IamA Johnny Knoxville AMA!

How the fuck can you have children, after all those nut shots?!

weird,my doctor asked me the same thing.

What's the recovery time after a Jackass movie? Do you just lie down for like a month?

it depends on the injuries sustained. after jackass number two i was so worked that one of my doctors said it was like i had just been in a major car crash. i guess i had but that crash lasted for 6 months of shooting. it takes a few months to recover though and thats not counting surgeries,etc. i go to some type of doctor at least 4 to 6 times a month.

Personal, but I must know asap. Do you still pee from a straw looking device since you know, you broke your dick and what not?

no,but i did for 3 years after the accident.

Why did you pick up Billy's CD in pure daylight and scratch it?

WHEN THE FUCK DID WE GET ICE CREAM?

ha ha ha...thats my favorite line of the ringer.

that was clearly my fault. eddie barbanell still breaks my balls about it. well about that and a lot of other things.

Mr. Knoxville ,

I'm from the Philadelphia area, I live about 20 minutes from West Chester, so I know a lot of people who know Bam or have met him. My question is, is he as huge a piece of shit as everyone says he is?

bam is a great guy,i love him very much.

How hard was it to talk Steve-o into going into that bungee portapotty?

well he and jeff tremaine wrote that idea together so he didn't need much coaxing. steve o first pitched the idea, he said he wanted to attach a bungee chord to port-a-potty and get pushed off of a bridge in it. then jeff suggested why not launch steve o upwards in the port-a-potty. good idea.

hey Johnny, whats the worst thing thats happened to your dick on or off set?

ah ha ha....definitely when i broke it trying to backflip a motorcycle. i think that got to me more mentally than physically(though physical part sucked.)

Did you know that the nice Mexican lady that you pissed off while filming Bad Grandpa at the Galaxy Foods in Apex NC on HWY 55 quit her job and went home the day you filmed there?

I live in the neighborhood and shop there often. Don't worry though, all is well now. The manager went to her house and talked her back to work, and now she just has to deal with me bringing it up every week. I even bought her the DVD.

yes i knew she quit her job that day,and i knew she eventually went back to work. we had never had anyone quit there job before so we were very concerned. we monitored that situation closely and were very happy when she went back. the other lady in the shoplifting scene ,the one that chased us out into the parking lot, she quit her job too. and for a much longer time. thankfully she went back to work too.

Do you ever wear the Bad Grandpa makeup on days you aren't filming, just for shits and giggles?

i have a set of balls i can wear(and have),but no i have never worn the makeup on a day off. it takes 3 hours to put on and 40 minutes to get off. kinda like me when i have had too much tequila. hey hoooo....get it ''40 minutes to get off..." good times.

I've always admired how true you are to yourself, and how much you have overcome.

How do you measure success, and what advice do you have for other people on being successful? Thank you!

hello everybody! i measure success in happiness and being able to provide for my family. great question. thanks

Was there ever a guest that you guys had on jackass who you were surprised got as involved as they did?

yes. when we had brad pitt on the tv show, he wanted to go much bigger than we wanted him to. we actually had to back him down a little because we felt responsible and didn't want to hurt the best looking man on the planet. he is a great guy.and tough.

I'm some asshole on the Internet, welcome to Reddit.

well hello some asshole on the internet,i'm the asshole doing the ama. thank you and everyone else for attending. xoxo

If you didn't get into acting what career path do you think you would have gone into?

i'm not sure. i wanted to be a baseball player but i blew my arm out my senior year of high school. then i moved to hollywood. i purposely didn't give myself any backup plan in case acting didn't pan out. honestly if i wasn't doing what i'm doing, i probably would have been in trouble by now. i am very thankful to have an outlet for whatever is going on in my head.

Hey Johnny,

I just wanted to say I played cornhole with you once while you were filming Bad Grandpa in Charlotte.

Thanks for being very nice, talkative, and respectful while staying in our city. Literally everyone I know that met you had nothing but nice things to say.

With that said, what was that one stunt where you said "there's a pretty good chance I could die" before doing it?

we loved filming part of bad grandpa (and incidentally bad grandpa.5) in charlotte. drank a lot of booze and played a lot of cornhole.i never did get good at that game. and there have been a few stunts where i thought it might end forever bad. the rocket(since it blew up the first time), a few of the bull stunts.... but quite a few of the times it was almost forever bad,it was on a stunt that seemed tame. like the golf cart in the first movie. no one expected that to happen. whoops!

Hey Johnny, big fan. Have any of the guys (other than Devil Pontius vs. that religious guy) ever got in a fight with someone while filming a prank?

dunn got punched in the face after a prank once. a guy walks up and said,''u scared my wife'' and then punched him in the jaw. dunn immediately started laughing,and continued laughing for quite some time. i miss him a lot.

