♪♪ Hi, everybody. Q: All right! Hey, guys.
[ Laughs ] Could we get a round of applause
for Chris Henchy, please. Thank you. He's -- He did a great job
working with us. We actively started out
not liking him. Yeah. And then it turned the corner to
all right, he can stick around. And now we actually love him,
so there he is. Chris Henchy, everybody.
We love you. The feeling's mutual. And Chris, just to make your job
a little easier, let's start with an icebreaker. We'll start in the first row
on the right. We'll go this way
till we get to the end. Your name, your favorite food,
and your favorite color. Yeah. Rob Emery, you're up first. All right.
That's Rob Emmer. That is Rob Emmer! Turtle. He's dressed as a turtle
from the show. What did we call it? The middle-aged
karate tourist. The middle-aged
karate tourist. Yeah, it's Rob Emmer. Stand up, Rob! -Stand up, Rob.
-There he is. Fat Crow -- You might now him
as Fat Crow. That's him right there. When I say "Fat,"
you say "Crow"! Fat!
-Crow! -Fat!
-Crow! There you go, buddy. [ Laughter ] Hi, y'alls. When do I get to start? Uh, now you go.
Now you go. -Now I go.
-All you, okay. Um, so I did get thrown in
with you guys pretty quickly. And what amazed me was the creative process
that you guys go through. And I'm sure everybody
who watches the show can see some of it. But let's get into, like,
the birth of a challenge. And tell me,
where does that come from? And I also wanna talk
specifically about keeping secrets from each other,
which is fascinating. Well, as far as the birth
of a challenge goes, bone of nine months earlier
will have sex with a challenge. [ Laughter ] No, it is a challenge. It is a challenge for us. Guys, every challenge
is a mistake. We -- It's funny that you
brought the secret thing, 'cause that was one
of the things I wanted to ask you about. Because in a normal world,
right, you have a script for a movie
and you just do it. But in our world,
we came up with -- [ Child crying ] Shut that kid up. It's 21 and older! This is a -- This is actually
a Joe punishment. Why doesn't everybody
just turn their phones on, too,
at the same time... This panel's 21 months
and older. ...in the middle of it. We'll wait till you leave now.
No, I'm just kidding. So, you know we have a script
and, like, ideas. But then we're like, "Hey,
Hench, we have this great idea. We have a great idea
for the movie. Just don't tell
Sal about it." And he's like, "What?" And we're like,
"No, we keep secrets. That's what we do."
And then, like, 30 second after that you're like,
"Oh, I got one for Joe." And Q pulls him in a room. So now within, like,
the first day -- in the first day
working with us, he has seven things he can't
talk to different people about. And he's trying
to make a movie, so it was unbelievable
for you to try to do. But you didn't blow any secrets,
which I was very -- I did blow a secret.
I blew a couple of them -- one from Murr -- I was gonna call you out. No, I'm all for it. And the other one,
a big one -- I wrote it in the script that
was distributed to everybody. And that morning they came
over and go, "You ruined Q's surprise." And it is
the kind of thing that you have ruined
a surprise birthday. You've ruined someone's --
you know, anything. It hurts,
because it does kill a big, giant, funny bit.
-Yeah. We had to cut Q
out of the movie as a result. There was actual talk
of replacing me with Jon Hamm. You remember that? Yeah. 'Cause I didn't wanna go away
to do the movie. -No, no. That was a ham.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ] Delicious ham. A rum ham.
It would've been great. Yeah. [ Laughter ] So, but has that process
changed from -- I always think about, like,
what you guys were doing in high school,
and creating these things and playing pranks on each other
and challenges and punishments. But how has that process
changed, like, first and foremost
with having a show, having it on for seven years? And then,
I mean, you've done hundreds of hours
of these things. Like, it's so -- Even in the room sitting with
you guys, it's very difficult. But talk about that process,
and how -- like, when are
these inspirations come? Is it, like, when you're in
the shower, when you're doing something,
you know, you see something? Whenever Murray's in the shower
is a challenge. I take a lot of showers. Q: At the beginning
of every season, we sit down
with our comedy producers who are here
wondering around somewhere. I'm surprised they're not up
here looking for attention. And we'll sit in a room
and we'll just brainstorm. Like,
the first three weeks, we'll just sit down
and come up with stuff. And then as you get up
to go to the bathroom or to go get lunch, they'll start working
on the stuff for you. Yeah. So everybody just ties
knot in it, 'cause nobody wants to get
tortured the entire time. But it's really, the beginning
of every season is spent brainstorming
hundreds of ideas that mostly, Sal rejects. And then we get, like,
20 good ones. And we do that process
every once in a while. Yeah.
And in some of them you'll notice, like,
if you lookit, we'll find, like,
a theme each season. We kind of run that through. Like a couple of seasons ago,
we found -- we really latched onto,
and it was a lot of fun to, like, reinvent it --
to not make each other laugh. Like, you couldn't laugh.
That became the goal. So that launched a whole bunch
of different challenges, like the one where we sit
in the waiting room and you have to do stuff
and you can't laugh, or even the two-way mirror. You know, some of our
favorite bits are just based
on a little thing like that. -Or Cranjis McBasketball.
-Cranjis McBasketball. Cranjis McBasketball, yeah. That's another one
where it's like, "Oh, okay. We like this idea
of not making you laugh, not laughing through
a challenge," so. Yeah, let's see if Joe won't
laugh to dis fat [bleep]. Disfat Bidge. [ Laughter ] And then, another great thing
I witnessed, and it really was
a fantastic experience working with these guys -- just also,
you start with an idea, and the evolution
of that idea. And how,
like, it was great watching something
start one way, and then after you guys -- you have these great
four voices and opinions. But talk about how those -- -Opinions.
