jackassworld

In an unprecedented if not imprudent move, MTV is handing over the reins of the network to the cast of jackass for 24 continuous hours of programming starting Saturday, February 9th at noon. What exactly the cast plans on doing once it has taken over the studio in New York no one really knows, but whatever it is will be going out in a live broadcast and probably involve a nonstop collision of dumb little stunts, pranks, silliness, technical difficulties and sleep deprivation.

Anyway, the call is now going out for diehard jackass fans to join the cast in NYC for the event—not only for the in-studio audience but to appear in special surprise segments of the show. All types of people are needed: drag queens, Little People, overweight people, Party Boys, fans willing to get a tattoo on-air and more. Here are the details: Fans must be 18 years and over and live in the NYC area (or be willing to travel at their own expense). For FREE tickets, please send an e-mail to admin@jackassworld.com and supply the following bits of information:

• Name
• Age
• Phone number
• Where do you live?
• User name and link to your jackassworld profile

emails with attachments will be deleted

We’d also like you to respond to the following questions (complete sentences not necessary):

• Why do you want to be a part of this show?
• Have you seen all of the jackass episodes?
• What’s the meaning of life?
• Have you ever been convicted of a felony or arrested for stalking?

One of the goals with this site, aside from getting it to actually work, is to incorporate some form of online interaction between the cast and the jackassworld community. Since Johnny Knoxville is constantly running in and out of the office asking if there’s anything he can do for the site, I decided to use him as a guinea pig and sent him into the discussion forums to leave what I assumed would be a simple post. Well, after an hour or so of sitting on the couch with a confused, if not constipated look on his face, Knoxville called me over to hold his hand through our apparent labyrinth of a site. Rick Kosick, sensing yet another web fool in our midst (incidentally, Rick is very, very upset that no one in our office has any Internet savvy whatsoever), grabbed his camera to document Knoxville’s trials and tribulations as he flailed around in the jackassworld community.

To his credit, Knoxville did finally leave a post—albeit over 24 hours later and just about as many sheets to the wind.

If there is one segment from the jackass television series that demands to be reminisced about in the “Flashback” format it would certainly be “Playgirl Pontius.” Unfortunately, at the rate we’re not getting our shit together here in the office it will probably be some time before we’re able to properly do so. In the meantime, here’s a random shot from an even more random moment in history when eight dudes—one of them being this site’s editor, Dave Carnie (guest-starring as Denny the Oil Boy in this photo)—got together in our producer’s backyard to watch, I mean, film another dude prance around naked and play with himself. All for the sake of good television, of course.

(Photo: Sean Cliver)

This photo was taken in 1994 on a Big Brother skateboard tour across the Midwest. To kill time one afternoon we had stopped into a Museum of Science & Industry. There, in the children’s section, we found this wall of three-dimensional multi-colored blocks that you could rotate to alternate the facing colors. We are bad people.

(Photo: Sean Cliver)

Dimitry Elyashkevich recently picked up the Canon HG10 High Definition camcorder. For the most part he’s just been filming mundane nonsense around the office, testing out the camera’s functions, but then he took it along to lunch one day with Greg Wolf. Lo and behold, magic happened and the Canon’s technical capabilities captured a moment that might have been missed altogether had it not been for the wonders of HD slow-motion—especially the heart-wrenching climax with the little noodle who got away.

Further testament to Wolf’s natural ability to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary.