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“You know comedy and horror are flip sides of the same coin.”Īlthough he loves writing fiction, Murray says building what he has created with his childhood friends is paramount. “The Brink,” which he co-wrote with Wearmouth, is book two of the “Awakened” trilogy and will be released June 18.

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“I can’t say much about it, but I will tell you that what they did to me in the movie is the most embarrassing that has ever happened to me in my life,” Murray says.īeyond his work with the Tenderloins, the Georgetown University graduate, who majored in English and marketing, has a three-book deal with HarperCollins, including last year’s “Awakened,” a thriller he wrote with the assistance of British author Darren Wearmouth, that climbed to the top of the international bestseller list. In addition to selling out live performances, a full-length “Impractical Jokers” film will be released later this year. It’s to maybe elicit confusion - like ‘What the hell is this guy doing?’ Don’t forget, we’re trying to embarrass ourselves, so people are more amused or bemused by what they are witnessing.” The goal of the show isn’t to get people angry. He adds, “I think the four of us know how far we can push before we have to pull back.

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“We know our parents watch the TV show, so going through my mind as I’m doing these things is that if I do the wrong thing, my mother is going to call me at 10:31 p.m., as soon as the show is over, saying ‘What did you do?’ I still live in fear of my Sicilian mother - and all the guys are the same.”

Murray says that he and his troupe mates are, at their core, gentlemen who were “raised right” by their parents, so that keeps them on the straight and narrow. it’s a hyphenated word, so it only counts as one.” When asked to describe each of the guys in one word, Murray calls Gatto “outrageous” (“he was born without a shame gene”), Vulcano “brilliant,” and Quinn “charming.” And for himself? “Best-looking. The four childhood friends attended the same Catholic high school on Staten Island and are all 42. It has to be cringe-worthy for us,” he says. “If it’s not real, we’re not embarrassed, and if we’re not embarrassed, it doesn’t work. Murray says that “keeping the show real” is crucial. It was so out of left field, and I went through so many emotions: I couldn’t believe that I was meeting my childhood crush I couldn’t believe my nipples were out and I was so, so proud of my best friends for coming up with such a brilliant twist.” “So when I walked in and saw her - I never imagined the reversal or saw the twist coming. I mean, there are all these ripped guys and me, built like a baby carrot,” Murray says with a laugh.

“The fact that I thought I had to participate in a bodybuilding competition was embarrassing enough.

As if that wasn’t tough enough, he also had to do squats in front of the actress. He had to wear an American flag Speedo bathing suit and have his body greased head-to-toe and spray-tanned before entering a room where, rather than join a bevy of buff bodybuilders, he came face-to-face with McKellar, whom he was told by his buddies he had to interview with inappropriate questions they supplied via an earpiece. Murray was told he would be participating in a bodybuilding competition. Over the years, punishments imposed on Murray have included having his nipples pierced, his eyebrows shaved, and a tattoo of Gatto’s choosing (a ferret jumping out of an airplane) applied on his thigh.

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