-Opinions. Very strong voices,
all four of them. But talk about how you guys
work together, but out of that process
comes amazing, funny stuff that gets plused
every step of the way. I'd say we agree on a lot more,
right? Creatively, we are pretty much
in sync on almost everything. -Well, we build.
-Yeah. Like, somebody
will have an idea, and then we'll just
take that idea and keep running with it
and running with it. I think that's -- -Yeah.
-Yeah. What's great is, like, Henchy
gets this look in his face, 'cause jumping in the middle
of the four of us is not easy,
and then you're directing us. So, Henchy get this faraway
look on his face when we're giving him
the tenth opinion about something
he's just said. And I went over to his house
for dinner the other night, and his two daughters were there
and they started ripping on him. He got the same look
on his face. And I was like, ah, there it is.
We're like children. [ Laughter ] I digest everything. I take it all personally. I'll show you where what Joe's
saying is true, that we build on challenges. We had the idea
for a punishment for Sal, where we were going to put him
at the top of a ski mountain with no skis, right? And at the bottom
of the mountain originally, was going to be
his sister and I with a very long piece
of spaghetti between us. And he's gotta race to the
bottom before we kiss. And then we said, "Wait, what
if we're getting married at the bottom of the mountain
and he's gotta race down." And then we said,
"Wait, screw the mountain! Let's just marry his sister!" Yeah. That's literally
how that happened. But then, some ideas
are just stupid, too. Like, some days we'll just
sit there and they'll be like,
"Well, what if we made Joe a massage chair?"
-Yeah. And it's like,
"Okay, what happens?" And it's like, "No, Joe's
a massage chair." That's it.
And that's it. So it goes both ways
with it. You know, Murr, your Wikipedia
page has you married. -Does it?
-Yeah. I was just preparing
for something there. Whenever -- I look at your
Wikipedia page a lot. It's happened to me a few times,
I've gone on a date -- yes, I have dates every now
and then -- -Whoo!
-Whoo! He's going to see "Hamilton"
for his 20th time. [ Laughter ] And it's gotten me
in trouble a few times. Like, one girl a year ago
was like, "Uh, you're married according
to the Internet." I was like, no! I'm not. So also, work with you guys,
let's talk about when somebody
leaves the room. What's the cardinal sin?
What happens? What can go wrong?
One of us leaves the room. I've watched it repeatedly. What do you not do?
-Leave you laptop open. Leave you laptop open,
that's right. We caught you. We play this game that you guys
might know that we do, where we keep the laptop -- -Food or laptop.
-Food or laptop. If you're mid-meal and you leave
your food and you're gone, when you come back
that meal's gone. -Gone, yeah.
-Somebody else eats it. But there are rules.
If you haven't touched it yet -- If it's not opened or touched,
it's off limits. You've started and walked away,
big mistake. It doesn't matter if he's eaten
a full lunch and you have
three pieces of pizza. He will eat those
three pieces of pizza. Yeah. I powered through a full
pi-- you remember this? I powered through a Murray
full pizza. Murr, this idiot. I was starving! We were in downtown Manhattan,
and it right after we did a Tenderloins video --
this kid. [ Child crying ] Again? Again? We were doing a Tenderloins
video shoot, and we wrapped for the day and
ended up going to a pizzeria. And we all ordered
these personal pizzas that were about,
like, six slices. Yeah. So we all just finished eating,
and Murray's pizza was late coming out
of the oven. It came out, and he got
a phone call and he walked away. And we all looked at each other,
and we all had just eaten a full pizza. And I was like,
"Guys, we gotta eat this pizza." And Sal's like, "I can't.
I'm full." And then Q's like,
"I can't." I was like, I gotta eat
this pizza. Yeah. And I got that Henchy
look on my face. I just went to a different
place, and I just ate that pizza. And Murray came back,
and I was in the corner. I decided to leave
the box there, so he came back going do,
do do, do do. I have never
eaten pizza since. Or if we leave our laptops open,
that's also fair game. Any social media, e-mails,
even switching each other's desktop photo --
which doesn't sound like much. But trust me,
it pays dividends. [ Laughter ] Well, I'll tell you
a funny story. Last week, we filmed
a punishment you'll see on TV in about two
or three weeks, where I had to compete
in a roller derby with professional female
roller derb-ers. Roller derb-iests. Derb-iests, right? And these are, you know,
very athletic, uh, women. And my punishment was, I had to check one of the women
and knock her over. I can't skate.
I couldn't even do it, right? Sal: You had to check
all of the women. Yes.
And, uh, and for every lap that I did that I didn't
successfully check someone, the guys had my laptop open and could send any e-mail
they wanted to anyone. And I could not take that back
until the episode airs. Yeah. So they ordered each other
three $1,500 massage chairs from Brookstones. Q: Yeah. They sent the e-mail to my
sister, and she ordered it! Yeah.
Of course she did. $1,500 each. -Yeah.
-They were actually -- They were actually closer
to $2,000, each chair. Feels good. Get expedited delivery. Let's just say we all feel
relaxed up here right now. [ Laughter ] We've talked a little bit
about -- and also working together and delved into a little bit
of -- high school stuff. And I --
My times with you, I don't think we ever talked
about Monsignor Farrell. Farrell, yeah.
Yeah. They're here.
They're here. St. Peters rules.
