So, in Central Park today, there was a giant gold cube,
like, made of solid gold
that was worth $11 million.
They took $11 million worth of gold and made a cube with it
and then they just put it in the middle of Central Park.
Apparently, it's to promote something crypto.
I don't even understand crypto now at this point.
I don't-- Ev-Every time there's some shit
that doesn't make sense in the world,
people just say it's crypto.
You know what I mean? Crypto has become, like,
the new, like, UFO.
"What happened? Last night I heard some shit.
There was something happening outside my house."
"Probably that crypto, Bob."
I don't-- I don't know what this--
They say there's a gold cube,
and then someone said it's because of crypto. I was like,
"Okay, I don't understand the blockchain. For real now."
-♪ ♪ -ANNOUNCER: Coming to you from the heart of Times Square,
in New York City, the only city in America,
it's The Daily Show.
Tonight,
the masked Rudy.
The NFL is racist.
And Johnny Knoxville.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Hey! What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
♪ ♪
We kick things off with the big entertainment news of the day.
One of the hottest game shows on television right now
is The Masked Singer,
which is like American Idol
if all the contestants were minor celebrities
disguised as genetically mutated Teletubbies.
And the best part of the show
is always when the singers' identities are revealed.
They take off the mask.
Because you never know who it's gonna be.
Wow! The skunk was Faith Evans?
(gasps) The hamster was Rob Schneider?
And Rob Schneider was Kevin Hart?
It's so cool!
But every now and then, every now and then,
the reveal is truly, truly shocking.
And at yesterday's taping,
it brought the whole show crashing down.
Two judges on the Fox show The Masked Singer
reportedly walked off in protest
during the taping of a recent episode
after it was revealed that...
Rudy Giuliani was a contestant.
According to Deadline,
judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke walked off the set
as soon as Giuliani was unmasked.
What the (bleep)?
Once again, Rudy Giuliani ruins the day
by showing people his face.
America is truly, truly, truly, truly
the greatest country on Earth.
Because this is the only place in the world
where entertainment trumps everything.
'Cause, I mean, a year ago, just a year ago,
this guy tried to overthrow America's democracy,
and now he's a contestant on a reality show?
Is there anyone they won't have on?
Like, one of these days, a masked singer
is gonna take off their head and it's gonna be literally
the coronavirus.
"Aha! I knew it!
"I said it had to be COVID, and it was!
(coughing) It was!"
And don't get me wrong. I get why Giuliani did it.
I mean, reality shows are the best way to rehab your image.
You know? Because you can count on the fact
that you'll always be surrounded by even worse people.
I mean, if Kim Jong-un filmed a dinner scene
with the Real Housewives, he wouldn't seem that bad.
I mean, sure, he fed one of them to some dogs,
but did you see what Jen Shah said? (gasps)
But the question is,
why did the producers want Rudy Giuliani on the show?
I mean, he's beyond controversial.
And even more than that, even more than that,
for the show itself, like, his performances,
like, they really suck.
The company counting our vote
is owned by two Venezuelans who were allies of Chavez,
with a company whose chairman is a close associate
and business partner of George Soros.
What do we have to do?
Let's have trial by combat!
(cheering)
No one's (bleep)ing to that.
(chuckling)
All right, let's move on to a new story about Tesla,
the first car designed by a 24-pack of Red Bull.
Teslas are famous right now
for their fully automatic self-driving mode.
But it turns out that their self-stopping mode...
(hisses) well, that needs a little work.
NEWSWOMAN: 54,000 Tesla cars are being recalled
because of an autonomous driving feature
that disobeys stop signs.
Tesla introduced the rolling stop feature
in a software update in October of 2020.
The program would allow cars in self-driving mode,
when no one is around, to drive past the stop sign
without coming to a complete stop.
Tesla says it will fix the issues
through a wireless software update.
Tesla claims no cars in its self-driving program
have been involved in any accidents.
No! No, don't fix this!
Don't fix it. You're breaking it.
