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November 13, 2025 11 mins
James "Murr" Murray from Impractical Jokers is in town for 5 shows at Louisville Comedy Club. Using his hit TV show's technique, Murr will send at least one audience member out into the street to follow his commands through an earpiece. Always comedy gold!

Murr told Terry Meiners an awesome story about the most outrageous prank he played on his showmate (who thought Murr was being punished). It's one of Impractical Joker's GREATEST HIT moments.

Murr's new bourbon DON'T MOVE is named for the thriller book he wrote, which inspired a forthcoming film by the same name.

Join Murr for a huge after-party on Saturday night following his final Louisville comedy show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what it was Radio eight forty whs Terry Miners. Here.

(00:03):
Murr is in the house now from Impractical Jokers.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hello Lousville, it's Murr the Bolts, skinny and practical Joker.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
With your buddies. You guys have had a good time
here in the last fifteen years, yes, sir, But then
even before that, if you're a Catholic school boy, then
you were all pulling the shenanigans.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
You know. We went to an all boys Catholic school
in Staten Islands, right and you said you were raised Colic,
so you know the kind of hijinks we got into.
So it was not much of a stretch to then
go onto in Proxicool Jokers.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's just living your life on cameras.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
That's basically it, and getting paid for it, thankfully.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Did you go to detention often?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I did not. I was good but q Q was
in intentional all the time and got thrown out, but
then invited back into the school.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh, invited back? That usually doesn't have it never happens
in these schools around here. Somehow I did it too.
I traversed the path and never got detention in high school.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
They go I was out. I talked my way through things.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's all good, all right. So you guys, you came
up with your concept, we'll hide cameras. We'll put suggestions
through your pieces and see who can do what. Why
is it that you are often the recipient of punish?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
No kidd and man, I mean, hold on, let me
take my wallet out. I flew here this morning. What
time is? We're at a Newark areport at five am?
I got cousin Joe. He's talking, job talking right. I
go to TSA security. The guy's got his head down
and he said, yeah, I can help you. I slide
my license across the desk. My license to this day
has no eyebrows. So they shaved off my eyebrows. And

(01:27):
the guy look, I look like I see something, say something.
I look like a big potato going for a bad divorce. Man. See,
I always get the worst. I'm the biggest loser.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
As I say, what happens when you have no eyebrows,
if it rains through your eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Flood, what happens is people don't know what emotion you have,
right because your eyebrows are the windows. They don't know
if you're angry or happy or sad. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, that's painful. So you know, obviously your show has
been a massive hit and people, I hope you always
tell him to don't do this, don't do this without permission.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
You should rule life in generals. You should not try
things at home that you might do at work. Like
if you're don't jackhammer at home, like you go no,
no construction. Guy goes home and then stills still well
Stars Jack Cameron, you know, like, just don't anything you
do don't in public, don't do in private.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
When's the moment you felt like you were most out
of control on.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
That show most? I mean skydivey threw out an airplane.
I was literally out of control and I screamed like
a small woodland creature.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I had the same experience here when I swore I
would never do it again, I had to do it
for TV. I had to turn to a camera say
something and then go out. And then it was like, dude,
the next thing I know, there's a guy and you
know who's falling in front of me and he's got
a camera on it. Yeah, just like you went through.
And when they show it on TV, they don't show
me the was in my mind. Did your brain freeze lock?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Uh? No, I you know, I was terrified until the
moment I was on the ground, because even in the
last two seconds of the of your trip, if the
parachute failed in the last two seconds, you still die.
Those are terrible odds. You'd never play the odds in Vegas.
Come on.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
No, I had the same feeling. But once the shoot opens,
it's like, Okay, we're gonna live.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's what they said. No, no, no, no, no. I disagree, man,
hell I disagree this. Oh you're gonna experience like one
with the universe winners. You're zendly floating down to Earth.
I was like, no, I was terrified until I had
soiled my pants.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
You're gonna perform five shows?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Got five shows at the Louisville Comedy Club, one tonight,
two tomorrow, two Saturday night, and then at an after
party on Saturday night at Patoche's a great bar. We
uh yeah. I don't know if you know this, but like,
I got a horror movie coming out in theaters in
just a few months. It's called Don't Move, is based
on one of my books. I write thrillers. I've got
nine books out right, so my fifth one. It's like
a creature feature novel, paternative movie. And in the movie

