Comedy legends and total foodies Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan break down the best places to eat and explore at each stop on their upcoming tour across the U.S. and Canada. From Jim's deep knowledge of local scenes (poutine and runza, anyone?!) to Jerry declaring "the best pizza in America," the two funnymen dish on their top-picks and deliver even more "fun and cute" banter about dad life on the road together.
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00:00This is a map, I don't know if you're familiar, this is the United States.
00:04Do you find the basic shape of the Continental 48 pleasing in itself?
00:11Yeah, if your state has a unique shape, like I love Colorado. Colorado is an amazing place,
00:17but like if everyone wants a wooden cutting board of their state, Colorado is just a square.
00:27All right.
00:27All right.
00:28So anyway, welcome back to Good Morning with Jim and Jerry.
00:32This is what a morning show should be.
00:34Just two guys and a map.
00:36Tell us where you're from and we'll point it out for you.
00:40You know, Jerry, I cannot look at a map without considering where I'm going to eat.
00:46That's just how I view things.
00:48So we're going back on tour and we're going to show you the places we're going,
00:53and we're going to also do some fun, cute banter.
00:57We are starting in the great north, in Toronto.
01:05You ever had a namano bar?
01:10No.
01:11See, I'm good at this stuff, right?
01:13I love the word Quebecois, though. It's one of my favorite words.
01:16It's amazing.
01:19So Montreal, we know they have the poutine or poutine.
01:24Yeah.
01:25And Ottawa has their own version of poutine, which is just got a squeakier cheese.
01:31Ottawa is how I made enough money to move from New York to L.A. when I was 25.
01:37Really?
01:37Yeah, I went to Ottawa and there was a club there called Hiccups
01:41that paid $500 a week for like 12 shows.
01:45And I kept going there and then I saved up $2,000.
01:50And that's how I moved to L.A.
01:51Wow.
01:52And got into television.
01:54Do you know why we're here? To be out. This is out.
01:58And out is one of the single most enjoyable experiences of life.
02:02People, you know how we have people talk about we should go out?
02:04This is what they're talking about.
02:06Why are Canadians such an exceptional audience?
02:10The colder the weather, the better the audience.
02:13Yeah.
02:13Because if it's cold, you're going to stay in more,
02:16you're going to read more, you're going to be smarter.
02:19Okay, so that's one leg, right?
02:22Okay, I have no idea where we're going.
02:25I don't care where I go.
02:26You just want to be with me.
02:28Yeah.
02:29The greatest thing in comedy is making people happy.
02:33That's the reason you do it.
02:34If people laugh and they smile and you've made them happy,
02:37that is why you do it.
02:38But the second greatest thing is hanging out with other comedians.
02:42That's the other gigantic component, which is why I did my show.
02:46And that's how we met.
02:47Yeah.
02:47The Comedians in Cars show.
02:49Hi, Jerry.
02:50How are you?
02:51Fresh and sweet.
02:53I showered for this.
02:55But these are great cities.
02:56So Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal.
02:59I think, got to get poutine, got to get smoked meat.
03:03What is poutine?
03:04Poutine is French fries.
03:06This is not the guy who attacked Ukraine, is it?
03:08No, well, it's...
03:10I don't want any of that.
03:12Yeah.
03:12Well, it is kind of a weird dish.
03:14It's like French fries, gravy, and cheese curds.
03:18And then the smoked meat.
03:20I think the fact that the Canadians, they call it smoked meat.
03:23It's so good, they don't even have to tell you what meat it is.
03:25Wow.
03:26They're like, it's just smoked meat.
03:28This is what I really love about going out with you.
03:30The food is so good.
03:32You know the best food everywhere.
03:34We got to do it.
03:35Yeah.
03:35We got to do it.
03:36Now, there's different rituals.
03:38So like we...
03:39I don't do what you do.
03:40I will go out to dinner after a show.
03:44And when you go on tour, you'll do breakfast.
03:48Yeah, I like breakfast and lunch.
03:50And then I don't usually eat after that.
03:52And so then...
03:53So we're marrying these two traditions together.
03:57But Jim Gaffigan has done tours with his family.
04:00Yes.
04:01I don't understand how...
04:02And he's done it in RVs.
04:04You did that to test yourself in some way.
04:08Yeah, well, some of it is, you know...
04:11What did you want them to experience?
04:13Some of it is, I wanted to do sets.
04:16And I also didn't want to be away from them.
04:19But there is an unnecessary amount of stress
04:23that you put yourself in when you bring your family.
04:26It's just not their priority.
04:28And it shouldn't be.
04:29So when you're like, all right, I know you guys want to go to Disney.
04:33But I don't want to go because I have a show.
04:35They're like, why don't you just come for half a day?
04:37And you're like, I can't do that.
04:39I think that with comedians,
04:41fondness makes the heart grow fonder.
04:44I don't think it's...
04:46I don't know if you got that quite right.
04:47But I said it with the right intonation.
04:50You had the right intonation.
04:51But I don't think fondness makes the heart grow fonder.
04:55I don't think that's it.
04:56Distance.