Come on, people, a self-driving car that follows all the rules--
that's gonna be dangerous.
'Cause that's the last thing that human drivers expect.
Who stops at a stop sign?
"You almost killed me and my family!"
Like, we need to program cars to drive just like humans.
That what we need, okay?
They need to speed up at a yellow light
or they need to drive faster
when a pedestrian is crossing the street.
Yeah, I mean, you say it's dangerous,
but we both love that game.
So, look,
I don't mind that Teslas were rolling through stop signs,
because I actually like the idea of artificial intelligence
not being so uptight and perfect, you know?
I don't know. Like, I want lazy A.I.
Yeah. Just want chilled A.I.
'Cause then there's less chance of a robot uprising, you know?
'Cause the robots will be like, "Must destroy human beings.
"But first, must scroll through TikTok.
"♪ You want to bamba? ♪
♪ You want to chill with the big boys? ♪"
But it turns out there are some people
that self-driving cars probably should not drive like.
And many of these people are in Florida.
For instance, take a look at this story.
It reportedly started when the driver
that you're about to see cut off another driver
in traffic, right?
And then, he got mad and slammed his brakes
when the first car started riding his bumper.
And then, when the other car pulled out
and tried to pass him, this happened.
In Florida, take a look at this new dashcam video
showing the moment a driver shot at another driver
during a road rage incident.
♪ Doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo, doo-doo ♪
♪ You can suck my dick, you can suck my ♪
(mumbling song)
Oh, my God.
(car horn blaring)
Oh (bleep) off.
♪ ♪
USHERY: And Popper's attorney says
his client was just defending himself.
He's now facing two charges, including aggravated assault
with a firearm.
(laughter)
Like, what... what's the deal with this guy?
First of all, first of all, guys,
the whole point of road rage is to not hurt each other.
Right? We just act crazy because we're safe in our cars.
It's like Twitter, but on the freeway.
And secondly, the way he pulled out the gun.
I don't know about you, but I thought
he was gonna be, like, a stone-cold assassin.
You saw, like, the way he pulled it out.
And he just, you know?
But then, when he actually started shooting,
he looked like a... like a five-year-old
holding fireworks for the first time.
Pah-pah-pah, pah, pah-pah-pah, pah, pah.
(crying)
And guys, I think we can all agree,
someone like this should not be allowed to have a gun.
You can't just be spraying bullets randomly on the freeway.
First of all, you could kill someone, right?
But secondly, this is Florida. Everyone else has a gun.
You start shooting, next thing,
someone in another car goes like, "Oh, they're shooting."
-Then they start shooting. -(gunfire)
Then there's people in the houses. They're like,
"They're shooting on the freeway." They start shooting.
And then grandmothers in the old age homes, they're like,
"Somebody's shooting." And then, finally,
the alligators come out of the swamp. They're like,
"All right, I guess we're doing this."
And it's not just this one dude.
This is a big problem in America. It's a huge problem.
So many disputes in this country go straight
from talking shit to shooting.
And you know why I think this happens? It's because
the Second Amendment comes right after the First.
First Amendment-- right to talk shit.
Second Amendment-- you see what happens when you talk shit.
They should have made a First Amendment-- talk shit,
Second Amendment-- you know, the right
to, like, talk about what shit was said.
Third Amendment-- right to grab a drink with each other and be
like, "Yeah, man, maybe we shouldn't have said that shit."
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Amend... maybe Fifteenth Amendment-- I...
the right to bear arms. "You want to shoot each other?"
"Nah, I'm cool now, man. I'm cool.
Had some time to breathe."
Seventh Amendment-- the right to breathe.
But you see, this is why we need Tesla's autopilot mode. Yeah.
Because then, you can keep driving,
and the car will shoot for you.
(laughter)
All right, let's move on to our top story.
It's about the NFL.
When you think of the NFL,
you're supposed to think of athletes doing exciting things,
like making amazing catches, or throwing incredible passes,
and running up the middle into a big pile of people
for some crazy reason.