(03:51):
is a local Louisville Bourbon company mis or Missus Bourbon
of me right here in town. You know it, you've
heard of it, you love it, and uh and they're
bourbon is in the movie. And we came out with
an exclusive don't move line of bourbon from Missus Bourbon Company.
And so we're throwing a bourbon after party where we're
gonna be drinking and seeing karaoke at Pataches on Saturday

(04:14):
night after my fifth and final show.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
That is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's gonna be so much fun. Dude.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
There's so much love for Russ Smith in this town.
So mister and Missus Bourbon Company came out where everybody's
in on it.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I know, he's such a great guy. And like, they
only made fifteen hundred bottles of it, so it's extremely rare.
So if you want to come to my live shows,
you can get your take us at MURR live dot com.
If you want to come to the Bourbon party on
Saturday night after my final show, go to Murrsbourbonparty dot com.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's beautiful. You remembered all that stuff all right about
the movie making process. Oftentimes the finished product is not
the original dream Er. So what happened? How did it
go from page to screen?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Good question. The book is a it's almost identical because
I also helped adapt to the screenplay. But one giant
change is, well, we couldn't afford the opening scene of
the book boom, so I rewrote it. I dreamt the
new opening. It's the same idea. It's the same idea
but different settings. So in the beginning of the book,

(05:12):
the character it's a horrific accident in Museom Park with
one of you, you know, one of those chair rides
that goes around. It lifts up in the air and
swings around the spinning thing. It's like a kid writer,
it's disgusting, absolutely right that that's the original opening of
the book. Couldn't afford the cgi for it, so I
rewrote it to be in a haunted house where you
go slower in a car and a fire breaks out,

(05:34):
same kind of death, same kind of impact, but in
slow motion that we could afford, and it's as terrifying.
I also moved it from the book is the Bronx
to West to West Virginia. The movie is Chicago to
the Ozarks.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's all good.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, why because we had to shoot Missouri for taxing centives.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
That's funny how all those things come into play. We're
throwing those taxing centives around here too. We see all
these film crews here. But you're right, the dream to
the finished product can change drastically when someone says that's
gonna cost two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I will tell you the movie is better. I wrote
the book and I helped to adapt the screenplay. But the
movie's better than the book.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Because the book is fairly horrific, and the characters are
like Red Coast, they just exist to die, right, But
in the movie they don't. In the movie we got great.
It's because the actor, the acting is so good, in
the directing is so good in the movie is t Pain,
Rob Wriggle, Russ the Rapper, Russ, Tom Kavanaugh, who's the
flash at Ed you know, just a great, great cast.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
And Nicole lines up in the oddest places too. He's
a fascinating guy.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, he's one of our dear friends with many years.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, funny guy, all right on the show. You know
so many things you guys have done over the years here,
did anybody get permanent damnage from anything? And I'm talking
about emotional scarring.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Emotional Uh you know, I pushed right to the edge
of that last season, not me against Sal. If you
didn't see this episode, it's the biggest punishment we ever
pulled in fifteen years. So Sal believes that I lost
the episode. And so what him and Q planned was
for me to I had a new book coming out
last fall, so they arranged with the publisher permit to

(07:11):
get permission for me to record a chapter of the
audiobook for the book and to for real to put
it on the audiobook released in stores across American across
the world. So what they did was they strapped me
to the hood of a race car with a professional
race driver, whipping around a track at one hundred miles
an hour as I'm on the windshield reading a chapter
of my audiobook and that's the audio they're going to use,
right and I'm in a fire suit. I got a

