jackassworld

In a rare non-life threatening appearance, Johnny Knoxville sits down pre-tape style for an informal interview with The Deadly Syndrome, a band that includes two Dickhouse/jackassworld employees, Jesse Hoy and Chris “Crash” Richard. A video for their song “Eucalyptus” follows the interview, although this being an Interweb presentation greatly diminishes its once televised debut quality.

When we left the MTV studios after wrapping out the late great jackassworld 24-hour takeover on Sunday afternoon, it was a rather surreal feeling re-entering the time space continuum of reality, like none of it had ever taken place. (more…)

In conjunction with the release of its documentary The Man Who Souled the World, Whytehouse Productions kicked off a promotional tour with an art retrospective show featuring the old skateboard graphic work of Marc McKee and myself. The show has blown through San Francisco, Los Angeles and Stuttgart, Germany in recent months, but is now bound for a few stops in Australia. Here’s some basic information about the show:

“Censorship is Weak as Fuck is a collaborative show featuring over 40 skateboard graphics designed by Marc McKee and Sean Cliver. The show features work the two have done for World Industries and its subsidiary brands from the formation of the company in the late ’80s to its mid-’90s rise to industry dominance. The collection of original skateboards demonstrates how World Industries set itself apart from its competitors by using a totally uncensored approach, featuring controversial subject matter such as religion, pornography, gun control, sex, profanity, racism, drug use and violation of copyright law, all on the bottoms of its skateboards.”

Hinging upon my survival of the jackassworld 24-hour takeover, I’ll be appearing at the following galleries in Australia between February 28-March 9:

Sydney
China Heights Gallery
Level 3/16-28 Foster Street, Surry Hills
February 28 - March 2
Hours: 11am - 6pm daily

Gold Coast
Blkmrkt
1/17 Harvest Court, Southport
March 6 - 9
Hours: 11am - 6pm

Once again, we rocked into the hour in dance party fashion. Knoxville lasted two songs, I think, before losing steam and moves. Fortunately this one stayed pretty happy overall, aside from JxPx, who absolutely hates The Smiths, and he pulled out some tin can lids to break up all the ticklishness. From there the takeover digressed into memory lane as Knoxville and the boys recounted some of the best (and almost always the worst) moments from the past 24 hours. And then it digressed into another dance party. All in all, good fun—no, great fun was had. Almost makes you want to play the “I’m not leaving game,” but not really.

Before we sign off for the nonce—just keeping it real Morrissey-like—I’d like to thank the following people for managing the jackassworld bullpen here all fucking night long and being total champs about everything and anything we put them through: Josh Lingenfelter, Derek Freda, Shannon Connolly, David Harris, Andy Han, Greg Wolf, Lance Bangs, Seth Casriel, Jose Cananana, Weston Houghton, William Boyer, Ned Watson, Maitee Cueva, Sophia Rai, Ciel Vanderveen, Grace Chang, Jason Cipriano, Sarah Strom, Brandon Freeberg, Danae Leali-Hudson, Garett Johnson, Jason Mitchell, Chris Moeser, Sarah DeFilippis, Manny Parisi, Dan Buchanan, Dino Covelli, and our digital “sponsors” Courtney Holt, David Gale, and Van Toffler.

(Photo: Sean Cliver)

Now I know for a fact that two noteworthy things happened in this hour. First, a dance party. One that started off nice, got real happy, then super happy, and all of a sudden it took a twisted violent 180 and became really super horribly ugly. And violent, too! My back was on the receiving end of some of this, but I guess Preston threw a cup of liquid onto Bam, all in good fun, of course, but then Bam flipped the fuck out and tossed a good deal more on Preston—and everything else around him—with a few punches for good measure. Turns out, Preston had accidentally grabbed Zach Galifianakis’s chew spit leavings off the desk and the crap got in Bam’s eyes and burned like bloody hell. So Bam went off and locked himself in a room while Knoxville sat down with Dave England to play a little tonsil-hockey. No, not with each other. One of our techies rigged up—correction, make that “jimmy-rigged” a lipstick camera with a penlight, plastic baggy, and rubber bands so Dave could shove it down his throat for an extreme firsthand perspective of his uvula and emerging bile of fury. Can this be over already? Please? Baby’s tired and wants to go home.

(Photo: Sean Cliver)

We have officially reached George A. Romero status within the studio. Bloodshot eyes, shaky hands, stumbling feet—total motherfucking zombies from hell. As you’ve probably noticed, a few of the guys have disappeared here and there for small periods of times or in Steve-O’s case altogether. But if you discerned a certain escalating tone within the context of the hourly updates then you can probably fill in the appropriate blanks. And now I don’t know if I’ve got this right or not, but amid repeats and clips and maybe some other shit, Bam tried to jump ship with only two hours to go. Luckily Dave England was in a place where he could roam, I mean, hobble freely and he forthrightly alerted everyone to the impending situation. Somehow Knoxville talked Bam into staying and plied him with power drinks and small rubber bouncy balls. For those of you who have been lording over the security camera feed, congratulations. You had front row seat for some topnotch shit. Too bad you couldn’t hear it.

(Photo: Sean Cliver)

With dawn’s early light streaming down the urethra of Times Square, Chris Pontius rallied together some men, most large, one thin, one old and one Cuban for an early morning workout. It was sexy, to say the least, but inspiring, too. Pontius demonstrated some fine exercises to enhance one’s performance in the bedroom and beyond while all the men struggled to aerobically keep up with the program. At one point (probably when Chris commanded everyone to work on something related to maintaining their scrotum), Knoxville had to leave the room because he was completely unable to suppress his laughter any longer. From there we all ran outside for a quick bite to eat courtesy of Phil and April who were down on the street slinging hotcakes and handing out free copies of her cookbook.