What are you doing?! Go around them, you idiot!
That's what I would have done!
But in recent years, the actual football part of the NFL
has often been overshadowed by off-the-field scandals.
From the Redskins controversy,
to the blackballing of Colin Kaepernick,
to the league telling players that dark spots on their MRIs
was just their brains getting a sun tan.
And this week brought a whole new scandal for the NFL,
when former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores
filed a lawsuit accusing the league
of racial discrimination against Black coaches.
Flores claims that teams are interviewing Black coaches
with no intention of actually hiring them.
He says he had an interview with the Broncos
where the executives showed up an hour late,
and clearly hungover.
And he had an interview with the Giants
that he knew was bullshit
because the team had already decided
to hire a different, white coach.
And the way he found out
that they'd already hired somebody is pretty wild.
NEWSMAN: Flores says he found out
from Patriots coach Bill Belichick
that the Giants had hired a head coach
three days before he was scheduled
to have an interview with the team.
NEWSWOMAN: The complaint states, on January 24,
Belichick wrote, "Sounds like you have landed. Congrats!"
Flores responded saying,
"Did you hear something I didn't hear?"
Belichick texted back, "Giants?"
Flores later texted Belichick to ask
if he's texting the right coach
before Belichick fesses up that he has the wrong man.
(groans)
This is so embarrassing.
Why do old people sign their texts?
Like, do they do that for everything?
"I'm so horny right now. Yours truly, Henry."
"I want you to go to town on my ass.
Affectionately yours, Linda."
"Squirt emoji, squirt emoji.
Best wishes, Henry."
No, but for real, though, this was a screw-up by Belichick.
And he's a coach, so he can't even blame CTE.
Because this is how Flores found out
that he already lost the job that
he was about to interview for-- about to.
And you may be wondering why would an NFL team
grant an interview to a Black coach
if they have no intention of hiring them?
Well, for a long time, Black head coaches in the NFL
were just not a thing. Right? In fact,
between 1926 and 1989
there were zero Black coaches-- nada. Yeah.
During that 60-year period, it was easier
to find a Black person in space than coaching in the NFL.
Then, finally, in 2002, Johnnie Cochran--
yes, the O.J. guy, I guess he was really into football--
he threatened to sue the league
if it didn't get its act together.
And so the NFL created something called the Rooney rule,
which said that at any time
that there's an opening for a new coach,
at least one minority candidate
has to be interviewed for the job.
Which is cool, but now Brian Flores is saying
that these interviews he's getting-- they aren't real.
These teams are just going through the motions
to satisfy the Rooney rule.
Think of it this way: it's almost like
when your mom e-mails you that her friend from church--
her son is moving to your city
and she wants you to be friends with him.
And then, yeah, you go get a beer with him
just to make your mom happy,
but you know for a fact
you're never gonna hire him as your friend.
And, honestly, if you're gonna make someone
come to a bullshit interview, the least you can do
is let them know ahead of time. Let them know
this is a bullshit interview, 'cause that way
they can have some fun with it. You know?
Think how dope it would be to get to an interview
knowing you're not gonna get the job.
Then you can give bullshit interviews.
"So, what would you say is your biggest weakness?"
"Uh, I'm deathly afraid of footballs.
"And, uh, I also don't know what a footballs is."
Now, look, we don't know for certain
why Brian Flores didn't get these jobs.
But it's clear that the Rooney rule,
despite its good intentions, has done nothing
to solve the NFL's Black coaching problem.
The facts are clear that Black coaches are not awarded
the same opportunities as their white counterparts.
Black coaches take longer to get hired.
They get fired faster.
A study found that coaches of color averaged
shorter tenures than white coaches and were
less likely to land another head coaching job after being fired.
There was an academic study that came out across
three decades, over 1,000 coaches,
finding that Black coaches were
114% less likely to be promoted
to coordinator positions.
NEWSMAN: Despite the success of coaches such as Tomlin
and Tony Dungy, who both won Super Bowls,
when it comes to head coaches, the league
is nearly as white now as it was in 1989.
