Your email address will not be published. About Articles Podcast Search. Keep It Simple, Stupid People like things that are simple to understand and they like to share and talk about things that are simple to explain. Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. In , while appearing on an episode of Viceland's Epicly Later'd , he revealed that at the height of his fame in the early s, he was also suffering from a major eating disorder.
Ville drank a lot…He's the loveliest man ever, but he never ate. He just drank. I think Bam started sipping on a beer because he liked the way he looked. Then the rock star life and drinking spun out of control," Margera explained. From there, he began drinking more and more to curb his appetite, which ultimately manifested itself in behaviors that are associated with bulimia. Sometimes I throw up and that way I'm not gonna get fat.
Born Stephen Glover , Steve-O was the guy in Jackass who didn't seem capable of saying no to anything thrown his way, no matter how truly insane the idea might be. Case in point: The finale of Jackass 3D when he's launched into the air while inside of a Porta-Potty full of you know what. But he was also battling some serious demons at the time.
As he revealed in January during an interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger , he'd begun drinking before he was 12 years old, claiming that his mother would give him "just a little booze" on planes to stop him from crying.
He also detailed his extensive drug usage. Oh, I loved Xanax so much, and Valium," he recalled. Had some pretty terrible experiences on magic mushrooms. Had a lot of great experience on LSD. Like, random, weird stuff. I huffed video head cleaner. There was this weird episode where I was drinking aluminum cleaner And that's not mentioning the time that he resorted to snorting cocaine that had been mixed with his dealer's HIV-positive blood.
With his dealer passed out, he noticed cocaine residue on the table. This is how just desperate and pathetic my addiction was, that I sat there knowingly scraping up this tainted, like, blood cocaine and I sat there and snorted it, which is so f--ked up. I snorted the blood of an intravenous drug user. Fortunately, he did not contract the virus, possibly because the blood had dried. But his habits and his anything-goes mentality quickly began getting him into trouble.
In , he was arrested on obscenity and assault charges for stapling his scrotum to his leg during a performance at a Louisiana nightclub and being principal to a second-degree battery. And in , he was arrested in Sweden due to footage of himself swallowing a condom full of cannabis in order to get it past authorities while flying.
He then regurgitated it live on stage. Two months later, he was arrested for disorderly conduct after urinating on potato chips in public during a Lollapalooza tour stop in Pennsylvania. Things hit a fever pitch in , though, after he was kicked off the air during MTV's live broadcast of the Jackass MTV 24 Hour Takeover at the request of executives for his intoxicated behavior.
Days later, he was placed under a citizen's arrest on suspicion of vandalism and drug possession after he was filmed putting holes in the wall of a neighbor's apartment and was charged with felony cocaine possession.
Then, after receiving an email in which Steve-O suggested his possible suicide, Knoxville and the rest of the guys sprang into action. He was placed under a hour psychiatric hold which was then extended to 14 days after an alleged suicide attempt. In June, he pleaded guilty to the felony, but avoided jail time due to his time spent in treatment. The next month, with days of sobriety under his belt, he announced on MySpace that he was returning to "the looney bin" because "I've had horrible mood swings and severe depression.
As the three seasons of the television show evolved into a series of movies, several of the Jackass stars used their familiar platforms to branch out into other media. Johnny Knoxville in particular had his sights on acting , so it was no surprise he quickly got cast in a romantic comedy helmed by Sarah Jessica Parker, a film called Life Without Dick , even before the final season of Jackass aired in As technology developed and internet access spread into more homes than ever, Jackass inspired its audience to share their own lo-fi stunt videos in the hope of capturing viral fame of their own.
Even in this pre-YouTube age, it wasn't long before too many wannabe jackasses were doing exactly Johnny told them specifically not to do: trying this at home. Several people died and others were severely injured while trying to recreate stunts, causing Senator Joe Lieberman to start a campaign to cancel the show.
The detractors eventually won if indirectly as MTV increasingly placed restrictions on what Knoxville and company could show. The creators weren't willing to compromise their vision or creative framework, and chose to walk away from the series after just three seasons. Despite its brief time in the sun, Jackass arrived at just the right tome to herald the internet as a new place from which to source amateur talent and content in a way nobody expected, especially once camera phones made it so easy to film anything on the fly without much planning.
