-Johnny Knoxville, welcome to "The Tonight Show."
I'm so happy to have you here, bud.
-Well, happy to be here.
-It's always fun seeing you, because I got to see you --
You helped me out on my other show, "Password."
-Oh, don't show the first episode.
-We have to. -I did so bad
on the first episode. -No, you didn't.
-Oh, no, I did terrible. Second episode,
I did a little better, but oh, boy.
-[ Laughs ] Were you that bad?
-No, I was really self-conscious.
-You were? -Yeah, I was terrible.
-You were fantastic. You're charming.
Everyone loves you. -Come on, come on.
-Ah, you are. You know what?
You posted something online that I loved.
You actually played Ken before,
which I didn't know, and I didn't --
Yeah. I mean, we just had Ryan Gosling out here.
And you played Ken before he did.
-Playing my role. -Yes. He took --
[ Laughter ] That's right.
He played your role famously made by Johnny Knoxville
when you played Ken.
-It was my first thing I ever got.
It was a video for Tom Petty,
Phil Joanou, who was directing,
and I played a Ken doll,
and I almost got fired because it was on a rotating stage,
and Tom Petty stood in the middle and sang his song,
and the stage revolved around him,
and everything that happened was in the background.
But the stage broke for like three hours
and someone was like,
"Hey, let's go get stoned at my house."
And I was like, "Okay!" [ Laughter ]
-You didn't even think about it. You just said yes.
-Yeah. So we all went and got stoned for a couple hours.
We come back and they had fixed the stage within 30 minutes
and they were just -- -You've been gone for two hours.
You're like, "Oops." -Oh, I was so embarrassed.
I felt so bad.
-But Tom Petty, do you go "This is exciting"?
Tom Petty -- he's super cool. -He was so nice.
-Yeah. -He was so nice.
I ended up -- They were rehearsing
and the stage was rotating.
I went up and I was singing into the mike
because this is my one of my first jobs.
I didn't know you're not supposed to do that.
[ Laughter ]
But Tom came up behind me and was laughing and joking around.
I ended up getting to do
a "King of the Hill" with Tom Petty years later,
and I just loved the guy. -Me too.
-And he's how you wanted him to be.
You know how sometimes you meet people and they're exactly --
-I know exactly what you're talking about.
-So he was great. -You just want Tom Petty
to be just cool and "Hey, man, how you doing?"
And he kind of is that. -Yeah.
So it was kind of cool to almost get fired off his set
for being stoned. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. That's interesting.
But then we actually got a still from the video and I go --
-Oh, no, it's so embarrassing. Okay.
It's my first thing. I told everyone.
-Wait, Johnny. -This is my big thing, you know?
And it came out and this girl at work, Crystal --
I was waiting tables. She goes, "Yeah, it came out."
I'm just like, "I couldn't tell you
because they didn't have long focus."
Show a picture of what actually --
-It's in the video "You Don't Know How It Feels."
♪ You don't know how it feels to be me ♪
Yeah. And here he is, Johnny Knoxville as Ken.
Get ready, everyone.
[ Laughter ]
-Ah! -There you go.
Unbelievable. Wow! That was... I'm getting teary-eyed.
-I was actually really bummed.
-I'm getting teary-eyed remembering this performance.
[ Laughter ]
Were you bummed? Did you just go, "Wait"?
-Yeah, because I was like, "I'm not going to work ever again
probably." -"That was my big break."
-Closest I ever got to Hollywood.
[ Laughter ]
-Pal, everyone clearly knows you from "Jackass,"
the TV series, but also the great movies you did.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Oh, great. Great.
-By the way, you know what I was going to say to you?
I don't know if I did say this to you when I saw you last time,
but, you know, any of those new goggles
or the VR goggles or, like, the Apple Vision Pro,
the number-one movie or number-two movie that they go
like, "You really want to see a 3-D experience, it's 'Jackass.'"
It's you. Dude, you're on the Meta glasses.
You're on any new technology.
They're like, "You want to see cutting-edge technology."
It's always you.
-Why would you want to do that to yourself?
[ Laughter ] We have things coming at you
that really shouldn't come at you.
[ Laughter ] You know?
There's a lot of perverts out there.
That's why. -No, no.
Man, oh, man, it is so funny.
You know what you do. It's brilliant.
It's next level. It's three levels above anything.
-Maybe below. -Oh, my gosh.
The fans want to know, will you ever do another Jackass movie?
-I don't know. I still write ideas for it just
because I have a lot of time on my hands.
[ Laughter ] But I don't know
if we'll ever do another one. It's kind of
you get the feeling, and then "let's do another."
So I don't know. -Okay.
-Would you do the stunts still?
