The Inspired Unemployed stars shock with embarrassing confession: 'So bad'

Four years on from quitting their jobs to pursue a full-time career in social media, The Inspired Unemployed has amassed 1.8 million Instagram followers, launched a successful podcast, and collaborated with stars like Margot Robbie and Shaquille O’Neill.

Now, the internet sensations have released their own TV show, The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers, which follows lifelong friends Matt, Jack, Dom and Liam having to do and say whatever they’re told through earpieces in bizarre (and hilarious) real-life scenarios.

The Inspired Unemployed creators Matt Ford and Jack Steele have opened up to Yahoo Lifestyle about their first foray into TV, their close friendship, and their most embarrassing moments.

How are you feeling about launching your new TV show?

Matt: “So excited. It’s like our biggest dream come true. I wish I could go back to when Jack and I were in France first starting The Inspired Unemployed, just to be able to tell ourselves ‘You’re doing a TV show’. We just never, ever would have thought it would happen.”

Jack: “Excited. Grateful. TV really was our dream, our end goal. For the last four years we’ve been asked ‘What’s the end goal?’ and we’d tell everyone ‘TV’. We had opportunities for the last two to three years come our way, but we turned them down because we knew we weren’t ready. We’ve done the podcast, we’ve done the videos for [long] enough, we’ve done a lot of in front of camera and we feel like our skills are maybe up to that point. It just all worked out, the format of the show worked out perfect for who we are.”

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How did the show come about?

Matt: “We got a call from Warner Bros... We actually were in the process of trying to write our own TV show, and then it was so weird, we started really trying to write all these things and have meetings with different production companies. When this was happening, we got a couple of offers from different TV shows... and then we got this one and we were like oh, it’s good but we want to do our own thing. Then, once we really thought about it we were like actually this is perfect. Seems like a fun concept and would be the perfect first thing for us to get into TV.”

Jack: “We knew Warner Bros. and Paramount were gun. We were going to start our own production company and do all of that, it would have just been a nightmare.”

What do you think people will love about the show?

Jack: “Hopefully something! I reckon how much we self-deprecate. Like, the joke's on us. We get embarrassed a lot and we just completely non-stop getting shunned which is funny for everyone but yourself.”

Matt: “We put ourselves in some pretty embarrassing situations.”

Jack: “I think it’s because we’re mates. You can tell, on screen, they didn’t just find four people. We’re so close. We’re hugging and screaming. You can just tell... It’s just us having fun. Hopefully, that shows on camera.”

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What are your favourite pranks on the show?

Matt: “We did one challenge on the show where we were in groups and wrote each other’s PowerPoint presentations and they didn’t know what the next slide was going to be. Seeing them try not to laugh, that was a really fun one.”

Jack: “We did one, ‘try not to laugh’ challenge. All four of you sit in a lobby reception with a bunch of strangers and one-by-one you’ve got to take it in turns to make the others laugh and the first one to laugh loses. And you just keep going until there’s one left. That was funny. It was so hard, it’s like you’re back in school again.”

What's your most embarrassing moment?

Matt: “I was at the GQ Man Of The Year Awards and Russell Crowe was doing a speech and I yelled out ‘Rusty’s the GOAT’ and no one laughed. It was so bad.”

Jack: “When I showed a girl my bank account.”

You can stream the entire series of The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers on Paramount+ or watch 8:30pm Wednesdays on 10 and 10 Play.

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