Tom Papa Is Doing Great!

The Last Laugh

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tom Papa might be best known for his longtime friendship with Jerry Seinfeld. But on this week’s episode he demonstrates that he has much more to offer. Tom talks about why he called his latest Netflix special ‘You’re Doing Great!’ and the various ups and downs of his career, from the crazy experience of hosting ‘The Marriage Ref’ to the way NBC may have used his sitcom ‘Come to Papa’ as an audition for Steve Carell to lead ‘The Office’ and a lot more.

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0:00.0	But thank you for coming out. You look beautiful. I hope you're doing all right. You look happy.
0:04.2	You travel the whole country and everybody's freaking out. Everywhere I go, people are doing deep yoga breaths in the airport.
0:11.5	They're downloading meditation apps on their phone just trying to keep it together.
0:17.8	Calm down. You're doing great. You're doing great.
0:22.6	I'm telling you, you're doing great.
0:23.7	Life isn't perfect.
0:25.9	It never was, and it never will be.
0:27.4	We all got stuff to deal with.
0:28.1	You're doing great.
0:29.5	So what, you're fat?
0:30.2	Who cares?
0:35.6	We're all fat.
0:39.5	You're either really fat, kind of fat, or trying not to be fat.
0:46.8	No, life isn't perfect, but this conversation with Tompapa is pretty close.
0:48.3	It's the last laugh.
0:50.2	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:55.2	I didn't totally know what to expect when I invited stand-up comedian Tom Papa to be my guest on this week's show, but I have to say that it turned out to be one of the most
0:59.4	fun and rewarding episodes we've done so far. Tom got his start doing stand-up in New York in the
1:05.4	mid-to-late 90s, but his career really took off when he befriended Jerry Seinfeld, who took
1:10.8	him on tour as his opener and later made him the host of the short-lived but huge deal at the time NBC show The Marriage Ref.
1:18.2	But as Tom demonstrates in our conversation, he is so much more than Jerry Seinfeld's friend.
1:24.7	Not only has he become a fantastic stand-up in his own right, but he has taken his career
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