Johnny Knoxville Breaks Down Jackass's Biggest Moments | GQ

Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and today I'm going to break down some of the

biggest

moments

in the idiot's history. I'm Johnny Knoxville and I'm butterbaiting. Today we are going to do some boxing. I love boxing and I love knockouts. So the fight with Butterbean was right up my alley. Touch gloves and go out to fight. I remember when he showed up that morning. I said Butterbean. I need you to go at full speed. Today he says Johnny. I can not do this. I said Butterbean. I need you to do it. go full speed, he says, you don't have to beg me and I was like, oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that, but he went full speed all day, it was so fun and jovial and then Susie put on the gloves of boxing, I told him. something like hello buddy and he looked at me like he didn't recognize me and then my knees started shaking.

Oh, in the pictures you can see me snoring, but my doctor told me that you were just trying to swallow your tongue and I knew that I had to try to make it funny because it could be almost dark in those situations, so luckily I had enough wherewithal to think about the line "butter is fine" "butter is fine" because I thought I would kill them, I got my ticket to do it. stunts doing a participatory journalism article for Big Brother magazine in which Jeff Tremaine was the editor of that magazine and a lot of the Jackass guys came from Big Brother and my idea for the article was to test a stun gun with pepper spray and then shoot.

Myself while wearing a bulletproof vest with a 38 revolver I had to buy the cheapest vest they had at the time because I had no money but fortunately it worked and was a natural path to mutiny. What is correct? Control test grenade yes, and it was a Stingmore mine that shot thousands of hard rubber pellets initially after we did the test in front of the cast, no one was going to do it except me, I was sitting in the car listening to my cousin Roger. alan wade music and ryan gets in the car and he's like, sorry man, no, I'm just not going to do it, I don't feel like doing this and I'm like, okay buddy, you don't have to do it. and then they called me to the set and he just got out of the car with me and started walking calmly with me, and then I realized that he was going to do it and then Bam told us that there was no way he was going to do it. do it but I remember convincing him with a look it's just strong it's just strong it's strong it's going to hurt a lot but it's just strong it's going to hurt but it's just strong which wasn't a very good way to convince him but somehow it worked and bam he ended up doing it and it was golden because I think he cried ah, are you crying?

I think he is injured in the original self-defense test. The pepper spray was the most painful because someone just started a fire in your eyes and feel. like they're putting it out with gasoline it's like 15 or 20 minutes of intense pain and then you get home later that night you take a shower and reactivate it the water reactivates it then you go blind again that's terrible pain and the fuss The control test hurt, but I also had vertigo at the time, so when I went downstairs the room started spinning. The control test stung me. You know, I think what scared the kids the most was that it was extremely loud, extremely loud.

The hard rubber balls stung, but they didn't sting me. I know, thank God I covered my face and balls because the next day my hands looked like a leopard because that's where most of the things hit me in the face and balls, but it worked now, I'm lubing up, I can't see. the car the toy car because I'm going to put it on my butt that's one of the cast's favorite parts maybe it's number one it was written for stevo but his dad said no, yes and ryan dunn said this is An idea too good for someone not to film it.

Oh I will because he always intervened a lot and took one for the team and he ended up being the perfect person for it, he was very funny and then doctor we found like by miracle the doctor we found was perfect he was worried about ryan like confused upset the doctor had all these emotions and you really feel that while you see him you talk to anyone we have a girlfriend and the radiologist when she took the x-ray from the machine that looks at her face and the x-ray was like it was someone, a photographer photographed is like a graphic designer , it was like it was nothing more than a toy car in someone's ass, we were lucky all that. in that it was perfect what's your name again? what irving yeah, irving zissman Spike had used Tony Gardner to dress some of his skaters like Eric Costa and those guys like old men and he suggested I dress up as an old man and play pranks, so I have to give him that nod to increase as soon as to the character.