[ Laughs ] Yeah,
except we went to Farrell. We're up here, and you went
to Peters and you're down there. So -- It's an old
Staten Island rivalry. I know it sounds harsh,
but he knows what he did. He knows. So, I'd love to talk
about you guys, the four of you guys
in high school coming up with -- you know, messing with each
other, challenges, punishments. And then to today, like,
what is the difference? Is there a difference? I mean, now it's on television
and you have resources. But talk about that
for a couple minutes -- 15, if you can. I'm out of questions. [ Laughter ] There's a countdown clock
looking at us, which is very ominous. I think we would just always
make each other laugh through embarrassment,
like, even in high school. And that's the way
it always happened. It always went forward. In the beginning, Sal would opt
to not take elevators with me. He would wait
for the next one, 'cause he didn't wanna get
in the elevator with me 'cause he knew when
that elevator door closed and somebody else
got in there, forget it. I was gonna embarrass
the hell out of him. So we would just always do
these things throughout life, and we went to an all-boy
Catholic high school so it's like
a training ground. You wanna show them what you
would do to somebody in the elevator --
what you would do with Sal? You two would stand
in the corner and go -- So if somebody got
in the elevator, me and Sal would just pretend
we didn't know each other. For the whole ride!
Top of the Empire State Building, 100 floors,
doesn't matter. Some of those elevators
are slow, too. [ Laughter ] And that wasn't just us. That was, like, all of our --
all of those kids in there. Everyone was kind
of like that. It probably kind of molded us
a bit, the way we are. That's 'cause we went
to an all-boy's school, right? I think that fosters
that kind of atmosphere. Yeah. And we used to do improv
together in high school, right? In the Staten Island Museum,
where they have a Jokers exhibit, they have video of us
from senior year of high school doing improv onstage together.
-Pretty cool. Probably terrible. It's terrible. -It's not funny.
-Yeah. It's so bad.
We were like, ooh! My hair looks glorious,
though. So, now it's today. Let's talk about
the difficulties -- and I experienced
those working with you guys -- of being on True Television,
touring, all the stuff
you guys do. How hard is it now, and what
lengths do you have to go to pull off these challenges
and punishments with people
recognizing you? And you know,
what's the new mode? It'll be real interesting to see
what happens after the movie
comes out, right? I think that'll make the show
more difficult. I mean, just -- so many people
in Manhattan that the odds are we'll find
someone that doesn't know us. It's a real gift that we shoot
in New York City. But we were in the middle
of nowhere and couldn't
pull challenges off because a truck would pull by
and they'd go, "Oh, I know you guys!" Yeah. And we were like, "Oh, we gotta
stand here for like, an hour." Literally.
People would come out of, like, a swamp and be like,
"What? Is that them?" Yeah. [ Laughter ] Out of nowhere.
That was the Swamp Person. That was the Joe
Swamp Person voice. "What?
Is that them?" Swamp.
That's a Swamp Person. "Jokers" is the number-one show
among Swamp Things. We have little tricks
that we do. Like,
if we're doing, like, a PowerPoint presentation
of a speech or things like that. Then they'll know
how to get around it. Okay, I can't tell you
the tricks. Oh, yeah,
we got some tricks. But there's ways
that we find out if people have heard
of the show or not. Well, the big story
you always tell is that people
can act normal when they try to fake
that they don't know us, right? The try to, like -- Yeah, you can't. If you --
People can't be themselves. 'Cause there are the people
that notice us and go, "Oh, my God. Big fan."
Thanks. Then there's people
that notice us, and then they think
they're gonna be all cute... [ Laughter ] and make believe
that they don't notice us so they can get
on the show. And those people you can tell
from a mile away, because they can
never go back to just being
their normal selves. They'll, like, walk up
to the counter and be like, "I'd like to purchase
a water, please." [ Laughter ] Q: Dead giveaway. So we're like,
you know the show. And they're like, "What?"
-Yeah. We like to mess around
with people that we know
that they know the show and they're playing, like,
all the time because they're on camera way
before they even see us. So, like,
we're in a grocery store. We'll have a bunch
of the grocery store, and the guys behind
the scenes will see. And they'll be like,
"Joe, this guy notices you." And I'll just -- I think
this made an episode, actually. Hold on, Joe.
Hold on. Why don't we roll
a quick little clip? Oh, you have one? I might have one. -Oh!
-I might have a video. If we're talking about you guys
being recognized, why don't we roll a clip? -Ooh!
-Yeah. Let's take a look. [ Applause ] -Hi. Hey, what's up!
-Hey, what's up, man? -How you doing?
-How you doing, man? Oh, he knows you. You don't have the cameras
going, do you? Just shopping,
just shopping. Oh, okay. Yeah. Joe: [ Laughs ] Murr: This is a fan who doesn't
know if he's on the show or not. Hold on.
I got something. Q: You going in? I'm just gonna go in
and pretend I'm shopping. [ Laughs ] So, you're on another
season now. Yeah, we're doing --
six is airing now. Right.
And we're actually
still filming six as we speak. Cool.
We do, like, so many episodes, it starts before we finish. Really? So it's on for, like,
a month now. That's my boy!
What's up? Oh, [bleep]. Yeah, yeah. Hey! I mean, you gotta go in. What are you doing here? -He's a fan. He's a fan.
-Oh, [bleep]. I'm Joe. How are you?
Good to see you. So, how long you been
watching it, man? -Forever.
-Yeah, really? -Forever!
-That's cool, man. We like hearing
that from people. Oh, forever, man. Hey! Hey, guys! -Oh, my God.
-Hey! -Oh, [bleep].
-What are you doing here? We're not even
here together. -No.
-What? -He just walked up.
-Neither am I! My mom asked me
to pick up some stuff. Are you serious? All right, yeah.
It's my turn. -One, two.
-There you go. Also, he's the guy who lives
here in Village Greens. He was here shopping.
How were you guys here together? Oh! -Q!
-Hey, guys. Wait a minute. What are you guys
doing here? Well,
Sal was here first. What happened was,
I was here. Then I was supposed to be in
Brooklyn, but I came and he -- It's funny
we got a day off, and then we all show up
at the same place. That's impossible. Okay,
let's take one more. That's so weird
to see you guys here. Ready?
One, two. Hey, uh, Lance, by the way,
yeah, we're on
the [bleep] TV show. Oh, no! [ Laughter ] Really? [ Laughter ] Talk about glorious hair! Jeez, I miss that. -Yeah.
