It doesn’t sound like Joe Gatto is joking when he says he gained’t be returning to Impractical Jokers, the hidden-camera prank present now airing its eleventh season on TBS.
“I’m not going to visitor alone present. It doesn’t really feel proper, and I can not decide to coming again to it,” Gatto instructed TheWrap in a latest interview. “I’ve moved on from the present, the present has moved on from me. I’m so faraway from it. We’re nonetheless mates, simply not mates from work anymore. However I’m so out of that mindset.”
Gatto mentioned he “instructed all of the jokes” he wished to inform as he filmed 300 episodes throughout his decade-long stint on Impractical Jokers. However the comic is open to some form of participation within the present’s closing installment, each time that comes.
“I’d in fact love to shut it in a enjoyable manner,” he mentioned. “We talked about that somewhat bit. I’d say it’s undoubtedly not the tip of me collaborating with these guys. We’ve been doing it for many years earlier than that, and we will likely be doing it for many years after. We work on little facet issues right here and there collectively. I like working with them. So who is aware of?”
Gatto introduced the tip of his Impractical Jokers involvement in December 2021, telling Instagram followers that he was stepping away from the present as he was separating from his spouse, Bessy.
“Alongside my mates, I’ve devoted a decade of my life to constructing this franchise and couldn’t be prouder of what has been achieved,” he wrote in that put up. “Nonetheless, attributable to some points in my private life, I’ve to step away. Bessy and I’ve determined to amicably half methods, so now I must give attention to being one of the best father and co-parent to our two unbelievable children.”
In a September 2023 follow-up on Instagram, nevertheless, Gatto instructed followers that he and his spouse had reconciled by means of “compassion, forgiveness and an open coronary heart.”
Impractical Jokers, Thursdays, 10/9c, TBS