wanted it to be more of a conversation and just kind of let it be almost podcasty. Let it be. Those are my favorite ones. When it was very flowy.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And, like, a topic would come up, but nobody really. Nobody really talked about it.

[Maddie]

And sometimes you would say a joke, and then a person would act it out, and that was. Their whole thing was just xing out your jokes.

[Sam]

The person who didn't prepare.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

You're like, wait a second. You're just repeating my joke.

[Fortune Feimster]

I just did that in verbal form, right? Yeah.

[Sam]

That's a P. By the way, when you say a joke and then someone else, like, no one hears it and someone repeats it and they get the laugh. I know. Oh, that's a pee. I think we were on Spade show together once though, and it was like you were. I liked being on with you because you just kind of did your joke. I did my joke. We all kind of like got our lines and it was, it was chill, you know.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was a fun show also.

[Maddie]

Yeah, that was fun.

[Sam]

Yes.

[Maddie]

Cuz I don't like competing with other comics.

[Sam]

Weird.

[Maddie]

I'm like, I want you to have your joke. I'll have my joke. You have your joke and then everybody, you know, instead of like the person that doesn't shut up.

[Josh Wolf]

I know, I know. And you ever had a. I've been a few writers room. You ever had a joke bomb in a writer's room? Yeah, because you're amongst your peers and everybody's like, it's even, it's worse when.

[Fortune Feimster]

Nobody even comments on it. Oh, they just go right past it. You're like, that bad, huh?

[Sam]

Okay.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes. The worst.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'll tell you what I. You know what I love about Spade and Bargazzi, Both of them, to me, the way they deliver their jokes. Their throwaways are sometimes their best. Like, they're like modern day Bob Newharts.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, completely. Especially Nate.

[Fortune Feimster]

Nate especially where he throw. Some of his throwaways are like, that's the best. That's his. It's crazy. That's such a different way to deliver jokes.

[Josh Wolf]

I know. And I love that he's so successful. People kept. They've caught it. They get what he's doing, which is so refreshing.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's so different. I don't know anybody else who does anything even close to what he does.

[Josh Wolf]

No, no, he's great. And he's so prolific, it's insane.

[Fortune Feimster]

You mean the amount?

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, just pumps it out like a thing will happen to him. And he's got like an 8 minute story on and it's killer.

[Sam]

It's crazy. Yeah, it's. He's. He's setting the bar high.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, yeah. And clean.

[Sam]

It's. The clean part is where I'm like, holy shit. Like I can, I can churn it out, but I ain't fucking clean.

[Josh Wolf]

No, no. And by the way, clean doesn't just mean cursing. It means like there's no racial, there's no like sexual innuendo.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's great. It's not. It's clean. But it's not vanilla, exactly. There's a huge difference between being just like, clean. You're like, that's the most boring, non thought provoking.

[Josh Wolf]

100%.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's still great jokes.

[Josh Wolf]

Yep.

[Fortune Feimster]

I saw him in Vegas and his dad opened for him, which was.

[Josh Wolf]

That's amazing.

[Sam]

I heard his dad crushes.

[Fortune Feimster]

His dad crushes. And then he. When he was intro with Nate, he was crying, and I go, that's touching. He goes, he does it every show.

[Josh Wolf]

He hates it. Nate's bigger. He's like.

[Sam]

He does a Denzel tear. He works it up.

[Fortune Feimster]

But Nate opened with 10 minutes of crazy Vegas jokes.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa.

[Fortune Feimster]

That. I asked his dad. I'm like, he does. This is it. Are these his Vegas jokes? He goes, no, these are new. This. This weekend.

[Maddie]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

Crushed.

[Josh Wolf]

I saw him at Radio City. He had a punchline. He went, golly. And I was on the floor. That was the punch line. But he makes it. He's so good at making it funny. It's. It's really great.

[Fortune Feimster]

I remember a long time ago, he opened for me at Zany's.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, boy.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I was like, this kid's kind of funny. And then at Bridgestone, it's. I'm like, well, he's definitely.

[Maddie]

This kid's got something.

[Fortune Feimster]

My gosh. This kid's onto something. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Are you in Nashville?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, I'm in Vegas now.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, you're in Vegas. Whoa.

[Sam]

Do you like Vegas?

[Fortune Feimster]

More than any place I've ever lived.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa. No tax. Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's not even that. It's not just the Jew part.

[Josh Wolf]

I wasn't going there.

[Maddie]

That's what you were talking.

[Fortune Feimster]

You did this to me for a little while.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, sorry.

[Sam]

And I was like, he's followed by this. That was kind of weird.

[Fortune Feimster]

Followed by the horn. Yeah. But I love it. I have a residency there every Monday night.

[Sam]

Where?

[Fortune Feimster]

At Kimmel's.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, nice.