In 2003, when the Rooney rule was instated,
there were three African American coaches
in the National Football League. We are 19 years removed
from the institution and implementation
of the Rooney rule, and there is now one head coach.
Yeah, that's right-- out of 32 teams in the NFL,
there's still only one Black head coach,
which is fewer than the number of Black coaches
when the Rooney rule started.
So the Rooney rule is basically as useless
as the five-second rule.
Yeah, bitch, you dropped your food on the floor.
If you put it in your mouth, that's just nasty, okay?
It's not like bacteria is slow to figure it out.
"Is that food? Wait, that's food."
And it turns out not only are Black coaches still not getting
enough opportunities, but when they do get the job,
they have a much shorter leash than white coaches. Yeah.
Even if they win, there's still a good chance
that they're gonna get fired.
Now, is the NFL doing this on purpose to Black coaches?
Nobody knows. I mean, maybe.
Or maybe it's an unconscious bias.
And that's what makes racism so hard to prove these days.
Because, back in the day, when someone
was being racist to you, you knew, all right?
'Cause they would be up-front. They'd just be like,
"Oh, you? You want the head coaching job?
"(laughs) You are one funny Negro.
"I didn't even know Negroes were smart enough to make jokes.
Did you know that, Steve? (laughs)"
But that's why proving racism for Black people in 2022
can be so frustrating. Right? Sometimes it feels like,
you know, you-you're the only person
in a horror movie who actually knows what's going on.
"You got to believe me, man,
there's a serial killer in this camp."
"Don't be ridiculous. All these sexy teens
are probably stabbing themselves to death. Come on."
But no matter why it's happening, it's clear that
Black coaches aren't getting the same opportunities
in the NFL as their white counterparts,
which is a pretty demoralizing situation
for Black coaches to be in.
BRYANT GUMBEL: NFL owners have stuck to an old game plan
when it comes to hiring head coaches. And that, in turn,
has sent morale among Black coaches plummeting to a new low.
It's now so bad football agent Brian Levy convened
a Zoom meeting for many of the Black coaches he represents
to talk about the Rooney Rule.
Part workshop, part therapy session.
You see, uh, guys that are not as qualified
that jump ahead of your guys that you have trained
and that were under you for years
that-that jumped, and now-- so what is the criteria?
You know, the resume doesn't matter anymore.
OVERSTREET: He's not getting interviewed
because he's the qualified coach.
He's getting interviewed because they have to hit their quota.
You see the Black man, you go like, "Oh, he's the Rooney.
That's why he's interviewing. He's the Rooney."
Man, you see this shit?
The situation is so bad for Black coaches
that they are voluntarily having Zoom meetings.
Do you know how truly unfair something has to be
for football coaches to talk about their feelings?
Think about it, even when they win the Super Bowl,
they'll be up on the podium that night, like:
We played well today.
Then give the boys 20 minutes off tomorrow
and then it's back to the weight room.
This is the most exciting day of my life.
Well, for more on this issue, let's go now
to our senior tailgating correspondent
Roy Wood Jr.
Roy, I believe you're out at Miami Dolphin Stadium right now.
And this story is truly a bombshell story.
It is shocking, Trevor, shocking.
I can't believe that racism still exists in the NFL.
I mean, they had "End Racism" on their helmets.
Are you telling me that didn't do anything?
You know, Roy, I'm as shocked as you are.
But let me ask you, what do you think of the Rooney Rule?
Because this lawsuit seems to prove that it hasn't worked.
Well, the problem with the Rooney Rule
is that it underestimates racial bias.
The Rooney Rule says: You don't like Black people?
Well, hang out with one and see what happens.
But nothing happened.
So now it's even worse,
and you're still hiring the white coach
and wasting the Black man's time.
-Right, Roy, so then let me ask... -Not to mention
that this rule messes with the Black man's self-esteem.
He's going on all these interviews
and doesn't get the job-- he's obviously gonna wonder:
Well, is it me? You get low self-esteem.
