Companies/media
Impractical Jokers
2017-09-03, 1 mention2017-09-10, 1 mention2017-11-13, 4 mentions2019-02-23, 1 mention2019-05-19, 1 mention2019-12-22, 3 mentions2021-09-19, 1 mention2022-05-29, 1 mention2023-04-09, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He speaks well of Impractical Jokers and especially Sal, calling their fanbase inspiring after riding along on their cruise 0:28. He interviewed Sal about the show's origins, including the fight over the name "Impractical Jokers" versus "Daredevils" and the years of pitching pilots before it sold 1:13:46 1:09:19. That experience apparently stuck with him enough to bug his agent about doing his own cruise afterward 55:35. Mostly the cruise becomes raw material rather than commentary on the show itself — the median passenger weight, the scooters, the looping onboard channel of nothing but Impractical Jokers reruns 42:27 6:24. He lumps it in with every other niche fandom cruise while riffing on American excess and decline 1:37 22:21. Elsewhere it's just a passing reference — shorthand for minor TV fame or a punchline about the group's Star Jones blackface episode 55:08 2:53.
Every Reference (14)
"beginning of November I'm gonna be on the impractical Joker's cruise in November too, which is fucking amazingly fun I'm on that with guys"
"Hilarity's, that'll be great. And the beginning of November, the Impractical Jokers cruise, that should be really, really fun. I just booked"
"right, well, so I deal primarily with Ralph, Just got off the Impractical Jokers cruise four days on the high seas with other comics."
Ray Kump's Fake Death and the Impractical Jokers Cruise Intro — Floating Buffet (with Ralph Sutton)+47s into the segment"those are, they were a sketch group from Staten Island and they tried a lot of different things and then finally they found the thing that worked and it worked because people pack in that boat"
"One channel they just played a movie that one of the impractical jokers was in on loop. So for the whole 24 hours it was just that one movie on loop that he was in. The next channel was just to show the impractical joke."
Costa Maya, the Fake Port Town, and Onboard TV Channels — Floating Buffet (with Ralph Sutton)+58s into the segment"Well, everyone's getting laid. There's no gay people on the impractical jokers crew, it's all families. So it's like, there's nothing for"
Every Fandom Gets a Cruise (Iron Maiden, Sex Cruise, Groove Cruise) — Floating Buffet (with Ralph Sutton)+43s into the segment"I think if I was famous if I had a television show I think people would want to become friends with you and be like hey stay at my house in the Hamptons You have a TV show oh Like you know what I mean like a dude from impractical jokers"
Waiting on the Call: Recruitment Fantasies and Prison Reform Jokes — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+104s into the segment"one of funny things I ever heard we're on the cruise the Impractical Jokers cruise and the the median wait on the cruise about was about"
America the Buffet: The Woman Piling Food and Impractical Jokers Cruise — Episode 148 - Streak of Evil (with Yannis Pappas)+112s into the segment"show how many shows would you say that you pitched before Impractical Jokers was born probably 20 20 shows going into the pitch meaning"
Pitching Pilots, Spike TV, and Learning to Do It Yourself — #179 - Sal Vulcano | The Tim Dillon Show+39s into the segment"will literally not do the show right and then they said Impractical Jokers and I said people are gonna start calling us the Joker's"
The Hated Name: How Impractical Jokers Got Its Title — #179 - Sal Vulcano | The Tim Dillon Show+203s into the segment"Sal Vulcano and a practical jokers you know where I actually please I'm about to announce my 2020 theater tour for myself soon on Sal Vulcano comedy calm and the guys and I just announced a 40-something city tour"
Plugs: Sal's Tour, Impractical Jokers Movie, and Sign-Off — #179 - Sal Vulcano | The Tim Dillon Show+12s into the segment"well she's in an episode of the impractical jokers did you know that oh interesting well it's controversial because all the jokers dress up like her they they put on fat suits and they do blackface"
Getting Destroyed by Norm and Roseanne at Last Comic Standing — #269 - The Activist | The Tim Dillon Show+113s into the segment"patreon right now with uh out right now with sal from the impractical jokers which is funny and um [Music] what else we got cooking what"
Sign Off: Promoting Pappas's Special and Tour Dates — #300 - A Unique Experience with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show+190s into the segment"right Judy will Judy's the first person that I we I did the Impractical Jokers cruise and I pulled her aside I said I want to do a cruise"
Will Joe Rogan's Podcast Ever End? — An American Royal with Bert Kreischer | The Tim Dillon Show #341+20s into the segment