-Flowing locks. I don't miss it.
I don't miss it. We'll have minutes for Q&A in,
like, 10 minutes -- in nine minutes
and 52 seconds. Do you know how much Q's hair
costs to make into a wig? No.
No, they don't, James. $10,000. Q: Yeah, literally. You just made a lot
of people angry. -Yeah.
-Hand-stitched. And what a waste. The show is popular
all over the world. So for four guys
from Staten Island, what's the craziest
"I recognize you" story furthest away, in the furthest reaches
of this planet that you sit there
and go, "I cannot believe
this just happened"? Costa Rica?
Oh, yeah. This was early on, too,
but I took a vacation. This is, like, Season 2. Yeah. I took a vacation
to Costa Rica. And I don't know
if you guys have been to any of Costa Rica's
airports. Beautiful country. The infrastructure needs
a little work. It's like -- I guess the only
word is [bleep] show. And this cabbie comes out
in a cab with, like, no muffler, and the door's red and the rest
of the cab is yellow. And he gets out and he goes,
"Hey, you want cab ride?" That's not how they speak there,
but that's just -- Was he from the swamp? Yeah. He's like,
"What, is dat dem?" And then he's like,
"Hey, I watch this show all the time, man!"
Blah, blah, blah. And that was a cabbie
in Costa Rica who only saw it in dub,
didn't even know my voice. Yeah. 'Cause there's somebody
down there that's like, "Hey,
'Impractical Jokers'!" That's my voice on it. -Yeah.
-That was a weird one. I got on recognized on the steps
of the Vatican after Season 2, but it was my mother
who recognized me, so. The Pope watches. The Pope's like,
"Larry!" Yeah. My daughter recognized me...
on TV. That was kind of weird,
because I was -- you know, I watch the episodes,
Bessie doesn't. And we're sitting there, and I
was just watching an episode and she comes down
and she looks at the TV. And she goes -- [ Laughter ] And she looks back and she goes,
"You?" It's very funny. [ Laughter ] Yeah, that's him! -Is it him?
-That's what I'm thinking. This is a fun story. I took a date to a charity event
we did, and Derek Jeter
was there. And this was before
we got married. And he kept checking out
my date's ass all night. And I was honored. I didn't
get upset at all. I was like, "Holy [bleep]. Jeter's checking out her ass!
I made it." What does that have to do
with the question? -It was awesome.
-You win. So it wasn't you
getting recognized, it was your date's ass
getting recognized. It was a great ass,
I'll tell you. It was a world champion. You should've
seen Jeter's. -Hey.
-Heyo! Thank you.
Thank you so much. [ Laughter ] Um, I'm just gonna go Q,
you got a good ass, too. I'll tell you right now. Thank you.
Well, you would know. Yeah. So, I know when you work
on these things, you work 24 hours
and your mind's always thinking. Do you feel like you
have to be on-guard 24 hours, that at any moment
something -- like, that's gotta put a sense
of paranoia in your life. When you come home,
when you do something, something
might be happening. You might be getting
locked in the car. You might
be driven somewhere. Like, you just don't know when
these things are gonna pop up. How do you live
with that? [ Laughs ] Sal always says
it's no way to live. No. Murray struggles with it
the most, I think, right? I do.
I deal with it on a daily basis. I legitimately think tonight
is a fraud. Not this. I'm on a panel later
with Neil deGrasse Tyson. [ Cheers and applause ] I think he's in cahoots with the
guys, 'cause I don't know. What am I gonna
talk about? Yeah, 'cause that's a guy
that I have his phone number. I don't know. Neil deGrasse Tyson. If deGrasse Tyson starts
giving the business, I'm telling you,
I don't know. We live in that fear
all the time. Yeah. You know? But we actually use it
against Sal the most. In his real life, like,
we've gotten him, like, two or three times.
We've put him in an elevator that he didn't know
the elevator was ours, and he got stuck in it.
We did that. And then we made him think
he was going to federal prison. He went through
a full deposition. He got served papers.
We did that. He married his sister.
I mean, there's a lot. My favorite thing is when
we go into, like, a store, right, or wherever. We get the idea, find the place,
go to the place, get at least one person who's in
charge there to let us be there. And we have to go in early
to put in the cameras, and everybody else
doesn't know. But there's gotta be someone
to give us access. But that's what we know
and what we learned from being
in television production. The average person
doesn't know that. So my favorite is when I go
into a store, and, like, the owner is there
and he goes, "Are we filming the show
right now?" I'm like,
that is so impossible. Like, do you think we broke
in here last night without your permission... Yeah. ...put in all
the cameras, and you just have
to deal with it? Yeah. I like when you, like,
go to Target, too, and you're trying
to find something. You can't find it,
you go to an employee, like you're looking
for paper towels. You're like, "Excuse me. Where are the pa--"
And they're like, "No, no, no!" And they walk away. And you're like,
I need paper towels. [ Laughter ] We've done some challenges
where I don't know if the store actually knew
we were filming there, truly. We filmed in IKEA.
No one ever talked to us! We just went in, set up
the cameras, filmed all the -- [ Child crying ] Yes, kid.
That's right, I know. Filmed all day. Filmed all day and left. -IKEA's here tonight.
-IKEA's with us, yeah. Like, IKEA was like, lock up on the way out
and tossed us the keys. Yeah.
It was so strange. But then people will --
I don't know if you guys know IKEA, but you need
help when you're there. You know, you're buying
a smorgasbord or whatever it is, and people are like -- Smorgasbord? And people are like -- people
started asking us questions. And Q got caught up, and he literally picked up
a shift at IKEA 'cause there was
no other workers around. So he's the only guy and he was
on the computer, like, literally looking up
if they had the -- in, like, white.
