Jackass To Take Over MTV This Saturday
MTV is launching a new website called JackassWorld. Quite frankly… we’re not impressed. Sure, Jackass was funny in, like, 1999, but it’s not as amusing to watch men in their late thirties staple their balls together now. But maybe that’s just me. Speaking of gruesome Jackass stunts, remember when one of the guys stuck a toy car up his ass? Ahhh… cable television.
MTV has decided to commemorate this general jackassness and the launch of the new site by allowing the guys from Jackass to take over the network for 24 hours - it all starts Saturday, February 23 at noon and runs through Sunday at noon. So when you tune in this weekend, expecting to find Making the Band and Rob and Big reruns, you may be a wee bit disappointed. Then again, you may be sucked into watching Johnny Knoxville get a colonic. Really, what more could you want on a lovely Saturday afternoon?
According to Tony DiSanto, EVP of Series Development and Programming, the Jackass crew will be providing the typical unexpected, immature antics that we all sort of secretly love. “I just heard they are bringing a ‘box of stuff that sucks.’ Who knows what else they will bring…I’m not going to ask, but it will definitely be can’t miss TV since literally anything can and will happen.”In addition to the in-studio antics, Johnny Knoxville, working in conjunction with BMX legend Mat Hoffman and some of the best stunt riders in the world, hosts a super stunt spectacular in homage to the late, great Evel Knievel. A few of the guys who go for broke in the spirit of the world famous daredevil including Travis Pastrana, Scott Palmer, Allen Cooke, Davin “Psycho” Halford, Trigger Gumm, Jeff “Harley” Schneider, and Midget Mike.
During the 24-hour stunt, behind-the-scenes footage and highlights will be posted in real-time to jackassworld.com. Viewers can also get in on all the action by submitting video questions to the jackass cast and crew and potentially dictate what happens on-air – all by going to jackassworld.com. Viewers can also use their mobile phones to send text messages to the cast and crew. The best of the worst will make it on-air.
Photo used with permission from MTV.
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1 opinion for Jackass To Take Over MTV This Saturday
ryan seacrest
Mar 28, 2008 at 7:49 pm
hey swing from a rope into some kind of wall or somthing
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