“…gross and outrageous and, oddly enough, a turn-on.”
On the night of the show’s debut episode in October 2000, I remember standing there in the bar we’d gathered in to collectively watch it down thinking, Well … from this point forward everything will be different. And it was. On several different levels. But one of the more fun things to do in the weeks to follow was skim through all the critical essays in the press that sought to deconstruct jackass and its relationship to society and the cultural direction it was plummeting. But for every four or five philosophical negatrons there was at least one critic that came out straight-shooting from the entertainment hip. Well, maybe not all were that straight, considering the best review of all came from the “Gay & Lesbian” section of Time Out New York: “And the award for most male nudity on TV goes to Jackass, MTV’s hysterical new program of daredevil acts. Uninhibited host Johnny Knoxville and gang will do absolutely anything for a laugh, which quite often means hitting the streets stark naked. Plus, there’s plenty of shower scenes—the guys are forever washing up after stunts such as diving into elephant poo. The show is gross and outrageous and, oddly enough, a turn-on.”
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A Day of the Dead dance party with Chris Pontius and Steve-O on Wildboyz.
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Chris Pontius and Steve-O celebrate a bone-jarring Daytona of the Dead in Mexico on Wildboyz.
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Chris Pontius runs about jolly olde England as a barking mad werewolf on jackass.
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Chris Pontius and Steve-O bathe in the hell that is Rotorua, New Zealand, on Wildboyz.
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photos of the day – the jackass costume collection
A Halloween costume classic. Just make sure to differentiate yourself from every other Devil Himself out there by scenting yourself with Eau du Brimstone, packing an artificial War Hammer in your tights, and boasting a controversial slogan of sorts. Note: Wrestling skills not included.
So we’re only a few days off from All Hallow’s Eve this Saturday night and if you haven’t figured out what you’re going to dress up as yet you’re pretty much up shit costume creek. Sure, you can brave the equally desperate thrift store crowds and come out looking like one of the Olson twins that afternoon, or you can search around your house and “kitchen sink” it like we’ve done so many times on jackass (or at least up until our ever trusty and always shady propmaster JxPx Blackmon joined the crew). Whatever the case, should you be coming up clueless with an impending party on the Halloween front, here are a few quick ideas from your fiends at jackassworld. But if all else fails, you can always go as Danzig. Or Wolfie. In fact, lucky you! I think we still have that “mask” of his buried somewhere here in the photographic archive (superfluous body hair not included).
Chris Pontius and Steve-O hold a Tasmanian Devil Worship ceremony while in Tasmania.
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Chris Pontius and Steve-O observe how the Tasmanian devil prefers to start with door number two on Wildboyz.
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Johnny Knoxville and the boys strip down to their tighty-whiteys and play a harmful game of Nutball on jackass.
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Chris Pontius gets prepped for the Body in Trunk prank on jackass.
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