jackassworld

My timing is a little off on this post, but then again time itself was a little askew throughout the whole jackassworld 24-hour takeover of the MTV studios in general. Sure, it was only on air for 24 hours in all, but there were several hundred man-hours leading up to that fateful weekend in February that made for a surreal time indeed. And it seems even more so now, if only because all of the footage slid into the jackassworld cellar so damn fast it felt just like one of those mystery poos. You know, where you know for a fact that you’ve just eked out a BM, but when you go to take that last look in the bowl prior to flushing it is nowhere to be found. Not even a smear!

The whole 24-hour takeover concept was first pitched to us in late October 2007 and was tentatively (no, make that, unbelievably) scheduled to coincide with the online release of jackass 2.5 in early December. This date wasn’t realistic in any regard—contractual, structural, or otherwise—but the 24-hour idea survived into the new year and only gained in momentum with the Evel Knievel tribute until it was a rolling behemoth that couldn’t be stopped—well, that or no one was brave enough to hit the panic button. Whatever the case, the call was made to “hard” launch the website in conjunction with the event, which was kind of funny considering the damn thing was still being built right up until the scheduled day of its big “coming out” party. Debutante this, bitch!

Abusive parents that we are, mere minutes after the newly revamped site popped out of our collective vagina we hucked it into a punishing 24-hour period of live testing under the scrutiny of some 40,000 users. Whole aspects of the site came crashing down in anything but spectacular Las Vegas demolition fashion, but would you really have expected anything less? It is jackass, so expectations must’ve been slim to none for many in the first place. But even though the video and photo hub wheels went spinning off the bus almost immediately, we still managed to keep the 24-hour home page on track and knocked up the site with an ass-load of exclusive video, photo, and textual content.

However, due to the “bloggish”—more like “boggish”—nature of our home page, we only realized post-24-hour hangover that for any newcomer to the site it was rather hard to search for any of this material unless they had an inkling of what to search for in the first place. That said, here’s a primer to assist in navigating the 24-hour morass of exclusive ass that’s buried under that ambiguous and neglected “jackass 24” tab up in yonder navigation bar. So drink up, Alice, and check out what’s buried in our rabbit hole.

Throughout the 24-hours we posted multiple loads of televised highlights. Here’s the hourly breakdown in video content:

• Hours 1-2: This was the big kick off out in Times Square, right before Knoxville threw to Party Boy unleashed in the East. Pontius then joined everyone in the studio for the first of many dance parties to come, Ehren’s extra special “naircut,” an explanation of the delay button, and a look back at the urban sledding tragedy earlier in the week.

• Hours 3-4: Food eaters united as Bam and Phil talked about a chili fur burger, Wee Man hosted a wiener eating competition, and Ehren got the fucking honey shocked out of him during a grade school caliber spelling bee.

• Hour 5: Mat Hoffman waxed surgically nostalgic with Knoxville on the couch, before everything was illuminated regarding the handicapped Dave England and his ill-fated ice-capade.

• Hours 7-8: In beverage-related circumstances, Steve-O knocked out the “Sultan of Soda,” while I joined the Lakai skateboard team in a bottle skating train.

• Hours 10-12: Preston and Ehren hitched up in indelible circumstances, while Dave joined Zach Galifianakis for a trip down jackass memory lane.

• Hours 13-14: Bam and Pontius did the Zach Galifianakis thing and then it was down to the brisk nighttime streets for hot man on, uh, man drag racing action.

• Hour 15: We revisited the dodgeball in the dark concept before harkening back to a daylight episode of Hep-C barrel rolling in the Bronx.

• Hours 16-17: Prior to the takeover the boys paid a visit to photographer Terry Richardson and offered up their worst for his best. Back in studio live, Knoxville introduced JxPx Blackmon and his box of things that suck, which eventually lead up to midget cattle proddings and a dumbed down trivia game with consequences.

• Hour 18: Rick Kosick and Jeff Tremaine square up in a dizzing box that was 16 years in the making.