And he's, like, checking it out. Trying to be helpful,
that's all. It was so funny, like, "Q, you wanna get back
to your turn, buddy? We gotta film a show here." He was a nice old man! He was a nice old man.
I wanted to help him. Remember we got thrown
out of Costco? Yeah. So, we're moving on. Oh, I love Costco. -Yeah.
-Yeah. Me, too. Not the bit, the store.
The bargains. I gotta tell you, really,
it's one-stop shopping. [ Laughter ] Everything is one-stop
shopping. I mean Costco's truly -- True, in bulk. Winter boots,
a television, shrimp -- I mean, I can go on. Remember when you and I got
our hands on a Costco card? It wasn't ours, and we used
to go for DVDs every Wednesday
to Costco? Oh, yeah.
And then I'll give you another. Well, I shouldn't give all
the tricks about Costco. -The Costco tricks.
-I just really like Costco. You get yourself --
get yourself a -- Did you pick up
a sponsorship deal I'm not aware of? I love going to Costco
for the holidays. When I have family over,
I get into it. I make a big list. Yeah, Sal Vulcano,
presented by Costco. And I'll deviate from it
a little bit. Sal's Club. [ Laughter ] I'll tell you what.
When Cracker Barrel closed down in malls, Costco took the place
with the sampling stations -- fantastic.
Mmm. What are your thoughts
on Costco? [ Laughter ] I'm just trying to figure out
how to get to the next bit here. Thoughts on Costco
till we get to the back. BJ's? Yes! Let's just start shouting out
big-box stores. BJ's Wholesale.
BJ's Wholesale Four. -BJ's Wholesale.
-Oh! There's one out on
the Long Island Expressway. Get your head
out of the gutter! Anyway, my wife gave me
a Costco the other day. [ Laughter ] Stop. She gave me a Costco. I was just kidding. [ Laughing ]
I don't have a wife. [ Laughter ] Staten Island Museum -- you guys,
that's pretty impressive. Yes. We love them.
That was great. How do you guys feel about it?
I mean, what do you think? I mean, it's your museum honoring you guys
in your hometown. That's fantastic. Yep, it was really cool. Actually, it's really nice
to hear from them about how many people
have come out and shown some love there,
so thanks so much. Make some noise
if you went there. Have you checked it out yet? Two people, great. Glad you guys could make it,
you two. Everybody else,
what the hell? The ferry's free.
Go. No, but it's weird
from them and it's been -- it's just really cool
to have it in your hometown, you know.
-Yeah. I've gone a couple of times
and sat behind the velvet rope. Twice of done it --
sat behind the velvet rope and pretended
I was an exhibit. Yeah.
People came in and they were like,
"Oh, my G-- What the?" And then I would get up
and take pictures. Then I'd sit back down like --
Did that twice. I'll probably do it a few
more times, so go. Go check it out.
-Yeah. Do you guys wanna turn
and do some Q&A? Q&A, you guys
got questions? You got questions
for the Jokers? I don't know if you gotta turn
the lights up out there. I think there's -- are there
people out there with mics? I see -- and then,
here we go. There's a couple over here,
a couple over here. So I think if you guys kind
of alternate back and forth, we'll start over here first. Grab somebody,
and a question. Is anybody dressed
as a character from "Jokers"
in the audience? What've we got?
I love that shirt. There's Q, yeah. Okay, here we go. Hi, I'm Nicholas Applebee. I'm from Maine. My question is, your challenges
push each other to kind of edge
your social-ness. There are a lot of people
who have a hard time just going out every day. What would you recommend? And maybe you could turn this
into an app, like a game people could play.
Like, say hi to five people. Oh, that's an
interesting idea. That's a pretty good idea,
actually. You trademarked that? Nicholas: Yeah. I want some
nickles, but it's yours. My idea. I think, yeah. I mean, it's funny 'cause
we are all on a different -- I think on
the spectrum of -- Yeah, I'm definitely
on the spectrum. Yeah. Q is definitely -- you know,
we have different levels of being comfortable,
being out and about with people, just naturally even before
the show happened, you know? So I think you just have to find
what you're comfortable with and don't be afraid. There's some nice people
out there. Although, conversely,
if you see us walking around, I'm the very shy one
who is afraid of everyone and doesn't wanna
talk to anyone. So if you come up to me
suddenly, you may get attacked. [ Laughter ] But I would jump on that idea
with the mobile app. Like,
people can submit those. Nicholas:
I think you could really help
socially inept people. Yeah, it's a good idea. I think that's one of
the reasons I love the show. You force yourselves
to talk to people. I'm doing it right now.
-There you go, you did great. You're doing a good job,
bud! Yeah. You win. You win. All right, how about
over here on the left. Hi. My name's Pete.
I'm a big fan. I was just wondering, when are
we gonna get Murr on "Tell 'Em Steve-Dave"
and Tom Flanagan on "Impractical Jokers"? Murr's welcome any time.
Any time. He was supposed to be
on a few times, but our schedule every week --
"Tell 'Em Steve-Dave" is a podcast
I've done for nine years. Bryan Johnson and the guys
have all been on it, except for Murray.
It's just been a schedule thing. It hasn't been like a joke
against Murray or anything like that.
We'll get him on. And Tom Flanagan
on "Impractical Jokers"? No, he'll never
travel down. What about "Get 'Em?" -God, no.
-Thanks for the question. Thanks, bud. [ Indistinct yelling ] No. My name's Carter,
and this is for Murr. Out of all the punishments
you've given to the other Jokers,
what's your favorite that you've given to them. That I've given to them? I don't think I've got
my revenge yet, 'cause I feel like
I get the worst. You lose a lot. I lose a lot. I'm a real big loser.
