Impractical Jokers are coming back to Belfast
Last updated 1st Feb 2019
The four lifelong friends and comedians whose hilariously outrageous hidden-camera dares and punishments have created truTV’s and Comedy Central’s longest-running and top-rated original comedies, Impractical Jokers today announce a huge UK tour starring The Tenderloins called The Cranjis McBasketball World Comedy Tour.
The tour will kick off at Belfast's Waterfront Hall on Thursday October 10th with tickets going on sale on Friday February 8th online from here and here and in person at Ulster Hall box office and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.
The Tenderloins is a New York-based comedy troupe, whose four members - Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn and Sal Vulcano - are the creators, executive producers, and stars of truTV's hit series, Impractical Jokers. Now in its eighth season in the US, Impractical Jokers follows The Tenderloins as they coerce one another into doing public pranks while being filmed by hidden cameras. With each new season, the show continues to take dares to outrageous levels with new over-the-top hijinks.
In addition to the top-rated television show, the Troupe has toured steadily with its highly-successful, "Where's Larry?" & "Santiago Sent Us," and their current “Cranjis McBasketball World Comedy,” tours playing to hundreds of thousands of fans in the US and UK, including three sold-out nights at Radio City Music Hall, a sold-out Madison Square Garden, and 5 five sold-out shows at London's O2 Arena. Natives of Staten Island, NY, Vulcano, Gatto, Murray and Quinn met while attending high school and later formed The Tenderloins Comedy Troupe in 1999.
After years of performing live improv and sketch comedy shows, The Tenderloins crossed over to the web, garnering millions of views for their internet sketches, eventually creating the runaway success Impractical Jokers for truTV. Impractical Jokers is top 5 in its timeslot on cable in the US and is the #1 show on Comedy Central in the United Kingdom and India."
In addition to the Cranjis live performances, The Tenderloins have an action-packed 2019 planned. They recently wrapped shooting their Impractical Jokers Movie directed by Chris Henchy and produced by Funny or Die. In February, the group will be setting sail with Sixthman on their 3rd annual SOLD-OUT Impractical Jokers Cruise from Tampa to the Bahamas. Later in the year, The Tenderloins are starring in TBS’ The Misery Index, a brand-new game show co-starring Jameela Jamil (from NBC’s The Good Place). All the while, truTV US will be airing Season 8 of Impractical Jokers, with all 26 brand new episodes airing before the year is out.
In each episode of Impractical Jokers, Sal, Joe, Q, and Murr challenge each other to say or do something, and they have to do it. If they refuse, they lose. At the end of every episode, the biggest loser must endure a punishment of epic proportions. The Jokers have amassed a massive social audience with nearly 5 million fans across social platforms and 1.2 billion social impressions garnered in 2017.