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19-510: The Oxford Revue is a comedy group primarily featuring students from Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University , England . Beginning in 1953, The Oxford Revue has produced many prominent comedians, actors and satirists - as is the case with their Cambridge University counterparts, the Footlights . The Revue writes, produces and performs several shows each term in the pubs and theatres around Oxford , as well as touring to cities in

38-541: A podcast in April 2012. What Say You? , an occasional podcast hosted by Sal and Q, was named Best New Show at the 2013 Stitcher Awards. The increased popularity of What Say You sparked a friendly competition among the friends, spurring Joe and Murr to release their own Tenderloins podcast without the other two members. In 2015, What Say You? was nominated for the Comedy, Entertainment, and Best Produced Podcast Awards at

57-563: A list of words kept by member Sal Vulcano that he would find embarrassing to say, such as "cullottes," "gargoyles," and "nougat." The group would eventually settle on "The Tenderloins" as their troupe name. After finishing college, James Murray was on his way to work on the Staten Island Ferry , where he ran into his friend Sal. They reminisced about their enjoyment doing improv. After reuniting with Joe and another friend, Mike Boccio, they practiced improv at Joe's house three days

76-549: A week, for six months. The Tenderloins began in 1999 as a live improv comedy and sketch comedy troupe. By 2002, the troupe consisted of five members: Mike Boccio, Joe Gatto, Gideon Horowitz, James Murray and Sal Vulcano. After the success of Impractical Jokers , the Tenderloins have also taken part in several American and international tours. They have performed in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and participated in

95-549: The Netflix series The Good Cop . The Troupe has toured steadily over the last four years with its highly-successful, "Where's Larry?", "Santiago Sent Us," & "Cranjis McBasketball" tours playing to hundreds of thousands of fans in the US and UK, including three sold-out nights at Radio City Music Hall , a sold-out Madison Square Garden , and five sold-out shows at London's O2 Arena . In February 2017, Murr tweeted that he and

114-690: The United Kingdom and performing a month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival every year. The Oxford Revue was originally just a revue show, not a troupe - one of many yearly productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe organised by the Oxford Theatre Group, or O.T.G. (a student-run group co-founded by the brother-in-law of future Revue alumnus Michael Palin ). The earliest Revue

133-578: The Fringe. Many students were involved with both endeavours until the late 1970s, when the two troupes began to socially divide - the 1979 Etceteras (then run by Ian Hislop ) even brought their own 'Oxford Revue' to the Fringe to directly compete with the O.T.G. offering (then run by Angus Deayton ). By the early 1980s, the Etceteras had disappeared and the 'Oxford Revue' became a troupe which operated in both Oxford and Edinburgh. The 'Oxford Revue Workshop'

152-536: The Pig's design was updated to include a top hat and bow tie, as well as a New Zealand accent. The Revue now uses a 'Simpsons font' variant, including a 'OR' abbreviation inspired by the Adult Swim logo. Comedy group A comedy troupe is a group of comedians and associated personnel who work together to perform comedy as entertainment . The term is often used interchangeably with comedy group , and

171-686: The Revue during the 2000s, with the Jericho Tavern taking such a role during the 2020s. Oxford Revue alumni include: The Revue completed its 71st Edinburgh Fringe in August 2024, with two shows - the sketch show Vive La Revuelution and the late-night stand-up show Stand-Upping Citizens. The mascot of the Oxford Revue was, for a long time, a pig in a sailor's hat named Admiral Philip, drawn by Revue member Nick Davies in 2013. . In 2021, Philip

190-638: The San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival and the Miami Improv Festival. Following years of live shows, the Tenderloins redirected their talents to filmed comedic sketches. Horowitz had already left the group, and Boccio left in 2006. Former classmate Brian Quinn subsequently joined, replacing Boccio as the troupe's fourth member. The Tenderloins' comedic sketches have accumulated millions of views on YouTube , MySpace , Metacafe , and other websites. In 2007,

209-479: The Six Idiots). The Tenderloins The comedians met in religion class during their freshman year at Monsignor Farrell High School on Staten Island in 1990. After discovering their mutual interests in drama and improv, the group joined an improv club because "it was the only way to meet girls", since they attended an all-boys school. To come up with a name for their comedy troupe, the friends referenced

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228-546: The Tenderloins was officially selected for the 2009 New York Television Festival. On April 12, 2011, truTV announced a new series to star the Tenderloins. Impractical Jokers premiered on December 15, 2011, executive-produced by the troupe themselves. Season 1 consisted of 16 episodes. The first season was watched by over 32 million viewers. The show's second season premiered on December 13, 2012, and consisted of 28 episodes. Its third season had 31 episodes and premiered on January 2, 2014. On April 21, 2014, truTV announced that

247-409: The group had recorded the first episode of an upcoming limited-run show for SiriusXM Radio. On August 17, 2017, The Tenderloins Radio Show made its debut on SiriusXM Radio channel 94 (Comedy Greats). In the hour-long broadcast, the comedy troupe pranks friends and acquaintances, takes calls, answers emails from fans, and does sketches in a segment called "Tenderloins Theatre". The group began hosting

266-535: The series would be renewed for a 26-episode fourth season. With the fourth season renewal, a 6-episode spinoff series, Jokers Wild! , was also announced. The show was renewed for a fifth season, which began in February 2016. On July 22, 2016, a sixth season was announced, which began on February 9, 2017. After another successful season, Impractical Jokers was renewed for a seventh season that began on February 1, 2018. In March 2018 TruTV announced Impractical Jokers

285-957: The troupe may specialize in a specific genre or style of comedy. Some examples of comedy troupes include: the Marx Brothers , the Three Stooges , Abbott and Costello , Cheech & Chong , the Second City , Kalabhavan , the Firesign Theatre , Monty Python , Blue Collar Comedy Tour , the Kids in the Hall , the Mighty Boosh , the Tenderloins , the Hollow Men , Asperger's Are Us , Kummeli , Senario , and Them There (known as Horrible Histories troupe and

304-482: The troupe won the $ 100,000 grand prize in the NBC It's Your Show competition for the sketch "Time Thugs". Following the troupe's online successes, the four were signed to develop a scripted comedy pilot for Spike TV based on their own lives. The pilot was shot on location in 2008 on Staten Island , as well as at other locations around New York City . Spike TV ultimately passed on the series. A second pilot starring

323-521: Was an important aspect of Oxford 's comedy culture from its 1986 founding to the 1990s - a fortnightly comedy night based in the cellars beneath the Oxford Union building. Stewart Lee , Richard Herring , Emma Kennedy , David Schneider , Al Murray and Armando Iannucci all relied the 'Workshop' as a performance space during the late 1980s. The Wheatsheaf pub in Oxford became a reliable venue for

342-411: Was called 1953's 'Cakes and Ale', starring Maggie Smith . Other Fringe Revues of historical note include - The term 'Oxford Revue' was initially a generic phrase, used by many Oxford student theatre companies. The Oxford Experimental Theatre Club formed 'The Etceteras' in the early 1960s - this troupe would perform revues around Oxford, while the 'Oxford Revue' would be the main Oxford comedy output at

361-454: Was renewed for an eighth season, which consists of 26 episodes and premiered on March 28, 2019. A feature-length movie, Impractical Jokers: The Movie , was released theatrically on February 21, 2020. In 2019, the troupe starred in the TBS game show series, Misery Index , based on the card game "Shit Happens" created by Andy Breckman , who created and wrote the popular TV series Monk and

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