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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 01-06-2004, 12:08 AM:

Am I the only one that likes this show?

It is hilarious!

These guys are f*cking crazy! [beer]

>>> Phil

Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 01-06-2004, 04:45 AM:

You think " Jackass " is hilarious? Try renting CKY or Steve-O's dvds. They make Jackass look like a Barney's sing-a-long video.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the above videos have most of the guys from Jackass, except Knoxville.

[ 01-06-2004, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: Ron Lacheur ]

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 01-06-2004, 10:33 AM:

I only watch what comes on before or after Viva La bam, it records on my Tivo and catches a little of it. HI, Im Johnny Knoxville. I hear that a lot but its pretty funny.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-06-2004, 03:40 PM:

The funniest one I saw was "Kenny Roger's Jackass" - spoof on Mad TV. I laughed real hard at that one. Kenny tries to catch a thrown baseball bat with his teeth. Then him and his buddies have a dairy consumption contest where they drink gallons of milk. Kenny sneers, "I raised on the dairy, bitch!" When vomiting milk into a trash can one of Kenny's buddies wails on him with the baseball bat.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-06-2004, 06:26 PM:

Phil, you're not alone, bro! I simply ROLL at that show! It has no point and, admittedly, is one of my "guilty pleasures". It's sheer foolishness. Some of the biggest guffaws come when they do something stupid like ride a shopping cart into a brick wall.

Complete, meaningless, television fodder. It's crazy, I know. I like watching Johnny Knoxville, because he always gets himself in trouble somehow. His reactions are hilarious. I thought I would die when he rode inside the porta-potty that was turned upside down!

[Big Grin]

Posted by Roger Katz (Member # 1625) on 01-06-2004, 08:59 PM:

Bobby: That was "Kenny Rogers' Punk'd"

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-06-2004, 09:27 PM:

I really don't get stuff like Jackass. I realize they are doing it for absolutely no reason whatsoever (and I love randomness for no reason), but seriously, who wants to see a guy taking a shit as he is running at top speed? Maybe people love seeing shit oooze out of a guy's ass as he runs. They just love the hell out of it. They wish they could see someone eating the shit as it fell from his ass, they love it so much. Now if only we could see Johnny Knoxville swimming in a sewage treatment plant swallowing piss and shit, vomiting it out and then eating/swallowing it again and again!!! That would be funny! That's what funny is.

But what happenes when this is not X-Treme enough to satisfy us? Pretty soon seeing a guy getting slammed in the face with a sledgehammer just won't be funny enough, nor will it bring in the ratings. The next step will be people actually dying on tape for a laugh. Let's see how high I can count to while getting bored with a drill in the head! Ha ha I'm a moron that's funny! The good news there is that the moron population would decrease quickly. But that won't remain funny forever, and remaining people will demand yet even more X-Treme entertainment.

The MadTV spoofs were funny.

Posted by Gunnar Johansson (Member # 1661) on 01-07-2004, 04:18 AM:

I saw a funny spoof on MTV, with Snoop Dogg. It had the title "Blackass" and the comment: "you won´t find my blackass doing things like that...". Instead they picked on police officers and were chased down the street.
Snoop Dogs Televizzle or something like that.
I agree with Joe Redifer, and the problem is for me the first time I´ve seriously considered the effect violence and stupid ideas on TV affect people. A friend of my loves Jackass, and has started wearing a cup for everyday use, goes around parties asking, I mean literally asking, to be kicked in the groin, and comes up with other stupid ideas like this. He´s always been weird, but this show sort of makes it legit, and gives him input and ideas he shouldn´t get.
Anyway, I´m hoping on Darwin and natural selection, as in the Darwin awards. And we have a saying in Sweden. Roughly translated "laughing about other people hurting themselves is the best laugh".

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-07-2004, 08:57 AM:

Joe, you never fail to make me laugh! You should have your OWN show. Really. [Smile]

Ehhh, the "eating ass" stuff I can do without, and the sewage-type stuff, certainly. When I mentioned Johnny Knoxville in the porta-potty... what made me laugh was not the sewage aspect, but his reactions and his comments. There's one guy on that show that pukes all the time over various things... that, I can do without as well.

Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 01-08-2004, 02:26 AM:

Aren't these the same guys that affixed their cocks to their legs with a staple gun???

