Jackass c or d

I'd like to know how involved Spike Jonze is in it? he's listed on the credits and I'm sure he's been mentioned in some of the carnage that ensues.

any brits who want to see it (you need cable or satellite) it's on most days on MTV at 10 at night, plus E4 were showing the first series a while ago.

steve-O's all over hair removal and butt cheek piercing last night was excruciating.

I also got a kick out of seeing Brad Pitt (yeah, Brad Pitt) in a monkey suit goofin' around with those monkeys. That might've been on the last episode; not sure about the chronology.

Best thing on MTV, bar none.

Johnny Knoxville wearing a Santa suit, being dragged around LA (I think) in a car-pulled sled, handing out free fried chicken & soda. I almost cried.

And, yes, when thinking about the poo cocktail, one's stomach does tremble. I just love the way he says "poo". POOOOO cocktail. I'm awash in a sea of POOOOO.

Have any of you Americans visited Mianus?

I watched an hour of it last night and it cheered me up no end, in fact I'm starting to tape it all to act as some sort of video prozac.

Knoxville and Pontius were playing rugby last night on massive hangovers, bless 'em.

'czech police..firm...firm but fair'

I loved the Cool Hand Luke egg eating marathon. And the trip to Mianus.

The fact that Bam and Knoxville et al. + their predecessor Tom Green are making so much money off this kind of schtick by selling it as comedy is probably making quite a few Dadaists/Aktionists turn over in their graves

The film is amazing, obviously.

Destroy: paper cuts, anything involving genitalia/rectums

IMHO, Jackass < CKY.

And then did Cannonball!

And then married a Coppola!

I heard that Knoxville got his job on Jackass by putting on a bulletproof vest and then shooting himself while on tape. His real name is CJ Clapp, and he was living at home in, of all places, Knoxville at the time.
He got his start 'directing' skate videos, didn't he? I assumed he just got recruited/hopped on board when they decided to take it to MTV. He's not part of the original CKY crowd, I'm pretty sure. He's more old school.
-- Millar (tmilla...), April 21st, 2003 9:54 PM.

Millar, you are spot on, he tested home security devices on himself for Big Brother magazine, filmed it and the rest is history, I think he was in LA at the time writing for BB.
The film is amazing, obviously.
-- chris (cbrassic...)

just to add some background for those interested:

spike jonez (ne adam spiegel) was a bmx photographer in the late 80s before moving on to filming skateboarding videos (including the best one ever: video days by blind). so it's interesting to see how people (nathalie) who i assume are only familiar with him via his "serious" work feel about him returning to more of his roots here.

to add to chris' answer: yes, johnny knoxville was a writer for big brother (cf: jeff tremaine (jackass producer), dave england, etc.) for a few years before moving into the video work on the shit, crap, #2, and boob quadrology (introducing cris "wee-man" acuna, steve o, etc.).

I cannot wait.

For the record Jackass = CLASSICKER THAN CLASSIC (especially the West Chester crew. ::drool::)

The Rock's back in the WWE now isn't he? I definitely know what you mean since after he left I pretty much stopped hearing about wrestling altogether. Have they even had another superstar since? I hear the name John Cena a lot but don't know anything about him.

oh wait, I do know something about him. a buddy of mine d/led his rap album and it was pretty funny. but not THAT funny. those old Wrestlemania soundtracks really were amazing. the days of amazingly ludacris stuff like "Speaking From the Heart" by the Macho Man is over! or maybe I just got really out of touch

John Cena is boring as hell and a hark back to 'eat yr vitamins' superhero hogan - i.e. kids fucking love him even though he's a bitch

The Rock is back in the sense that he's on the show once every 3 months and has a match next April v Cena

Everyone retired or is on the verge of it and Punk is leaving so they are left w/ p much no-one interesting. Also Kane is a face. Hard time out there for a pimp (Vince).

Most 2 interesting guys these days is a mexican who can't speak english and a dude who has gone crazy after supposedly losing his looks so wheres a see-thru mask proving that he looks exactly the same

wtf?

Of course nothing will ever top the craziness of the storyline where Mae Young "dated" Mark Henry then gave birth to a hand after the Dudley Boyz 3d'ed her through a table.

okay wait a minute

do you mean Punk as in CM Punk or Punk as in David Otunga, aka Punk from "I Love New York 2"

i can't believe i missed a chance to go throw rocks at fred phelps and krew yesterday :(

CM Punk, obv.

Of course nothing will ever top the craziness of the storyline where Mae Young "dated" Mark Henry then gave birth to a hand after the Dudley Boyz 3d'ed her through a table.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 23 June 2011 14:31 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and it wasn't a mixed race hand! slapper.

watched jackass 2 for the first time last night. it reminded me v much of an italian mondo/exploitation movie, what w/ all the animal exotica and gross-out cruelty (leeches on the eyeball!) Even the description for Mondo Cane on Wikipedia makes them sound the same - "The film consists of a series of travelogue vignettes that provide glimpses into cultural practices around the world with the intention to shock or surprise Western film audiences.[1]"

Steve-O's new show is ridiculously entertaining...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kCcGnp75XU

New movie; spring 2021. Surprising they haven’t brought it back sooner considering the 3D film made something like ten times its money back in the opening couple of weeks. I guess Knoxville is.. 50ish now??

Wow, didn't expect that.

