yes sir how you doing i've been better did you actually hurt yourself that was
nothing you do that stuff in your sleep yeah no i'm good i'm good
johnny tell people about the show it's kind of a cross between uh uh you and we owe you a lot
really super dave osborne but for real and candy camera yes so that's how did how did what are they
what is the origin of the show jackass i was writing an article on self-defense equipment
for a magazine called big brother and i was just gonna write it as an article white pepper sprayed
myself stun gun taser gun and i shot myself by wearing them so you did all of these things can
i take off my jacket yeah please do thank you it's not going to explode or anything is it
are you more comfortable now i feel lovely all right so tell us about what was the pepper
spray like it was like someone sprayed uh uh out rubbing alcohol on your eyes
and tried to flush it out with an acetylene torch and it's brutal and it was disabling
i couldn't breathe uh i was for 15 minutes i was wiped out right and and then then was
the the taser you said the taser uh shoots two darts to you which are connected by a wire into
a stun gun so the circuit connects in you and uh turns me into a noodle i went straight down
now how long did the effects of that hang on that's dangerous because the first time i got
shot with it only one stuck in so if you're doing that someone in the street i have a shirt on so if
you're shooting it's not going to work but uh just pretty much while he was uh engaging the
button that's the only time it really was i see and then you're fine again and then what was the
other one you know you had a bulletproof vest on somebody you shot yourself someone was supposed to
shoot me but once we got out there my friend said i'm not having anything to do with it right and i
don't know anything about guns so i was just like all right luckily it worked out so you shot your
you shot yourself yeah it was kind of scary because i didn't have much money at the time
it was a few years ago i still don't but um i had to buy the cheapest vest they had which
when it comes to bulletproof clothing i don't think you want to skimp when you want to cheat
yourself on that deal yeah so now you had all of this stuff on video and then you somebody saw and
said well let's do a show of this yeah we're doing skateboard videos for the big brother magazine and
uh people offered me a show and i said all right so now give people an idea of the kind of thing
that they might see on the jackass show now um well the self-defense equipment i returned punts
at a usc football practice oh that's that's pretty good now do you play football are you
a stunt man do you know what you're doing or you can eat uh i'm highly highly uncoordinated
uh but we have a pretty good idea what we're doing but you've been injured haven't you
yes i've been injured a few times uh four five six sprains a couple of concussions
uh that's just from the show i've broken a lot of bones in my life uh yeah
it's from my lack of coordination now how does your family feel about this
you're married you have children yeah my wife's over it she she no longer uh enjoys the show
which probably i got i got a wife like that myself
uh if if i if i come home on crutches now she won't even ask me what i did yeah
and what is it a little girl you have yes five years old does she watch the jackass
we let her see the things where daddy doesn't get hurt because she doesn't need to watch
uh daddy get blasted with a taser gun how long will how long will you be able to do this show
how long will the show last do you think oh well i i have no idea uh i i think the clock's ticking
really no it's actually going very well now have have you ever been in a situation where uh you
might other people might get hurt on like uh somebody else thinking that something has gone
haywire they jump in and they don't know it's a show or well no one in it was in physical danger
but i did a stunt where i got in a prison orange jumpsuit and was handcuffed dirtied myself up and
i went to a hardware store in l.a county jumpsuit and asked if they could sell the handcuffs off
wow yeah and um the workers kind of looked confused and i went back to the
saws and was trying to saw off the handcuffs meanwhile the owner clears the whole store
clears the camera man everyone i mean i'm back there just sawing with no one looking i'm like
well there's no one filming so i go outside to get four steps out the door and five car loads of cops
pull up yeah one of the lady cops she gets out of the car while the car's still going and pulls her
gun and tells me i want to get on the ground so i do but she doesn't put her car in park so
it runs straight into a light pole and i'm laying on the ground going oh that's going to cost a lot
but anyway i told her i said look after a while i said look we're filming a tv show and she swore at
me and didn't believe me but i eventually won them over now you have to be careful with that kind of
stuff because if you're the reason people have got guns out then that's no good no it's not good and
is is this thing just like lawsuits 24 hours a day are people always coming after you for stuff
no actually we've uh had a lot of we've been fortunate a lot of uh litigation and then there
was the thing where you were barbecuing yourself and then some kid did the same thing and he was
injured but is he all right now that kid yeah that wasn't how old was the kid i believe he was a 13
year old young man and that was unfortunate i hate when anyone hurts themselves especially
in that instance we always have disclaimers on the show verbal and written and every interview
i've ever given i said please don't try this at home well i think the name of the show in and of
itself would be the deterrent right looking for it if i do that i'll be a jackass but he is uh
he's okay yeah he's doing much better what was it you were on a like a barbecue grill and people
were toasting a roasting sauce yeah i had a flame retardant suit on and flame gels and a pyro guy
there and i hooked a fixed stakes on hooks to uh my suit and we had a makeshift grill there and i
laid on the the grill and rolled over and cooked the steaks
really cheap steaks too it wasn't good meat
how about johnny gogo johnny gogot have been a pretty good name too that's what we initially
were going to go with but it didn't roll off the top are you from tennessee yes yes but your name
is not really knoxville no but it's a good name johnny knoxville yeah that was good it doesn't
roll off the tongue like uh initially pj clapp yeah yeah that's your actual name yeah yeah and it
doesn't that's it doesn't roll off the tongue like pee diddy diddy no he did he actually did a little
thing for us he introduced uh the show and slapped around one of our guys to introduce the show i saw
uh you went in one time into a martial arts school and just started going crazy screaming and yelling
and kicking and everybody just stood there and looked at you and finally the instructor i guess
it was the instructor just kind of put his arm around you and led you out of the building yeah
they're like kick his kick his butt they're like wanting him to get fizzy i was like oh boy here
it goes because i'm not a good fighter and your father does he what does your mom think of this
um mom uh she she sometimes i'll get messages honey you were acting ugly on the show last
night i don't want people thinking you're acting ugly right so she's kind of on the fence my old
man loves it he always uh he always did stuff uh pranks he was a practical joker your dad uh at his
work he owned a tire company uh one of his guys big george was always falling asleep on the job
so a big dad would go over to big george and put a bag over his head while he was sleeping and
big george would wake up and think he was blind he wasn't the quickest thing out of the blocks
and he would start swinging at everyone he couldn't read either uh there's a uh
well actually there's another funny story when uh he would drive us around as i as children
me and my buddies big george and we'd get to a red light and he would just fall asleep he'd sleep
through about three red lights finally i would hit on the side of the car and he'd wake up and drive
right through another red light after you're in a sarah jessica parker movie god bless her
she couldn't be any lovely or pretty well now how can a guy how can the star of jackass also be
in movies with sarah jessica parker how does that work i don't know it's pitiful i just have
good representation i guess and what is the movie it's called life without dick it was uh the nissan
certainly give mom something to think about yeah i think is
initially the title of eleanor roosevelt biography um come on
johnny knoxville what do you want for god's sakes and the wind knocked out of him
um yeah we we shot that a few months ago and uh it was really good i could have been any nicer
well you should have her on the jackass show doing stuff is there anything i
i couldn't ask her johnny knoxville ladies and gentlemen
you