Johnny Knoxville Breaks Down Every Injury of His Career
“Jackass” star Johnny Knoxville has announced his retirement. Here is a great interview and short introduction to the man and his career:
A clip (Note, the last paragraph and only the last paragraph is
Knoxville: We were filming a tribute to Evel Knievel. I wasn’t meant to do a stunt for that. I got to Oklahoma and everyone was having so much fun and I decided well I wanted to have some fun too and decided to try to backflip a motorcycle but I can’t ride a motorcycle so well.
Sometimes when people are explaining how to do something to me before a stunt I’m not listening because I just wanna do the stunt.
Knievel {clip}: Whatever you do do not ditch the bike right away, because if you go like this and ditch the bike man it goes forty feet in the air and lands on you.
Knoxville: He was right.
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Knoxville: And right at that time the motorcycle comes down and breaks its handlebars off of my crotch… uhh… and that was a lot of impact. But I stood up and I felt like I was peeing myself. Every time my heart would beat blood would shoot out the end of my penis.
He managed to father two more children after that.