Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2439 - Johnny Knoxville
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2439 - Johnny Knoxville' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-15. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2439 - Johnny Knoxville

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yeah yeah he said fuck you all bad he choked him to sleep
i would pay for it how did you meet judo gene labelle i met him first on men in
black 2
he was a stunt man oh okay and uh people would the stunt people would line up
outside his trailer so
they uh so he would choke them out and he would give you that little he would
give you a patch
afterwards you've been choked out by judo gene labelle oh god he had all those
cartoonish patches
he'd like give you a bunch of those he's a character man he uh one guy i saw
one uh the
stuntman right before gene choked him out he goes one second this irish dude
and he turned
around and he slapped gene in the face and gene's like okay and then after gene
choked him they
were standing up gene just dropped him straight to the ground for slapping him
oh you can get
hurt like that yeah well that's what you get for slapping gene labelle slap him
give him a kiss
kiss him in the cheek before he chokes you out don't slap him he had one of the
very first ever
mixed martial arts fights oh yeah it was that he fought milo savage yes and
didn't milo savage
grease himself up beforehand oh yeah but also gene was wearing a gi which kind
of negates most of the
the grease yeah because you're wearing this like very frictiony gi so he
grabbed him in where it was
i guess the rumor was milo savage's gloves were loaded uh i don't know i would
do that though if i
was milo savage oh yeah i would have some kind of weapon against gene labelle
well most people that
have never grappled a guy like that they don't have any idea how helpless you
actually are until like
you think i'll be able to push him away from me i'll be able to push him away
get some punches off
you really don't know until that guy grabs you and it's like being grabbed by
an orangutan
yeah because his mom ran the grand olympic auditorium right and he grew up
training with
all the disciplines of fighters that came through there well he definitely knew
pretty much everything
he knew a lot but you know obviously he's a judo specialist but he's the guy
who taught bruce lee
about the importance of grappling yeah because he worked with him on the green
hornet yeah i think
he worked with him on that um but when he locked up with bruce lee like bruce
lee was like oh okay
i'm helpless like apparently the story was that gene picked him up and carried
him around over his
shoulder and then bruce lee was like okay fuck this because like gene was a
light i think he was a light
heavyweight judo champion so i mean he's probably at least 190 pounds and you
know bruce lee was a
pretty small guy yeah and gene just grabbed him his face just looked like a
catcher's mitt it was just
just looking at that guy's face yeah he was a classic and always check out a
guy's ears before you talk
shit with him if they have that uh you know cauliflower cauliflower ear just
buy him a drink
or give him a hug have that didn't he get it from like didn't he have john jones
fuck his ears up he
tried to get it i don't know if it happened we you know we tried to do i tried
to do that to uh the
director jeff tremaine on jackass number two every time someone would walk past
him they would grab his
ear and twist and we were just hoping it would cauliflower up by the end of the
film but it didn't
um you gotta earn that yeah there's a lot of guys who fake it though i know a
lot of jujitsu guys who
fake it they have guys fuck their ears up on purpose because they want to look
cool it's kind of weak
yeah that's you gotta earn it yeah it's uh it's like robert de niro in that
movie where he wouldn't
take viagra remember a hard-on should be earned it should be had legitimately
or not at all the old
fashion way with eye contact there was some wasn't that some weird movie where
he was going he was
a mob boss but he was going to a shrink and he couldn't get it up oh yeah was
it billy crystal was
the shrink yeah yeah i don't remember the name of it but yeah i know what you're
talking about dude
you've had a wild ride in in life you know what i mean you've you've done a lot
of crazy not just
with jackass but became a movie star and you're like what has this been like
for you um sometimes
it feels like you're living someone else's life you know imposter syndrome yeah
a little and um
i'm i'm extremely grateful especially for a guy with my limited education i get
the joke what i would
be doing if i didn't fall into what i'm doing so uh yeah it's pretty surreal i
just keep trying to
move forward how did you guys get started with jackass how did how did all that
come to bear um well
i the short answer is my then girlfriend got pregnant and i had a daughter on
the way and i was
i moved to la to act but i wasn't doing anything man i was drinking a lot and
um and then i'm like
oh i have to support a daughter i need to do something quick so i i was living
next
door to antoine fuqua in this duplex the director oh and he set me up with the
casting director who
got me a commercial agent my friend john linson uh set me up writing articles
for this magazine
and because he knew i wanted to write and one of the articles turned into me
testing self-defense
equipment on myself and a lot of different magazines wanted the article but
they didn't want
anything to do with it because i was going to shoot myself in the chest with a
bulletproof vest
as the last thing he's like stun gun taser gun pepper spray and jeff tremain
who now directs jackass
he was the editor of big brother magazine a skateboarding magazine owned by larry
flint
and he goes you can write it for us and i'll help you buy a couple of the
things and
the stun gun and the taser gun and i took the money my mom gave me for christmas
and bought the
cheapest bulletproof vest they had for the last thing you don't want to skimp
on a bulletproof vest
that's all that's all i could afford it was either no stun gun or taser gun and
um so anyway jeff says
hey why don't you film that article that you're writing we'll put it in our
skateboard video and it
kind of snowballed from there oh so that was the genesis of it yeah wow isn't
it weird how like
desperation or like the recognition that like oh you have responsibilities like
you got to get going
just lights a fire under your ass you become like a totally different person it
was like i deal with
a certain amount of overcoming fear or whatever when doing the stunts but
there was never any fear like you have a daughter on the way and you have to
figure out how to support her
yeah i was i had to do something quick and that was my best guess yeah it's the
mother of invention man
yeah that that necessity yeah understanding like being a dad and having to take
care of people it just
changes everything yeah like what am i doing yeah you know what i'm doing i'm
doing fucking nothing
and i need to do something yeah yeah yeah yeah it's uh it's a primal feeling
right yeah it changed
everything but what but why when you're doing this like first of all what round
what caliber of revolver
did you get shot with well the vest was the cheapest one so it could take a 38
and i got a 38.
