John Mayer gets into the prankster spirit as the featured guest on the March 2nd, 2023 episode of TruTV‘s long-running hidden-camera series, Impractical Jokers. Mayer, who has never shied away from self-deprecating humor, plays various versions of himself to hilarious effect throughout the episode.
To start things off, hosts Brian “Q” Quinn, James “Murr” Murray, and Sal Vulcano prank a series of office temps with an elaborate scheme involving impersonating an executive of a blender company, Japanese investors arriving a day early for a meeting, and an over-eager John Mayer bent on selling the company a new jingle: “Fist fights and fender-benders, Donkey Dan’s Margarita Blenders. [Donkey sound].” Hilarity ensues.
After Murr emerges as the loser of the office prank round, John Mayer and the Impractical Jokers head to Brooklyn, NY to stage his “punishment” at The Sultan Room: While Mayer tapes an intimate solo acoustic show for some fans at the Bushwick venue, the hosts explain, Murr has to play his stage manager—who happens to be “drunk on power.”
Mayer starts the bit backstage at the video monitor with Sal and Q, laughing along as they direct stage manager Murr to bully arriving fans into taking off their headbands (“Look, you’re not at an L.A. Fitness right now”) or mov.’ them out of their good seats and into the “VIP paddock” in the back of the room. “This is really… brutal,” a grinning Mayer says as he watches attendees’ deflated faces from afar.
John Mayer finally takes the stage and shifts his demeanor, going into Serious Musician mode to tee up the unsuspecting crowd. “Songs are like stories, and stories are like songs,” Mayer deadpans. “I thought that I would begin with ‘Your Body Is A Wonderland.’” The earnest performance barely gets past the singer’s “bubblegum tongue” before Murr, at the direction of the Jokers behind the curtain, screams for him to stop.
During the pause, a woman in the audience calls out to Mayer to ask if she can move up to one of the forcibly vacated front-row seats. When a grumbling Murr explains his reasoning, Mayer is incredulous (“A VIP paddock?!”), and directs fans to return to their original spots. Still, Murr is undeterred: “From the top. Johnny, start at one, you’re gonna tell the whole bulls–t over again.” Mayer starts the song over, but the Jokers quickly stop him again—this time, just to tell him that the producers “need a little more from you, Johnny.”
With Mayer and the crowd alive growing visible more annoyed, Murr uses “Wonderland” take three to once again start removing fans from the front rows. This time, it’s Mayer who stops things short: “Why are you moving people in the middle of songs?!” Murr mumbles some excuses, but an incensed Mayer has had it. “How about we don’t interrupt ever again,” he demands, prompting cheers from the uncomfortable audience. “F— that guy!” sounds their victory call. “We’re here for John Mayer.”
Murr, defeated, leaves the room, but the Jokers backstage aren’t done pulling his strings yet. Instead, they keep his headset mic turned on in the venue and instruct him to go use the bathroom in the hall for some “paperwork.” When Murr finishes his business and shows back up in the room mid-“Daughters”, the crowd looks stunned. Murr plays dumb, so Mayer asks for the video operator to pull up a clip of the turd that everyone heard.
As serious as can be, Mayer lays into his stage manager. “You guys wanna see him get his comeuppance, right?” he asks the mortified audience. “Everyone right now is watching you take a crap on camera.” After a well-timed pause, however, Mayer cuts the tension one last time. “Alright, ‘Your Body Is A Wonderland’, he smiles, and begins to play.
Watch John Mayer and Impractical Jokers prank unsuspecting fans at The Sultan Room in Brooklyn, NY below. Watch the full John Mayer episode of Impractical Jokers here.
After the shenanigans were done, it looks like John Mayer did, in fact, treat those fans to a real concert. Scroll down to watch him perform his arrangement of Tom Petty‘s “Free Fallin’” with help from Brian “Q” Quinn.
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