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While the fate of Prop 8 has yet to be decided here in California, let’s take a morning golf break with Bam and Ryan Dunn from the extra-features set of jackass number two (more specifically the subsequent jackass 2.5). Oddly enough, this stunt almost did result in a break as Johnny Knoxville pretty much drove his driver right up Main Street and straight into Dunn’s coccyx. And, if I’m not mistaken, that’s about the third time the word coccyx has been used here on jackassworld in the last week or two. But, you know us, we just can’t get enough coccyx around here as it is.

(photo by Sean Cliver; Van Nuys, CA; 2006)

Occasionally people will ask me what exactly I did while working on jackass number two. With great pride I tell them that I was the one who designed the cock ‘n’ balls shape that Ryan Dunn branded onto Bam’s butt. Well, that and I also contributed a thatch of shaved pubic hair to Danger Ehren’s face that just so happened to include the one white hair in the bunch. I was actually rather surprised by this fact, because given the inordinate amount of salt amongst the pepper on Lance Bangs’ head, I thought for sure he’d have Old Man Winter growing in his pants.

(photo by Sean Cliver; Florida; 2006)

Here’s a double-banger for y’all with an eye for detail. To set the scene, the scene is set in Bull Shoals, Arkansas, where we spent the majority of our time playing with riot weaponry for jackass number two. (more…)

Since we’ve all been in such a punchy mood the last few days, here’s a solidly thrown moment from jackass days gone by. The time was 2001. The place was some random fighting romper room in Orange County. The main event was supposed to be Ryan Dunn getting his ass-whooped UFC-style by Nigel “The UK Hammer” Hudson, but since that scenario lasted only a few seconds at best Jeff Tremaine goaded Rick Kosick into taking a free shot in the belly. Now if you look at the size ratio here, Kosick clearly occupies more square feet in the world than Nigel (although, for comparison’s sake, not so great a difference as say the Great Khali to Johnny Knoxville), but that mattered not in the world of fighting physics. Nigel didn’t exactly get the nickname of the “The UK Hammer” because he could build a nice tea table, and he laid into Kosick’s tummy with such gusto that he actually left a bruised imprint of his knuckled fist. So while Rick was belly-aching, we were all belly-laughing. Good times!

Incidentally, this all reminds me of an earlier occasion in Gainesville, Florida, when Dimitry Elyashkevich and Kosick decided to swap belly blows after a few rounds of tequila shots on the final night of a Big Brother magazine road trip circa 1999. Granted, Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum’s ability to aim a focused punch was a good deal less than that of Nigel’s, but they attempted to do so so many times that when they finally came to in the morning neither could recall why their stomachs were aching and so badly bruised. Good times!

(photo by Sean Cliver; Huntington Beach, CA; 2001)

All right, so it’s no real secret that on the first season of jackass we’d pilfered a number of random moments and quickies—soon to be dubbed “transitions”—from Bam Margera’s first two CKY videos. Most of these were used as padding to fill the spaces between segments, or provide a quick “what, huh?” breather after a particularly long or thought-provoking piece. However, most of these never made it onto the later jackass DVD releases, hence the appearance of them here and now under the alluring title of “jackass not on DVD,” which may, in the near future, need to be changed to something else. I’ll let you fill in the marketing blanks from there, but goddamn, don’t you just admire Ryan Dunn’s style when it comes to taking a second story drop? Flawless.

Here’s another semi-lost jackass moment from the heavily abused shores of “Camp Pain” just outside of Orlando, FL, starring Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, and Brandon Dicamillo. It’s a historically simple prank, although far less jarring in its modern day Looney Tunes usage versus the particularly hateful mob scene in the HBO John Adams mini-series. The tarring aspect here was pretty half-ass, all things considered, so the concept was later revisited during the great “Rube Goldberg” debacle from jackass the movie (on the very same person in the very same place, incidentally). Anyone remember that bit of “added value” from the jackass the movie DVD? This featurette could have easily been expanded into a feature-length documentary entitled “Three Days in Hell: The Rube Goldberg Story,” one that surely would have rivaled Coppola’s Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse in its scope of cinematic madness.

Since we just started getting all the Gumball Rally footage into the editing box earlier this week, the chances of you web potatoes actually seeing any footage any time soon is low. Lower than Wolfie winning a medal in Beijing, unless it’s going to be at the paralympics. But here is a slideshow of some of our trip. All these photos were shot on film and then cross-processed. It’s a gimmicky technique, but still looks better than digital. Expect some moving pictures soon…but not too soon, so suck it.

All five episodes from the jackass gumball rally special, right where you can find them—here!

Herro everybody! I’m finally back from another wacky Gumball Rally. This time Ryan Dunn, Bam Margera, Loomis Fall, and myself went from San Francisco to the Olympics in Beijing, China! Oh yeah, and we stopped over in Pyongyang, North Korea! What a time we had! For the next five days here on the site, we will be posting the 2001 jackass gumball rally special, featuring Steve-O and Chris Pontius barreling through Russia with their cocks out. We’d show you the new footage, but you’ll have to wait a bit…the thing is we’re broke here at jackassworld and can’t afford another hard drive to transfer all the wacky Gumball madness—not to worry, Wolfie has assured me that a big-ass hard drive is on its way! So until we’re able to show you the new shit, look for that good old classic shit. Oh yeah, that’s not a typo: that’s NORTH Korea!

…and Ryan Dunn.

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…)