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tonight on ridiculousness... street bike tommy!

What makes Street Bike Tommy so awesome? Everything. He's a hero of the common man and they win every single time no matter how hard they may appear to lose. He first won my heart over when I watched him sail somewhat of a front-flip over Travis Pastrana's backyard foam pit to land how no man has ever wanted to land before. Amazing. And tonight, on an all-new episode of Ridiculousness at 10/9pm C on the MTV, he answers the very question I've been pondering ever since I first met the Nitro Circus crew but was totally afraid to ask: What the f' is a whiskey throttle?

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photo (and video) of the day: gregg godfrey

 

Jeremy Rawle and Gregg Godfrey came by the office the other day to show me some of the Nitro Circus 3D movie and it looks awesome. Before leaving we made a picture with The Emperor Jeff Tremaine's director chair. My favorite thing about the pic is not the "F-Jeff" sticker, but the look on Gregg's face. It may look like it, but he is not mugging for the camera. That's just the look someone gets on their face when they have to bend down for a picture when their back is broken. When I walked into the room to say hello, he was sitting in a wheelchair—for good reason, too. Check out how he did it. Fuck.

F-Jeff, and get well soon, Godfrey.

Knoxville

ridiculousness season 1 now on DVD and VOD

Whether you gotta have it in hand or you just gotta see it right f'ing now, consider your instant gratification serviced in full. Rob Dyrdek's Ridiculousness is now available on DVD (for those of you with a love of all things hard—so hard) and VOD (for those of you love the streams but still know enough not to cross them; unless, of course, you are in desperate need of rerouting a major evil entity to the nearest convenient parallel dimension). In case you needed a poke in the ol' mozg, celebrity guests from the first season that couched alongside Chanel West Coast and Steelo Brim included Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Big Black, Travis Pastrana, and Ryan Dunn. Check out the digital goods here:

Ridiculousness Season 1 on DVD

Ridiculousness Season 1 on VOD

(Photo by Rick Kosick; Hollywood, California 2012)

breaking records v. breaking toilets

You can row or you can wade, but in the end it's all up to the jury to decide which way to let it all hang out. For Jolene Van Vugt of Nitro Circus fame it was to break a land speed record for the world's fastest toilet. For Dave England it was a more leisurely outing that ended awkwardly in a broken American Standard.

While I admire both for taking toilets to the extreme, I'm of the loosely moral, if not more bowel mindset that if you're going to do something it should be done all the way no matter what the cost, e.g. financial, physical, or mental. After all, is a toilet really a toilet if it's not being used as a toilet? Not to get all existentially bent, but someone somewhere would probably be thrilled to have a finely crafted ceramic flip-top chair* to sit upon simply for sitting purposes and not shitting porpoises. A stool without the stool, if you don't pardon my aforementioned merde.

The next level potty stunt, I think, and I believe Dave England would agree with me after his first misfired attempt at the hardware store prank in jackass the movie, is the stressful combination of a precision movement with imprecise movement. Timing becomes of the essence, not to mention focus and continence. Major cog though you may be in the production of said shitty stunt, you are still only one of many moving pieces and you're the piece that can't start moving until all others—cameramen, producers, etc.—are well in place. Because if it's not caught on tape then you might as well be that proverbial tree falling in the woods with no one around to hear it. In fact, if you're lucky, the only thing you may hear at all is an amazing argument between the director and the cameraman. Just a word to the wiseass, as everything I say does come from years of laughable and not so laughable professional experiences.

Congratulations, Jolene!

* Piles and prolapses may be a hazardous side effect of such an item, so do please use caution when considering such unorthodox interior furnishing options.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Portland, Oregon 2000)

catching up with bell and on pace with pastrana...

