Johnny Knoxville Breaks Down Every Injury of His Career | Vanity Fair

warning don't try any of the stunts you're about to see hi i'm

johnny

knoxville

and i'm going over all the injuries in my

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how lovely good i am

johnny

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united states of america i'll do a little bit higher up called self defense equipment. I wrote an article where I tested four different types of self-defense equipment on myself. Pepper spray remains one of the most painful things I have ever endured in my life. Pepper spray is a continuous inferno for 15 or 20 minutes it's like someone lighting a fire in your eye and trying to put it out with gasoline.

When the stun gun hits you, you go down, but in order to hit someone with it, you're within reach. You can get up quite a bit. a lot immediately from a stun gun a taser gun I don't recommend that you feel the electric shock but your muscles just give way and turn into noodles and you fall but I did it twice the first one I was shirtless you know both? of the spikes have to go in to connect the circuit and while there, only one went in and if that happens, if they were coming at you, they'll still be coming at you, but pepper spray you can do it for about 15 feet and they're worthless. for at least 20 minutes yes hi i'm johnny knoxville welcome to jackass we did three seasons of jackass on tv and it all happened so fast.

I went from making 10 cents a word writing for magazines and acting and Bud Light commercials or whatever, to being on the cover of The Rolling Stone and that's a pretty big jump and it took me a while to get used to it. My name is Johnny Knoxville and today I'm going to jump the Los Angeles River. I think we filmed the wheel jump for the pilot of Jackass the. TV show, you know I was going to jump the L.A. River, which sounds fantastic actually, it's like it's a five foot section of the L.A. River and I'm very uncoordinated and it ended up with a broken ankle when I abruptly left it.

The MTV television program was a little stunned. I hadn't read any contract and I ignored that I care too, so there's a lot of back and forth about what would happen next and that's where the first movie came from. I'm Johnny. Knoxville and I are going to grind this rail. I didn't think that a movie version of the TV show didn't make sense to me because I was thinking why would they hire actors to do that and then Spiker Jeff says no, it's just like a nadya version of what we did on TV, so that had meaning for

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cutter today we're going to do some boxing lol Butterbean he's really strong and has a wonderful spirit and so much fun. all day and polite I'm going to have a fight at the swap meet as soon as he puts on the gloves I said something to him he just looked at me like he didn't even know me he really changed it when he put on the gloves oh well we need pictures someone to touch the bell, let's get this over with, that was tough because he knocked me out, look at the footage, he hits me and then I fall and hit my head on the concrete floor and it slipped. like a melon sounds like I'm sleeping sounds like I'm snoring but my doctor told me I was trying to swallow my tongue at the time, which you know, that's never good Butterbean, okay, I was part of the wild kids and I would Sometimes I go out and film with them when I was filming with the wild boys.

I think we are in Russia. I was just enjoying getting footage to the point where Jeff pulled me aside and said, "If you're going to go to such lengths for wild boys, why?" Let's not just make another movie? I thought, oh, that's not such a bad idea, asshole number two,

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one was behaving in the worst way, this is the budget, oh, yeah, the rocket, yeah, we hired a part-time rocket scientist and built one of those. Acme rockets like you'd see in the Roadrunner cartoons, there were eight to twelve foot-long metal rods, metal capsule rockets in the cartoon-looking device we built, and when we turned it on, it exploded, and all those eight-foot-long metal rods took In every direction, one blew a hole in the rocket right next to my ribs, about that big one with 300 yards back and passed between Casick and Scott Manning's ears and would have decapitated them .

Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville. and I'm about to do a backflip on this bike. We were filming Matt Hoffman's tribute to Evel Knievel. He wasn't meant to do a trick for that. I got to Oklahoma and everyone was having a lot of fun and I decided, well, I want to have some. It was fun too and I decided to try doing a rear clip on a motorcycle, but I can't ride a motorcycle that well. Sometimes when people explain to me how to do something before the stunts, I don't listen because I just want to do the stunts, whatever you do. don't get rid of the bike right away because if you do this and get rid of the bike then it will go up 40 feet in the air and land on you yeah yeah I was right.

I tried three or four times each time, it seems like I was less committed. and the fourth time I got to the bottom of the ramp, I let go of the bike, it went about 20 feet in the air and I fell on my back and my knees were behind my ears, like when I fall. and just at that moment the motorcycle falls and the handlebar

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in my crotch and that was a big impact, but I felt like I stood up and I felt like I was peeing myself every time my heart beat, the blood I shot the tip of my penis and I walked up to the doctor on set and said, "Okay, yeah, he said something.

We have to get you to the hospital right now because you know you might be bleeding internally. I have blood coming out of me." BP, I answered the only body part that means anything to me, yeah, that was, oh, that was a weird

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. You always get footage when you film with the Bulls, people saying, oh, we're red around them and the Bulls don't make a big deal of it. about the color red, they only care about movement and if something moves, they try to kill it, thank god, yes, an exit point. I got hurt more than any movie I've ever done.

Four concussions broke my hand. They tore my meniscus. Whiplash stitches on my On the ride, I lost a couple of teeth, a third maybe coming, yes, the alpine slide. We've been trying to perfect that trick for a while because I kept wanting to go further and faster. The stuntman traveled about 20 feet in the air. six feet off the ground and when I did it it looked like I was hitting my feet and rolling off of it, so that's something I didn't want to do, I just wanted to let my feet hit and take the hit on the shoulder.

I didn't think about what would be following my shoulder and that's my face, so feet, shoulders, face like that, I went to the ER, they checked me out, I came home, a little blood on my notes, like that that I blew my nose and when I blew my nose, my left eye popped out of its socket and the harder I blew, the further away it came and that scared me a little bit and I stuck my eye back in and I called the executive producer and told him that could be seen. I need to go back to the hospital my eye just came out he says oh I'm like John my eye just came out he says: I'll be there five days later I was hanging out with Pontes we were coming back from a bar and he says something funny and in that moment the doctor said you can't sneeze or blow your nose for six weeks, but for some reason that night I'll blame the whiskey when he says something funny.

I went and held my own with Blue Inigo, don't do it again that time. I was wearing a pirate eyepatch so I just pressed the eyepatch to put it back on and have double vision but it wasn't as bad as the first time but in the last three days of the movie they can only film the right side of my face because my them on the left side looked like I look like a Picasso painting it's just an

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you don't expect it's like when I broke my penis I didn't expect it to be worth it yeah yeah it was just a long way to get to me breaking my penis