Yeah. My favorite one that
I've given them -- I think Joe
as the massage chair, I think is just
so classically funny. I think Sal in the corn maze
is brilliantly funny, or kittens on his chest. And for Q -- gosh, my favorite punishment
for you, Q -- Pierre.
Well, you know -- I'd say Pierre's the most
annoying out of all of them. Tarantulas was right on the edge
of the boundary of being a good human. [ Laughs ] And for me, you know,
Danica McKellar, prostate, nipples, eyebrows --
you know, they all. That sound bite sounds
like you said Danica McKellar's
prostate nipples. It's a Thursday night. Hi, I'm Chris. Hey, Chris. I had the same question,
but it was for all of you. Well, what's your favorite
punishment for the other guys? What's our favorite
for the other guys? I mean, I really -- we'll take one each just to
speed it up a little bit. But I really enjoyed -- I think Murr
in the Danica McKellar one was one of the -- it was one of the first ones
that we were able to, like, pull off
as a complete reversal. Like, no one saw
that coming at all. And my art team, we filmed that
for six months and we had to, like, do so much
groundwork for that one. So that one of the first ones. That's one of my favorites
for him ever, I think was Danica McKellar. And then she did
a great job, so. I'd like to mention Sal,
my favorite punishment for him -- We'll take one each,
I guess...
Yeah. ...is the virtual
reality punishment. Where you know,
he put the horror game, and we transform the room
and it becomes real and the little girls
stalk him and taunt him. Actually, a little-known thing
about that one -- you guys like "Rick and Morty"?
You guys like that show? [ Cheers and applause ] The VR punishment
was actually -- Justin Roiland had a hand
in creating that with us, uncredited. So now there's a little mashup
for you guys. I don't know if you
give a [bleep]. But if you like
"Rick and Morty," there's a crossover
right there. Yeah. I go back to, I think,
one of the earliest seasons. One that always sticks out
in my mind is when we made Joe be a magician
onstage at the casino. And we put him
in shackles -- an escape artist,
I should say, Houdini. And we put him in shackles
and a straitjacket, and then we lowered him into
a tank of water that was rising. And he was never gonna
escape from it. But we let the audience
figure that out on their own. So after, like,
90 minutes of Joe just splashing around
in the tank, everyone just started
to leave one by one by one. We shut the stage lights off.
He stayed up there. And then, like, there was two
or three people left. And then a guy came out
and just started sweeping. Like Carol Burnett.
That was great. That was fun,
'cause it just -- Joe, just Joe's face on display,
which is my favorite. I think Murr as a vampire
with the choir doesn't get as much love
as it should. Another great twist. I mean, that one
was crazy funny. And I think that one's one
of my favorites. Why am I Dracula? I think
we're over here. Hi, how you doing?
My name is Tony. I'm a big fan of yours, watched
your show this whole time, seen you on tour,
saw you at Comic-Con before. I had one question. I was curious, if you were four
were made into a human centipede... [ Laughter ] who would be first, second,
third, fourth? I call fourth! Yeah, I'd like to be in the two
or three position. That's terrific, 'cause
I'd love to be number one. Oh,
then I wanna be two. [ Laughter ] I guess by default,
I'm three then. Thank you. I did not think
we would be able to answer that that efficiently
and quickly. Yeah. It's almost like we've thought
about it. We're almost in order.
If you two flip, we're in order. I called fourth like someone
calls shotgun. [ Laughter ] And now, an example. You're up, child. -Hello.
-Hello. Chance: I'm a child. My name's Chance,
and my question is -- -Is that your real name?
-Yeah. -Terrific.
-Great name. -That's amazing.
-I was an accident. [ Laughter ] [ Cheers and applause ] Well done. Nice. It just goes to show you
how good our panel's going, that the biggest laugh
of the day did not come from us. Your parents took a chance. My real name's
Community Chest. [ Laughter ] That was very smart,
and over most of your heads. Chance: So, who would win
in a two-versus-one -- Joe and Murr against Sal? 'Cause I feel like if you had Q,
it would be unfair. You're right. What are we doing? Yeah,
what are we doing? Fighting.
Fighting. In, like,
a fight to the death? Why go fight to the death? Chance, I'd love to get
some popcorn and watch it. Yeah. I think it'd be awesome. But is that the question, if we were being violent
to each other? Chance: Yeah, pretty much. -It's like "The Purge."
-I got news for you. Stop being so funny, buddy.
All right? Thank you. In the scenario,
are our mouths sewed to each other's
buttholes or no? No, oh,
that's said there. I don't know who would win. I guess two on one,
I'd probably win. [ Laughs ] No, I don't know. If we were cooking,
I'd lose. You guys are both
better cooks than me. Does that answer your question?
I'm sorry. I feel bad even thinking about
being violent to them. Well, one of them. Well,
we do this scenario a lot. Like, let's say
that we're on a raft, right? And it's sinking, and Joe
can only save one of us -- and himself, obviously,
he's gonna save. Who would you choose? We say this all the time,
that I'm Murr's only shot
at survival in any situation. Like,
I'm not even a definite, but I'm his only chance. Yeah. I mean, is the option
that I just have more room on the boat?
Yeah. And float away? Thank you, Chance, for making us
think about killing each other. Thank you. Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm from New Jersey.
-Hi, Rachel. If I stutter, I'm sorry.
I'm nervous. What's the craziest thing
you've done off-camera? [ Laughter ] Statue of limitations
is not up yet on that, so I can't answer
that at the moment. [ Laughs ] But you guys? We've done a bunch
of crazy stuff, but one thing really
just comes to mind. We were leaving one of our
live shows, and we came outside
and this woman said, "Oh, my God.
I'm such a big fan of you guys." And she got out of her car,
and she had -- she had her toddler
in the back seat of the car. And we're like, "Oh, you're just
leaving your baby in the car?" She's like, "I don't care.
