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today in the city of angels...

...Ryan Dunn's birthday* is being remembered in the manner of one of his favorite pastimes: an afternoon game of softball among friends**. The tournament teams have been sorted, the commemorative jerseys have been printed, and if Johnny Knoxville is the pitcher then it's safe to assume Jeff Tremaine is the catcher (even if that turns out not to be the case it still won't make an ass of you or me, so it's all good). Unfortunately I cannot make it to the park by game time due to certain insurmountable geographical circumstances, but I'm there hard—so hard—in spirit when I say, "Play ball! See you in the showers after the game."

* The correct birthdate is actually tomorrow, but it's obviously much easier to pull teams together on a Sunday than a Monday.

** As touched upon by Rick Kosick in his remembrances of Ryan here.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Chatsworth, California 2010)

weeman v. weeing men

The other day while doing some birthday research on Wee Man, I stumbled upon this: the Weeman (if you list to the dumb/tough side, try this on for mental size: http://www.weeman.co.za). Fascinating, no? A potty training device that helps a toddler to pee just like dad! Fortunately, I grew up in a house that actually had a urinal installed. My dad picked it up at a school auction for like five bucks and I thought it was the best thing ever. Hell, I wasn't just the first and only kid on my block to have one—I might've been the only kid in the city to have one! So, nowadays, I can stand-up pee like a champ.

The only thing I do suffer from is performance anxiety. No, not the erectile kind, but rather the ability to pee on demand. Why would I ever need to do such a thing? Out of professional necessity. Bam Margera's "Wiener Vision" wasn't the first time urine found its way onto our cast and crew—well, aside from its being shown on camera from a first person's penis point-of-view—as it's been one of those go to annoyances ever since the TV days (the earliest recorded instance I believe being a pee-pee wake-up delivered to Jeff Tremaine from Johnny Knoxville in 2001). Ever since then it has simply been all out tinkle warfare.

I've been on the receiving end more than I care to remember, although not anywhere near as much as Tremaine (he was pretty much a walking urinal on and off the sets of jackass the movie, jackass number two, and jackass 3D). I did once try to repay Knoxville in urinary kind after he spattered my back with a liberal quantity of his own, but when bladder push came to urethra shove I just couldn't do it. There I stood, directly behind a seated Knoxville, my penis out and just inches from his ear with not a drop to be had. So, not only was vengeance not mine, it was just awkward as hell, too.

Ever since then I drink at least a gallon of water, if not two, a day. And I don't do it for health and hydration reasons. I do it because I never know when I might need to pee on someone. And that's perfectly normal in my line of work.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; California 2010)

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)

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)

we remember you ryan dunn

(All photos by Sean Cliver)

photo of the day: the bmxicans

What's up, ese? More like what the fuck is an ese, you know? I once found myself on the receiving end of an ese in 1989 that had me scrambling over a schoolyard chain-link fence in Santa Barbara, California, amid a rain of aspiring vato punches—but that's a story for another episode of Mi Vida Loca. Let's just stick to the photographic matter at hand and address the four OG BMXicans as they posed in Bithlo, Florida, circa 2002. We were "Camp Paining" it for a three-day stand on jackass the movie then, two of which were partially absorbed by a "BMXican Wakeboarding bit that never really panned out cinematically.

My memories on this appear to have brain-panned out over time as well, because Mat Hoffman is the only one I can really remember making anything to make ado about (as seen on yesterday's official Mat Hoffman birthday post). But I think Ryan Dunn may have given it a shot—a brief, failing shot. And Chris Pontius may have tried to walk the walk, because he definitely talked the talk. Danger Ehren ... ah, what the heck ... I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he scratched a labia on it, too. In the end, it was just a failed excuse to buy time as Tim Payne and his Keebler elves finished up work on the equally failed "Rube Goldberg" experiment that fell from potential movie close grace to definite DVD bonus feature filler.

Incidentally, this scan came from a 35mm slide that I didn't exactly bother to take the time cleaning up. Hence that pubic-looking hair dangling oh so appropriately up by Danger Ehren's head. Boom!

