
We weren’t agreeing on what we needed to do. I had a job that was taking up a lot of time. I wasn’t comfortable with how I came across in those and I wasn’t comfortable with that format.
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No, well, we had a couple of failed attempts at the TV show, and then, going down the scripted avenue, we just were not seeing eye-to-eye. Am I right in saying that you were originally reluctant to pursue a television show? Please correct me if I’m wrong on any of this, because I’ve listened to all of the Tenderloins podcasts, but my memory is just terrible and I may have confused things. We just turned the cameras on and did our thing. This embarrassment comedy is how we’ve been making each other laugh our entire lives. So we had a couple of failed attempts at scripted pilots that just never took because it was a bit different for us to get that type of format. The secret ingredient of the show is that it’s more of a friendship show than a hidden camera prank show because you see us interact as real friends of twenty-six years. In this show you get a real taste of our personality and friendship. We’re improv comedians, we’re not necessarily actors, we don’t come across that way. This is really the best way for us to be funny, in my opinion, because we’re just being us. How difficult was it to find a format that allowed you to use your spontaneity? I know that prior to the Impractical Jokers show, you guys had done two scripted pilots. We polish that one until it’s show ready and then we start putting together the challenges. We basically edit them a la carte, so after we film a challenge on the day it goes into the edit. The editing, normally the cycle is about four to five weeks. So, for example, season 5 that we’re shooting now, we started last October and we end in July, and that’ll get us twenty-six episodes.Īnd then how long does it take to edit each one? We shoot one challenge a day, with the punishment being its own day. It’s basically three to four days shooting, depending on how many challenges end up in an episode. How much shooting goes into a twenty minute episode? Alright, so, I wanted to ask you a few bits about the TV show as well. It was so fun to mess with him like that and then everybody got to experience basically what we do in real life. I know that everybody loved that clip, that was one of the favourite moments of that ‘Where’s Larry?’ tour show. There’s always stuff in the works at the network. It’s our version of a stand-up comedy show where it’s the four of us on stage, together, telling stories from our lives, our friendships and also it’s a multimedia experience where we show hidden camera challenges that we’ve filmed just for the live show, so you can’t see them anywhere else.Īre there any plans to release the shows on DVD? I know the next UK shows are the ‘Santiago Sent Us’ tour, and the ‘Where’s Larry?’ show had a clip of Q accidentally posting his phone number on Twitter that I need to have. I wondered if you could tell me how you explain it.


Going back to your live shows, when I’ve mentioned seeing the live show before people don’t seem to know what to expect from it.
