You’ve also spun off into a second TV series with The Misery Index (which debuted Oct. We didn’t even know if our comedy would translate but it did. They’re flying across the world to spend a week with us which is mind-blowing to me. It used to be that we just had American fans but we now have so many fans from Ireland, England, Australia. Murray: The crazy thing about the cruise is that it’s become so international. It’s that rapport that we have that we’ve fostered together with them that has led to even more opportunity. We live with them and perform for them and mingle with them. That’s thousands and thousands of people not just choosing to tune in or buying a ticket to see a live show - they’re planning a vacation around us, which is largely insane! It’s unbelievable and surreal. That really is a testament to the fans for sure. Why not do a comedy cruise? This February, 2020, we’ll have our annual cruise. Our fans dress like us, they have signs, they’re chanting. That company and that cruise are what sparked the idea - they do these personalized cruises for rock bands and we thought, we have this very unique, avid, loyal following and our live shows play like concerts. One time we took a cruise and filmed a whole special episode on this cruise. Vulcano: After a few seasons of Impractical Jokers we wanted to evolve the show so we started doing these on-location shoots where we take the crew to Texas or Miami or New Orleans, anything with a different feel and style to it than New York. What does a comedy cruise put on by you guys actually look like?
It happened as a response to opportunity - it’s good timing mixed with great fans. Murray: Things just happened - it wasn’t like, oh here are the seven things we want to accomplish. The demand was there and we love that form of entertainment so it was a capitalization of both of those. When the opportunity presented itself to tour, and that has grown into a worldwide and international tour where people were coming out to fill comedy clubs and then theaters and then arenas and amphitheaters. Gatto: It was a natural thing for us because we had gotten our roots in performing live.
It was more of a response to what people wanted. We have a really weird close bond with the people who watch our show, so it’s like, they like this? We’ll do more of this! It wasn’t a conscious business decision on our part to be like, let’s brand ourselves and try to sell that. We just put out what it seems the fans wanted to get. Quinn: I gotta tell you, we didn’t plan for that! The fans of our show deserve all the credit in the world. You guys have turned one TV show into an actual comedy empire - how does one even go about expanding a show into something that can launch multiple international cruises?
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