James Murray Net Worth 2024

What Is James Murray’s Net Worth?

James Murray (often known as “Murr”) is an American comedian, actor, producer, tv character, and writer who has a net worth of $7 million. James Murray is finest recognized for starring on and govt producing the TruTV hidden digicam sequence “Impractical Jokers” (2011–current) alongside his associates Brian “Q” Quinn, Joe Gatto, and Sal Vulcano. The 4 make up the comedy troupe The Tenderloins. James wrote and directed the movie “Damned!” (1998) and the quick “Superdude & Friend” (2005), and he additionally directed the shorts “Subway” (2002), “Criss-Cross” (2005), “Standups in Love” (2007), and “The Little Slutty Mermaid” (2008). As an actor, Murray has appeared within the movies “Return to Return to Nuke ‘Em High AKA Volume 2” (2017), “Christmas Time” (2017), and “Clerks III” (2022), the tv sequence “Bones” (2015), “12 Monkeys” (2016), and “MacGyver” (2020), and the TV film “The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time” (2018).

James has produced most of the shorts he has written or directed in addition to the TV specials “Impractical Jokers Practically Live Tour Special” (2015) and “Impractical Jokers: One Night on the Grand” (2016), “Impractical Jokers: The Movie” (2020), and the tv sequence “Say Whaaat?” (2017), “Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party” (2020–2021), “Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes” (2016–2021), “The Misery Index” (2019–2022), and “Impractical Jokers: After Party” (2017–2022). Murray has additionally co-written the horror novels “Awakened” (2018), “The Brink” (2019), “Obliteration” (2020), “Don’t Move” (2020), and “The Stowaway” (2021) with Darren Wearmouth, and in 2022, he revealed the primary two books within the kids’s science-fiction sequence “Area 51 Interns,” which he co-wrote with Carsen Smith. James was previously the Senior Vice President of Development for NorthSouth Productions, and he owns Impractical Productions, LLC.

Early Life

James Murray was born James Stephen Murray on May 1, 1976, in New York City. His heritage is Italian and Irish, and he attended Monsignor Farrell High School in Staten Island. As a freshman, Murray met his future “Impractical Jokers” castmates Brian Quinn, Joe Gatto, and Sal Vulcano. James graduated from highschool in 1994, then he enrolled at Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University. Murray returned to Staten Island after graduating from college.

Career

In 1998, James wrote, directed, and produced the movie “Damned!,” which is described as “another re-telling of biblical tales advised as Jesus being an adolescent, Bible thriller solvers, and different comedic non secular figures.” Murray performed Judas within the movie, and at his request, his mother and father paid for the manufacturing of “Damned!” as an alternative of shopping for him a Ford Taurus. James reunited with Quinn, Gatto, and Vulcano after college, they usually shaped the sketch comedy and improv troupe The Tenderloins, happening tour in 1999. The group started filming comedy sketches and posting them on the web, garnering hundreds of thousands of views. In 2007, The Tenderloins entered their sketch “Time Thugs” within the NBC “It’s Your Show” competitors and received the $100,000 grand prize. “Impractical Jokers” started airing on TruTV in December 2011, and the primary season was seen by over 32 million individuals. TruTV’s hottest sequence, “Impractical Jokers” has aired greater than 230 episodes over 9 seasons in addition to 40 specials. According to the TruTV web site, “Impractical Jokers” follows lifelong associates as they “compete to embarrass one another amongst most of the people with a sequence of hilarious and outrageous dares.” Joe Gatto left the present on the finish of 2021.

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In 2019, Murray started starring on the TBS comedy recreation present alongside his “Impractical Jokers” castmates and host Jameela Jamil, and the next yr noticed the discharge of “Impractical Jokers: The Movie,” which grossed $10.7 million in opposition to a $3 million finances. In 2021, James launched into a family-friendly stand-up comedy tour referred to as “Murr Live.” He advised the Tampa information station WFLA in July 2022, “We play a lot of video games the blokes and I play on tour. I inform a lot of tales from the TV present, I present a lot of movies, hidden digicam challenges, only for the stay present that you could’t see on TV. Of course on the finish of the present, I ship somebody out sporting an earpiece they usually need to do and say what I inform them. We play ‘Impractical Jokers’ stay.” Besides his work on “Impractical Jokers,” James had an uncredited function within the 1997 movie “Private Parts,” and he has appeared within the movies “Return to Return to Nuke ‘Em High AKA Volume 2” (2017), “Christmas Time” (2017), and Kevin Smith’s “Clerks III” (2022). On tv, he has guest-starred on “Bones” (2015), “12 Monkeys” (2016), “Gods of Medicine” (2018), and “MacGyver” (2020), and he co-starred with Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox, and Judah Friedlander within the Syfy film “The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time.” Murray has additionally appeared on “Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered” (2020), “Down to Business” (2021), and the “Billy the Kid/Elizabeth I” episode of “Drunk History: UK” (2017).

Personal Life

James turned engaged to Melyssa Davies in 2019, they usually married on September 25, 2020. The couple met at Murray’s launch occasion for “Awakened.” A couple of days earlier than the marriage, James advised “Millennium” journal, “We have an identical outlook on life. We are non secular companions. Not essentially with faith, however that means the best way we view life, the best way we internalize issues, and the best way we categorical them externally.” The wedding ceremony befell on the Lake House Inn in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and James’ “Impractical Jokers” castmates served as his groomsmen. Murray beforehand married Jenna Vulcano, Sal Vulcano’s sister, as a punishment for Sal within the season three finale of “Impractical Jokers” in March 2014, however the marriage was rapidly annulled.