This is more important." And I said, "Okay." And I jumped in the car
and drove away. The baby was an accident,
though. I came back to them -- I came back to them
doubled over in laughter. She was like, "I don't care!" And I'm like, "Okay,
I'm taking your child." Well,
you know what you did. You didn't just, like,
make a U-turn. He drove till he was
out of eyesight. Yeah. So there was a slight change
in the mother from "this is funny" to like
"what, is he coming back?" That's a kidnapping. I think the fact that you guys
do your cruise ship and that's not really -- I mean, that's the most
insane thing I've seen... -Yeah.
-...that you guys put yourselves out there on a cruise ship
for four or five weeks. Anybody here coming
on the cruise? Yeah, anybody? Couple people. You gotta check this out.
It's insane. Yeah, the cruise
is a good time. We just hang out
with 2,500 fans in five days. It's insane.
-Yeah. -Contained.
-Thank you. Good question. All right, hi.
My name is Semly Selzer. I'm gonna break it down. Oh! You guys have a chance to go
and make your -- like, out of all you, you guys
can break each other apart. It's like a doll. What would be, like,
your one perfect Impractical Joker? Is no one vetting
these questions? [ Laughter ] Was acid passed out
as everyone walked in? I mean, I would
take Sal's penis, right? What? What? No? Is that not -- No. Like you wouldn't! She said to make the perfect
Impractical Joker. That thing ain't no joke. Listen. To make the perfect
Impractical Joker, okay -- that's what you're saying. You're saying to build, like,
the Frankenstein, the perfect -- that ain't no joke!
No. The perfect Impractical Joker,
right? That is straight-up no joke! He crank for real! [ Laughter ] Do it!
Get him! Sal's a --
So, I would say -- Sal's got that dong,
dedongdong dong. Yeah. Come on!
Just show 'em already. Yeah, go on. It overshadows
Jaden Smith, Yeah, I know.
I think we'd be building -- I think we'd be building
from three, 'cause we don't need any part
of Sal to be a successful Joker. And you spit
all over my back. It's easy to name how you can
make a more defective human out of us. Like, put Sal's flat feet,
you know what I mean? Yes. Yeah. He spit his drink
all over my back. You mean just physical
body parts? I think I would say
you take Sal's hair... Yep.
...Joe's eyes, my eyebrows, and Q's... Q's everything else. ...Q's body. Q's manly -- Q's musk. Yeah. -Wow.
-Thank you. I hope that answered
your question. Wow, nice one. Oh, boy. Go feed that panda. -How's it going, guys?
-Wait, wait. Great, how are you? Don't -- Let's not try to start
outdoing each other with these weird [bleep]
questions, please. Can we just -- He's like,
"You've gotta cannibalize
one Joker." Who eats who first? My name's Jesse.
I'm from Brooklyn. My family and I are huge fans. -Thanks, man.
-My grandmother loves you guys. -Oh, thank you.
-We just all crack up. -Great.
-Thank you. -Thanks for being so awesome.
-Thanks. I apologize in advance
if my question seems a little unoriginal,
but I've been thinking about this for days.
Okay. If you had a fatal four-way
between -- between Tony Gunk... Q: Oh. ...Cranjis McBasketball... Yeah. ...okay, Captain Fatbelly...
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Oh. ...and a ferret... who would win? I mean, Fatbelly all the way,
right? -Yeah.
He's a superhero. I'm a Fatbelly superhero. He's an actual
superhero. -Yeah.
-Yeah. I think that we'd all agree
on Fatbelly. -Yeah, for sure.
-Thank you. Jesse:
I think you'd have the power
to make everybody suck it. Yeah, that's it. [ Laughter ] Uh, thank you. [ Laughter ] You been thinking about that
one a long time, have you? Days and days. Hi, I'm Dylan. Hey, bud. I promise I have
a normal question. Okay, Dylan. Thank you.
Take us back to reality, buddy. So far, you're giving off
serial-killer vibes, so. [ Laughter ] "Hi, my name is Dylan. I promise I have
a regular question." "If I were to break into your
home while you were asleep." "If I were to wear your skin
as a mask." Just kidding, buddy.
Go ahead. What are you
most allergic to? Oh, I got it. Dylan: So, Q's had a few
punishments where he's punished all of the guys. Yeah. So my question is, if Joe,
Sal, or Murr had a punishment like that
where they had to give the other three a punishment together,
what would you guys do? Joe did that. Tattoos, I did. Yeah, he did tattoos
and the baby shower. And the baby punishment. Yeah, and then
the baby thing I did. We just filmed one
with three of us, right? What was it?
A week ago, two weeks ago? There's only one
combination punishment. That hasn't happened
to me yet. I don't think he's -- But I have an idea. I have an idea for it,
but I can't -- He can't win. I can't say it. [ Laughter ] Sal's got a great idea he's been
thinking about for six seasons. He just can't win. I have one up -- if that happens
in that scenario. But I can't say, 'cause then
it would give it away. -Yeah, that's a tough one.
-So that's the bad answer. Q: Well, thank you. I was going to have -- if I ever
won an episode and they lost, I was going to have them
just sit in a chair
and apologize to me. That's the punishment.
Just sincerely apologize. That's actually
a really funny one. Yeah, that is funny. Hello, my name is Xander, and I have a very
simple question for you. You mentioned dubs earlier, and a friend of mine
was talking to me. This is the first time
ever hearing you guys in actual English, cause he always heard
the Spanish dubs. Sure. And the Spanish dubs'
more masculine, or it's like all you guys have,
like, really deep voices. Yeah. But I'd like to ask you,
what is your favorite dub of "Impractical Jokers"? In different countries,
it's different. It's called
different things, too. In Holland,
the show is called -- you can imagine
what it translates to -- "De Fukkers." That's true.
That's true. D-E-F-O-K, right? Yeah.
