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Knoxville (who uses his real name, P.J. Clapp, off-camera) has made a career for himself by damaging his body in spectacular ways. Until Ozzy Osbourne let cameras into his living room, Knoxville's show, Jackass--it's named for the idiocy of the stunts performed on it--was MTV's most popular program ever. In it, Knoxville and his skateboarding pals would go on adventures like shooting one another with stun guns, sitting in a well-used Porta Potti while it is flipped upside down and competing in a hard-boiled-egg-eating-and-barfing contest...
...modern-day Knievels made only 25 episodes (the series was cut short after running into criticism from parents and Senators), their craft lives on, not only in imitation homemade, backyard-wrestling-style tapes advertised in late-night cable commercials but also in their final project: a new MTV film, Jackass: The Movie, opening this week. The movie differs from the TV show mostly in that it will be shown in theaters...
...Jackass film office is a mess. Two dogs run around. The doorbell rings, and the secretary, busy trying to work the typewriter, yells for someone to open the door. Two workmen arrive to replace the broken conference table for the fourth time. The director of photography shows up for his 9 a.m. call at 2:45 p.m., and he hasn't missed anything. Half-empty bottles of whiskey lie everywhere. It's a brief glimpse into what the world would look like if it were run by high school dropouts...
When the two vans of Jackasses arrive at the Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Carson, Calif., to tape the bit, director/co-creator Jeff Tremaine is angry. Despite a prior warning to the owner to keep the taping secret, the place is crawling with teenagers. And because Knoxville is the anti--Carson Daly, the new James Dean for cool kids, he is always bumrushed for autographs, which ruins the sketch because it undermines the whole concept of Jackass: horrifying unsuspecting bystanders. To fix this, the crew went to Japan and Mexico to tape much of the movie, and now Tremaine...
...Jackass team is pumped. For them, this is like Brando nailing a scene. When Knoxville comes to, they walk him outside the swap meet and prop him up against a wall. "I'm Johnny Knoxville. Come see the movie, and you'll see why I have to get stitches," he says clearly, in what turns out to be his last completely lucid moment of the day. That's when Cindy Mendoza, 15, spots him. "Dude, it's Jackass. Dude, I watch your show every night at 10. How come you didn't bring Steve-O? Dude...