I know someone did that, i'm not making it up!

Danny

Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 01-08-2004, 03:15 AM:

Steve-O was the one that stapled his bag to his leg.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-08-2004, 07:15 AM:

We ARE in the end-times...

Posted by Blake Zaugg (Member # 1455) on 01-10-2004, 12:55 AM:

Steve-O, Weeman , and Preston were actually here at a bar in Lethbridge last week on their new video tour. Broken light bulbs cutting his tongue, snorting strange things, and other self mutilation acts. Weeman and another local "little person" having a kick themself in the head contest. I didn't go, but I hear I didn't miss all that much. I am a fan of the stunts on Jackass.

Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 09-15-2005, 11:55 PM:

It has been 614 days since the last post.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-15-2005, 11:55 PM:

OK, I had to resurrect this tread as they are running the old "Jackass" shows on MTV2. (DirecTV ch 333, check your local TV guide for times and channels)

Those guys are just as crazy and stupit and funny as ever! I can't stop laughing at their stupit stunts! [beer]

Posted by Pravin Ratnam (Member # 1417) on 09-16-2005, 12:34 AM:

I actually like the WIldboyz spinoff even better.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-16-2005, 12:45 AM:

I've seen a couple of those, Pravin. But I personally was not impressed with their antics with the animals...sorta anticlimactic as compared to "Jackass" or their DVDs.

I like the mindless stupidity of "Jackass" much better. [Smile]

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 09-16-2005, 12:13 PM:

What does this have to do with MUSIC? That should be the ONLY thing on MTV!

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-16-2005, 12:22 PM:

MTV stopped having much to do with "music" quite a while ago.

Here's why: They found out that the average video-watching kid would switch channels as soon as a song they didn't like would come on, hence the average viewing time for MTV was somewhere around 10 - 15 minutes....bad news for advertising revenue. So MTV slowly began replacing their music content with half-hour "shows," first containing mostly music like Yo! MTV Raps, and TRL, and such, but eventually filling more and more time with glop like "The Real World" and "Cribs" and "Punk'd." Result: Longer viewing time, but now hardly any music.

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-16-2005, 01:08 PM:

I actually think that MTV is good for music. They hardly show videos, so now artists have to rely on talent alone, with very little help from a flashy video. But to stay on topic, Jackass is hilarious.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-16-2005, 06:48 PM:

quote: Jeremy Fuentes
They hardly show videos, so now artists have to rely on talent alone

That would only be the case if the music industry itself signed music performers based on talent. These days, they only sign them if they look good. This is extremely factual for country music, R&B and most pop music. Rock is the only place where not so pretty people have a chance at success. Same goes for jazz, but not all that many people listen to it compared to the other more popular genres.

To make matters worse, the corporate suits running the music industry have stifled most creative trends to where they're just spitting out derivative forms of circa 1990 music. They expect to spoon feed us all the same flavor of vanilla ice cream and then have the audacity to expect us to buy even more of it from one quarter to the next. That gives MTV even more of a reason to air those dopey half hour shows.

Once in awhile, I'll tune into VH1, but mostly keep it on FUSE channel if I want to watch some music videos. MTV and even MTV2 both tend to suck a lot of butt. If it isn't some derivative crud then its more gangsta rap or people dressed up and posing like gangsta rappers. Hypocrisy. I can remember all those congressional subcommittees and Tipper Gore railing against heavy metal music in the 1980s just for their horror show theatrics. Strangely, all those folks are conveniently silent when it comes to the often highly destructive messages touted by a lot of rap.

The entire music industry needs a complete style house cleaning. Most everyone knows that. But few want to do anything about it. For the time being I'm not buying or even downloading much of any of that crap.

Aside from all that soapbox stuff, Jackass and its variants are still pretty funny. But they need more new episodes or just need to retire the thing and move on.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-17-2005, 06:29 PM:

I agree Bobby, if ya want music...keep it on FUSE. I enjoy it too.

RE: "Jackass"

quote: Bobby Henderson
But they need more new episodes or just need to retire the thing and move on.

I also think they need to produce some new episodes, but I don't think they need to move on and retire and not show the old episodes. That's like saying they should stop showing the Seinfeld stuff.

Classic ***GOOD*** stuff will always have an audience.