# Did the guys on MTV's Jackass not get paid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663 "2004-07-05T17:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/1 "2004-07-05T17:10:14Z")
MTV was showing a marathon of “Cribs” yesterday, and I happend to catch the episode where the boys from Jackass showed off their places of living. Stevo lives in a junked up apartment where he’s one warning away from being evicted. Bam lives with his parents still. Some other guy has “been in between houses for about 11 years” and lives in a crappy truck. Do the guys not get paid at all, or do they just like to save it all and not buy flashy things, or do they just squander it all on booze? It’s not like me to obsess over things like this, I promise. It’s just that it’s hard to imagine the guys who brought so much ill fame didn’t even get paid for the stunts. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/2 "2004-07-05T17:38:38Z")
I don’t know how much they got paid or if they got paid at all, but at least the impression I got from watching the semi-spinoff of Jackass that is [Viva La Bam](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382501/), Bam lives with his parents because he bought that house for them and lives with them there. So then when he does something crazy for his show like turn the house into an ice-skating rink or host a heavy-metal concert there, his parents can freak out because he is temporarily destroying their house, but can’t really stop them from doing it because he bought the house. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/3 "2004-07-05T17:57:13Z")
I don’t think the _Jackass_ guys are hurting financially. Steve-O travels around a lot, and has some DVDs of his own, so the apartment might have been a temp thing. He’s currently doing another show on MTV called _Wildboyz_. Pontius (the one living in the truck) did another _Cribs_ and he had a much nicer house and he is also doing the _Wildboyz_ show. Bam lives with his parents, and I think the situation is as **Sam Lowry** described. I think Bam has some kind of skateboard company called CKY, but I’m not sure. This is the only way I can figure out that he has the money to do crazy stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/4 "2004-07-05T19:46:49Z")
I think Bam’s “around town” car is an Audi A8 at ~70k and his second car is a Lamborghini, usually around ~250k. With his pro skateboarding money, his MTV money, and his CKY/CKY2k/CKY3…etc, etc, etc money he’s definitely not hurting. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/5 "2004-07-05T22:00:26Z")
I saw that episode and thought the whole thing was meant as a joke episode of Cribs… of course I could be very wrong, but I thought they were just doing the Jackass thing on Cribs. ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/6 "2004-07-05T23:02:26Z")
The one cribs episode with Bam Margera had a short scene with his dad at the computer, Bam put his dad in a headlock or something and demanded to know how much money was in the bank, anyways he has around $500,000 when ever that was shot. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/7 "2004-07-06T05:19:34Z")
Did you see the one with Seann William Scott? He lived in a crappy apartment with a roommate… after American Pie. He was either joking or saving his money for a house. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/8 "2004-07-06T14:27:28Z")
Redman’s house on “Cribs” was pretty messed up. He had to manually connect two wires at his front door to ring his doorbell. ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/9 "2004-07-06T14:56:45Z")
I think the “Jackass” episode of Cribs was filmed quite a while ago. Definitly before the movie, probably around Season 2 or maybe Season 3 of Jackass the series. After the success of the movie, I’m sure they are all doing quite well. Bams Camp Kill Yourself (CKY) movies have always been quite a hit with the “skater” crowd, so he probably makes quite a bit from that. I would say Johnny Knoxville is the best off, then Bam, then Steve-O, then Pontius. MtM ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-guys-on-mtvs-jackass-not-get-paid/253663/10 "2004-07-06T15:15:02Z")
Bam Margera is also a professional skateboarder with some very lucrative endorsement deals.