That shit starts affecting your whole life.
You start having problems with intimacy.
Your girl asks, "What's wrong?" But you're too manly to admit
that when you get older, things don't work as good.
You know what I'm talking about, Trevor.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
You've been through this shit. You start growing apart,
she leaves you, next thing you know,
she's dating the white coach, because he got a good job.
Meanwhile, you're at home, by yourself, watching porn.
You're not even jerking off while you're watching the porn.
You're just watching it and eating cheese.
I, uh...
I think that went a bit off track,
but I get what you're saying, Roy.
You think the Rooney Rule should be abolished.
No, I didn't say that.
We just got to replace the Rooney Rule
with the Roy Wood Jr. Rule.
The Roy Wood Jr. Rule? I'm sorry, what is that?
Oh, dawg, it's simple.
If a team is gonna hire a white guy,
but they have to interview a Black guy,
then they should just have to fly me out.
Yeah, but then doesn't that waste your time?
Nah, man, I ain't got nothin' goin' on
except for this stupid-ass job.
And I get to have a fun weekend.
Get to fly first class.
Get to chill in the hotel with the minibar.
Hanging out in fun cities. Drunk in New Orleans.
Back tattoos in Miami.
I'm gonna have a good-ass time, dawg.
Well, Roy, um, I'm looking here,
and it says that one of the first available jobs
is gonna be in Minnesota, so, uh, you want to fly there?
You want to send a Black man to Minnesota?
In February?
What part of "End Racism" do you not understand, Trevor?
My skin wasn't made for them type of temperatures.
Let them white coaches have Minnesota. They can have that.
Okay, uh, I thought you wanted the j...
All right, I guess we'll have to figure something else out.
You know what, let's take a break,
and when we come back, we'll tell you the truth
about where your poop actually goes.
Stick around.
So, Roy, you...
you're just gonna give up on Minnesota?
Trevor, there's a reason that you never saw
any Black Vikings.
-You ever seen a Black Viking? -I-I can't say that I have.
-Yeah, huh? -That's a good point. Huh.
Name one Black Viking.
-You got me. -Yeah.
Welcome back to The Daily Show. We live in a time
where everything has become a conspiracy theory:
vaccines have microchips in them,
the election was stolen by the Illuminati pedophiles,
Joe Biden is still alive.
But those are just the obvious ones.
Now there's a new show
where they reveal the conspiracies
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Check it out.
KOSTA: Conspiracies. They're everywhere.
Or are they nowhere?
Or is that exactly what they want you to think?
So that's where my wallet is.
Well, for every "they,"
there's a me.
I'm Kevin Matthew Kelp.
Follow me as I pull back the curtain
to find the truth behind...
the curtain.
This is Project Conspiracy.
♪ ♪
People always ask how I uncover government conspiracies.
Simple: it's all about knowing where to look.
And sometimes you only need to look...
right under your feet.
(horn honks)
Shut up!
I'm uncovering a conspiracy here!
He's probably in on it.
The mysterious disk that I discovered
in the middle of a busy street is not uncommon.
In fact, I found them in every city in the United States--
New York, Boston,
Tulsa,
Toronto.
Seems innocent enough, but what if I told you
they're portals to a complex network of hidden tunnels
buried deep underground?
Thousands of miles of tunnels put there by who else?
The government. This secret
government tunnel system pervades everything.
The pipes reach into our schools,
our businesses, and even...
our homes.
I didn't consent to this!
And until I get the truth,
I'm not going to become part of this system.
Did you hear that?
You're not getting anything from me!
The question is, what is the government doing
with these tunnels?
Why are they harvesting our bodily fluids?
And why aren't we allowed to see for ourselves?
Well, I did some digging, and it turns out,
this conspiracy goes all the way back to ancient Rome.
The Roman elders devised a hidden system
kept out of the eye of the public called
"the Cloaca Maxima,"
which I believe translates to "giant bird hole."