i borrowed it from my neighbor's wife jesus christ
there wasn't a lot of pre-production on this joe how far away were you when you
got shot like
well my buddy was supposed to shoot me but we just we drove out the 14 and
because we didn't have a
location and i'm like pull off here and then we pull off this exit and i'm like
okay make a right
and we ended up on the fire road so we get out there my friend's like i'm not
going to shoot you
man i can't do it i'm like so i'm like all right well give me the gun and i'm i'm
i got the gun to my
chest and a car pulls up behind me and it's a bunch of tweakers they're driving
down the fire road they're
like how do we get to the freeway and i got the gun behind my back i'm like hey
you just go down here
make a right then a left uh and they drove away and so i went back to shooting
myself
it was sketchy it looked like a snuff film the the because my friends are my
the photographer on it
saw his buddy die because he jumped off a hotel trying to hit a swimming pool
and oh didn't hit that
swimming pool and so he was really scared right he was like stop don't do this
don't do this stop
i wasn't getting a lot of positive reinforcement joe yeah it doesn't seem like
it and i had a bunch of
uh because since it was flint magazine i had a bunch of uh hustlers under the
bulletproof vest to help
absorb the impact and at one point they all fall out and i bend over to pick
them up and i'm pointing the
gun right at my friends as i pick them up i don't realize this but it was
sketchy and that was the
first yeah we put that in the big brother video ever done anything like self-harming
any dangerous
type activities before you started jackass before you started doing all this
kind of no no i didn't even
know itself i mean you can you can argue me my drinking didn't help my liver
but uh but it's like
you guys like what you did was kind of crazy but when you i guess if you
stopped i don't know like
it just becomes something you're doing it was all normal to me and i i can't
speak for them it's just
that's what we're doing today and so that was the first one and then how how
many times have you done
a stunt where you're like this i could die a few like you've done like the bull
one when you're
blindfolded i watched i was like don't do that i was watching i was like this
is crazy yeah that was
yeah that was anytime you're working with a bull i think that uh they hate you
and really they hate
movement and they want to make you stop moving forever and um but i've had you
know like in the
jackass number two when the rocket exploded those were foot-long metal rods and
there was 12 of them
one blew out right next to my ribs which would have been picture wrap on me and
one flew back 300 yards and
split two of our uh art guys right between them that would have it was we've
had some really close ones
i tried to do the buster keaton thing in number two where the facade falls uh-huh
and it falls right
the window falls over my head that was the plan and the guy's like okay when it's
because it was the it was
the close right of the movie and the guy's like this is a 20-foot steel wall
like you hit your mark do not
move i'm like got it they said action and then so i take two steps and they're
like oh no no cut cut so i
just like okay i'm gonna walk over here and they'd already released the wall oh
yeah and if you watch
the footage it crushes me to the ground but my head just makes it through the
window otherwise
that would have been i would have been done oh geez yeah
yeah oh my god that was a close one
god yeah how heavy was that thing i don't it was 20-foot steel wall it was
it was incredibly how bad did you get up from that i nothing nothing i'm like
it was it was a
like i was very lucky i'm also hyper limber so it just i kind of accordion went
on impact
just dumb luck dump it's story my life
how many it's all i mean all told how many stunts have you done like that oh i
haven't oh that almost
almost yeah kaput i i i don't know like there's
at least six or seven like close calls and then in any number of stunts they
can go wrong you know
i don't know i don't really i just look forward was there ever a time when you're
doing this well what
the fuck have i got myself into like because you have to keep up one upping
yourself right um
well that was a problem for me after we did the first movie uh i didn't want to
do a second
movie because i didn't know how to top the first one which now looks very tame
compared to the others
and finally uh tremaine said you don't we don't have to top it we just have to
be funny
and i'm like okay that made me free that i it took away all my anxiety and i
thought okay if that's the
case and a couple months later he he told me he was lying we did have to top it
but it by that time i was
already off and runn