One of the best things about growing up Dickhouse is the extended family we've acquired throughout the years. It may not be The Waltons ... it's probably closer to a modern day Brady Bunch or Addams Family if you crossed and interbred them with say the Modern Family family tree and the Bluths from Arrested Development (hold on, let me Writers' Guild that shit—I think I'm onto some next level soft serve for Bravo or Hallmark), but it's still the finest home sweet dysfunctional home I've ever known.

Anyway, before I go off the deep end and blow a Nielsen, let's get back to the new matter at hand: Andy Bell's new production company, Sweatpants Media, which is sure to succeed because one of his partners is named Colt Seman! Oh yeah.

Currently, Sweatpants is whipping out a 20-episode reality series called On Pace With Pastrana, which is exactly what it sounds like: A camera crew follows Travis around as he transitions to NASCAR and married life, providing an uncircumcised look into all the crazy shit that makes TP tick.

Here's the first episode:

Tons of lubed love but missed the '70s boat? Lots of fantasies but no island, plane, or midjit to fulfill them with? Fear not, disciple of Dick, for Nitro Circus Season 1 and Season 2 are still available on DVD.

some ridiculousness with street bike tommy

If you're following Rob Dyrdek on Twitter then you know that the second season of Ridiculousness is in full shooting swing right now. They've had guest stars aplenty flowing through the production bay doors, but here's one that's real special and near and dear to our ROYGBIV* hearts: Street Bike Tommy of Nitro Circus fame. Now I know the following about Tommy but perhaps you don't—the man loves meat. Straight up. No GMO. No vegetables for that matter either. Or bread. Condiments ... possibly. But it's the slabs that really do it for Meat Plate Tommy. He's got mad digestive love for the flesh. One-hundred-and-ten-percent pure undiluted brotein for the protein; in other words, all the better to fortify his stunt body to fly through, into, or beyond whatever it may possibly be aimed at, including but not limited to a lubed bowling alley of hot dudes.

* This does not acroynm out to Ripe Odorous Yellow Gonorrhea Butter In Vagina.

(Ridiculousness photos by Shanna Zablow; California 2012; jackass 3.5 photo by Sean Cliver; Bithlo, Florida 2010)

a nitro circus drive by on johnny knoxville

Nitro Circus heads Gregg Godfrey and Jeremy Rawle stopped by the Dickhouse office last week while in Los Angeles attending to Nitro Circus 3D movie matters. The opportunity to manhandle Johnny Knoxville was quite the bonus perk considering most of last year he was absent from the house of Dick making Hollywood movie magic out and about the country.

Get your fix on Route 666? Hearing bells on a highway to hell? Skip fiddling around with the devil in Georgia and drum up Nitro Circus Season 1 and Nitro Circus Season 2 on DVD.

(Photo by Shanna Zablow; Hollywood, California 2012)

photo of the day: tremaine and roner

The other day while digging around for a clear shot of Erik Roner's tramp stamp, I happened across this image I'd thought lost in the great laptop theft of 2010 and it gladdens me to no end that it still exists. Seriously, they could discover Atlantis tomorrow and I wouldn't be anywhere near as happy as I am now. Yeah, gill people, whee. Whatever. If they were so damn suave and Patrick Duffy then how'd they go and lose their whole stupid continent for all these millennia? Bunch of aqua dumb-dumbs, if you ask me. Not like these guys, Jeff Tremaine and Erik Roner, and their mouth-breathing hard bodies (and, yes, that soft rumble you just heard was about 15 guys in the Eagle LA bar going "Grrrr..."). Anyway, this is what happens when you film for the Nitro Circus television show at Ken Block's* DC Mountain Lab in Park City, Utah, and he brings in a catered sushi dinner and loads of adult beverages to celebrate a long, cold day of slope abuse. Pure ping-pong synchronicity with a Bizarro body twist shaken not slurred.

Prefer more men over Mormonism? Donnie Anderson over Donnie Osmond? Slather your new skin with the jazz of Nitro Circus Season One and Season 2 on DVD.

