jackassworld

Anyone here familiar with Tennessee fainting goats? That’s what Lance Bangs reminds me of. Someone out there in 24-hour behind-the-scenes land has the footage to demonstrate this (Tremaine bum rushed Somnambu-Lance at one point and he damn near had a stroke and died as his body seized up in panic), but it ain’t us. Instead, we have Dimitry and Dave England messing with Lance as his body slips out of drive and into neutral in a random photo booth of all things. Still pretty funny, though, provided you can get by the crap camera setting.

Here at long last is some of the origin behind the Danger Ehren tattoo that now proudly resides upon the upper shelf of Preston’s ass. This was something completely unplanned, mind you. We had another tattoo bit that fell away like several other things that night, and this was the on the fly save courtesy of Jeff Tremaine. Gee, maybe Preston shouldn’t have gone and rubbed that Bronx bum shit in his face after all…

If you get the sense I was a bit nervous here, you’re right. Not long after I’d downed a highly caffeinated beverage Tremaine informed me I’d be the first one off the blocks to demonstrate “bottle skating,” this thing we used to do in the office with empty water jugs and a plain skateboard deck. The thing is, the office spaces were always carpeted. This floor was rock hard and highly unforgiving cement. Anyway, I didn’t have a choice in the matter. What freaked me out most, though, was that all of a sudden I was thrown the mic and told to “bring us back out of commercial” (or whatever the hell kind of jargon they use for that live television shit). So I nervously fumbled through that and then hit the jugs with legs of jelly before inevitably finding the floor the hard way. Jacked up my pinky finger, too, the same as I’d done on the original jackass segment way back in 2001, although that slam was much better looking in out of control form than this latest one.

From behind bars, Dave England cagily expounds upon his caged status, cage keepers, and alternate methods of confinement during the takeover.

One of the more atypical things about the 24-hour takeover was that we had a whole “professional” camera crew working the show. Usually we just have our own team of semi-incompetent castaways manning the rigs, but on this occasion they decided it best to have a live studio savvy crew running the floor. Sure, Kosick and Dimitry were both bumping shoulders with them for a while, but soon enough they got tired of playing second fiddle and just set their cameras down. I mean, you saw Kosick sacked out on the couch for the last 12 hours of the show, right? And Dimitry, if you saw the security camera streams, you know he was deep into Rock Band performances in the Green Room (and fucking with the tech crew in the command center). Anyway, it was fun seeing how the pros reacted to the unpredictability of jackass. Just hope this dude was using an insured rental and not his own rig.

How will the kids know its me? Aargh. I’ m sorry.

This weekend, while MTV2 rebroadcasts the jackassworld 24-hour takeover with bonus behind-the-scenes moments, we’ll be setting aside some time from our own weekend schedules to sit down and do the live chat thing here on the site. Granted, there are a lot of instructions to follow—for us, I’m talking about—so hopefully Knoxville has someone to hold his hand through the process, because I gotta imagine he’s going to get dog-piled with questions and comments. Anyway, here’s the schedule of “appearances,” for lack of a better term from my severely limited web vocabulary, on Saturday, March 1:

• 9:00am PST – Rick Kosick
• 12:00pm PST – Dave Carnie
• 1:45pm PST – Johnny Knoxville
• 3:00pm PST – Greg Wolf
• 5:00pm PST – Jeff Tremaine
• 8:00pm PST – Sean Cliver

Johnny Knoxville talks to Preston Lacy about his new talk show, and Dave England talks about big photos of poo airing outside in Times Square on the Jumbotron.

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Steve-O plans for the sultan of soda. (more…)

In an informal backstage moment, Ehren McGhehey discusses the “Bronx Bum Shit” episode with April Margera, while Bam chimes in from the floor where he’s attending to a charley-horsed thigh.