He's a more intense version of myself and a bit of my father Irving's kind of pervert. He's fine, kid. It's time for grandpa to get massages. He receives massages with happy endings. That's right, say goodbye. to the hippies, bye bye hippies, i have been in cases where people wanted to punch irene before, luckily no one has approached me yet, but they have definitely wanted to punch irene before, but i am usually pretty good at annoying people and when they get angrier I can calm them down a little, calm them down and then cheer them up again just pass that line oh you passed the line that's one of my few skills I have DJing skills hello I'm

johnny

knoxville

and I'm about to rent a car, right?

You know? When we are making a prank we always clear it with the owner of the company so we know they will sign so the owner knows but the employee doesn't know and if I realized they might recognize us we won't broadcast it but in this case the employee had no idea when I rented him the car and when I returned it it was the same guy and he was not very happy with me. I had an accident. As you can see, yeah, I mean, I drink, I just pass out, so were you drinking or something? a car that came up on the hood and almost hit me in the face, which wouldn't have been so bad.

The prank has a stunt aspect and some jokes are yes and some are not, but that one, that one, had it all. You're going to have to figure this out, yes, you're going to have to pay for that car. Well, you'll have to help me pay for that car. No, we don't do that. I returned it with a full tank of gas. You return it demolished. The

biggest

hurdle is getting coverage on the guy you're pranking. I think I had to use a helmet camera to get that coverage because we're inside their business and you can't put a bunch of cameras inside it.

Business, they'll see you know, even if you put the hidden camera on, they'll know there's something that wasn't there yesterday, so that was the biggest concern and I think all the coverage of him was through my helmet camera. Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is the Anaconda Ball Pit. Oh, well, Manny, you know, when we deal with alligators, he's our security guy. Steve Oh is doing some alligator shooting and at the safety meeting, he said he was fine when we filmed this today. if the alligator bites stevo hopefully he will let go and that was his whole plan for if stevo gets bitten so you know mandy is incredibly strong and he would step in and help but when you work with animals like an alligator or an anaconda there is a lot that you can do and it bit me a few times after the part we filmed and you're like, yeah, that anaconda bit someone's calf last week like, thank God, you told me that afterwards, I remember being like, okay.

I don't want the anaconda to bite my wrists, that was my irrational fear because if it bites my wrist that will be a problem, so my solution was to put a strip of electrical tape around each wrist, which wouldn't have done any good . I haven't done anything but in my mind I was protected there were two there and the one that was very calm didn't move much but yeah that second one was dangerous oh my god we forgot about the other snake this is the bull todder . me and pontius against dunn and bam and the last man on the seesaw is the winner we were filming at gary lefu's ranch he's who we use when we deal with bulls he's been amazing and got us amazing footage and somehow kept us from staying forever hurt, we were filming an idea on his ranch that day that I had seen in Tom and Jerry where Tom puts the blindfold on and puts a cigarette in a bowl to smoke it, so we did it with a yak and since we were there, Gary is like Hey, why don't you do the Bull Todder idea and we were wondering what that is and I said you know, you get a seesaw and you put it in the middle of a bullring and we thought that sounds cool so Was that from Gary? idea and thank goodness because it turned out wonderfully to see bulls just hate movement, don't care about color, want to kill anything that moves if you're bored and stay completely still, like they have chances that they probably don't.

I hit you but a bull came out and while the bull boy was moving he hit the bull boy. I get a lot of my ideas, if not straight from a cartoon, but to think that life is a cartoon like the giant hand in

jackass

3d is very cartoonish and I thought. That would be funny, no one really had faith in that idea, but we know enough, okay, it may not work, but let's try it anyway and luckily it worked. I love photographing things inspired by a cartoon. My name is Johnny Knoxville and this is the high five.

We asked the crew members to bring some food at the same time as Aaron so it wouldn't seem so unexpected like, can you bring soup? Okay, we'll have people there carrying food and they. I'll ask Aaron to bring some soup, what's up Aaron, what's up buddy, yeah buddy, how's this crowd, bro? I don't think we have anyone else to carry the soup, but thank goodness he did, but yes, we have team members helping us. They were also jokes, you know, we had our costume designer, Emily, jingling like she was dressing the guys and while they were there getting dressed, they went up some difficult steps, but when they came out they were like balsa wood steps.