I need assurances that Phil and April will be participating (willingly or unwillingly).

unwillingly is always better

I don’t see how this could be anything but utterly depressing

you have no soul

Haha, I honestly kinda root for these guys! There’s undeniably an age limit to this though. And it’s been dark enough in their older years off camera.

turn of the millennium culture was so bleak

https://www.gq.com/story/johnny-knoxvilles-last-rodeo

Good one!

god i love him/them

Great interview. The show and movies got me through one of the roughest parts of my life. I'm pretty ambivalent about this new one because these guys are old and getting hurt takes a toll now and I don't want to see them get too hurt, but on the other hand, I want to see them get hurt

Johnny Knoxville is like our generation’s Hooper
he is fucking nuts but so committed to the stunt I love him for it while I pray for him not to die

also silverfox Knoxville is a blessing omg

Immediately sent the urethral tear bits to all my dudes.

bummer about Bam’s situation

That text from Steve-O is oddly touching

yeah the rehab section made me tear up a bit

definitely made me think of some guys I've known for 20+ years, including one who died overdosing on fentanyl in 2014. it sucks to have friends who won't ask for help.

More fun facts: the Bam contingent of this show/series were mostly a couple of years under me at my high school, which is 15 minutes from where "Mare of Easttown" is set, so there's some context for you.

Delayed until 2022. Why not just cancel everything? This pandemic sucks.

booooooooo

;_;

Man

Ughhhh

Some all-time bits in this new one but man, they can say what they want about loving each other and catharsis and what not, I suspect they really do not like Ehren and just enjoy torturing him.

Also, props to the new cast for going all-out but I can't see myself paying to see any of them on their own going forward, if that's the plan.

Wasn't a big fan of this one, which seemed kind of half-assed. First, yeah, the new cast (who I think I was introduced to a few months ago in Jackass Sharkweek?) doesn't have much going for it. And second, aside from a couple of bits it was just kind of ... transparently obvious? Like, a guy will walk into a room and just say out loud "oh, I guess I am all alone, that's weird," and then he'll sit in the one chair. "Oh, what will happen? Come on, guys, why are you dumping honey on my head? Oh no, now you are putting salmon in my crotch. What the, a bear!?" This one seemed even more reliant than usual on dick trauma, too.

I had never seen any Jackass episode or movie before and I lolled plenty and wished I could sit in a cinema full of other people lolling even harder

Oh, you're in for a treat! The other movies (and the show, and Wild Boyz; Pontius is the most charismatic) are all pretty funny.

I saw this a second time with some family who hadn't seen it yet and think I might have liked it a little better. Both times on weekend nights the audience was really small for such a big release; not much different from watching it at home really.

I think the twist with the bear skit is that they had led Ehren to believe he was gonna get stung by bees. That one still leaves me uneasy because there was literally nothing to prevent the bear from mauling him until the trainer decided he had to step in.

The issue I have (not an ethical issue or anything, just as a viewer) is that unlike Knoxville, Pontius, Steve-O, Wee-Man, Preston, Dave, etc., he just does not seem to be having fun in his segments. He'll subject himself to getting punched hard in the nuts and he'll seem really unhappy about it from the start, and react with as much anger as pain, and then ... just do it again. So is his discomfort and anger an act? Like, why would he think *anything* good would come from getting strapped to an electrified chair, or get a hockey puck to the nuts, or get put in a room with a rattlesnake, and so on? Let alone repeatedly? It's kind of joyless, which is antithetical to the ethos.

Another thing I disliked about the new cast (as such) is that they were all admitted fans of the show and seemed almost intentionally cast for their compliance and/or pain tolerance. So the fat guy that jumps onto a cactus pile ... so? He barely reacts. Or the girl that sticks her tongue on the sparking thing? Um, OK, she did it. But there's nothing particularly creative about either set up. There's no surprise, nothing can go wrong because nothing can go right. Unlike Knoxville almost getting killed by a bull (which apparently had a planned outcome that did not come to fruition) or even Pontius playing ping-pong with his dick or Steve-O farting underwater (which took some problem solving and trial and error and stuff). They just do the thing, which kind of earns a shrug in my book.

Ehren has always been crabby (or, yknow, normal) though! thats why stunts w him were always extra funny to me because he was SO gullible & SO pissed off afterwards

We tried to do a Jackass. @autogynefiles pic.twitter.com/iDmbftRVuE

— Grace Freud (@GraceGFreud) February 8, 2022

i resisted "more reliant than usual on dick trauma" as a dn

Or the girl that sticks her tongue on the sparking thing? Um, OK, she did it.

Yeah my only real complaint is that Rachel Wolfson was a bit of a nonentity onscreen. The bits that she was a participant in she didn’t really react or do anything funny, she was kind of just there. Not sure what they see in her that she made the cut.

likely her willingness to stick her tongue on the sparking thing

Oof:

https://ew.com/celebrity/bam-margera-threatened-father-hit-brother-police-say/

There is a lot of penis work going on in the latest movie.

Johnny Knoxville has a new interview podcast cohosted w Elna Baker of NPR where they talk to fearless folks like Jeb Corliss, Gary Leffew, Trav

Pastrana etc

its called Pretty Sure I Could Fly & it’s a good time imo

fave eps so far:
Trav Pastrana - love him, always have
Ann Daniels - walked both North & South Poles as a normcore English lady with no outdoorsy background
Dudley Tal Stokes - jamaicam bob sledder

also Garret McNamara but only because the sidestories about his early life are fucking WILD

Gary Leffew the bullrider is hella fun & interesting but he talks almost exactly like Boomhauer from King of the Hill so you may need to listen at half-speed to catch everything lol

Jeb Corliss is interesting & wild of course but his intensity is at like a 12 which gives him kind of a weird psychotic energy that makes him hard to listen to.

ugh sorry for shitposting

but re Jeb Corliss despite my discomfort he gets Johnny to talk in more depth about why he did his own stunts, what was in him that needed to do that etc & is a surprisingly revealing convo

ok i’m done i swear lol