(Photo: Sean Cliver)

Going into the 24 hour takeover, we were told that live music performances were a rating’s killer, but there was no way we weren’t going to showcase Chris Pontius and his band Scream For Me.

I’m pretty sure some kick-ass stuff aired in hour 20, like Manny levitating alligators, befriending bears, and groping sharks, but one of the funniest things the last hour has been following Lance Bangs around the back hallways. But first a little history on Lance. We first worked with him on jackass the movie, where he was our behind-the-scenes cameraman. Ten months later he was prominently featured on the silver screen puking after Dave England prematurely shat himself in the van and then puking and passing out while the guys were all doing “Paper Cuts” in the hotel room. He also had a really bad habit of falling asleep around the cast and crew while on set. Skip a few years ahead to jackass number two, where Lance found center screen yet again, this time in the middle of Steve-O’s butt chug. There we were, trying to film Steve-O squirt the contents of his ass out, when Lance starts uncontrollably giggling off to the side. So much so that we have to stop filming Steve-O and start filming Lance who’s now gasping for air with tears running down his face. Anyway, you get the picture (especially if you saw Mianus): Lance = bonus footage, and he’s paid off once again. In hour 20 he went somnambulistic, stumbling around the hallways and passing out in narcoleptic fits, all of which Dimitry and Tremaine had great fun toying with, e.g. rushing at Lance with a sense of urgency to paralyze what little of his motor skills remain. Look for these Lance bits to hit the website in the next few weeks while we recuperate.

(Photo: Sean Cliver)

Jackie - NJ - DUDE JACKASS IS AWESOME AND IM ASIAN
Adam - Scottsville,Ky Jackass makes me laugh so hard i fart, and one time i pooped.
Mindy from tallahassee florida when r yall coming to tallahassee? Me and steve-o have some partying 2 do!
Eric. Philly. Bam is my idol. Im almost pro. DC is thinking about signing me. Hope i get to meet him if i do go pro. Later on Bam and thejackass crew.
Xavier-SC- i wish i was as hot as preston. he has the nicest body!!!!
Dennis-Warwick,RI- YOU GUYS ARE AWSOME!!!!! AMERICA NEEDS MORE JACKASS!!!! PLZ MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE OR SEASON OF THE SHOW!!!!
Danielle-nj- I wanna be locked in that cage with dave so I can do nasty things to him!
JAROD I LIVE IN LOCKPORT YOU GUYS ARE MY JACKASS HEROS TXT ME BACK
Gaby- chicago- i love all of you guys! Pontius and Bam, you guys are soo hott! U should wish me a happy bday, i turn 18 today!!
Shelby_ N.C. _ u guys are so stupid! But I Luv yall! Bam is SOO HOT!
Paige - VA - Jackass World is 10 times better than watchin ANTM reruns all the time!I love you, Weeman!
Emily, colorado. I love all of you guys so much. Jackass rules!
Ashley-NC-I think u guys are awesome! yal r my heroes!!
Matthew OH Jackass is the sickest show ever
Lauren-Ohio-OMG YOU GUYS ARE SO FUNNY! LOL
Abby- Chicago- this is the funniest thing ever. I love the idea of jackass taking over mtv… Its the only decent thing on here! Thanks guys
Lenny-Montauk NY-What up guys you are my heros. My friend and I want to take a train to NYC. Would you let us in the studio?… We’ll do anything!
Lance Ohio Mtv should have this last a week instead 24 hours
Calla-Manchester,CT-Ehren is still hot even without hair! I love him!
Jay - Dirty Jersey - Bam, Steve-O, Johnny & Wee Wee Man lol you all are the coolest dudes in show biz!
Brandon-SC- whats the big deal i flick door stoppers all the time sometime i’ll just flick it all day…
McLovin joey o, wantagh li., bam u smell bad. like penis cheese and tuna. thanks.
Brett ridley bakersfield - I love jackass but wee man I know how you feel I am the shortest kid in my school I’m 12 and 4ft 6
Tatataliciouz-bay area CA-..I just want to stay that Chris pontius is the sexicioUz mAn I’ve ever seen!!!! Do u like black girls..??
Garret-Victorville california- i think of wee man when i take a Crap
Jackie-cali- i want to rape all of you! and me and my bf want to gang bang missy!
Jessica san diego you guy’s rock . There will never be anybody like you guy’s . One of a kind . Jackasses but legendary by far . Pure geniuses . Love you guy’s
Amber Monterrosa, california, hey. Has dave been 2 the bathroom? U jackasses rocks my world johnny i LOVE u
Jeg - Sacramento CA - I have a kitty I named Pontius after my fav wilder-dude.
Shannon Tacoma Can I steal Wee-Man? Pleeeeeease?
Ricardo-CA-weeman lets get muffed up!
Cheyenne-parker az. U guys rock! I love ur show i love all of u guys!especilly bam and missy we culd have a three sum lol<~!Stay in love!
Ivan - Arizona - jackass is the greatest thing to grace mankind, forget 24 hours get
your own channel!
Andy - Ca - I want a bionic dolphin.
Mandy from Brew City.Im 21 and I love Jackass!Thing is, I know I know I could beat Steve-O at his rap game! Ha. Love you anyways.Xo
Corey - ky - mama warned me about jackasses in mianus!