-No. I made a promise to my kids
that I wouldn't do any more stunts
where I'm going to get another concussion.
I've had too many concussions.
I don't care if, like, I, you know, break my arm or wrist
or anything, but I can't have any more concussions.
-Alright. So any stunt, no concussions involved.
-Yeah, yeah, but everything else I'm up for.
-Yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]
I want to talk about your new movie, by the way.
But before that,
you also have a podcast called "Pretty Sure I Can Fly."
-Yes. What an original idea to start a podcast.
-Yeah. I've never --
You're always on the cutting edge.
-Oh, my goodness.
-You're the last person on Earth,
everyone in our audience has a podcast.
It's amazing. [ Laughter ]
But this actually, this is fascinating
and I even love the title, by the way,
"Pretty Sure I Can Fly."
What is that? -It's from a Guy Clark song
called "The Cape."
And it's a little kid got a, you know,
a homemade cape around his neck,
and he's gonna jump off the garage
and he's pretty sure he can fly. -Yeah.
-And the show's about,
I guess the short version is people with more balls
than a bowling alley. [ Laughter ]
I'd like to see what makes them tick,
because they're doing things that people said,
"There's no way in hell
that you're going to be able to do this, and you shouldn't.
So stop," and they continued with their dream.
-And then they did it. -They did it.
I'm pretty sure I can fly. And guess what?
You did fly. It's kind of awesome.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's great.
But I want to talk about your new film.
"Sweet Dreams" is the film.
And you play a little softball in this,
which you're really good at, by the way.
-Oh, thanks. -Yeah, you are.
Are you a -- Are you --
-I think everyone's good at softball.
-No.
Sadly, I played last night with the crew
and I'm terrible.
It's awful. I'm so bad.
I should have called you last night to show up.
We went to a field.
-Oh, that would've been -- I love it.
Because baseball was, like,
the only thing I was ever kind of good at.
And then, so this movie came, I'm like, "Oh, yeah, sure."
-What position did you play?
-I pitched and played first base.
-Wow. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-I played third base for a little bit
and then I got a bad hop.
-Oh, yeah.
-I think I got a concussion there.
Yeah. It was, like, it was rough.
And I go, "I'm just afraid of baseball now."
-They put me at third base for one game and I could catch it,
but I would get so excited
and just throw it over the fence.
-Yeah, yeah. -You know, they go,
"Let's put him back on first
where he doesn't have to throw it so much."
-Yeah that's smart. Yeah, exactly.
Because you get the ball you go, "That was enough."
-I was just like, "Ah-ha!" -"Isn't that great I caught it."
"Yeah, no you have to throw it the first now."
Yeah. It's so hard.
Can we set up the movie,
what it's about and who you play?
-Yes, I play Maurice, and he's fighting to get his life back
and his daughter back,
he's going into rehab,
he's burned the candle at both ends,
which I personally never have.
I'm joking. I have. -It's a real stretch for you.
-Yeah. Real stretch. -Real stretch for you.
Yeah. [ Laughs ]
But you honestly, it is actually --
you're getting great reviews for a great performance.
-Thank you. -There's one scene in there,
you told me that your actual daughter was giving
you lines off camera.
-Oh, my God, my oldest daughter,
Madison worked on the film.
And in the movie,
you know, my 10-year-old daughter --
she would read the lines for my 10-year-old daughter.
And every time I'd hear a little voice,
I would just crack and start welling up.
Because, you know, she's my --
She's my baby. -Yeah.
So, uh -- So I've gotten, like,
way more sentimental as I got older.
It's embarrassing.
Like, I am, so -- It's terrible.
-Yeah, me too. I love it.
I see a commercial, I just lose it.
I go, "I'm out."
It's the best thing I ever seen.
I'm calling my dad immediately.
Like, "I love you, Dad."
-I don't know what's happening to me.
-I think it's a good thing.
-I spent too much time with my mom.
No! It's fantastic.
And the reviews are to show for it.
But basically you're trying to get your life back
and you end up with this team.
And if you win, you get some money,
get to kind of get a little bit of your life back.
-Yeah. -I want to show a clip here.
Here's Johnny Knoxville in "Sweet Dreams."
Take a look.
-My name is Maurice and I'm in a program,
and my sponsor suggested that I come down here to tell you
that I may be the person
that caused all this damage to your place.
-Your purple pants guy.
-Yeah.
And part of my recovery,
"If there's anything I can do to make it right,
I'd like to offer that up, because I'm --"
Hey, Frank. You're not gonna believe this.
The owner is sober.
-[ Laughs ] Johnny Knoxville, everybody.
"Sweet Dreams" opens in theaters tomorrow
and on digital April 16th.
More "Tonight Show" after the break.
Stick around, everybody.