(07:32):
helmet on, and I did it for real because South
thought it was my punishment, but it wasn't. So at
a key moment in their track, when like I've been
whipping around for ten minutes straight, screaming like an idiot.
The car goes around a bend and goes to a
blind spot. A duplicate car pulls out at speed with
a stunt guy on top, dressed just like me, holding
the same book in the end as end. So Sald

(07:54):
doesn't realize it's not me anymore. I jump off the car.
They tear ify firesuit. I had an workers outfit underneath,
And at this key moment in the track, the driver
takes the car cuts the corner too tight, the stunk
guy flies off the car. Su believes what he thinks
he sees. What he believes is me fly off the
car and hit the ground and roll, roll roll. Q

(08:15):
and the whole crew react as if it's happening love.
They're like, oh my god. Sau does not know the
whole crew is in on it, right, and Q's in
on it. Sau believes I just got killed, maimed, murdered.
He goes booking across the track, So does Cus, so
does sixty crew members that are all rehearsing. They're all
rehearsed to do this. Meanwhile, an ambulance pulls around the track.
I am secretly an ambulance and an EMT worker with

(08:36):
a long hair and a baseball hat on. I go
running out of the ambulance. I start working on my
own body on the ground. Who's actually the stunt guy?
Sal thinks he's killed his best friend and a key moment,
I stand up, take my wig off, and I was like, well, Sal,
this is actually your PUNI shit today, good cause severe
emotional traum.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Refer That is hilarious. I know you've had a lot
of people that you brought into as guests on the show.
Connected here Anthony Davis, Oh yeah, a d he played
it lexing.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
We have a show on coming on TV. We you know,
we sold a whole series with Ad, So the show
coming up on TBS. It's already shot. We finished the
whole season about three four weeks ago. It's called foul Play.
It's where Ad pranks his celebrity athlete friends and their colors,
what have you, And it's our show. We created it
with him because he was on Jokers. It was so
funny he is and we hit it off so organically

(09:29):
we said, we're like, we got to create a prank
show with him. So it starts on TBS in just
a few months. The season's done. We just finish shooting
it and then the first episode is going to be
him and Lebron James is in the first episode.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Never heard of him, but I do know who Anthony
Davis is.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, it's so much fun, man. The pranks are outrageous.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
When can we see your movie?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
The movie comes out a few months. We're actually after distributors.
Now say look for it. It's called Don't Move. You
can follow the movie at on Instagram at Don't Move
the movie. You can see the trailer when it's when
it drops shortly.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
What about don't Move the Bourbon?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Don't Move Bourbon just as very simple. Just go to
Don't Move Bourbon dot com to get your own autographed
bottle right now? Uh yeah, I think it's autograph does
an autograf it's not autodrafts. I'll autograph it when I
see you.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Thank you, Mr. I appreciate.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
But yeah, but again one of the only fifteen hundred
bottles at Don't Move Bourbon. Or of course go to
mister missus Bourbon dot com to get in a bottle
of the very delicious flagship brand. But either other way
otherwise come to my shows this weekend. It's outrageous. It's
like watching the TV show Happen Live. You're gotta see
me send an audience member out into these streets of
Louisville wearing earpiece and live on the spot. We watch

(10:37):
on screen and they've got to do and say what
I tell them too. So go to murder lov dot
com to get your tickets right now.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
All right, that's a Louisville comedy club. And then there's
an after party after the fifth show, which is Saturday night,
and all kinds of good things. A movie coming. Don't move.
Anthony Davis is going to be part of a prank
series with Murr down the road. Would you say TBS?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yes on TBS, come up soon, dude.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
You're a busy guy.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Thanks missing.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's great to meet you, buddy. Nice to meet and
an impractical joker and he's he's lived to tell the tale.
Your racetrack tale is premium. That's number one, Thanks so much.
That's Murr and you can find him. Would you say,
Murr live dot.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Dot dot com. I was teaching you a ticket and
my tickets and I'm glad

Speaker 1 (11:17):
No other Murr took that one back in the minute
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