* You know he's hardcore, he had a gold tooth.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Park City, Utah 2009)

erik roner's "roner vision"

 

There aren't many men who are man enough to pull off a tramp stamp, but when it's someone like Erik Roner ... well, you kind of have to give him a hall pass. We all do silly things, even though they may seem serious at the time, but the guy has done more gnarly things than you can ever begin to imagine and is just as nice as can be. Not at all like the variety of extreme dickhead typically seen (and unfortunately spotlighted) in the early days of the Extreme/X-Games—you know, those kayak bungeeing, sky surfing, street luging, self-described adrenalin junkies. Thank god that laughable chaff got separated from the wheat with the Darwinian quickness. Anyway, Erik's been putting together these little "Roner Vision" videos from his various adventures. This particular one is from the last day of shooting on the forthcoming Nitro Circus 3D flick, but there's a whole series of them to plow through if you've got the time to span.

Believe that high blood pressure is just another code word for getting baked? Think cholesterol sounds like some back-alley sewer moonshine circa the 1300s? Sounds like you could use a quick pick me up of Nitro Circus Season One and Season 2 on DVD.

tyler the creator v. andy bell's underpants

Like any stoned, cold Christmas elf will tell you, it's not about the present it's all about the package. So this week I'm wrapping it up all pretty and shit with a friendly nod to Tyler the Creator's contribution to Vice and Project X's Party Legends series and an historical ode to Andy Bell's underpants.

In yesterday's animated storytime tale, Johnny Knoxville reminisced about a mousetrap, a man, a penis, a hammer, and a thoroughly unamused girlfriend. Today, Tyler gives it memory hell with a walk down party lane involving two men, a machete, and a police raid. The only thing really missing from the Malibu scene was Bam Margera, a string of anal beads, and a kite, but who would ever believe something like that could happen in a million-billion years? Paramount!

Lastly, as promised, here is a shot of Andy Bell's underpants from 2009. They were found abandoned on the floor of the jackassworld.rip offices the morning after a certain taping for One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer went down, awry, and somewhat south, and promptly "chalk-lined" for posterity. We lost many things in the fire, you could say, asbestos or no asbestos, so it's always nice to come across a surviving relic as proof of an online time that some may never believe happened in the first place. Devilcock!

 

(Photo by Johnny Knoxville; Hollywood, California 2009)

one bourbon, one scotch and one beer with andy bell

Far be it from me to stray from a theme, so let's stick like a spear to a baby harp seal and learn more about Andy Bell, everyone's favorite washed-up motocross rider from Nitro Circus. What better way to do so than with this particular jackassworld.rip refugee in which Johnny Knoxville goes one-on-one and liver-to-liver with Bell on the late, great One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer. Warning: If you're not long in the tooth and considerably short on attention span, I suggest you skip ahead to Part 3 and get to the real marinated Thanksgiving meat of this talking head matter. Gobble, gobble!

Oh yeah, and not to generalize or anything, but here I go! What is it about the people that live in the attic of the United States and their alcohol tolerance? Seriously, instead of displaying its famously depressant effects, Canadians get all hopped-up and Quasimodo-strong like they're drinking liquid PCP. It's something I've never understood. And always feared. Ever since 1996 and a certain "Boozy the Clown" exposé we did for Blunt Magazine. Damn you, Kearns and Johnson!

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Part 3:

Flux capacitor on the fritz? Hyper drive not making the jump to light speed? Grab a big wheel and keep on turning with Nitro Circus Season 1 and Season 2 on DVD.

the definition of "nitro circus"