Still with me? Bored beyond tears while waiting for a battle beyond the stars? Pick up jackass the unrated movie on DVD for the cheap as dirt nonce.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Bithlo, Florida 2002)

boxing day booger blow out

So it's the day after Christmas. Boxing day to some; discount shopping to others; toilet bowl blow outs for all. Wahoo! Good gravy, did I ever stuff the shit out of my stomach ... only now I'm still waiting for it to pass and go into the porcelain light like a good little Carole Anne, at which point it will most definitely be a joyeux noël for my poor constipation-torn rectum.

Whatever, I'll live to poo another day, so no sense whinging about it now. Instead, let's box the shit out of Boxing Day. And, if I may be so bold, I'd like to recommend jackass: the lost tapes for your optic digestive system. Why this one particular DVD out of so many others? Well, let me count the ways...

1) It came out in 2009, prior to the big brouhahaha brought about by jackass 3D in 2010, so it may not have received the best coming out party possible.

2) It contains (almost) all the loose ends, segments, and transitions from the TV show, as well as numerous never-before-seen loose ends, segments, and transitions that had only appeared on jackassworld.rip.

3) There's this clip with Dimitry and Steve-O that's beyond priceless, making it well worth whatever heavily discounted bargain bin price it's now available for!

Casually intrigued? Easily persuaded? Love "Denim And Leather" by Saxon? Buy jackass: the lost tapes on DVD today! Or tomorrow! Or whenever the uncontrollable urge suits you and your financial instability!

and that's the way it is...

Once upon a time there was a great man named Walter Cronkite. He reported the news of the day in a responsible and objective tone, something virtually unheard of now as entire network news programs are openly biased in what passes for journalistic practices. Good night and good luck indeed. Anyway, what really gets my billy goat's muff is that even when it comes to trife Interweb fluff these jokers still can't rub two dicks together to start a remotely erectile fire. Seriously, how can you even think about putting together a comprehensive (much less half-ass) article about things "mysteriously" found inside peoples' butts and not make mention of the famed little car toy that went there and back again in the tail end of a number one box office movie? Woodward and Bernstein wept.

The article in question: Patients Get Bottles, Cell Phones, Buzz Lightyear Stuck Inside

the zeitgeist of ryan dunn

Remember the 56k days of WebCrawler? AltaVista? Netscape? Excite? Lycos? Man, did they ever get an 800-lb. banana stuffed in the tailpipe of their search engines. I'm no Nostradamus, but if I was Falco and had to write an international pop hit about the book of Revelations and the coming of das Tier, I'd be yodeling Google all over the Austrian Alps. Until that Day of Rock 'n' Roll Reckoning comes, Google is the master and commander of the Interweb with all the statistics that could possibly matter to anyone. Today, this one matters to us: a self-reflexive look back on the top fastest-rising searches of 2011 that proves just how much zeitgeist cred was held by Ryan Dunn. Wow.

Remember when Kim Jong-Il was the administrator of jackassworld.com? Want to honor the memory of Ryan Dunn and go flipping through time like Buck Rogers? Take a Sunday drive in this time machine.

photo of the day: ryan dunn

A word or two of thanks to everyone that tuned into A Tribute to Ryan Dunn on MTV last night. A sincere thanks as well to all of those that contributed photos and artwork to the special. And, to all his international fans that are patiently waiting to see the tribute abroad, we'll do our best to keep you updated on any scheduling developments—at present, however, all international markets are still acronymically classified as TBD. Until then ... the beard abides. We miss and love you, Ryan.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Miami, Florida 2002)

tonight on ridiculousness... ryan dunn!

Earlier this year, while taping up all the episodes to comprise the first season of Ridiculousness on MTV, Ryan Dunn made a special guest appearance on the couch. Tonight that episode will finally be shown, airing in the half-hour slot just before A Tribute to Ryan Dunn premieres at 10:30pm ET/PT. Additionally, two special encore presentations of Ridiculousness will be replayed starting at 9:00pm ET/PT, featuring the guest appearances made by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine, so be sure to set up a comfy camp on the couch for the evening, especially if your ass is prone to piles of a great grape nature.