Turns out old Caesar was a part a conspiracy way darker
than sneaking anchovies into salad dressing.
Who else was involved with this thing?
It was time to get some answers.
But how could I enter the secret tunnel system?
If I wanted to find out the truth,
I'd have to go undercover.
Let's go!
Okay, testing, testing. One, two, three, testing.
MAN: As long as you have respect and perseverance,
you're gonna do great, so just once you get down that hole...
Hello, fellow construction workers!
Can I help you, pal?
Oh, I've been made!
So, clearly, the government's security around this system
was tighter than I thought. But screw it.
I'm just gonna breach the network myself.
Aah! (groaning)
Wow. Must be some kind of DARPA magnetic technology,
otherwise I'd be able to lift that.
After trying for hours to break the government's high-tech seal,
it became clear there was no way in.
But then I had a realization.
Instead of trying to get into the beginning of the tunnels,
why not go to where they end?
And to find out where that is, I had to go to the dark web.
Turns out there are entire agencies
that no one has ever heard of, dedicated to maintaining
this secret network of underground tunnels.
(chuckles)
Busted.
This government facility hiding in plain sight
is an end point where your feces--
which contains your DNA, by the way--
is collected. Let's get some answers.
Hey, what are you doing with our fluids? We have a right to know.
Sir, this is just a waste water treatment plant. That's it.
So you admit that you have our poop.
Uh, briefly, I guess.
-See? I knew it. -Wait, come here.
Aah! You can't get me, (bleep). (groans) Goddamn it!
We may never know why the government
is harvesting our feces through an elaborate network of tubes,
but there's one thing I do know:
they're never gonna get mine,
because I've sewn my butthole shut.
Checkmate, Uncle Sam.
♪ ♪
Rest in peace, Kevin. We'll never forget you.
It was Kevin, right? I-I forgot.
All right, when we come back, the legend of injuring yourself,
Johnny Knoxville, will be joining me on the show
to talk about the brand-new Jackass movie, so stay tuned.
Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight
is the creator and star of Jackass,
Johnny Knoxville.
He's here to talk about his death-defying stunts
in the new film Jackass Forever.
-(whooping) -Oh, my God!
Oh!
-Oh! -(cheering, applause)
I felt like I got a 200-pound colonic.
Oh, my God.
(laughter)
You looked like an angel!
(voice-over): Unfortunately, you know,
Icarus got a little bit cocky.
Sure enough, he flew too close to the sun.
Fell to his doom.
Johnny Knoxville, welcome to The Daily Show.
Thank you for having me.
It is so good to see you, like, functioning as a human being.
(laughs) You know, I'm happy to be functioning
-after one of those films. -I'm-- Like,
you're one of those people where if somebody bet money with me
and said, like, "How long do you think this guy will live for?"
I would have probably lost all my money.
-(laughs) -You're-you're 50 now, right?
-Yeah, 50. -Congratulations.
-Thank you. -I'm loving it.
I did not think I would live to see you get, like, old.
Like, look at you. Silver fox and everything.
-Oh, thank you. -You went natural during the pandemic.
-Oh, yes. -And yet you're still trying to die.
(laughs)
Well, try-- still trying to entertain.
-Which you do successfully, by the way. -Thank you.
Congratulations. I think the movie's really funny.
-I think the stunts are crazy. -Thank you.
Have you guys gotten tired of the pain?
Do you still feel pain?
Yeah, I feel-- My pain threshold, I think,
is about the same as anyone else's.
-It's my "give a damn" threshold. -I don't think so.
-Okay. -Yeah.
I-I don't think it's the same.
I've been hit by a car once.
-Right. -It never happened again.
-(laughing) -Like, if you cross the street with me, Johnny,
like, there is no car anywhere in sight.
Because that pain-- I will never forget that shit.
And then you come along and I go, like...
When that bull hits you--
So, there's-there's the scene
where you're getting hit by the bull.
Do you even remember that, by the way?
I remember the bull hitting me and me flipping,
and, after that, they had to send me footage in the hospital
to remember what happened.