She knew what was going on and played along, but the crew members are all involved, the whole set is working to attract the guys. Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is my big red rocket five four three two one that was uh idiot number two and I was in a So I was in a real mindset so I don't remember being terrified I just remember being ecstatic about having received those images, but it was a pretty crazy moment because a foot-long metal rod shot out not only so close to my ribs, but back 300 yards. and splits two of our art department guys right between their ears, Scott Manning and Mike Kasich, and that would have decapitated them, so a lot of people were lucky on set that day.

I don't remember whose idea it was, but we didn't do any research ahead of time. It's like seeing what happens if we stand behind a jet engine and things are thrown at us, we would rather rehearse on film because that's the funny thing, you don't want to rehearse in advance, that destroys the asshole, you know we are. Scientists at the end of the day, so we're collecting data on what would happen if you stood behind an airplane and they threw soccer balls at you or tomatoes or whatever or you jumped off something with an umbrella and actually our friend Louis fell.

He powdered his collarbone, he put it up for a while, maybe it was one of our first days of filming. We were filming in 3D, so it was like we had all this 3D equipment on set and Ponte usually just carried an ax or a knife. he or something like that Aaron had bothered Pontius and Pontius had pulled out his knife and was trying to stab Aaron. I just walk up to Jeff, who's behind the 3D. You know he's looking at the 3D monitor. He has his headphones on. I'm like Jeff. Do you want to go?

He catches Pontius because he's trying to stab Aaron Jeff, he takes off his headphones, he's fine, Pontius, come on, give me your knife, give me your knife and finally Ponty says he's fine and gives him his knife. . He tried to stab him again later in the movie, when I'm doing the Lamborghini tooth extraction, relax, oh, oh, Aaron said something that upset Pontius and he just pulled out his knife and he was like cutting his own throat and I had to take the knife away from him. . The boys are a real problem. Sometimes I'm Steve O and this.

It's the ultimate pooh cocktail, they said we weren't allowed to put human feces in there, so we found a company that sells dog poop and we put it in there, but some of the team put real feces in there, all our stuff is bad, is it? TRUE? We hope it doesn't launch into space, but luckily it didn't, but speaking of space, the poop was weightless for a while, we weren't expecting that and Stevo had glasses and all that stuff, but he forgot to keep his mouth. shut up thank god it was raining on the whole team yeah no one thought about that no one thought about everyone getting it it was a disgusting set and then you know the hug will come as soon as they release stevo a hug will come yes, you have to do it. stay alert two one that one when I was inside the cannon that's like you can't there's no room there's no room inside the cannon I was just trying to concentrate on spreading my wings when I come out spread my wings when I come out I knew that was the shot and I didn'tI knew how it was going to turn out if I was going to be flipping or what, that's all I wanted to do and thank God I did it.

I hit the water so hard if I would have gone with a flat back, I would have broken my back, my butt absorbed 100% of the impact and I couldn't sit for two weeks, two or three weeks, it was incredibly painful to sit down and that was just one here, a tank. I know I didn't even know if we were going to do anything with the bull in this movie because we've done it all in the past. I think maybe we won't do the bulls in this movie, but I wanted to prank an animal and trick it, so we like, well, a magic trick with an animal and then naturally it turned into a bowl because we tried to trick a bull.

It will give you very good images and boy did I do it in the movie. It's the second time I've done it. I did a take earlier and the bull didn't come at me for the first 90 seconds and when he finally hit me he just smoked me in the ribs and put me out like a cigarette on the ground and it was one of those things that really hurt but you couldn't see it. unbelievable, which sucks to be hit by a bull and not be in the movie. I knew it, Jeff knew it, everyone knew we had to go again and then they changed bulls and put Pecker Wrecker there, that's the name of the bull, and he did the job which was a broken wrist, a broken rib, a concussion brain and a brain hemorrhage.

I spent the weekend in the hospital and it took me a few months to recover from that, my brain was scrambled, it's okay everyone, thanks for watching, please see Jackass Forever in theaters now, woohoo.