Brian Quinn and the rest of the Impractical Jokers get their embarrassment in front of the camera.

They get their adulation on the road.

“(Touring) is a lot more work, a lot more travel, being away from home,” Quinn said during a telephone interview. “On the TV show, at the end of the day, I’m back home with my cat. But it’s better in a lot of ways. On the TV show, you’re keeping your head down, not being seen, not being noticed. But being on stage, you feel that love you’ve gained over the years. Interacting with fans of the show, which we don’t get to do on TV, is kind of the best part of the job. You really feel the love, you see people so happy to see you.”

The Jokers will feel the love from Mahoning Valley fans when the trio brings its Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Tour to the Covelli Centre on April 20.

For those who haven’t seen the TruTV television series, Quinn, James Murray and Sal Vulcano (and former member Joe Gatto) do a variation on “Candid Camera”-style hidden camera shows. However, while the unsuspecting people on “Candid Camera” usually were butt of the gag, on “Impractical Jokers” most of the humor comes from the embarrassing situations the stars are put in by their fellow cast members who have been friends since they were teenagers.

“We were just doing what we always did,” Quinn said.

However, on the television series, they do it on a much bigger scale. The guys started out as an improv troupe called The Tenderloins, which they did on the side while working day jobs.

For Quinn that day job was working as a New York firefighter, a job he kept during the first few seasons of “Impractical Jokers.”

Those worlds collided while shooting the fourth season. In every episode, the friends have to do different challenges and stunts with the loser facing a punishment. On one episode, Quinn has to perform a musical about his life. What he doesn’t know is the audience will be the crew from his old firehouse.

“We just found out ‘Impractical Jokers’ was renewed for seasons five and six, so I had to officially retire from FDNY,” Quinn said. “Before that, I had taken leave of absence. I was pretty emotional about it, and I didn’t know I was going there.”

The episode was edited to make it look like Quinn was laughing when he saw his fellow firefighters as his audience. In reality he was choking back tears.

“Those first few seconds I was getting really teary inception, and for the last several years he’s partnered with Larry David on the comedy, serving as its principal director and as a co-writer and co-producer with David.

Back when I interviewed him in February at the start of the season, Schaffer understandably was tight-lipped about what to expect from the final season.

Spoiler alert for those who aren’t caught up — David and Schaffer decided to embrace the divisive “Seinfeld” finale and have the season end with David on trial for violating Georgia’s voting laws by giving a woman a bottle of water while waiting to cast her ballot.

A parade of past guest stars return as witnesses to share tales of David’s bad behavior from previous seasons, and David (like Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer) ends up in jail … at least for a while.

Schaffer could be a little more forthcoming about the ideas behind the final season in an interview this week with the New York Times after the finale.

“When you start with a crime, one of the possibilities is a trial,” Schaffer told the Times. “So that was floating around, one of the many paths that we could go down.

“We were just talking about a little story, of Larry not wanting to be involved in a kid’s lesson. We talk out the scene and distill it down to a few lines. In character, he said, ‘I’m 75 years old, I’ve never learned a thing in my life.’ And that was the moment for us where we said, ‘Hold on a second, what if we just blew that up and just told everybody: ‘Larry’s never learned his lesson,’ and just did the ‘Seinfeld’ trial again?’ Just owned it. Like, we know what you thought of that, and we don’t care. We’ve learned nothing. We’re going right at it. We’re steering the Titanic right back at the iceberg.”

I didn’t hate the “Seinfeld” ending the way many fans did, but I described it as “vaguely unsatisfying” back in 1998 (I looked it up).

Maybe I’ve mellowed; maybe I was better prepared this time for what “Curb” delivered. But it felt like both a fitting homage to the show that gave David the creative freedom to do 12 seasons of “Curb” and different enough to serve as a satisfying conclusion … assuming David doesn’t change his mind and bring the show back for another round.

If you go …

WHAT: Impractical Jokers

WHEN: 7 p.m. April 20

WHERE: Covelli Centre, 229 E. Front St., Youngstown

HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $49.75 to $154.75 and are available at the Southwoods Health box office and through Ticketmaster.