Impractical jokers

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Me and the Mrs watched a couple of this show last night. Highly entertaining. Some of the stuff they dare each other to say in their earpiece is outrageous

[Chrambo]

Just watched the one were they told Sal his keys are in the elephant shit  

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Telling a wee lost boy in a supermarket he's going to get euthanised

[Zizou]

There's one where a wee kid comes up to their cart to get a hot dog and they have to say to him his a sexy little guy or something like that

Never laughed so much in my life.

[2MatoFish]

It is in a way though, because the hilarity would come from the member of public being completely oblivious to the fact that they're being 'pranked' and your mate making an arse of himself but they clearly know something is up every time and they just laugh really loud and hard to cover up that it's not remotely funny and you're just basically laughing at guys laughing.

What you're talking about is something like Beadle's About, where the public are essentially humiliated or infuriated. That's a cheap and nasty type of show, which only works if the mark 'falls for it'.

Impractical Jokes isn't about the member of public primarily; it's about the interplay between the joker in the field and his 'pals' observing/controlling him. It's creating something so embarrassing that you can only release the stress through laughter. If i were Lawson I would reference the various eavesdropping scenes in Much Ado About Nothing.

The fact that you don't understand it, means it doesn't matter that you don't find it funny. Roger, for example, doesn't find it funny but that's because the level of comedy is, at once, so powerful and so intertwined with discomfort that he can't handle it.

[Sarkozabal]

It's popular, but it's on a shitty channel so there's always gonna be folk that have no idea who they are.

They also film the majority of it in new york city, so there's a constant stream of people to be had. I'm sure it'll become harder as years go by, but i doubt they'll ever struggle.

This is true, but at the same point that's clearly where they've got the biggest following since it's their 'home town'. They seem to have done more specials in different places (Atlantic City, Miami, Texas etc) which I imagine is partly because people there won't know them as well.

Think they said on one of the compilation episodes that people quite often recognise them, but usually in the clips they shoot out in the street so the fans just hang around nearby and watch rather than actually ending up in the show.

[2MatoFish]

This is true, but at the same point that's clearly where they've got the biggest following since it's their 'home town'. They seem to have done more specials in different places (Atlantic City, Miami, Texas etc) which I imagine is partly because people there won't know them as well.

Think they said on one of the compilation episodes that people quite often recognise them, but usually in the clips they shoot out in the street so the fans just hang around nearby and watch rather than actually ending up in the show.

New York is fucking mental though. John Lennon could walk the streets and not get hassled (well, once he got hassled), so I think Murr will probably be okay.

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

Near tears of laughter at the library challenge tonight

[Ray Winstone]

Anyone watched the British version of this? Absolutely shite.

[Sarkozabal]

Cymbals

[Papin]

"I'm looking for my husband - I nicknamed his labia Biggie Smalls"

[Charlie Kelly]

Absolutely poor less at the library

[Zizou]

Is that where they make noise with the most ridiculous items?

Amazing.

[Shuto Makino]

Absolutely poor less

Neggied.

[Sarkozabal]

The worst thing about Impractical Jokers is the number of shan Amy Schumer adverts there always are on comedy central.

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

The slide whistle was amazing

[Charlie Kelly]

Neggied.

Caught some of that Amy Schumer once to see what all the hype was about, by Christ it's dreadful. Has she actually won awards for that "comedy"?

[Christian Benorchgrevink]

Her stand up is decent but the TV show is fucking awful

[Roger H. Sterling]

Her stand up is decent but the TV show is fucking awful

Her stand up is woeful.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Her stand up is good for a girl comedian. Make of that what you will.