How much practice did the role of Jeffy in The Ringer take? You really hit the nail on the head with that character

i worked several weeks with my acting coach cameron thor trying to find that character. we obviously had to find a way to do it that wasn't offensive,and also entertaining to watch.

What was the hardest scene to film (without laughing) in Bad Grandpa?

we always hold our laughter until after the scene because we don't want to lose any footage. but with that said, filming a prank is pretty nerve-wracking(thats probably misspelled). i am thinking about so many things at one time. 20 things can cause any prank to fail. so i am trouble-shooting while i'm improv-ing,and that doesn't leave any room for laughter. but afterwards we review footage and laugh. then giggle about it all night at the bar.

How did you feel when that golden dildo penetrated bams hairy butthole.

i felt glee,bam felt penetration.

Hi Johnny!!!! Are there any plans for a Jackass 4 and/or a Bad Grandpa 2? If so, how near in the future? Love, Danyel

P.S. I'm prolly one of your biggest fans!!!!! Love you!

no plans for a jackass 4 at the moment but i still write ideas for it just in case. and no plans at the moment for bad grandpa 2 yet either. definitely possible. bad grandpa.5 is avail for digital download right f-ing now and avail on dvd july 8th. its tons of funny pranks and behind the scenes stuff. the pranks could have made the movie but since we had a story to service some didn't make it in. ok thats my one plug. done with that:)

What does horse cum taste like?

ask pontius,he drank it. i'm no sicko, i just jacked the horse off.

I have a special needs aunt who actively participates in the Special Olympics each year. What all did you take and learn from you working on The Ringer?

i made a lot of great ,new friends and i learned a lot about respect. people with special needs want and deserve to be treated like everyone else. don't talk down to them,talk to them as u would anyone else. that's a big theme in the ringer,and i am as proud of that movie as anything i have ever done.

Was there ever a stunt or prank that went horribly wrong? Specifically, something that ended up emotionally painful for you or any of the other guys? (Not something easy to get over, like Bam getting trapped in a trailer with a snake)

if stunts don't go horribly wrong they don't make it into the movie. and weird i didn't suffer any emotionally ill effects from bam being trapped in the trailer with the snake. bam may have a different story.

If seven dudes we're coming at you with knives, and all you had was rope, table, ladder, and chair, how would you Jackie Chan your way to safety?

well i would put the chair on top of the table,put the ladder on the chair,throw the rope to the roof of the building across the street,kick the ladder on top of my adversaries,and swing the fuck to freedom.

Hey Johnny! How are you and your balls doing today?

doing wonderful. and hanging to the left. thanks for asking.

Is Bam a grizzly yet? Also, Bad Grandpa .5 was awesome!

no,i would say he is very much a cub at the moment. grrrrr....

If you could give a college student one piece of advice about how to live a happy life, what would it be?

follow your instincts and believe in yourself. love yourself. be kind and be positive. avoid anything negative. take chances,be brave. don't be afraid to fail. if you're not failing then you're not trying hard enough. failing is how u learn to succeed. have a sense of humor about it. fuck it.

Hows the dick?

little but mean!!

What was the biggest difference between doing the Jackass TV show, and doing all the movies? I feel like it would just be the aspect of people recognizing you.

more freedom. we didn't have to abide by television standards,and that's the point when jackass became what it was. and yes people did recognize u more, so we had to be wary of who we were pranking. if i was doing a public prank and there were a group of skaters standing there, i would wait until they left before i would prank anyone. u just had and have to use ur judgment. is this person a jackass fan? if so i won't prank them cuz its a bust. also because of recognizability(definitely misspelled) factor, we started pranking the cast more.

Do you ever go back to Knoxville for anything? If so, why is it Szechuan Garden on Chapman highway?

yes i go back to see my family. szechaun garden is 5 minutes from my mom and dads house. i ate there when i was growing up.

if you threw me in a snake pit, I would probably come out and murder you!

that is precisely why i am not throwing you in.

Your performance in Small Apartments was amazing! I legit cried. Would you work with Jonas Åkerlund or Matt Lucas again if the opportunity came?

thanks so much. i loved working with jonas and matt and would work with them again anytime. matt actually wrote on bad grandpa for a few days. he helped us a lot.

What's your best memory from when you first started working on Jackass?

the feelings of pure excitement and anticipation of being at the beginning of something. who knew how the hell its going to turn out?we sure didn't ,but we were doing it together. i am still amazed on how all this turned out. and thankful.

Favorite punk rock band?

thats a tough one. ramones,misfits,the clash,the replacements,smut peddlers,the pogues,X,...i know i am going to be pissed about leaving some out,but thats just off the top of my head.

how staged was the bad grampa movie?

all the pranks are %100 real,we go to great lengths to insure that. if i think someone i'm pranking is onto me,or if we find out later that maybe that person knew they were being pranked we won't use that footage in the movie. they were some scripted scenes in the movie between billy and i. but those are easy to identify because its just me and him talking.