[Fortune Feimster]

And so what I love about performing there, every Monday is okay. It really. Vegas is the one place, especially on a Monday, where I know if a joke works. Because when I'm on the road, I'm in front of people that know me and like me. So it's. Sometimes it's really hard to tell is that joke funny or. Or they just know me or they already know my story. They know, right? But in vague. 50% of the people don't know me every show. So when it only hits half the crowd, I'm like, that's a joke for my crowd. But when it hits everybody, I'm like, oh, this joke is funny.

[Josh Wolf]

Sure.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's such a great lipness test for me to go out and try all my new shit. And it's a Monday at 7:30, so there's like zero pressure.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

We do similar stuff here at the Comedy Cellar. But like, I was doing my show, my name build, and it was going well because they're my people. And I was like, these jokes aren't that good. I know it. So I started doing I Unbuild and it was. It's way more productive.

[Josh Wolf]

Way more.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because you can tell, you're like, oh. They didn't just laugh because they know my cadence.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Or because they know you get away.

[Sam]

With a lot with the cadence. They know you're like, this is where they should.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, they're on.

[Maddie]

They're just excited to see you. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

And they know if you do a darker joke, they're like, he's not a bad guy. But if it's a new audience and you do a dark joke, they're like, pedophilia. And you're like, no, no, I'm just saying. But they don't know you yet, so you have to like, earn that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Damon Wayans told me once when I first got LA and he was doing a lot of stand up, he was like, these 15 minute sets are really dicey. I said, why? He goes, because you have a 15 minute grace period as a famous person after 15 minutes. The longer sets, if you're not funny there. But the 15 minutes, they're just happy to be this close.

[Josh Wolf]

Right, right.

[Fortune Feimster]

So sometimes it's really hard to tell what's funny and what they're just laughing because.

[Josh Wolf]

Sure.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm Damon Wayans.

[Josh Wolf]

He's underrated as a funny guy.

[Fortune Feimster]

So underrated.

[Josh Wolf]

I was a huge fan as a kid because he was on TV more.

[Fortune Feimster]

But his special, I think he's very underrated.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, no doubt. You're still in la. How's that going? Can you. Can you get up when you wanted to work on.

[Maddie]

Yeah, I mean, I. My last two tours are just so crazy. I did, oh, 100 cities, 150 shows.

[Sam]

I love that.

[Maddie]

You did back to back.

[Josh Wolf]

Wow.

[Sam]

In three years you do the bus or you fly?

[Maddie]

Flew everywhere.

[Sam]

Wow.

[Maddie]

Well, I fly to like go place on like a Thursday and then drive in between till Sunday and then I'll fly home.

[Sam]

You do like runners and stuff and does it. Does it stress you out losing the day or do you leave the night of. Or how do you do it?

[Maddie]

I. If it's changeover, I leave the night before. If it's direct. I'll leave probably morning of but do you mean runners? Like a sprinter man? No, I rent a car. It's just me.

[Josh Wolf]

I do the same putting around.

[Maddie]

Yeah. And Jack's go everywhere she used to but that she got. I wore her out last tour. Yeah, I haven't stopped in three years. So I ended my last. The first tour started at the beginning of 21 year and a half. 100 cities, 150 shows stopped. It went to Toronto for five months to film FUBAR. Filmed a special in between, came back, had a month off, started the new act in the clubs. Another hundred city 150 shows. Ended in May, was in Toronto for another five months filming WOW. Season two.

[Sam]

How long. How long do you have to stay in Toronto? A month?

[Maddie]

Five months?

[Sam]

Five.

[Maddie]

Almost about four and a half.

[Fortune Feimster]

For how many shows is five months, eight episodes.

[Sam]

Is that. That's kind of. So you had to stay there without coming back?

[Maddie]

I mean, I would visit here and there and my wife would come out and stay with me at different times and I would do like some Saturday night. Saturday night shows here and there. But yeah, I got. I just got home the end of September and I was like, holy cow. So my next Tour will start April 1st. Like the theaters, but I'm gonna have to do clubs.

[Fortune Feimster]

I love, love, love how conversational you are on stage. Like, I love watching you. I love watching you perform. It's so if you.

[Josh Wolf]

Have you guys seen in the specials?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. It's so. It's so live.

[Maddie]

I don't do a lot in New York, so.

[Josh Wolf]

Right.

[Sam]

I've seen a lot of your stuff.

[Maddie]

Thank you. I. Yeah, I think for me, I'm just like, let's have a good time, you know, let's just chat and hopefully be funny, you know. And I'm not trying to like, put on this whole like, facade or something. It's kind of what you see is what you get. So everything I'm talking about, it's like stories from my life and talking about, you know, my mom, my wife, just like dumb stuff that's happened to me.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

But yeah, I think. I think it maybe feels very casual because of my accent and I talk slow, so it feels like we're just kind of mosing on stage. Like, what do you guys want here? Let's talk about something.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, but because it's so relatable and because it's your life, it makes it conversational.

