The Most Dangerous Impractical Jokers Stunt EVER

This is Google's most searched questions for Joe Gatto. Let's go film off there, Joe. Let's see. So first one, am I supposed to guess what they are? No, no. Just pull them off and answer. OK. So I have to answer them. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got to find a better way for this. OK. What's Joe Gatto doing now? A podcast. That one was easy. Yeah, that's easy. He's here with Jason Nash. OK. Here we go. What does Joe Gatto do for a living? That's kind of cool. That's a cool one. That's a good question. Well, I would someone ask that. Isn't it clear you're a comedian? I mean, if you Google me. The guy's a master prankster television star. I'm an entertainer, if you will. Yeah. I make people laugh for a living. I live to make people laugh. That's one of my sayings. Maybe they think that since you're not on the show anymore, what are you doing now? I'm probably still working in Nordstrom's. I've got to go pick up a shift here. Are we done? I've got to get over the grove. I don't know why it's so funny. We're going to go to the grove. We should go shopping. I would. What are Joe Gatto's dog's names? Oh, how much time do we have? Oh, you're like really into dogs. You wrote a book about your dogs, right? The Dogfather. I got 24 dogs in New York. What's the book about? It's about, it's basically, it was a project I did during COVID. I'm big into amateur photography, too. So I took some pictures. You're everywhere. Yeah, I shared about, I wanted to make a book. So I did a book on Amazon called The Dogfather. My love of dogs, desserts, and growing up Italian. Yeah. It tells a story about my dogs and whatnot. But I got, yeah, I do a lot of rescue. I have the Gatto Pups. What's your favorite dog you had in your life? Biscotti. She's my girl. She's my first rescue. Her and Spumoni, they're tied. Yeah. They were all named after Italian pastas and desserts because that's on brand for me. Like, they're all the pasta dishes. And then there's Penny Vodka. Yeah. It wouldn't make sense if they were named after workout routines. Push-ups, sit-ups, treadmill, nothing. Yeah, I got, you know, my favorite first one was Canoli. Canoli. Yeah, so I had Canoli, Biscotti, Spumoni, Napoleon, Tartufo, Tiramisu, the brother and sister, Fettuccine, Alfredo. I got them all. Are they all little dogs? Mostly, yeah. I got a couple of big ones, but most of them are small. Yeah. That's cool. Those are my dogs. You don't have enough time for all of them. What is Joe Gatto Traffic Cam Live? That was my first foray into social media, really. I did a thing where I used to put on Periscope. Do you remember Periscope? Yeah. It was Twitter's live thing. I used to turn it on while I was driving, and I would answer questions, sing and dance while I was sitting in traffic. Really? Yeah, that's Traffic Cam Live. That was it. What happened to Periscope? Did they end it? It's gone. It's kind of weird. Yeah. Who is replacing Joe Gatto? No one. No one could replace Joe Gatto. Nobody. Who is Joe Gatto's best friend? Oh, that's tough. I will say my best friend in life is probably Jason Joseph. He was my first friend I ever made. Yeah, I was two, he was one. He moved next door to me. Do you think it's important to maintain friendships from your childhood? I do. I'm not friends with anybody from my childhood. Well, some of them are worth ----, and that's not on you. It's their fault. They were dumb. They were dumb friendships. I think friendships are like seasons. They come and go. But I think there are a couple that you should hold on to. What happens on Facebook with you? Do a lot of people reach out and talk? I don't even look at it. You don't look at it. Yeah, I don't look at it. Someone said to me the other day, they go, how come you're not on Facebook? You didn't see my Facebook message? No, I didn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I go, what? I mean, messaging for me is pretty ruined because everybody is like, oh, yeah, you know. So, but I don't really use Facebook. Can you say hi to my friends? Stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How is Joe Gatto doing now? What kind of question? Who would type that in there? I get that a lot. It's like, Joe, how are you? Joe, I know you're going through some stuff. How are you? I'm like, good, Mabel, from Iowa. I'm good. Thank you for asking. That's what people do to make themselves feel better. They go, oh, this person is going through something. Let me make it about them. I would say I'm doing OK. Yeah, I'm just doing OK. I'm just doing OK. I'm doing OK, day by day. Isn't that something, too, when you're in the public eye and people just assume that you're ******* so happy and that you're rich and that, like, everything. I mean, we're barely hanging on by a thread here. And you know, and it's like, it really is something. I think people just don't understand that if you have some kind of, they assume if you have some kind of visibility that you're happy and fulfilled and. Yeah, well, I have this weird thing because I don't play a character on TV, right? I'm me. So people really feel like they know me, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, look, there's that fat asshole. Like, I get that all the time. You know, like, it's like, oh, you're not as fat as you look on TV. Thanks so much. Appreciate that. You know, I'm not Chandler. You know, I'm Joe. You know what I mean? So it's like, you get that of it. And now that. And you're more approachable than Chandler. 