Ridiculousness - Full Episodes

(Photo by Rick Kosick; Hollywood, California 2011)

photos of the day: ryan dunn

In the process of making A Tribute to Ryan Dunn, boxes of archived tapes were dusted off and cracked open so hours and hours and hours of raw footage could be pored over to find elusive, rare, and never-before-seen moments with Dunn. Anything and everything from a casual look and an easy smile to full-fledged bits that never made a final cut—or, in some cases, not even bonus material.

So much has been filmed over the years though, that even seasoned vets such as myself can't always recall what did or didn't make the grade, like Dunn's ill-fated run-in with an eyeful of bear spray. I mean, I definitely know it didn't make the theatrical release of jackass the movie in 2002, but I could've sworn it was at least thrown into the bucket of added value slop that accompanied the subsequent DVD release. However, others claim otherwise, the sum total of which equates to a modern day definition of "fact" by commonly accepted Wikipedia standards. Hey, if grammar can go the way of the dodo, why not everything else once held near, dear and aspired to? LOL! FML! OMG! ROTFPMASDOMA! Yep, that's right, I'm rolling on the floor peeing myself and shitting dicks out my ass—thank god I can now cram all that wordy crap into a handy-dandy acronym.

Anyway, while scouring my own archives and flipping through binders of 35mm slides from jackass the movie, I assembled a little photo blow-by-blow of Dunn's "Bear Spray" bit. This was the very first thing we'd filmed on arrival in West Chester, PA—on a butt cold, blustery late afternoon in February 2002—and it couldn't have gone worse for poor Ryan. He went from cute and cuddly bear...

...to irritated and tearing mess in just seconds flat.

Johnny Knoxville equated his red pepper spray incident from 1997's "Self-Defense Test" to having gonorrhea of the eyes, but it's safe to say Ryan's grizzled optic nerves were similarly swimming in an STD simile of backstreet San Francisco bathhouse proportions. He eventually regained his vision though, just in time to hit the bowling alley and strike out big-time.

A Tribute to Ryan Dunn premieres on MTV Monday, November 28, at 10:30pm ET/PT.

(Photos* by Sean Cliver; West Chester, Pennsylvania 2002)

* Except for the photo of bear-masked Dunn in shades—that was taken by Benzo.

let the countdunn begin...

Less than a week from now—Monday, November 28th, for those of you who get anal with dates—MTV will be airing A Tribute to Ryan Dunn, an hour-long special dedicated to celebrating the memories of our dearly departed brother and Zac Hartwell. This was, by no means, an easy thing to do—in fact it's been one of the most difficult things we've done to date—but we're extremely thankful for the times we did have with Dunn and wanted to share these moments and more in this intimate look at his life...

A Tribute to Ryan Dunn premieres on MTV Monday, November 28, at 10:30pm ET/PT. Prior to this, however, there will be an all-new episode of Ridiculousness featuring a guest appearance by Ryan taped earlier this year. Stay tuned after the tribute for an encore presentation of jackass 3.5 at 11:30pm ET/PT.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; California 2010)

coming to mtv on nov. 28th—a tribute to ryan dunn

On June 20, 2011, Ryan Dunn passed away in a tragic, late-night car accident. The suddenness of his death stunned and deeply affected not only close friends and family but a legion of worldwide fans that had grown up watching Dunn’s unabashed antics on the television and movie screen.

In the weeks to follow we posted numerous memorials here on the site (including the video below), but now it’s time to properly celebrate the memory of Ryan with stories and remembrances from those whose lives he’d touched over the years with his genuine friendship, candor and mirth.

Combined with raw footage from his earliest days with Bam Margera and the CKY crew in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to truly never-before-seen moments on jackass, Ryan’s life—from the ri-goddamn-diculous to the intimately poignant—is bared and shared in this heartfelt hour-long tribute that proves even though he is gone his legacy remains and he will never be forgotten.

