The Awesome Story of How Impractical Jokers Got Picked Up The Awesome Story of How Impractical Jokers Got Picked Up Over the last 10 years, Impractical Jokers has kept viewers entertained with endless improvisational jokes and pranks. During each episode, the four cast members compete to see who can put on the best “performance” by engaging random people in public and following embarassing commands from the rest of the joker team. However, the people on the show are unaware that they’re being recorded. As you can probably guess, things can get pretty wild. Although there may be some people who doubted that the show could be successful, year after year the cast continues to come back with more funny material.