jackassworld

Part One

Part Two

On this day, several, several, several years ago now, a cub was born unto mankind. His mother and father named him Greg, but once he started loping alongside the jackass pack he became the production beast known forever more as “Wolfie.” For eight long years Wolfie never ceased to amaze us, so much so that it almost felt like a crime to keep his magic all to ourselves. But with the DVD release of jackass 2.5, we were finally able to share our treasure with the world at large. Editor Mark Hansen put his heart and soul into the “Who is Greg Wolf?” biographical spotlight that was buried in the disc’s extra-features, yet it still met with mixed reviews, particularly this one by apparent know-nothing Danny Cox: “…good stuff, except for the bit on the marker-guy Wolfie, which is incredibly boring.” Well, there’s no accounting for taste, Danny, and it’s a shame you can’t appreciate all the wondrous trivialities life has to offer. I’d even go so far as to say, “Go fuck yourself,” but there’s really no sense in being a negatron on this joyous occasion. Happy birthday, Wolfie!

Last week, prior to the deluge of Tremaine beauty shots, Johnny Knoxville had yanked a still to feature from the “Butt Bellows” segment found on jackass 2.5. With the short passage of time since then, I thought it only fitting to reprise this moment with the pay-off from that particular “stunt.” Steve-O certainly has put himself in some tight-ass situations before, but he really was toying with the devil here as he stared into a hole of absolute hell. But, like Daniel Johnston sang, “Don’t play cards with Satan, he’ll deal you an awful hand,” and that indeed he did with this bit of anal blowback from Preston’s abyss.

(photo by Sean Cliver; Hollywood, CA; 2006)

To this day, Ehren swears that he knew the whole thing was a prank. Well, give the man a goddamn Academy award! He ate pubes! Ehren you are an idiot! But an American nonetheless. Our thoughts go out to all the families that 9/11 has affected. Peace.

(This special video presentation of “Terror Taxi – Behind the Scenes” was brought to you courtesy of the extra-features section on the jackass 2.5 DVD, which can be purchased for 1,999 pennies from our storefront operation here.)

It’s safe to say we all have a few random skeletons in our closets here at jackassworld, but if there’s one common bone amongst them all it has to do with skateboarding. Late last year, we all grouped up at Dave England’s house with the intent to film interviews for jackass 2.5. (more…)

When all the guys got together to make jackass number two in 2006, they filmed more than a movie—they filmed a movie and a half. Maybe even two. The problem was only 90 minutes of the resulting mess could be used in the final feature presentation, which left almost an hour of movie-caliber material piled up in the corner of the cutting room floor like a mound of elephant shit. Not knowing quite what to do with all this extra crap, Jeff Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville decidedly set it aside for some undecided future use.

For the better part of the year following the release of jackass number two, this cache of unseen footage remained in limbo until someone came up with the bright idea to film all new interviews with the cast about this excess of never-before-seen pranks, stunts, and random acts of behind-the-scenes mischief and stupidity, and package it up into a documentary-like feature called jackass 2.5. And to dispel any myths, rumors, or misguided notions that this was indeed the “new” jackass movie, the feature went straight to the Internet where anyone with a decent connection and half a technological brain could stream it for free.

Although this wasn’t necessarily a new jackass movie, it still proved to be every bit as funny, unbelievable, dirty, and downright sexy as its predecessors—maybe even more so at points.

Following its web debut, jackass 2.5 went straight to the DVD market with “added value” up the ass, including all the other extra footage that didn’t make the final cut, as well as featurettes on “the making of jackass 2.5,” an insightfully random look into the occupational life and times of Greg Wolf, and “the making of jackass the video game.”

After all the sordid shit that made it into jackass 2.5, surely you must be curious about what more could possibly be found on the DVD. What you’ll see here is only a sneak peek at best, but feel free to go ahead and gape like a slack-jawed yokel as Johnny Knoxville and the guys take you behind the scenes on jackass 2.5, where they talk even more about this excess of never-before-seen stunts, pranks, and other random acts of mischief and stupidity. Better yet, go buy the DVD. Crammed full of over 90 minutes of bonus footage and special features, it really is the perfect disc of digital shit to shove in your player when you’re hungover, sick, or just plain bored to death on this mortal coil.

jackass 2.5 “bed of nails”

Ehren McGhehey begrudgingly lies down on a bed of nails with some cobras in India, as Steve-O, Chris Pontius, and Wee Man groove to the awful snake charming tunes.

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The masturbatory act of writing about art is just that: gross self-indulgence. Me, I’ve never had a taste for it. I mean why go to such publicly embarrassing lengths when you can just sit in the bathroom and hammer it out in privacy with a much more practical end result? So instead, for this otherwise lackluster event of releasing production stills from jackass 2.5, I have appropriated some random bio done up for the photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. With but a few simple nips and tucks—indicated in brackets—I’ve magically transposed his arty crap for mine, which really calls into question the fine line between art theory and sheer idiocy. (more…)