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The co-star of the long-running show “Impractical Jokers,” James ‘Murr’ Murray, was the Grand Marshal for Sunday’s Toyota/SaveMart 350 and belted out a hearty, “Gentlemen, start your engines!” before the NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway. “I heard somebody the other day say you won’t believe it when you get there, the absolute energy in the air, and gosh, I feel it,” Murray said before the race. “Walking out there among the fans and in the stands, it’s absolutely electric.

You can feel the energy in the air.” It was all business for the drivers on Sunday. But for his own line of work, Murray doled out some advice for when jokes go horribly wrong.



“You hope that security is not too far away,” Murray said. Murray, co-stars Brian “Q” Quinn and Sal Vulcano, and comedy partner Joe Gatto had one such gag involving former MLB pitcher Noah Syndergaard when he was with the New York Mets. As customary for some MLB players, Syndergaard usually signed baseballs and tossed them to kids in the crowd before games.

This time, Syndergaard was signing baseballs, “but he was working with us, so he was only throwing the baseballs to (Gatto) in the show, and so the parents were getting furious. And then at one point we told Joe to pick up a baby and say, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ll get the ball.’ Noah throws the ball to him and hands the baby back to the mother and keeps the baseball, and she lost her mind,” Murray said.

“It was great fun for me because I .

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