In this fast-paced world of pop-culture and the diarrhea of slang that engulfs it, it certainly does help to have such services as Urban Dictionary just a moment's click away. Like, for instance, if you're accosted by some common thug and he threatens to bust a cap in your dome, or say you're out on a date and the person asks if you're down to Stallone, a/k/a Shia Labeouf, after dinner. No one wants to take a premature dirtnap, much less find themselves on the giving and/or receiving end of some sensüal shit in the mouth, so it really is beneficial to have an understanding of what's being said before said goes down. Beyond mere words though, it's even more important to have a broad awareness of the pop-culture medium itself because the two go hand-in-fucking-glove these days. Otherwise, how the heck are you ever gonna keep up conversational pace with the likes of Douglas Coupland or Mark Lewman? Consider this following email sent from Jim DeChamp, a/k/a T-Rex, after he looked up "Nitro Circus" on the Slangbot app:

I found this word using Slangbot:

NITRO CIRCUS

Definition: Like jackass, but where tricks aren't designed to fail and no-one waves their dick at the camera.

Example:

Guy #1: Guess what, dude?! Pete prefers jackass to Nitro Circus.

Guy #2: Wow, what a gay.

The irony, of course, is that the recipient of this Slangbot definition was Andy Bell, the featured rider above who is all but leaking scrotal brains from Season 2 of Nitro Circus on MTV. Arguably, these were the Dickhouse years of the Nitro crew, but if you knew Bell like I knew Bell then you'd damn well know this is a case of Canadian nature and not Rainbow nurture. Now if only I could share the full extent of this nature with my photos from the day Andy visited the jackass 3D set one day and shared a hamburger, Jenna Jameson, sailboat, and squirrel on a trampoline with all of us*.

* If your name is Jeff Tremaine or Danger Ehren and you have no recollection of this fantastic show 'n' tell experience filmed for absolutely no reason in super megabuck 3D, that's because you ditched out early to instead attend a Los Angeles Lakers playoff game. Priorities, priorities...

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Riverside, California 2009)

rest in peace, mark "tex" adams

Rest in peace, Tex Adams [far left in photo]. My heart goes out to the Nitro Circus and to the rest of his family and friends.

Love,

Knoxville

The full ESPN account of Tex's tragic passing: Mark "Tex" Adams Killed in Florida

(Photo by Shanna Zablow)

the nitro circus 3D movie trailer

I'm not sure what happened toward the end of 2009, but after coming off two strong seasons on MTV the order for a third Nitro Circus season fell into The Cornfield—an infamous tract of Twilight Zone land where things just disappear for reasonably inexplicable reasons. As to the how the why and the what the huh, you can ask 20 different people associated with the production and you'll most likely get 20 different responses. My own personal favorite conspiracy theory is MEGADRIVE! Or was it HYPERDRIVE? No, that's probably trademarked by the King of All Trademarks Himself, George F'ing Lucas. ÜBERDRIVE? Hölle, ich weiß nicht ... where's Donny "Money Shot" Anderson when you need him? Anyway, instead of a TV show, Gregg Godfrey and Jeremy Rawle first took the Nitro Circus experience abroad for a live stadium tour in 2010, then did the Hollywood shuffle and set their collective sights on filming a 3D movie in 2011. That they done did and here's the trailer:

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the notorious POV

Now here's some serious kudu doo-doo for all you Wildboyz admirers out there. What I really want to focus on, however, is the stellar usage of a POV camera. The POV rig can be a fickle little piece of equipment, and, in most cases, it takes the longest time to set up (just kidding, Tyler, lighten up) with the most minimal pay-offs. Case in point, its many uses on Nitro Circus that more often than not went straight to MTV.com as online bonus clips. Okay, yes, every once in a while you'll get gold, Jerry, gold, but they're mostly these dizzying shots that seem to move faster than the speed of life with little time to comprehend what the fuck is going on, e.g. anytime one was used on a backflip or any other high-speed, topsy-turvy stunt. Actually, the point at which these angles generally become most engaging is post-stunt—especially if said stunt was more of a fail-ish nature. This video, however, is exactly the opposite and proves just how miraculous life can be—especially when you're the friend following behind. Go, go GoPro!

This video, by the way, found its way toward my inbox after Spike sent the link around saying, "I wish it was Tremaine on this bike."