[Sam]

Look at that.

[Josh Wolf]

That's great.

[Maddie]

The Beacon.

[Josh Wolf]

Ah.

[Maddie]

The end of this last tour, that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Was that a Vest?

[Josh Wolf]

No.

[Maddie]

What's that?

[Fortune Feimster]

Is that a vest?

[Josh Wolf]

Like a bowling shirt?

[Maddie]

No, it's like a bow. Yeah, it's a bowling shir. It's like a bench shirt, but it definitely looks like a bowling shirt.

[Josh Wolf]

That's a nice shirt.

[Maddie]

Yeah, this. This last tour was really cool.

[Sam]

Walter in the big Le Basket.

[Maddie]

That was me dressing up.

[Sam]

How great is the Beacon?

[Maddie]

Oh, it was one of the best. That one in the Chicago theater were.

[Josh Wolf]

Like, just did it.

[Maddie]

They were bucket list ones for me.

[Josh Wolf]

Incredible. Top five in the country.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Sam]

So cool, man. So how was that show with Arnold? Is that fun?

[Maddie]

Really fun.

[Sam]

Yeah, he's a cool guy.

[Maddie]

Very cool. Yeah, he's. He loves comedians.

[Josh Wolf]

All right.

[Maddie]

Loves. Loves. Just, like, picking up, like, he likes to, you know, rib people, like, his friends.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

Stuff. And they're always talking smack. But he's a very cool guy. Like, we went to Oktoberfest with him in Munich.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

That's great.

[Fortune Feimster]

What a great person to be.

[Maddie]

I know, right? He can't walk 3ft without 100 people descended upon him in Europe. It was wild. But.

[Josh Wolf]

But he with you?

[Maddie]

Oh, yeah. Oh, like, yeah, we. No, no, no. Yeah, he. We're. Yeah, we're buddies.

[Sam]

Wow.

[Maddie]

He's super cool.

[Josh Wolf]

Lesbian bed death.

[Fortune Feimster]

Was that your Arnold?

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. I can't do Precious. I don't know why I went robot.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now I know why you don't do accents.

[Josh Wolf]

Chill out.

[Maddie]

Yeah, I'll do his accent to him all the time. I'll be like, it's Arnold. Let's go.

[Sam]

Come on.

[Josh Wolf]

Get down.

[Fortune Feimster]

Beth and I watch the show. It's a lot of fun, man.

[Maddie]

It's fun. It's like, you know, one of those shows that. It's entertaining.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

Watch for an hour and you don't think about anything. And. Yeah. We've just wrapped season two, so that'll come out, I think, in the spring or something, but nice. I'm like, what I get to do? Like, I'm a CIA agent. I mean, who would have thought you work with Arnold. Yeah. I mean, it's wild. I'm, like, shooting guns and running from explosions.

[Fortune Feimster]

You also get to be a little more sarcastic.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And a bit of that's different than other things that you've got to do.

[Maddie]

Yeah. I'm hitting guys in the nut sack.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Maddie]

It's very bro y. My character is very pro.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

I love it just because it's so different. I was doing sitcoms before that, so it was such a departure, Archer, to get to, like, be shooting Guns. And in that action kind of world.

[Sam]

Are you good with a gun in real life?

[Maddie]

No.

[Fortune Feimster]

Or he's really good. Look at it. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. Hole in one. Wait, Sorry.

[Sam]

Apparently those tickets are flying off the shelf.

[Josh Wolf]

What?

[Sam]

Rust.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, really?

[Sam]

People want to see it.

[Maddie]

Oh, is it coming out?

[Sam]

I think so.

[Maddie]

Look them.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, I'd like to see it. Just for that one scene. Very realistic.

[Sam]

You have to wait till the end. It's one of the bloopers.

[Maddie]

We did go to this. We went to this charity event at Luke Bryan's and they had. You could. They had like a little mini shooting range with these professionals. Everything was very well done. And my wife gets up there. It's one of these guns that shoots from like, you know, a shit ton far away.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

And she. She's just. There's five targets and she goes. I'm like, what is this? Like, she just nailed all five in a row.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, really?

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Just to show you that if you ever leave, no matter how far away you get, she.

[Maddie]

She did not miss if. Five in a row. And this was a long target.

[Josh Wolf]

A lesbian shooter. She's got to go to the wnba. I'm sorry, thank.

[Maddie]

No, we. No, that was a good one.

[Sam]

Oh, dude, I just saw this movie. I got a wreck it. It's called A Different Man. Have you heard of this?

[Maddie]

No.

[Sam]

With Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson. Have you heard of this? Look at this guy, Adam Pearson. He's got this face disorder.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa.

[Sam]

Yeah, that's his real face.

[Josh Wolf]

Holy mo.

[Sam]

Dude, it's.

[Maddie]

I've not heard of this.

[Josh Wolf]

Sorry.

[Maddie]

You got.

[Josh Wolf]

Got it.

