Impractical Jokers’ Brian ‘Q’ Quinn, Sal Vulcano and James ‘Murr’ Murray Detail Joe Gatto’s Exit: ‘We Had to Give Him His Space’

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Moving forward. The Impractical Jokers crew lost a member of their comedy group earlier this year when Joe Gatto left the series, but the remaining trio doesn’t plan to slow down.“We are having so much fun, and our fans aren’t over [the show] yet,” Sal Vulcano exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, April 5. “We still feel like we have some stuff to do yet.

And so we’re like, ‘All right, we’ll figure it out. We’ll evolve the show like we normally do. And if we don’t have fun, we’ll stop.”Season 9 of the truTV series premiered in February 2021, but filming for additional episodes was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Production later resumed, but in December 2021, Gatto, 45, announced that he was leaving the show.“I just wanted to let you all know that I will no longer be involved with Impractical Jokers,” the Tenderloins cofounder wrote via Instagram on New Year’s Eve. “Alongside my friends, I’ve devoted a decade of my life to building this franchise and couldn’t be prouder of what has been accomplished.

However, due to some issues in my personal life, I have to step away.”Vulcano, 45, said that he and his castmates didn’t “really” see Gatto’s departure coming, but they supported his decision. “We had to give him his space, and we had to respect his choice,” the St.