Exclusive Interview: Brian Quinn Talks Impractical Jokers, Wanting To Work With WWE, 'The Misery Index' & More

Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer are among the few notable celebrities you guys have had on the show up to this point. Is there anyone else you guys are hoping to get on at some point?

Quinn: Yeah, we just had Jeff Daniels on the show, which I think will … not raise the bar but what we do with people. We've always been kind of hesitant to have guests on the show unless it's strictly organic. The reason you see Bully Ray on is because we became friends with him and we thought we should get him on the show.

If we're going to have guests, they have to be people we really care about or people we really want on the show. In the movie, it's Kane Hodder. Kane plays Paula Abdul's bodyguard in the movie. He's the best Jason Vorhees in the Friday the 13th movies. He's awesome. When people think of Jason, they think of him and his take on it. That happened because I'm such a geek for horror movies and I love the guy so much that I was like, “Let's get him in for a part in the movie.” It's got to be something like that.

I know everyone, the four of us, want Paul Rudd on the show because we love him so much. We don't know him that well, but the times that we have met him, he's been so nice. There is a wish list going around of who we'd have around, but I think it's different for everyone that's in the show. I want to get Justin Roiland on who does the voices for Rick & Morty, he created the show. I'd love to get him on as like a voice on a phone, dialing in and screwing with us.

I want to get [Joey] Fatone back on because he's the first guest we ever had. He's one of us now. It's really whatever friends we got that are around we want on. I think you're going to see John Mayer on sooner rather than later because we've been trying to get him on for years. He's one of the first public backers of our show and we've never forgotten that. Joe and I went to his concert, man, 15 years ago, so that would be a fun one, too.

We had Jay and Silent Bob on and that was insane. Our crew is very tight-knit. They're very scruffy but very professional at the same time. We've had guests on set, big names have been on set to watch us film to see how we do it. Our crew doesn't ask for pictures and stuff like that. Jay and Silent Bob came on set and everyone turned into who they were when the first time they saw Clerks.

It was amazing, everyone was so excited. Kevin and Jay are so nice that Kevin said, “The second we're done shooting, line everyone up and I'll take pictures with every single person.” And he did, the entire crew. That's really unprofessional of us to do, but you couldn't look at these people's faces and not let them have the picture with them. It was pretty cute to see.

Between eight seasons of the show, touring all over the country, doing your own cruiser, making a movie and everything else, what more do you guys hope to accomplish with the Impractical Jokers brand?

Quinn: I think, ultimately, we still loving doing the show. I mean, we really love doing the show. I'd say we want to keep making the show. The movie did really, really well, so if we had a chance to make another movie, I think we would hit a home run with a second movie. We learned so much on the first one, so I'd like to do that. And then, who knows? Every years, it gets kicked around of how we can do Impractical Jokers in the animated arena and I love that idea.

We can't do hidden camera, obviously, but it keeps popping up from the network every few years about, “What would you guys think about doing that?” I would love to do something like that. Honestly, I try not to think about it too much because I never thought it would go this far, so I'm frequently like, “When is this going to wrap up? I can't believe it's gone on this long.” I don't know, man. I don't know what to tell you.

So, basically, you just want to try to have fun with your friends in whatever you do going forward?

Quinn: That's it, man. We don't fight. If I told you how well we got along and how much we love each other and how much we love working with each other, you'd think I was just spewing B.S. for an interview. We really, really love working with each other.

To me, as long as we stick together, and that's not to say we don't all have individual things we want to do … Murr is writing his novels, he's had some good success with that, Sal's doing the solo touring, Joe wants to produce, everybody wants to do their own thing, but I don't really want to do anything ever that doesn't involve these guys in one way or another.

I just love it too much.