[Sam]

No, no, no, no, dude, this movie. This guy Adam Pearson is incredible in the movie.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa.

[Fortune Feimster]

Which one's Adam Pearson?

[Sam]

That guy. And then. Yeah, yeah, it's a good Trump. He played Trump in a movie.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Sam]

It's called A Different Man. It's weird. It's like an A24 movie.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa.

[Fortune Feimster]

What's that condition called?

[Sam]

Neurofibro. Something I pulled up. I don't. I don't know. It's.

[Josh Wolf]

Wow. It's.

[Fortune Feimster]

By the way, if you go in and audition for that role, you either got it or you don't. There's no, like. Well, let's see him again.

[Maddie]

Says benign tumors appear on your face.

[Sam]

Neurofibromis. Yeah, but a lot of people have it and it's not that severe at all. Like, you won't even know they have it. But he has. And his brothers is his twin and he looks totally.

[Maddie]

Oh, really?

[Sam]

He looks totally.

[Maddie]

It says soft pea sized bumps under the skin.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

So maybe for some people it's under the skin. It doesn't.

[Sam]

Yeah, but it's worth checking out the movie. It's pretty cool.

[Josh Wolf]

Is it? It's got sad story.

[Sam]

No, it's the dark comedy.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, wow. All right. Ah, geez. All right, I'm eating here. Good.

[Maddie]

Wow.

[Sam]

Yeah, so it's.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, that looks like me when I'm hungover.

[Sam]

You guys have any peeves?

[Josh Wolf]

I got one.

[Sam]

What do you got?

[Josh Wolf]

I was in a restaurant the other night with the wife. We're having a nice romantic dinner. She's pregnant, so I'm trying to really?

[Maddie]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Josh Wolf]

Seven months.

[Maddie]

That's exciting.

[Josh Wolf]

Thank you. It's not mine, but.

[Maddie]

Maury.

[Josh Wolf]

You don't know me. All right, so we go to this nice dinner and all the tables are taken. I forgot to make a res. And go. We'll sit at the bar. So we sit at the bar, reading at the bar, and we're chit chatting, and the waitress, I mean, the bartender walks over this nice lady, she goes, I was eavesdropping. I gotta say this, this, this, and this. And I'm like, what is that? You just listening to our conversation?

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

That's weird.

[Josh Wolf]

You're spying on us. And then you try to make it a cute thing, like, oh, I. I gotta. I was eavesdropping. I can answer that question. And I'm like, well, what else did you hear? Yeah, you know, the N word. Who knows?

[Maddie]

Like, you know how you get at a bar?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Boobar. I don' for this. I was eavesdropping, like, I was listening. I'm spying on you.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Eavesdropping's a sweet way to say I was listening.

[Maddie]

Yes. And maybe if they're gonna say it, like, say one thing that you heard, but not like here's things.

[Josh Wolf]

Exactly.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

I don't like it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'll give you a restaurant peeve.

[Josh Wolf]

Please.

[Fortune Feimster]

When you. If I sit down at a table and you take that dirty rag that's wet out of the dirty bucket and you wipe my table.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then. Then you don't dry it off so it's just covered with the wet, dirty water.

[Maddie]

That is gross.

[Josh Wolf]

Interesting.

[Maddie]

But we're still going to eat there.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm going to eat there.

[Maddie]

Going to eat there.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's gross, but I'm going to dry it off with my. But that one to me is.

[Maddie]

I mean, if we're. If it's a restaurant situation, another one is if you walk in without a reservation, there's like, 20 empty tables. Like, do you have a reservation? I'm like, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

Really? What?

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

And then they're like, we'll see. Where are we gonna sit? And then it's like the tiny ass table in the corner where you're like this. And you're like, there's like 20 booths here.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Maddie]

I don't know what that's about.

[Josh Wolf]

I've. I've used to be a waiter, and I could answer that.

[Maddie]

Okay, what is that?

[Josh Wolf]

But it's just because either they're short staffed and they can't handle that many tables.

[Maddie]

Okay.

[Josh Wolf]

Or there's sections. So this girl's got six tables, I've got five. But you see four empty, and people are like, what the hell? And you're like, if I take that table, it'll take me an hour to get to you.

[Maddie]

Oh, okay.

[Josh Wolf]

But it's still annoying, right?

[Maddie]

All right.

[Josh Wolf]

On your pee.

[Maddie]

No, I'm glad. I'm glad to see the other side of it. Thank you.

[Sam]

That's a peeve. People making sense. In my op. That's. I got a peeve too. It's. You ever. You ever have a conversation with someone and then you get away, and as you're away, they try to rope you back halfway down the hallway. Well, there's another thing. And I'm like, I'm. I'm by the elephant. I was like, I was this close to getting out. And he was like, he. Something about the Knicks. He was like. He was like, when does this guy come back? And I'm like, yeah, that happened at parties too.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

He's finally gotten out of a conversation. You're like, oh, well, I guess I should check on the sliders over here.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

And then you meet again at the sliders, and you're like, oh, my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

I just tried to walk away from you.

