How’s that work since you have to get ready for the shows? You’re touring a lot and have the show airing right now and I believe you’re bringing back the podcast, so you’re keeping pretty busy. Punishments have included everything from permanent tattoos to Murr marrying Sal’s sister, as he watched helplessly, unable to stop that wedding from happening. If you’ve never watched Impractical Jokers, it’s quite addictive, maybe because it’s hard to believe some of the things they put each other through, especially in the punishments for whomever loses each show.
The show has made the Tenderloins so popular their current Where’s Larry? comedy tour has been selling out across the country, including three nights at Radio City Music Hall earlier this year. Made up of Joe Gatto, Brian “Q” Quinn, James “Murr” Murray, and Sal Vulcano, four long-time friends from Staten Island who have been doing improv and sketch videos together long before they got the TruTV show, they’ve become far more popular as they play the worst possible pranks on each other, usually at the expense of unwitting passers-by they encounter. The Tenderloins are excited to see fans at the “comedy fairs” and - more importantly - to embarrass themselves in front of an audience.For five seasons, the Tenderloins comedy group has been making a name for themselves as the stars of TruTV’s Impractical Jokers. 9, DTE Energy will become home to one of the three “summer spectacular” shows on The Tenderloins’ The Cranjis McBasketball World Comedy Tour, featuring performances from top comedians, such as Kyle Kinane and Chris Distefano. “It’s a great way to actually say, ‘thank you,’ ” Gatto says. Their interactive performances and meet-and-greets offer the group cherished opportunities to focus on the fans. “During filming, if we bump into a fan, we have to get rid of them, because they’ll ruin the hidden camera bit,” Gatto explains. The jokers say one drawback of filming is that it doesn’t allow them to interact with fans. “We’ve had some people on the show that have restored our faith in humanity,” Gatto says.
She searched the store with him and even held his hand. He points to a challenge in season three, when the jokers dared Murray to wander a crowded store, looking for his “mommy,” and a woman put her shopping on hold to help. “It amazes us that people are more good-natured than you would think.” “The general public is the secret sauce of the show,” Gatto says. Something that never ceases to surprise the group is the reactions of the people they film with. Now in their eighth season, the jokers have filmed roughly 1,000 challenges. “It amazes us that people are more good-natured than you would think.” – Joe Gatto “We’re always the butts of our own jokes.” “We never make the people feel bad,” Gatto explains. If someone refuses, they lose, and the resulting punishment is even more embarrassing - but only to the stars themselves. Still, the group rebuffs the title “pranksters.” Unlike typical prank show hosts, star Joe Gatto says, the guys from Impractical Jokers only prank themselves, daring each other to execute embarrassing “challenges” in public.
“TruTV saw that realness and that chemistry between us, and thankfully, America has, too.” “We would be doing this whether the cameras were there or not,” Murray explains. After college, the guys spent a few years performing at comedy clubs and eventually began pitching their idea for a series. It was this real-life pranking that landed them the on-screen gig, Murray says.
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