The hit reality television show Impractical Jokers became an absolute sensation worldwide. The four high school friends who play practical jokes on each other for bragging rights has taken audiences by storm.
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00:03 The hit reality television show, Impractical Jokers,
00:09 became an absolute sensation worldwide.
00:12 The four high school friends who play practical jokes
00:17 on each other for bragging rights
00:19 has taken audiences by storm.
00:21 The show is ready to go into its 10th season
00:26 without one of its most important cast members,
00:29 Joe Gatto.
00:30 But this isn't the first time there
00:34 have been new frontiers for the Impractical Jokers.
00:37 There once was a failed spin-off of the show which
00:43 saw the four friends, James Murray, Sal Vulcano, Brian
00:47 Quinn, and Joe Gatto, a.k.a.
00:50 the Tenderloins, try their hand at sketch comedy.
00:53 Before the show, the four were accomplished comedians
00:59 in their own right, and sketch comedy
01:01 was one of their specialties.
01:03 And so it was only a matter of time
01:08 before these television stars decided
01:10 to go back to their comedy roots with Jokers Wild.
01:13 The show consisted of the four guys acting out
01:19 pre-written sketches and comedy bits
01:21 that showed them acting instead of reacting for a change.
01:28 This show followed the comedic styling of other sketch comedy
01:31 shows, like Chappelle's Show or Key and Peele, to name a few.
01:36 However, it never hit the heights of Impractical Jokers,
01:42 and it wasn't long before the network
01:44 had a tough choice to make.
01:46 Jokers Wild was a blink-and-you-missed-it series
01:52 that ran on True TV from September to October of 2014,
01:56 around the same time that season four of Impractical Jokers
02:00 was hitting the airwaves.
02:01 There wasn't anything concrete laid out for Jokers Wild
02:07 to draw in the general public, which
02:09 made its ultimate failure somewhat easier to swallow.
02:12 For instance, there were originally
02:17 going to be at least six episodes of the spinoff
02:19 produced, with more likely on the way
02:22 if it became even half as much of a hit as the main show.
02:25 However, this didn't come to pass,
02:30 with only four of these planned episodes ever being filmed.
02:34 On top of that, the skits within Jokers Wild
02:40 largely weren't all that good, comparing to the laughs
02:43 audiences got with Impractical Jokers.
02:45 Despite the tenderloins excelling
02:51 at this type of humor in the past,
02:53 the sketches seen on the show were rarely that funny,
02:56 especially for fans more used to the humor
02:58 of Impractical Jokers.
02:59 While the tenderloins are hilarious,
03:05 their attempt to introduce fans to their original type
03:08 of comedy didn't have enough connection to what made
03:11 them famous in the first place.
03:12 And so the show never worked out.
03:18 But luckily for us, we'll always have the Impractical Jokers.
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