James Murray

“You know, comedy and horror are flip sides of the same coin.”

“When we film the TV show, it's with a hidden camera so we don't get to see how fans react to what we are doing and when fans watch it at home.”

“Impractical Jokers' is all about friendship.”

“We're professionals and we made a pact to each other when we created the show that if we ever felt it was getting stale or repetitious or not pushing the format in new and interesting ways, we would stop doing it.”

“If you can believe it, I wrote all of 'Awakened' around one chapter. That was the idea for the whole thing, so I figured out what happened that led to this and then where it went from there.”

“I love Orlando. I'm in Orlando six times a year. I love the theme parks.”

“We never liked prank shows 'cause you feel bad for the people getting pranked. So we came up with the idea of 'Jokers,' which spins it upside down.”

“Our fans worldwide have become our friends as well.”

“The show is just my best friends and I being ourselves. We don't play a persona.”

“Orlando is probably the best place on Earth.”

“Awakened' is very much about obsession.”

“One would argue what they do to me on 'Jokers' is already horror. It's an easy transition to write a thriller.”

“We get more fan mail from India than from America, the U.K., Australia and Italy combined. It's unbelievable.”

“Creating anything new is incredibly difficult. It's just so much easier to sit on the couch and watch Netflix and just consume.”

“We love our U.K. fans so much.”

“It makes me so happy to know that we have so many viewers in India.”

“There was literally nothing to do in high school other than prank each other.”

“There's a new tourist born every minute.”

“I want to go on record as saying that I am chasing cool.”

“You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's just not the ideas that come out of your head. You need to have specifics and 80,000 words.”