From left to right, the Tenderloins are Brian Quinn, James Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano. From right to left, Sal, Joe, James and Brian. From the middle out, James, Joe, Brian, Sal.

Formed in 1999 by four high school friends, The Tenderloins (Sal Vulcano, James Murray, Joe Gatto and Brian Quinn) have been making New York City laugh for over a decade. The troupe’s first foray into comedy was through improvisation. Trained in the teachings of Del Close and Charna Halpern, The Tenderloins began doing Long Form Improv in 2000, followed by live sketch comedy shows soon thereafter. They have performed at venues and festivals in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, as well as at the San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival and the Miami Improv Festival.

The Tenderloins’ comedic videos have been featured prominently on the home pages of MySpace and YouTube, garnering them millions of internet views. After being named featured comedians on MySpace in 2007, The Tenderloins were ranked #1 out of over 23,000 MySpace comedians for the month of April. They are currently ranked 12th out of 123,000 comics.

After producing 20 comedic sketches and winning $10,000 for an online sketch competition sponsored by NBC, the troupe was cast on NBC’s, “It’s Your Show” sketch comedy show hosted by Carson Daly. The Tenderloins took top honors on the show and were awarded the Grand Prize of $100,000. They also recently took home a prize of $5000 for the Super U sketch comedy competition for Canadian Television. Now if you’re counting, that’s $115,000 in prizes alone. Are you counting? Good. Now tax that and divide it by four and spread it over a couple years. They all have day jobs.

Following the onslaught of riches the guys developed a scripted comedy pilot for Spike TV based on their own lives. The pilot was shot on location in 2008 in their hometown of Staten Island as well as in and around NYC. Currently, The Tenderloins have written, produced, directed, edited and starred in a television pilot which was named as an official selection of the 2009 New York Television Festival. The show will be screening in NYC in September.

The Tenderloins were also the principal cast on Seinfeld and in the first two Godfather movies as the two main characters, and won billions of other dollars from other things. So, you know...

Brian is a Fireman. Joe is a Baby Store Salesman. James is a producer. Sal is a bartender. Their favorite movies separately are Fight Club, The Shawshank Redemption, Alien and Swingers. Their favorite movie as a troupe is How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Now that you know a little about them (“us” really...we write the bio), please write us and tell us about yourself.