
Yesterday it was a blind man in search of a ludicrous good time, today it’s a blind zealot with a serious Jesus bone to pick. I’m not biased, nor am I trying to foist a bias upon you, but if for whatever reason I had remembered to include a “Best of the Jackass Flashbacks” category in the 2009 jackassworld awards, I myself me personally would have voted for this one: “Satan vs. God.” Incidentally, aren’t you pleased to know that in just six more days you will be able to finally own this bastard segment on DVD? So buy now, repent later. You’ll have an eternity to do so if all those prophets were telling the damned truth.
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In the beginning there was Big Brother and CKY. They say great minds think alike, but in this case it was more like birds of a feather flock together—the dodo being the avian species in question here. So it seemed like a natural fit when Jeff Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville first considered enlisting Bam Margera and Brandon Dicamillo for their “dream team” on jackass. Up until this point, however, we’d had minimal contact with Bam, other than a random run-in with him and his father Phil in the streets of Philadelphia while on our Big Brother East Coast road trip in 1995, and I believe he was only 13-years-old then. Little did we know, but in five years time Tremaine, Knoxville, and Spike Jonze would be calling him up to ask if he would be interested in joining forces, so to speak, for an all out idiotic network television blitz. (more…)