[Josh Wolf]

Hey, that was my out.

[Fortune Feimster]

I just didn't want to say. I'm trying to walk away from you to your face.

[Maddie]

Now we're back in.

[Sam]

Sometimes, though, I. This is when I'm trying to avoid. Like, there's a great Seinfeld episode where George said, when she's just not working. Just always act annoyed and.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Think you're busy. I. I will do this. I'll, like, walk in. I'll just be like, oh, good. I'll just. I'll pull the.

[Josh Wolf]

The.

[Sam]

George is the move.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

I'll do a fake phone call. What the.

[Maddie]

9 11.

[Josh Wolf]

No one stops.

[Sam]

She's pregnant. What the. Oh, my God. I got It.

[Maddie]

I just did a little part in a movie with Will Ferrell that is coming out, I think, in January, and we were filming in Atlanta, and we went to the bar at the hotel, and there was like, no one in there. When we got there, maybe like two people. And. And then all of a sudden, within 30 minutes, there were like, 50 people staring at Will. Sure, he's very popular guy, but he. It was so funny because he was. Was like, once dinner was finished, he's like, how am I gonna get out of here? Because all these people were just, like, staring at him, right? So he picks up his phone, he goes, what's that? What happened to your cat? Oh, no, I gotta take this. He walks out one. Your cat. Oh, my God. And so all these people were like. But he's like, I can't. I'm on the phone.

[Josh Wolf]

I was like, oh, that was a good one.

[Maddie]

Really good.

[Fortune Feimster]

See the doc that. That was on Netflix with him and his friend. Yes, that was fan.

[Josh Wolf]

I heard it's great. I haven't seen. Seen it.

[Sam]

Jim and Carol.

[Fortune Feimster]

What was it called?

[Maddie]

Harper.

[Josh Wolf]

Will and Harper.

[Sam]

Incredible.

[Maddie]

It's really good.

[Sam]

Is that a wreck?

[Josh Wolf]

That's a wreck, baby.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, it.

[Maddie]

It was.

[Fortune Feimster]

It was so good. But there's a scene in that where they go to a restaurant, the two of them, but they're in Texas maybe, and.

[Maddie]

Well, because Will's friend is trans. And so the journey was, like, kind of relearning who my friend is as a trans person and understanding the world and just like, sort of reconnecting his friends and trying to learn and ask questions.

[Fortune Feimster]

And as. As his trans friend, as a man used to take these trips across country, and she wanted to know if it was still. And she liked.

[Maddie]

Still safe to do so.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, she liked going to little tiny rodeos and small diners and dive bars.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But she wanted to know if it was still safe for her to do that as a trans woman. And they sat in this restaurant, and Will Ferrell said, well, he.

[Maddie]

So will. He did a bit where he dressed as Sherlock Holmes.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was it.

[Maddie]

Thinking it would be funny in the restaurant. And. And they sat them in, like, a table in the middle of everyone. And the. The hate coming their way was palpable, really. And Will, you could see him in. In this crazy, crazy costume realizing, like, the reality of the situation and that being silly and funny wasn't good.

[Fortune Feimster]

Even said that after we did. I've been in the public eye forever. I've never felt more stared at. It was a great. It was A great. It was a really cool story.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, that would be funny if they came up, they're like, we don't hate her. We're more mad about Blades of Glory. Semi Pro sucked, but damn, that's crazy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Very funny.

[Josh Wolf]

It's very fun. I do, too. Needed an example. Tall Deca Knights was great as well.

[Sam]

It's hard to pull bad ones.

[Josh Wolf]

Semi Pro was. Was forced.

[Sam]

Semi Pro was not my fave. And we watched it on the tour bus last year.

[Maddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Sam]

We all kind of got a pick. And James, who directed my special, was like, you guys are going to love Semi Pros basketball. And Veter. And I kind of looked at each other like, you lost a lot of credibility. And I love Will Ferrell, but it's just not a lot of misses in.

[Josh Wolf]

Saw him on the street about a month ago on Bleecker street, and he was full jogging. He had the jogging shorts, the sneakers on the tank top, and he was just getting a stride. I went, well. And he went. And that was it.

[Maddie]

He's got to be so. I mean, he's got to be one of the most recognized.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, yeah, right. He's tall, curly hair. Yeah. Big guy.

[Sam]

I was in LA for like, just a week last time I was there, and I was staying downtown and you got access to that equinox in the hotel. So I was just in there and it's like, fucking Will Ferrell.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. Crazy.

[Fortune Feimster]

He seems like the type of dude, and I don't know him at all, but that would. Is gonna say hello if you say hello.

[Maddie]

Yeah. He's so nice.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, he gave me a.

[Sam]

How was the movie you're doing with him? Was that fun?