“It’s a surreal thing to undertake, doing a tribute to our brother Ryan's life. I still can’t believe he’s gone but we wouldn’t trust anyone else with this, so we are doing the best we can for Ryan, his family, friends, and everyone who loved him,” said, Johnny Knoxville.

A Tribute to Ryan Dunn premieres Monday, November 28, at 10:30pm ET/PT on MTV.

This same night, an all-new episode of Ridiculousness will air at 10:00pm ET/PT, featuring a guest-star appearance by Dunn that was taped earlier this year, while a special encore presentation of jackass 3.5 will be broadcast immediately following the tribute at 11:30pm ET/PT.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; 2002)

happy anniversary to us!

Well, heck, why not. It's October 15th, I've got nothing better to do, and this candle's certainly not going to blow itself. So here goes: one year ago today, jackass 3D slipped into theaters with all the grace of a bull in a china shop. Three days later and we'd trumped the weekend box office for the third cinematic time in a row. Unfortunately, I have nothing of a communicable and/or social disease to share at present, but I do have this fat load of trivia still left in my hand: a batch of the original storyboards used to block out the opening to jackass 3D.

1. The big white wall. Nothing special here. Move along now.
2. The doors crack and open. Orchestral strains of "Corona" fill the heavens. Babies are born. Puppy dogs are adopted. All is right with the world.
3. The kids are back!
4. Refrain: The kids are back!
5. In production speak, we've just entered Dollyworld. Hello, Dolly!
6. And if you go in for production puns, this here is a true Peter Pan along.
7. Garland? Judy Garland? The owls are exactly what they seem.
8. The great rainbow revelation.
9. Wait, what's this? Here's where the storyboard starts to depart from the final shot sequence, because everyone knows who's supposed to come next. However, as first envisioned, Party Boy was to get this party started by being bitch-slapped from behind with enough lube to send a fat man and little boy all the way to Japan and back.
10. Upon showing up on set, Danger Ehren made it known that he was under doctor's orders not to participate in any stuntery that could possibly re-tweak his neck. Well, after getting whapped with one fish too many in the month prior, he knew another clammy blow was out of the question and he forthrightly requested to swap this for someone else's demise.
11. Ditto, kiddo. Days before shooting the open, Bam Margera found himself on the receiving end of a bat attack in his hometown that left the state of his head in one big question mark. Therefore, he, too, could not participate in anything that could have an untoward effect upon his noggin, e.g. this wild card with guest-stars Tony Hawk and Eric Koston. So the Hollywood shuffle continued.
12. Steve-O was and is no stranger to ceiling fans, so up, up, and away in an angelic arc he went.
13. Wee Man had mentally prepared and committed himself to reprising his "Wee Cheetah" bit that had nott gone as well as we'd all hoped, but luckily for Danger Ehren this was one of the very few available stunts that wasn't likely to yield any impact-related repercussions. So Wee Man went to sleep with the fishes while Ehren took it like a man—a screaming man, but a man nonetheless.
14. Preston was itching to reboot the old cannonball in the stomach bit, and what better to way to watch the ripples roll than with 1000 frames a second. A-a-a-argh!
15. Ryan Dunn (RIP) was our original cupcake, but when Bam needed a friendly assist he kindly stepped aside to take the hit on something else (and boy, did he ever). The fact that this stunt featured a baseball bat was mere coincidental icing. Nothing more, nothing less. This ain't Kafka, you know.
16. Dave England not only managed to avoid being kicked in the head, but he was now promoted to be the head kicker in Bam's stead. No matter, his ups were actually more on point as it brutally turned out. Tubas, by the way, are ridiculously expensive instruments, be it a rental or purchase, and should be avoided at all production costs.
17. Johnny Knoxville was originally thought to be the final button on the open montage, but once it was realized that his patented "Welcome to jackass!" phrase had to come immediately after the rainbow reveal, straight to the topside he went, airbag and all, minus the olde tyme ship's steering wheel (which, though unused, did eventually find its way onto the door to his and Tremaine's office).

In the mood for poo and other dimensional diversions from the mundane and morose? Buy jackass 3 on Blu-ray/DVD!

(Production storyboards by Sean Cliver; 2010)