We’re now planning punishments months in advance. The punishments are tailored specifically for the loser and they’ve gotten out of control. The punishments especially have gotten so elaborate that it’s almost like if you’re trying to hold a surprise party for someone, trying to keep it a secret is almost impossible. We probably improvise 60% or 70% of the show. A lot of times, all the ideas we try to think of in advance
We improvise a lot of it because you don’t know who is going to walk in and how they’re going to react.
We’re an improv group and a sketch comedy group called the Tenderloins, that’s our alter ego. So the show is really an improv show in disguise, and we come from an improv background. That’s a lot of it, and then when we go to a location-we’re filming today a little bit-what you don’t know is who is going to walk into the store or the restaurant or what have you. “What happened? What did I miss?” He knows that we’re conspiring against them. Whenever one guy leaves the room to use the bathroom and comes back into the writer’s room, three of us are whispering. And then the past few seasons, now we have a great team of writers we work in concert with them to come up with ideas for the show and we write joke ideas. The show was a lot smaller and we didn’t have the budget to hire writers or have anybody help. The first two seasons, the team was just the four of us. How do you prepare for the show? There’s a lot of improv but there has to be some amount of writing in advance, so how are you able to do that and keep it secret from each other? Do you have a writing team to help come up with ideas? These are good problems to have, you know what I’m saying? I feel like those tourists may be keeping the show alive, but you’re bringing the tour to the UK so you also must have people in Europe who know the show, so it’s going to be even harder the more people that know you. There are so many people in New York-8 million people that live in the city-and there’s a million tourists that come to the city every year. It happens a lot more now, but it’s still manageable. I live in New York and I recognize a lot of the locations where you do the show, and it’s amazing you’re still able to go out there and not be recognized by the people you’re interacting with who know you’re doing the show. You know, we’ll see how this season ends. I’m amazed you’re still friends because after some of those punishments, I figured you’d never speak to each other, especially after the tattoos. It feels like I’m hanging out with my best friends and laughing every day, it’s awesome.
#Impractical jokers murr not allowed to use camera tv#
Even if we weren’t making a TV show, we’d still be hanging out with each other every day, going to see movies and going to dinner and just being jerks (laugh). We spend our days laughing and these are my best friends for 26 years. It’s a lot of work but the job is fun, man.
We film the TV show in New York during the weekdays and then almost every weekend, we tour the country, and now the world–we’re doing another UK tour in January-performing live. 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. For five seasons, the Tenderloins comedy group has been making a name for themselves as the stars of TruTV’s Impractical Jokers.
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