[Maddie]

Yeah, I only did a. I was only there for a few days. It's him and Reese Witherspoon.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did you get to. In the scene. Did you have a scene with him?

[Maddie]

Yeah, we got to improvise quite a bit. I'm only in, like, two scenes, I think, but. And probably a lot of that is on the cutting room floor. But it was just so cool to like, sit there and bounce stuff off of him.

[Josh Wolf]

Sure.

[Fortune Feimster]

How does he work with that? He. Do you do it as written first, and then you're like, hey, let's just around.

[Maddie]

Yeah. Do it as written first and then just kind of go nuts. A couple takes.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's got to be a dream.

[Maddie]

But, you know, he plays those very serious.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes.

[Maddie]

Characters, so it's kind of. You have to try not to break because he's just looking at you, like, very intensely. But so fun. And cool. And I was like, coming from the gym when he was going to set, and he rolled his window down and stuck his head out the window and was like, I'll see you later.

[Josh Wolf]

He's just like, that's great.

[Maddie]

There's always bits, you know, this is.

[Josh Wolf]

I mean, this is one of the funniest scenes of all time.

[Sam]

One of the best characters ever.

[Maddie]

Oh, is that Eastbound?

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, yeah, I know. I can.

[Sam]

I can feel it all the way down in my plum.

[Maddie]

You're a plus.

[Josh Wolf]

Light blue hue to him. Fresh and juicy red fruit.

[Sam]

Hey, that plum looks good. Could I trade it for your Twinkie?

[Josh Wolf]

No, these are my. None of this is written.

[Maddie]

He's just going, yeah, for sure.

[Sam]

Putting him in an R rated scenario is almost.

[Maddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Sam]

Like how you keep a straight face.

[Maddie]

Talladega Knights was brilliant. I want to pray to the baby Jesus. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

I saw Anchorman in college with friends at the theater. It blew our face.

[Maddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Sam]

That experience. I know. Like, part of it.

[Fortune Feimster]

The theater experience.

[Sam]

Yeah, I know. Part of it is why we're all able to sell tickets on the road. So you got to be grateful that people are coming to see stand up. But, like, I do kind of miss.

[Maddie]

I miss that.

[Sam]

I remember seeing the Hangover in the theater being like, this was fucking awesome.

[Josh Wolf]

Amazing.

[Fortune Feimster]

What do you think the hardest you've laughed in a theater? Do you remember?

[Josh Wolf]

Yes. Well, I don't want to cut you off. No.

[Fortune Feimster]

Was yours.

[Josh Wolf]

I saw American Pie, which is not the funniest movie of all time, but I saw it in a black theater and it was insane. It was like the commentary was killing more than the movie and we were all in for it, you know, like when they showed the pie that was all mangled from it, and some black guy yelled, damn. He tore that up. And, I mean, popcorn flew in the air. Everybody was dying. It was. It was the funniest thing.

[Sam]

Why has there not been black mistakes? Mystery Science Theater.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, that's a.

[Sam]

That's a million dollar idea, right?

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, that's brilliant. Yeah, I love it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think Tropic Thunder.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, that was a big one.

[Fortune Feimster]

Tropic Thunder. Those first 15 minutes in the movie.

[Sam]

Trailers, that was big.

[Fortune Feimster]

Was like huge, crazy, funny.

[Maddie]

Zoolander1.

[Josh Wolf]

Zoolander1's unreal.

[Maddie]

That was unbelievable. And for a. A female comic. Bridesmaid killed me. That was a good one in the theaters.

[Sam]

I love that one. I'll say. There's something about Mary.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes.

[Sam]

And because I was a kid and like, all those dirty jokes kill me. And then. Yeah. Incredible. And so many jokes. But this is a weird one. But Nutty Professor I was not a thing. My dad watched my dad, who's like a polished lawyer lose his shit. Eddie Murphy just farting is multiple characters. I'm like, this is fucking crazy.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think the, the, the craziest theater. Two craziest theater experiences I ever had. One was Blair Witch because we had never seen anything like it. And you walked out of there like, wait, was that what real? But also the same thing was the first Jackass.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, great one.

[Sam]

That's a big laugh.

[Fortune Feimster]

We, we were in there like. And we had never seen anything like it. In that first opening scene with them just punching each other in the face was just like it. The whole feeling theater on both of those was such a huge. But Blair Witch walking out of there, people didn't know if they were supposed to like it, if they were supposed to be worried. The, the, that type of shooting had never we seen before.

[Josh Wolf]

It's similar to comedy. It's very, it's a big reaction from the audience. You're. You're on the edge of your seat. I saw Borat in the theater and it was that when he ran through naked with the fat guy. Oh man, the place went nuts.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Maybe it'll come back. I don't know.

[Josh Wolf]

And then you talked about the movies, remember after somehow, maybe Mary was like. You see something about Mary?