'Cause you were snoring afterwards.
That was-- The doctor said
that was me trying to swallow my tongue.
Yeah, I-I thought it was like... I thought it was...
So this is what happens. You get hit by the bull.
You flip, you crash down. You start snoring.
Then I'm like, "Ha! Johnny, that's funny."
-You're saying, "I'm knocked out, so I'm snoring"? -Yeah.
-And now you tell me that part of it. -(laughing)
I didn't bring that up in the movie.
Yeah, because I mean, like, look at me now.
Now I'm the opposite of entertained.
-I'm worried about you. -(laughing)
What else have the doctors said?
Are you... are you, like, fully okay as a person?
'Cause, like, you can't do this for much longer, right?
I... That was my last bull to face
because I've had 16 concussions,
and that one was really pretty gnarly.
I had a brain hemorrhage,
and it took me several months to come back from.
I took a lot of cognitive tests, and, boy,
-my scores weren't great. -Wow.
Yeah. The doctor's like,
"Do you have trouble paying attention?"
I'm like, "Yeah, I can't sit still lately.
I can't edit, I can't..." He's like,
"Because you scored 17 out of 100 on the,
-on the, uh, attention span." -You're just taking knocks.
-Yeah. -You're just taking knock after knock
-after knock after knock. -But I'm-I'm better now.
-So now it's like-- I don't know-- 20. -(knocking)
-I'm glad you've gone up. That's so... -(laughing)
We're glad that Johnny Knoxville has gone up.
Here's another question I had for you is like,
who is your health insurance provider?
I actually have very good health insurance.
-Um... -Do they know what you do? Like, 'cause I... Like...
Like, whenever I think of health insurance, I think
of them being like, "Ah, but, you know,
"preexisting conditions.
What do you do for a living?" type thing.
Like, does... Like, do you have, like, life insurance?
I actually got life insurance, which is amazing. I got a...
-And they know what you do? -Yeah, they know what I do.
I don't harp on it with them, but they know what I do, and...
I like how you say it.
Like, you just gloss over it in the call.
-Yeah, yeah. -"What do you do for a living?"
"I work with animals. Uh, you know, I work near water."
"I work with gravity, and Newton's third law of motion."
Um, is there a stunt that-that terrifies you?
Is there, like, a thing where you go like, "You know what?
"I want to do it, but I don't think
I'll ever have the balls to do it"?
I don't like cold weather or cold water.
That's my line in the sand.
-Wow. -Yeah, I d-I don't like it.
Although I have-I have done things
in cold weather and cold water, I don't like it.
But that's actually your-- So, it's not pain, it's cold.
Yeah. And... Well, Steve-O's is, like,
he'll let you put a hook in his mouth
-and cast him out in the sea, -Yes.
to chummed-up waters for sharks,
but they tried to get him to, uh,
bungee dive off a bridge once--
he's like, "No way, dude! No way."
It's, like, something grandmas do.
Everyone has their irrational thing about them--
all the cast members-- he wouldn't bungee dive.
It's like, "Okay, Steve-O. Uh..." (chuckles)
Okay, so then how do you pick the stunts
and-and how do you pick who's gonna do the stunt?
'Cause, I mean, like, in-in this movie you've got, like,
vultures and penises. I'm gonna say that
just to keep people on the hook, you know what I mean?
-Yeah. -You've got-you've got scorpions in-involved
in people's faces, you know? You've got penises and bees.
-Yes. There's a lot of penis. -You know? Who...
There's a lot of penis, which is good.
Um... It's like Euphoria, but with comedy, you know?
How do we... how do we choose who gets to do which stunt?
Do the people know ahead of time and do they say,
"Yes, I'll do it" or-or is it like,
-"Nah, I want you to do this"? -Um...
Everyone has their specialties.
-Like, Dave Englund's the poop guy. -Okay.
