The Failed 'Impractical Jokers' Spinoff

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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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