[Maddie]

How about this scene?

[Josh Wolf]

And that's even when they zipped it up and. Oh, that was crazy. And then the, the Brett Favre showed up at the end.

[Sam]

Yeah. When's the last time you quoted a movie to it?

[Josh Wolf]

Exactly. Those days are over.

[Maddie]

I know that's a bummer though, because that shared experience made the movie even.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes, well, now we have memes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Comedies aren't bringing people to the theater. You got. It's got to be like a 200.

[Maddie]

Million dollar if it's gonna have comedy and it has to have action in it.

[Sam]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but aren't you sick of seeing the same fucking trailer again and again?

[Maddie]

Well, yeah, of course.

[Sam]

How many times they're going to make the husband and wife who both kick ass movie. Oh, it's like, all right, we get it. You guys are like former assassins. I've seen this 400 fucking times.

[Josh Wolf]

This trailer go back to the old ways where the husband would beat the wife. That was a movie.

[Maddie]

Oh, we all missed those.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, or the old sitcoms where it was like, how'd that fat dude get that beautiful? Like it was always so, like still.

[Maddie]

Happening.

[Fortune Feimster]

This is what I don't believe. Yeah, there you go.

[Josh Wolf]

He's a UPS driver, and he's bagging this hot Italian broad.

[Fortune Feimster]

Chance that that's happening.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Damn. RIP Jerry Stiller.

[Josh Wolf]

Come on, Legend.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

RIP Aaliyah Remini's Scientology career.

[Maddie]

Remini.

[Fortune Feimster]

Remini.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, sorry.

[Maddie]

Remini.

[Josh Wolf]

Hey, I've only read it. I've never heard of it.

[Sam]

That was a aggressive fact.

[Josh Wolf]

That's not a.

[Maddie]

Hey.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's not how you pronounce her name. Not offended. That's not how you say it.

[Josh Wolf]

He's a dirty guinea. Yeah, it's greasy and it's dirty. They go both ways.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

All right, I think we got to.

[Sam]

Wrap this up, plug some. You both have new specials out. Where can we find you guys? Not just specials, but tour dates.

[Fortune Feimster]

Go ahead, Fortune.

[Maddie]

I. My third hour on Netflix just premiered December 3rd. It was called. It's called Crowd Crushing It. I wear a pink suit. I mean, come on. That's reason enough to tune in.

[Josh Wolf]

You gotta watch.

[Maddie]

Yeah. So that one's really fun. Check that out on Netflix. And, yeah, I'm starting a whole new tour, so I'm in club dates right now, kind of just working out material. And then the theaters start April 1st, so.

[Josh Wolf]

Hell, yeah.

[Maddie]

Look at all these FortuneFemster.com.

[Fortune Feimster]

Maybe I should have gone first.

[Maddie]

Definitely watch my special. Special. Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I'm not funny, guys.

[Josh Wolf]

Well, lesbians.

[Maddie]

Lesbians don't count as female.

[Fortune Feimster]

I. My specials on YouTube. I've always put my specials on.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah, you're a pioneer.

[Sam]

Before I put my first special on YouTube, my agent was like, you should see what Josh.

[Josh Wolf]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

You and I talked on the phone.

[Josh Wolf]

We did.

[Fortune Feimster]

You were like, what do you think about putting it on YouTube?

[Josh Wolf]

I was intrigued by it.

[Fortune Feimster]

So my. This special is actually. I'm so proud of it, because here's a couple things that I want to do different. I didn't do any wide shots. The people coming in didn't know, most of them. That it was a special.

[Josh Wolf]

Whoa.

[Maddie]

Oh, wow. Really?

[Fortune Feimster]

I feel pretty authentic to a comedy show experience all close up. Right. And I didn't edit. This is one.

[Josh Wolf]

What?

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. So I had to kick somebody out. Ooh. I kept it in.

[Josh Wolf]

Nice.

[Fortune Feimster]

I kept all of. I kept everything in because I wanted it to feel like it. Real, authentic show. And I did exactly how the owner.

[Sam]

Stiffed you at the end. You kept that end.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right.

[Sam]

Authentic.

[Josh Wolf]

Will Smith slapped you.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I did something. Look, it's called Four Stories Because I tell long stories. And so I wanted it. My people were like, you can't just tell four stories. I'm like, but this is what.

[Josh Wolf]

I. Fuck your people.

[Fortune Feimster]

So I just do what you do, man. But it's four stories. If you like stories. And that's the kind of comedy you like. This is a great special, man.

[Sam]

Awesome. Check it out.

[Fortune Feimster]

So four stories, comedy.

[Josh Wolf]

Your old stuff is like 18 million. It's crazy views before anyone else was getting those numbers.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, man. Well, I appreciate that. And I'm. I'm all over on the road. I know. I'm. I tour with my son now.

[Josh Wolf]

O.

[Fortune Feimster]

He opens for me.

[Sam]

Wow.

