Ready for the most ridiculous, funniest hidden camera show ever?
Then make sure to tune in tonight for truTV’s new show “Impractical Jokers,” possibly the funniest, most ridiculous show I’ve seen in years.
Four guys from Staten Island — Brian Quinn, James Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano — who’ve been challenging each other to do the most embarrassing things since they were kids, have taken their hilarious highjinks to TV.
For the hidden-camera stunts, each guy goes out alone while the other three give him instructions on what to do and what to say from a remote location.
At the end of three or four horrifyingly embarrassing challenges, the one who has failed at the most stunts is declared the loser and is forced to perform the most humiliating stunt of all.
On tonight’s premiere (there are two back-to-back episodes), the crazies first pose as White Castle clerks.
The first one up has to rhyme everything, another has to speak to the customers only in Old English (“Welcome to the castle of White!”), another has to hold the customer’s $20 bill in the air for a full minute and the final schmo has to do everything without looking at the customer — and they all have to ask for tips.
But that’s just a warm-up for the “sign the fake petitions” gag. Each guy has to stand in the middle of Manhattan begging people to sign a petition for “a worthy cause.” They don’t know what the cause is until they open the folder, however.
How about asking people to sign a petition against that bitch Irene, to allow whites in the military or to allow people to date their first cousins?
Nothing is as funny, though, as what they make each other do as cashiers at Costco.
I wish these guys were with me in Costco two years ago when the giant coffee grinder came off the wall, knocked me to the floor, fell on top of me and kept grinding while I was trapped underneath.
No one came to help. They must have thought it was a joke.
I still smell of beans.