Nelson wrote at Vice , "Honestly, if you are a viral star in the modern era, you should be forced to renounce your religion and just pray to the stars of Jackass.
They are your gods now. Jeff Tremaine's gonzo baby pushed the social and cultural boundaries of not only what was acceptable or tolerable behavior in public, but also what was allowed to appear on screen.
Jackass was the birth of extreme reality television, and has spawned shows like Fear Factor and Naked and Afraid in the decades since. In Fear Factor , we see echoes of Steve-O swallowing a live goldfish and then vomiting it back up, or the many times the cast pranked Bam Margera with huge snakes, knowing he's deathly afraid of them.
In Naked and Afraid , we can appreciate how the Jackass crew and their penchant for nudity while doing dangerous stunts long preceeded people hanging out in the woods for extended periods totally naked. The best part of Jackass ' transgressions was the way they ran a gamut from mild to absurd to crazy violent. One moment Johnny Knoxville is fake farting in a yoga class while Ryan Dunn throws himself into shrubbery from his bike, and the next Steve-O is piercing his buttcheeks shut and Dave England is taking an actual dump in a toilet showroom.
There was absolutely nothing taboo or sacred to the Jackass boys including their own genitals, and that alone was refreshing, even if it did make you want to throw up from time to time. Whatever your opinion of the Jackass crew, you cannot deny they are a most creative and resourceful gang of dudes. They used the newest technologies of the day to better capture their stunts. Before the average adventurer could just grab a GoPro at the nearest department store, the Jackass boys were modifying helmets to hold digital camcorders, mounting cameras on skateboards, and often staging multiple handheld cameras to capture the stunts from many different angles.
With the passing of time and the ballooning of budgets, the Jackass movies saw a huge jump in production value, but it's actually quite sweet to go back to moments in the original show where you can see the cast and crew as they laugh along like drunk hyenas.
They often had hidden cameras in pockets or glasses for stunts that involved pranking unsuspecting folks, taking Bond-like fictions and turning them into effective reality for unique narrative moments. After a Connecticut teen also suffered burns imitating the "Human Barbeque" stunt, senator Joe Lieberman started publicly calling for MTV to get control of its controversial stunt show. I recognize the program is rated for adults and comes with general disclaimers, but there are some things that are so potentially dangerous and inciting, particularly to vulnerable children, that they should not be put on TV," he said in a statement according to EW.
Combined with a growing list of lawsuits, the attention from a senator was apparently enough for MTV to start tightening the screws on the crazy crew. They didn't like us drawing lines, which ultimately led to the demise of the show and their going as far as they could," Van Toffler told Maxim.
Johnny Knoxville agreed, saying that MTV's new restrictions were creating "a watered-down version of the show," so he quit.
The end of the show, however, paved the way for the much raunchier, R-rated films, which broke box office records, and made stars out of almost everyone in them. When he was first introduced to the world by Jackass , Steve-O seemed like a guy who lived on a couch in someone's trailer who you could pay small amounts of money to do practically anything.
And while at points in his life that was possibly true, Steve-O actually has a formal education—if you can call it such a thing—as a circus performer. I have a feeling he learned a lot about timing and reactions at clown college. And, anyone that leaves clown college is funnier than when they went in. I can't see much else that Steve-O does that reflects anything about clown college, though. While it wasn't unusual at all for these knuckleheads to hurt themselves, most of their injuries weren't permanent.
Unfortunately for Steve-O, whose stunts often involved him bringing up his lunch, this wasn't the case. Johnny Knoxville also suffered long-term effects after famously rupturing his urethra while trying to backflip a motorcycle during a stunt for MTV's hour Jackass marathon special.
Part of his healing process involved him cathetering himself twice a day for three years with a tube the size of a number two pencil , just "to keep the scar tissue from constricting down there," he told Vanity Fair. He also described his unfortunate appendage as "a dog's chew-toy" and "like a sock that's lost its elasticity.
That's what my penis looks like.
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