04:57Yeah.
04:57Distance makes that.
04:59Distance makes you further away, would be the corollary to that.
05:04But I think...
05:04But with my family, I remember my kid being 10 saying to me,
05:09Dad, do you like what you do?
05:10Yeah.
05:11I remember thinking that they wanted to know that I liked it.
05:15I thought that was kind of interesting kid perspective on dads.
05:20Why are you doing this?
05:21And do you like doing it?
05:23And I also remember my son asking my wife, does dad like anything?
05:28I was complaining about a cup holder in the car.
05:32Yeah.
05:32And my kid says, Mom, does dad like anything?
05:35I go, one thing, you.
05:38Yeah.
05:38That was a sweet moment.
05:42Another leg is Toledo.
05:45What's in Toledo?
05:47Tony Paco's.
05:48Okay.
05:49Toledo, not only the home of Jamie Farr from MASH and also Katie Holmes,
05:54but Toledo, all these Hungarian immigrants went and settled in the upper Midwest.
06:01And so they have a hot dog place.
06:03I call this the hot dog alley.
06:06But it's like, so Tony Paco's, you go there and you sign a hot dog bun.
06:10You got to go and sign a hot dog.
06:12Great.
06:12I love it.
06:13This whole thing is sponsored by Ozempic, isn't it?
06:17And so then we're also going to Columbus.
06:22Columbus is this, I think I can think of Columbus as this new great American city.
06:28Obviously, it's a capital.
06:29It's a very happening city.
06:31As a Midwesterner, you go there and you're like, wow,
06:33there's Midwestern cities that are struggling.
06:36And then there's Midwestern cities that are thriving.
06:38As we find all over the world.
06:40There are places doing well and others less well.
06:43Most comedians would say that you and I love it more than anybody else that I've ever met.
06:51There is nothing.
06:53The planes, the airports, the hotels, the cars, the theaters, the crappy clubs.
07:02I have always liked every single bit of it.
07:06You too.
07:06Yeah.
07:07And I think, well, it's also evolved.
07:09I think that it's because I remember I said to Steve Martin.
07:14Now it sounds like I go, I like traveling.
07:16And he goes, that's because you're getting paid.
07:19There is a certain there's a solitary side to it.
07:23I'm not saying I like airports, but I like airports.
07:28I actually like this.
07:31Oh, the traveling.
07:32I like just being bounced around like this for hours and hours.
07:37I like being shaken.
07:39And I like things going by.
07:41I really calms me.
07:43This is how we would compete.
07:45You get to the airport.
07:46Your flight is delayed three hours.
07:48That doesn't bother me at all.
07:51It doesn't.
07:51No, I don't care.
07:52You're a robot, though.
07:54I am.
07:55Yeah.
07:55Once I touch that bag in my closet that's coming, the bag where I start packing.
08:03I just click.
08:04By the way, I would say that I'm very proud of how I can pack very well.
08:10You're pretty robot yourself, by the way.
08:12You keep calling me robot.
08:14No, no, no.
08:14It's the same.
08:15We're cut from the same cloth.
08:16You're the guy that has the bag with you with material in it.
08:20Oh, no.
08:21I'm the most anal retentive writer that has ever existed.
08:25Like I have to carry my notes with me.
08:28I've always been that type of person that's like had to do my homework or had to study
08:32for a test.
08:33So I don't have any shame in kind of the mystique.
08:36Do you use a keyboard for your stuff?
08:38I do.
08:38Oh, I don't like that.
08:39I know.
08:40You're a handwriter.
08:40Yeah, I love penmanship.
08:42Yeah.
08:43No, I just because I think that I don't know if it's dyslexia or whatever, but I'll write
08:49something and then I'll have to change the words almost immediately.
08:52Right.
08:53Oh, interesting.
08:54And I verbally will say more complete sentences.
08:59But when I write things down, the connection from my brain, I'm like, duh, duh.
09:04You know, it's just there's like it doesn't come out of here.
09:08It comes out of here.
09:12So we are also going to Charlotte, North Carolina.
09:16And so I go below the Mason-Dixon line and I just start thinking about barbecue.
09:21But Charlotte is also the home of Krispy Kreme.
09:25Now, you have a tradition when you get done with a big project where you have
09:29donuts and champagne.
09:30That's how I celebrate.
09:31Yeah.
09:32It was after I did the Comedians in Cars episode with Obama at the White House.
09:38Yeah.
09:38And I got to do a comedy bit in the Oval Office outside the window.
09:43And I thought that might have been the greatest moment of my life.
09:48You ready?
09:49I got some stuff to do.
09:50I mean, has a comedian ever done a comedy bit in the Oval Office?
09:54Are these washed?
09:58So that was great.
09:58So I called my wife.
09:59I said, I want to celebrate.
10:01How do we celebrate?
10:03And I think it's two great things, champagne and donuts.
10:06Oh, it's a perfect.
10:08It's too sweet on both ends.
10:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:11But I like a local donut.
10:15There's something about things that are under glass and they pedestal.
10:20That pedestal.
10:21And they pedestal.