[Maddie]

It's keeping that money in that family.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right. I take 10%. But it's so much fun. He opens, he tells stories about me. I do my stand up. And because so much of my stories have been about him in the past, he. He and I do a Q A and it's a ton of fun. Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

So, yeah, it's been. This is the most fun I've ever had on stage. Just traveling around with him. It's.

[Josh Wolf]

How old is he?

[Fortune Feimster]

He's 27.

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, he's 27.

[Fortune Feimster]

I got five grandkids, dude.

[Sam]

Whoa.

[Maddie]

I know. Can you believe it?

[Josh Wolf]

Oh, you're white.

[Sam]

You're a fucking guilf.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

He sure is. Grandpa over there.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh Wolf]

Insane.

[Fortune Feimster]

But. But yeah. Yeah, but it's a ton of fun if you like. And the show, right?

[Maddie]

Oh, you're talking about. Oh, his wife is hot too. She's.

[Josh Wolf]

Pull her up.

[Maddie]

She's definitely there.

[Sam]

You guys are both keeping it.

[Maddie]

Yeah.

[Sam]

Together. It's crazy.

[Josh Wolf]

How do you do it? What's the secret?

[Fortune Feimster]

I.

[Maddie]

You work out.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I work out. I. I live.

[Maddie]

You eat right.

[Fortune Feimster]

In Vegas is so stress free.

[Josh Wolf]

So sober.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Look at. Look at her.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Sam]

I've never heard about anyone being stressed in Vegas.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't get. I'm not.

[Josh Wolf]

I don't care.

[Maddie]

Holy Moses, that's hot.

[Josh Wolf]

Hubba hubba. DSLs.

[Maddie]

And she.

[Josh Wolf]

Lord, well done. Jeez, that's unbelievable. Kudos.

[Fortune Feimster]

She's also a writer. Director, man. She's got a movie set up on Netflix right now. Hey, so with the DSLs.

[Josh Wolf]

You got that right.

[Fortune Feimster]

Thank you very much.

[Josh Wolf]

Mama. It's all over the road, Mama.

[Sam]

Josh wolf.com comedian josh.com wolf.com yep. Check them out. Over the road, Mark.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah. And Four Stories is a special. I'm going back to the clubs as well to polish this hour. Houston Improv, Dallas Improv, Phoenix. Stand up Live. Then we're doing the Ryman. Hey, that's in Nashville theater. Yeah, I'm excited about that one.

[Sam]

One of the best in the world.

[Josh Wolf]

Hopefully we can sell that out. Then. The baby's coming, so I'm tired. Taking off, but.

[Maddie]

Oh, how long are you taking off?

[Josh Wolf]

I'll probably take, like, two months.

[Maddie]

Okay.

[Josh Wolf]

Really get to know that. Yeah.

[Maddie]

A little time with your.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, two months.

[Sam]

Not your child clubs to warm up for theaters here. We got San Antonio January 3rd and 4th, and we got Liberty Township, Ohio. Then we got Pittsburgh in January. And then it's all theaters pretty much here on now we're going, you know, Charlotte, Richmond, Bethlehem, on and on. But Austin, Dallas, Tulsa, Houston. Houston. Samuel.com shows it. I'm coming to your city. And if you don't see it there now, it'll be in the fall.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I love the tabernacle.

[Sam]

So good. Atlanta rules. I love it. Yeah. So many great cities that I'm hidden. So I can't wait to come and buy Bodega Cat Whiskey. BodegaCatWhiskey.com People are loving it. We're making waves. Peter Luger Steakhouse, strip house everywhere.

[Maddie]

You are nice. So is it in here?

[Sam]

It's here. Yeah. Comedy.

[Maddie]

The paper planes.

[Sam]

Yes. You're drinking.

[Josh Wolf]

I believe it.

[Maddie]

Not as tasty.

[Josh Wolf]

It's in you.

[Maddie]

Comedy in me right now.

[Sam]

Comedy sellers going through like, 15, 20 cases a week of this.

[Maddie]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Josh Wolf]

Selling out.

[Sam]

We're cooking with this.

[Maddie]

So good job, guys.

[Sam]

Love you guys for getting it. And yeah, check out Fortune and Josh's stuff. Both very funny people. And. And keep. Keep listening to the pod.

[Josh Wolf]

Yeah.

[Maddie]

Thanks for having us.

[Josh Wolf]

You're a lesbian with the U haul. You're back on the bus. U haul. On that note, we'll be right back.

[Maddie]

Like, let me get this one.

[Josh Wolf]

That Jew haul joke.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sunday's the day for my next. You know, the future's close. I've had a little too much burping. And Norman's talking about the poke and I get down in the same way up on the roof like a cops coming and naked Samuel is feeling dangerous. I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans. This woman doesn't look like I remember.

[Maddie]

Her And I get down in the same way.

[Fortune Feimster]

We might be true.