Yeah. And in Belgium the show
is called "Foute Vrienden," which means
"Four Dicks." Yeah. It's all true. There you go. So I think those titles
are the best part of everything
about the dubbing. Thank you. My name is Mira Rodriges. I'm from Queens. Now, I'm sorry for the question
I'm about to ask. Oh, okay. Mira: But if --
and this is going out if any of you are married,
don't think about that -- [ Laughter ] What the hell
is going on out there? Does this involve
Derek Jeter? There is probably just, like,
one huge joint being passed around
out there. Yeah. Spliff of spliffs. Mira: If two of you were
in a relationship... [ Laughter ] Two of us might as well be,
but yes. ...who would make
the best companion? Oh. You know, there is a ton
of fan fiction on Internet -- no joke -- where people,
you know, for some reason, always puts Sal and I
in a relationship. And I'm always the bottom. Yeah, yeah. Opposites attract.
I think that's a good pairing. I think Sal
would be the best, right? He seems the -- the most
romantic and coziest. Coziest? Yeah, I could see
cuddling with Sal on a cold, wintery night. You're explaining
a nice apartment -- "It's so cozy." What am I,
a terrycloth bathrobe? You're up.
Go ahead. Woman: This is gonna be
our second to last question. Uh-oh. You think? Which means all the pressure's
on you, yellow shirt! Yeah.
You got it? Yo, yellow shirt!
Get ready. You're the last question,
so do not eff this up. I won't. I got you. All right.
No pressure. If it's not a good question,
everyone here's gonna boo you. Yeah. Hi, I'm Brenna. I wanted to know what each
of your guys' favorite challenge was. Oh, challenge that we just
played in the thing? I mean, I think collectively,
honestly, it's Cranjis McBasketball. Yeah, probably. We have so much fun
doing that one, right? Am I wrong there? Yeah, it's definitely up there.
It's one of them. I like the presentation bits,
but Cranjis is up there for sure. Cranjis. I love the hide-and-seek
challenge, where we had to film each other
on our own cellphones, you know? -That was fun, to hide.
-Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Oh, boy.
Here we go. -Hi.
-Hey, on second. Before you ask
your question, none of this would be
possible, honestly -- the movie, working with
this excellent gentleman here who made us better than we
ever could dream of being -- none of this would be possible
without you guys, every good thing
that happens to us. We are four -- You guys are unbelievable. We're four regular guys
from Staten Island that really lucked out. And the network
took a chance on us, and you guys took
a chance on us. Even the people leaving early,
not even without you. -Yeah.
-Not you guys. We see you. Yeah, we see you leaving. Why don't you just get
the hell out of here? We have eyeballs that work,
so thank you. And in the middle
of thank you, just walk right out
the [bleep] door. Yeah, that's right. Go, don't stop.
Go get a hot pretzel. We know, you haven't
eaten all day. Are they gone? We're gonna show you guys
the movie! [ Laughter ] Not really, I just wanted
to screw with them. But thank you, guys.
We love you. Yeah,
we love you like a family. Okay. Yes, sir. Thank you, Murray. I'm Thomas Trapp. I actually live
in Staten Island. T. Trapp! Yeah! Gellin'!
Yeah. Uh, hold on.
I forgot. Oh, boy. Hold on? I remember, I remember. [ Crowd booing ] Wow. Wait! Stop it, he's one of yours. Let the man speak! Hey, stop it! Let the man speak! You can't boo him,
he's one of yours. Yeah.
Go ahead, buddy. If you guys weren't
on the TV show, what would you be doing now? -Oh, that's a good question.
-All right. Uh, hold on. He did it. That's a good question.
Good question. Thomas Trapp,
you did it. Thomas. Nice, buddy. You son of a [bleep],
you pulled it out. It's a good save,
because you started taking a [bleep] in
the beginning. I mean, what you're --
right, you're -- Oh, well, yeah.
I was a -- I was a New York City
firefighter before the show. Thank you.
Thank you. So I gotta imagine that that's
still what I would be doing. You know, there's no reason
for me to do anything else. Yep. Sally? I always wanted to be
an interior decorator. For real.
Yeah. I feel like I would like
doing that. I just recently, like,
did my own home. And I really
thought it was fun. And then someone asked me that
and I was like, "You know what? I would try that,
I think." Yeah.
Yeah. Yep. Oh, thank you, guys,
for cheering that. Thank you. I always wanted to be
an architect growing up. That's what I probably
would try to do with that. But I also liked being in sales,
being a salesman. So I would probably
sell architecture. [ Laughter ] Yeah. I think -- I think I would've joined
the cast of "De Fukkers." Probably. What about you, Hench? Yeah, what about you? Oh, man.
I don't know. I think I would probably be a,
uh, a boat captain. -A boat captain.
-Yeah, I can see it! Drive a boat.
Drive a boat around. -Staten Island Ferry.
-Staten Island Ferry is hiring. I would love to do that. Yeah,
I'd probably do that. Yeah. I think that's all the time
we have, everybody. Can we, uh -- Can we get --
Can I get a "Larry" real quick? Ready?
One, two, three! Crowd: Larry! Thanks, guys. Thank you, guys.
We love you so much. -Thanks very much, guys.
-Thank you, guys. -Q, Sal, Joe, Murr!
-Love you guys. -Thank you!
-So much, thank you. ♪♪
Great video, thanks for sharing. I had no idea the Q wig cost $10k to make, holy shit!
Am I the only one that had no idea a movie was coming??
I've just watched some more of this and think it's a real shame the question about shyness didn't get more time, as it was a brilliant point that I've never thought about before. I wish Q had answered it; it seems like a question that's much more tailored to his experience on the show.
Am I the only one that had no idea Sal had a monster _ _ _ _ ??
That was really cool, thank you for sharing!
Lol Murr was so nervous! That was awesome, had me laughing all the way through!