Quotes from Sal Vulcano

There was an improv class in our high school, and we all ended up taking it and loving it. Then we just started our own thing.

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

We're like a middle-aged boy band on tour.

We've just seen so much love from our fans over the years, and we tour live nationally and internationally, and we see what the energy is like when all these people come together.

When someone else is getting punished you show up, you eat some lunch, you sit back because you're not going to do anything. But when you're the one that has to go, that whole day is a very miserable experience.

We met in high school, all in the same grade, and started doing improv and sketch together. That was almost 20 years ago at this point, and that's our identity outside of 'Impractical Jokers.'

We have a conversation before every season now and we just take inventory. Are we having fun? Can we do things? Can we push the envelope still? Can we evolve the show still? Are people still watching?

We saw someone dressed as Batman, in a white Batman outfit... it was Jaden Smith.

I was thinking about getting a dog myself, but just one!

There's just something about telling another giant in the New York baseball scene that you thought he was Derek Jeter.

Usually people are pretty cool when they find out it's a TV show.

People enjoy our misery so much, but honestly on those days, the days that you know that you're the one getting it, it's actually not a fun day for the person that's there. Everybody else is cool, the other three guys.

Some of the best ugly sweaters, people really can't put their finger on the concept of the sweater itself.

The show is just basically a mirror of our lives, and the goal was to stay true to that.

'Upright Citizens Brigade' was a huge influence on us. And growing up we never missed 'Saturday Night Live.'

Every time we have a chance to mention it, we say we're from Staten Island. Because of some of the stereotypes, sometimes Staten Island gets a bad rap, and we're in a position to at least try to maybe change that perception.

In this day and age, when no one can agree on anything, I think it's important that people can come home and turn on the TV and have some good old-fashioned laughs.

There have been prank shows that have been really elaborate, setting up fake car accidents and burglars. For us, we wanted to strip it down completely, didn't want to do anything that someone else couldn't do - a lot like the Jerky Boys.

In comedy you have to be prepared and be specific and have a vision so your comedy feels organic and relatable and it's a lot of work to get to that point.

We let the show breathe more. We focused on the comedy from a broadcast point. It became more stylized and interactive.

Movies aren't normally, necessarily viewed by a community of fans, and we thought if we could take the energy we see at our live performance and inject that into theaters, it might be a special thing.

We always try to evolve the show, and to break new ground within the universe of our show.