# Enter the Jackass **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741 "2002-10-24T20:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/1 "2002-10-24T20:38:18Z")
Aaaaaaa Curbhopper… Looking for inspirational self-sacrifice, outstanding action and legendary characters? Dragon, step aside… Knoxville & Company are prepared to _feel the Jackass, to be the Jackass._ > [@](#): > > “We’ve only been shooting two weeks,” Johnny Knoxville reports from the set of Jackass: The Movie, “and we’ve already had busted teeth, police involvement, a trip to the emergency room and \.” Obviously, this is no socially conscious drama: “The footage we are getting is ridiculous. It’s like a naughty version of the show.” Jackass: The Movie, set to open July 12th, is part of the deal Knoxville struck with MTV after he decided to end the series, but the Jackass spirit is alive and well. Says Knoxville, “Everybody is stepping up and giving their absolute worst, and that’s all we’ve ever asked for.” Apparently there’s been a delay as it officially opens tomorrow. Gee, could someone have been hurt in the filming? I hate doing sit-ups. It no longer matters as I’ll get plenty of abdominal stimulation from this Sad Sack and his gonacluster of Privates. This should be worth the wait. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/2 "2002-10-25T01:53:40Z")
I think this is a sign of the Apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/3 "2002-10-25T02:30:06Z")
It’s not a sign **Guin** , it’s the actual filming of! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/4 "2002-10-25T14:51:17Z")
I can’t wait to see this movie - those guys are hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/5 "2002-10-25T15:51:38Z")
I’m wondering what the hell Knoxville & Co. are thinking. This sort of crap usually goes direct to video. Are there really that many Jackass fans out there willing to shell out upwards of $5 each? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/6 "2002-10-25T16:06:27Z")
BTW: Noone actually living in Knoxville (The United States’ biggest little town) actually likes Johnny Knoxville. Strangely, this feeling began sometime about when the B@$%@^& started on Jackass. ---
**Author:** ![SweetLilKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@SweetLilKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLilKitty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/7 "2002-10-25T16:23:35Z")
My friends and I cannot wait to see this movie, but granted we’ve been fans of the [CKY Videos](http://www.cky-online.com/) for far longer than Jackass the TV show ever aired. After watching “The Making of Jackass the Movie” on MTV, I think the movie should really be interesting. \ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/8 "2002-10-25T17:00:44Z")
**smiling bandit** , is there actually a connection between rotton Johnny and the town of Knoxville? I’d assumed it was a stage name playing on him being the epicenter of a bunch of hard knocks. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/9 "2002-10-25T17:06:46Z")
I can not wait to see it. And I can not wait til it comes out on DVD so I can watch it in my living room over and over and over and over. 🙂 Happy, Party Boy Jr. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/10 "2002-10-25T17:11:29Z")
**smiling bandit** , is there actually a connection between rotton Johnny and the town of Knoxville? I’d assumed it was a stage name playing on him being the epicenter of a bunch of hard knocks, kinda like an Albert Smartsville Einstein. And **Jeff** , yeah, I’d rather own the DVD than risk my wife being hit by an errant skateboard as we attempt to enter a theatre and someday it will sit proudly right next to my copy of South Park, Bigger, Longer, Uncut. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/11 "2002-10-31T02:46:20Z")
Those that have seen it… is it worth the 6 or 7 bucks or should we wait until it’s DVD release? The rumors I’ve heard so far are that it’s hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/12 "2002-10-31T04:17:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Those that have seen it… is it worth the 6 or 7 bucks or should we wait until it’s DVD release? > > The rumors I’ve heard so far are that it’s hilarious! \*\* Yes, it was hilarious. It was fun watching it with an audience, but it does rate pretty high on the “rent me instead” scale. ---
**Author:** ![dp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@dp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/13 "2002-10-31T04:40:53Z")
Johnny Knoxville’s real name is John Clapp(serious, not joking here). He is from Tennessee, maybe Knoxville, or nearby. He is married. I got this info off of the imdb. When your name is Clapp, and you want to be a tv/movie star, you need to change it. BTW, Tim Allen’s real name is Tim Allen Dick(not joking here either). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/14 "2002-10-31T06:13:02Z")
What’s a pity is not so much that Johnny Clapp’s brother’s name is Richard, butt that his sister’s name is Linda. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/15 "2002-10-31T07:39:22Z")
There was a Dick Hohl a year behind me in grade school. Believe it or not, we never thought anything of his name at the time. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/16 "2002-10-31T08:28:56Z")
The Memphis Redbirds, our AAA affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals–I’m talking baseball, for you non-fans–have had a bit of a hometown hero the last few years in [Stubby Clapp](http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/clappst01.shtml) (birth name Richard), the second baseman from Ontario. He would run out on the field and do a backflip before games. EVERYONE loved him, and now that his contract is up I don’t know where he’ll go, but I’ll miss watching him play. He was a totally dedicated player; they say he would dive for balls in batting practice. (The stats page linked gives his stats from a brief stint up in the majors in St. Louis during the 2001 season.) But yes, I have a weird admiration for Johnny Knoxville and plan to see the movie right after “Punch-Drunk Love.” ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/17 "2002-11-02T15:35:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*I’m wondering what the hell Knoxville & Co. are thinking. This sort of crap usually goes direct to video. Are there really that many Jackass fans out there willing to shell out upwards of $5 each? \*\* $22mil in revenue and being the #1 movie in the country after opening weekend would seem to suggest that there are. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/18 "2002-11-03T01:48:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*lieu \*\*\* > Those that have seen it… is it worth the 6 or 7 bucks or should we wait until it’s DVD release? I’ve literally never laughed harder. IMHO it’s well worth the price of admission, watching with an audience made the experience hugely more enjoyable for me. This was the first time I’ve visited a UA affiliate since they raised prices to $9, and I was glad to pay it. I might go see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/19 "2002-11-03T06:47:54Z")
Yeah, I can see it not being so funny without a huge audience. I secretly love Jackass, so I went to see it this weekend. Something about dumb guys hurting themselves through their own stupidity cracks me up (and yes, I like Beavis and Butthead too.) And I nearly hurt myself laughing. Although did anyone else think that a couple of the stunts looked staged? Like the golf cart flipping over - that looked way too real to be real, and if they hadn’t zoomed in on the guy on the ground, I’d have sworn they had a couple of Hollywood stuntmen do it. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enter-the-jackass/133741/20 "2002-11-04T04:22:49Z")
I’m sure some of them were. Although none specifically come to mind at the moment… Every time I had that thought while watching the movie I ignored it because I really wasn’t trying to think critically about what I was watching. The golf cart flipping over after crashing into the giant pig in the sand trap, though, was quite real, at least if MTV’s _The Making of jackass: the movie_ is to be believed. Supposedly they thought the cart would smash the pig or something, or at any rate didn’t expect the cart to ramp over the pig and catch air over the trap before flipping over – and there was some serious concern over Knoxville afterwards.