10:23That pedestal.
10:24So it's like even closer to your mouth than a plate.
10:29I'm really excited because outside of Omaha.
10:31I can't believe you know every venue we're playing.
10:34I wouldn't know one.
10:35Omaha, there's a great place called Arunza.
10:38I don't know if you'll like it, but it is.
10:40What is it?
10:41It's called Arunza.
10:42I heard what it's called.
10:43What is it?
10:44It is a pastry filled with meat.
10:46Oh, that sounds good.
10:46So it's kind of like, you know.
10:47I like that.
10:48I like a meat pie.
10:49But Omaha is also, you know, great steaks, right?
10:52Because.
10:53Yeah, great steak.
10:54I don't understand how you ran into a weight problem.
10:57And then, I'm not breaking any news.
11:00But I think one of the great eating cities in America is Kansas City.
11:08Yeah, the barbecue there is amazing.
11:10It's just unbelievable.
11:12I think that we do barbecue before and after.
11:16Wow.
11:17We do it before and after.
11:18We should feel sick.
11:19Isn't it weird, though, that it's half in Missouri and half in Kansas?
11:23It's very weird.
11:24I find that uncomfortable.
11:26I wouldn't want to live in a place like that that wasn't sure which state you're in.
11:30I got to know which state I'm in.
11:32Is that everything?
11:33No, no.
11:34I can't believe you know everyone.
11:35We're going to San Diego.
11:38Oh, right.
11:41San Diego.
11:42I can't believe more people don't live in San Diego.
11:45It's perfect weather year round.
11:49And it's got an international flavor.
11:50And you've got great Mexican food.
11:52Yep.
11:52Mexican food is great.
11:54I love Mexican food.
11:55Then you go down to Baja.
11:57You do your surfing.
11:58Yeah.
11:58You know I'm a big surfer, don't you?
12:00You are?
12:01No, I'm not.
12:01No.
12:02Never done it.
12:03But I was watching a lot of the Olympics, as everyone else did.
12:08And my favorite personalities are the sprinters.
12:13I'm intrigued by their personalities.
12:15All sprinters have a god complex.
12:19They think of themselves as godlike beings.
12:22And I thought, in stand-up, I mean, we're not as attractive as those people.
12:29They're like...
12:30I mean, I am.
12:30Yeah.
12:31I think you need an element of that to do comedy.
12:33You have to have a...
12:34What the hell are you doing talking while everyone sits there and just listens?
12:38That's a god complex.
12:40That's the audacity.
12:42The audacity, the arrogance.
12:44It's a certain kind of like, I'll do this.
12:46Yeah.
12:47That was the most difficult thing for me to overcome when I started.
12:50How dare I speak while everyone else sits and listens?
12:55My first time going on stage, that was a gigantic issue for me.
12:59Yeah.
12:59How about you?
13:00Oh, I was terrified.
13:03You didn't think people should be listening to you.
13:05I waited for someone to dare me.
13:07And then I tried to hide it from people for a long time.
13:12Because when people found out I was a comedian, they were initially impressed.
13:17And then the judgment would come in and be like, it's not that funny.
13:22You know what I mean?
13:22And then you feel like you have to defend it.
13:25And if you have a day job, you have to explain why you're tired.
13:28And they're like, well, if you weren't doing that comedy thing.
13:31And then it's like, how's the comedy thing going?
13:34Yeah.
13:34You know what I mean?
13:35Whereas people wouldn't do that if somebody had some other dream.
13:40But it goes back to like, you got to do it for yourself anyway.
13:43Yep.
13:46And then Phoenix.
13:48Like Phoenix, prior to the prevalence of air conditioning, just didn't exist.
13:53Now Phoenix is what, the fourth or third largest city in the country?
13:58Fastest growing.
13:59But of course, we'll go to Bianco Pizzeria there.
14:02He's a guy from the Bronx.
14:04Yeah.
14:04Who, him and his brother.
14:06Is his last name Bianco?
14:07It is.
14:08Okay.
14:08They didn't want to go to LA because everybody goes to LA.
14:11They go, let's try Phoenix.
14:12And he went there.
14:13And he's this genius Italian pizza guy.
14:17And he makes the best pizza in America.
14:19We're going there.
14:20And we're going there.
14:20That's the best one.
14:21It's the best pizza in America.
14:29So let's take a look at the map, Jerry.
14:31I have pinned out where we're going.
14:33Wow.
14:34And if you connected, if I had a piece of string and we connected all these things,
14:38you know what would happen?
14:39What?
14:40Nothing.
14:41But it would be interesting.
14:43Yeah.
14:43But these, I'm so excited.
14:44It'd be like solving a serial killing, wouldn't it?
14:46Right, it would be.
14:48That's all we need is a string and we're serial killers.
14:50Wouldn't it be great if we did this tour and then some detective was like,
14:55there was someone murdered in every city the night they were there.
15:00Yeah.
15:00And we would have an alibi of what we were eating.
15:03So it couldn't have been us.
15:04And then Mariska Hargitay would have to interview us.
15:07Yes, yes.
15:07Right?