• Hours 20-24: Sleep deprivation started to take the reins of randomness with this higgledy-piggledy clip of April and Phil’s early morning breakfast, superball hallway madness, and Dimitry’s consolation birthday party.

• Hours 20-21: No morning would be complete without a workout and Chris Pontius was the man to make men out of some less than masculine males—excluding Manny, of course.

• Hour 24: Random ass dance parties ensued throughout much of the final two hours, but it was really all we could do to stay awake any longer and not commit anything too terrible to come back from.

In addition to the regularly televised crap, we also had cameraman Lance Bangs running around backstage collecting exclusive behind the scenes oddities…up until he became an oddity himself, that is.

• This clip of Steve-O and Bam was used as a teaser to the event, but holy shit…loins and mousetraps, oh my.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/23/the-mousetrap/

• I can’t remember if this is where one of our lawyers lost it or maybe it was another shared bathroom moment on video, but here’s the one with Pontius and Dave Carnie that found its way to the web.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/23/chris-pontius-and-dave-carnie-share-a-urinal/

• Here’s what happens when you throw green industry professionals into the seasoned jackass mix.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/03/02/behind-the-scenes-sultan-of-soda-spray/

• And here’s where Lance lost it altogether. Luckily Dimitry was right there to take over and document accordingly.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/03/03/behind-the-scenes-sleepy-lance-bangs/

Post 24-hours, Dimitry went back into his footage and started cutting the moments that would have never made it past the nice ladies who bleeped and blurred our show. Not so on the website!

• In the days leading up to the 24-hour takeover, the guys did anything but get their beauty sleep beforehand, especially Bam.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/03/10/bam-drinks-pee/
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/03/12/bam-taxi/

• Mid-week we were treated to a surprise snowstorm in the city, but it was long after midnight that Pontius and Dave found themselves destitute in the winter wonderland.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/05/20/bums-in-the-snow/

• Preston Lacy debuted his new talk show during the takeover, but here is a late night “lost episode” from earlier in the week starring our dregs and the city.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/04/06/the-preston-lacy-show-%E2%80%93-the-lost-episode/

Several random oddities found their way onto the takeover and, consequently, onto our site afterward. Here’s a cheese ‘n’ crackers plate to whet your appetite:

• During the night, Lance Bangs ran around asking people to sing a few words to Roger Alan Wade’s “D-R-U-N-K.” Seth then took this footage and slammed it together in the night for a later debut on the show.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/29/video-review-2/

• Going into the 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.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/24/jackassworld-24-hour-takeover-highlights-6/

• Here’s The Preston Lacy Show as it was seen on the takeover. In this first “official” episode, Knoxville graces the guest chair and talks about his infamous pee bag; but not only does he talk about it, he puts it to good use on Wee Man, who was still high on life after hanging out with Willie Nelson.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/24/original-programming/

• Before there was jackass there was Big Brother skateboard magazine. Here’s a look back at some of the early years and footage.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/23/big-brother-classic-clips/

• If you think Kosick is only grumpy on the jackassworld live show, think again. He’s been this way since the ’90s! Here he is arguing with a filmer from the first Big Brother video shit.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/23/jackassworld-24-hour-takeover-highlights-7/

• When it comes to Mianus we’ve got nothing but love and here’s further proof.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/02/23/hey-there%e2%80%99s-a-midget-in-mianus/

• In their continuing narcissistic love affair, Knoxville and Tremaine decorated MTV president Van Toffler’s executive suite high up in the 1515 building. Here’s the cut that didn’t make the takeover.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/05/02/24-hour-takeover-%E2%80%93-the-uncensored-van-toffler-mural/

• Post 24-hours, Knoxville triumphed over technology and managed a live video chat on the following weekend during the MTV2 24-hour re-broadcast, and I can’t believe this is still buried on the site! Guest appearance by Josh, the guy who designs our site and eats all the bananas, as well as a permed-up Wolfie.
http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2008/03/07/knoxville-video-chat-%E2%80%93-replay/