100%. You wouldn't walk up to Matthew Perry, but I would walk up to you. I get approached all the time, and it's part of it. I love it. I love my fans. I tried to walk up to you guys in Spider-Man once. Did you? I have a picture with you guys and my son. Really? Yeah. And I, and it wasn't you, but it was maybe one of the other guys. And I, and I, and I think, I think I was, came on way too strong. Oh, really? Yeah. You seem very, you seem like you wouldn't have done that. No, no, no. You should see me. I'm terrible with celebrities. I freak out. I do, too. Because I didn't get famous until I was 34, 36 years old. Right. You're already the person you are. Like, I'm a fan of fans. Like, I'm a fan of them. Yeah, me too. I was like, I freaked the ---- out all the time. I did some terrible things when I was younger. When I'm on the red carpet, I'll tell you what I do here on the red carpet. I go to, I go to the movie premieres to hang on the red carpet. I don't ever go into the theater. I don't even go watch a movie, really. I'd stand out in the corner to see as the people come down, and I'll pop out. And like, hey, oh, oh, oh, I pretend I came out at the same time. I'm the king of that ----. And like, ha, ha, ha. You did it with Clooney. I do, dude. I did the Clooney. I pull the Clooney all the time on carpets. That's what I do all the time. I weasel my way into so many. Yeah, one time I was at a movie at the Grove a long time ago, and I wrote a script. And I'm so embarrassed. I walked up to Jason Alexander, and I asked him if I could send him the script. Yeah, it was really. Oh, well, hey, you're a hustler. That's what we love about you. Yeah, yeah, it's a, and do you know what he said? No. That's great. I love that for him. Sorry, Jason Alexander. That was my bad. You did the right thing. You tried. How did Joe Gatta lose weight? I'll let you know. I didn't. Massive depression. Did you lose weight? Well, here's the thing. At my biggest, I was 225. And the show was in high definition. I was like, I got to do something about that. I almost died, literally, when we were filming one of them. They made us do this thing for the Nitro Circus, where we had to do, like, every 100th episode. I used to see you guys advertise with the Nitro Circus. Right, we did this 200th episode, where we did this whole thing with the Nitro Circus. So I went first, because I had to set the tones. I go first. My minibike breaks down, so I'm like, I'll just run it. So I run as fast as I can. It's live TV, and I just run it. And I literally almost have a heart attack. And they had to take me underneath. And during it, I'm trying to recuperate during the whole thing. I'm literally with doctors. They had me on oxygen. I'm underneath the thing. And I was like, I got to do something here. So then I just stopped, and I got a flu after that. And I lost, like, six pounds. And I just grabbed onto the frigging, you know, the tailwind, and I just was like, I'll lose weight here. So I lost 10 pounds through the flu, and I just lost another 16. And is that why you're a vegetarian? Yeah, well, no, I got into that. I tried to undo some of the damage I've done being a fat Italian my whole life. And yeah, I just kind of just was like, I weigh in around 195-ish now, and that's where I hang out. But there's a lot of footage of me being on TV at like 225, so. Really? You can't tell. How old is Joe Gatto from Impractical Jokers? I'm 46. When I was from Impractical Jokers, I was only 45. So I guess that ends there. You're younger than me. How much does Joe Gatto make per episode? Oh, good question. And Joe's going to tell us. Per episode, if you broke it down, I made a little bit over minimum wage. It was great. It's basic cable, guys. Basic cable. So you made your money outside of the show. The touring was nice. The touring. The touring was good. Yeah, we ended up, you know, when you go that many seasons, you end up being able to renegotiate enough, you know? But in the beginning, like, it was ridiculous. We were making like, there was people who were making, there was more people on the show for the first three seasons making more than us than there were. Okay, let's play a game. You don't have to tell me how much you made on a night of touring, but tell me how many seats you would play. How many seats? And I'll tell them how much you made. Oh, you mean how many people were in the theater? Yeah. Oh, when we were doing like the Jokers tour and it's more, I mean, we played Madison Square Garden, right? We were playing 16,000 people. You played the garden? Yeah, I played the garden. Oh, I can't do that, man. Yeah, we played the O2. Yeah, we played arenas. You did? It's an arena level, yeah. What's that like? Fun. I'll tell you. What kind of show was it? Was it? A multimedia mix. So it was a mix of stories together, but we also did a lot of video stuff, too, where we'd throw and do stuff. It was a nice, it was a fun format. Fun format. Doesn't it cost like $400,000 to rent the garden? It's insane. We made the least money at the garden. They made more money off us than we did. Yeah, I mean, the garden's like, when we play, the most money you make is normally like a good-sized theater where you're able to do two shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the second show's where you really make your money, you know, if you're able to have a second show. 3,000, more than that? Yeah. Around there? Yeah. That's fun.