-Pontius is the naked guy, although Steve-O -Uh-huh.
will do naked things. I-I'm...
more of the blunt force trauma guy. And...
and, no, they don't know, a lot of times,
what's happening ahead of time. Jeff and I know
-who we want to do it. -Right.
And if they protest like they don't want to do it,
then Jeff has a way of-- you know, he'll, like,
either bulldog them into it or take them on a walk
and be their buddy and-and talk them into it that way.
He has a number of ways of coming at the guys.
-I appreciate that. -Yes.
Encouraging people to get hurt.
-Ye-- (laughs) -But, like, of their own volition.
Well, secretly, they all want footage, right?
If someone gets a really good bit, no matter how painful,
they're like, "Go, I-- now I need to get one."
And so everyone tries to top each other
and it really helps for the film.
It really does help the film.
Um, Johnny Knoxville has evolved a lot over the years.
You know, I mean, you started the show
at what, the age of 29, I think.
-Yeah. -On MTV, back in the day.
Um, you've gone on to do everything--
you know, the movies, the TV show.
Everybody loves what you do.
You've developed a rabid fan base.
But what was an interesting evolution for me,
maybe one of your "craziest" stunts for people
was speaking out after George Floyd.
Oh, my God, I mean, that was...
I mean, infuriating for everyone, I believe.
Oh, but I think it was, like, it was impressive,
because a lot of people didn't expect you--
I mean, you're Johnny Knoxville. They're like:
"The guy gets hit by things in the head.
I don't think he's gonna say something anytime."
And then you came on and you said really beautiful things
about the moment and what was happening in America.
And then there were some fans of yours who were pissed off.
They were like, "No, Johnny, we don't want you...
-saying anything." -I was so disgusted by that...
by-- like a lot of people--
and I felt like I couldn't not say something, you know?
And yeah, I lost... people on my Inst...
like, a hundred thousand people unfollowed me.
-You're kidding. -But I told them to.
I was like: If... if you don't like what I'm saying,
-Right. -please don't follow me, because I don't...
I don't want you in my life, I don't need you in my life.
-I wanted to clear those people out, and I did. -Wow!
And it felt much better.
Right? Because...
-I mean, that shit's been going on way too long. -I hear you.
-Yeah. -And it's...
-I don't know, it was... it was too much. -No, no, no.
I appreciate you, I really do.
-Thank you, I appreciate you. -And I had a lot of fun.
I think a lot of people are gonna enjoy the movie,
'cause you guys don't take yourselves seriously.
It's just fun. You're hurting yourselves,
which is a wonderful thing-- you know, it's, like,
-consensual hurting of thyself. -Yes.
And, uh, yeah, I, uh...
I hope we see you in another Jackass,
but not getting-- like, I hope we find stunts
that you can do safely without, like, failing cognitive tests.
(laughs): Well...
well, I hoped, if we do another one--
and we may, we may not, I don't know--
but I'll try my best to sit behind the camera
with Jeff Tremaine.
But, as he told me, I'm lousy at doing that, so...
You could switch to the naked stunts.
I'm not built for speed like Pontius.
-(laughing) -You know? I mean, just to be honest.
There's a reason I wasn't picked for the opening.
(laughter)
Looks like an egg in a nest, Trevor.
Oh, man.
Sorry, everyone.
(crew laughter)
Oh. Oh, boy.
Johnny Knoxville, it's always fun having you on, man.
Thank you. Thank you for having me.
Thank you for the movie. Thank you for joining me.
-And I hope to see you again. -Thank you.
All right, people, Jackass Forever
is in theaters everywhere on February 4.
You definitely want to check it out.
It's a lot of fun. We're gonna take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
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No, no, like, a hummingbird.
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Now, here it is, Your Moment of Zen.
Vaseline is making a comeback
in the beauty and skin care world right now.
Many people are doing something called "slugging,"
which means they smother their face in Vaseline
before they go to bed.
-We're Saran Wrapping our skin -WOMAN: Mm.
and it doesn't breathe.
I can only speak as a guy, but that would be a big breakout...
My main concern is that the pillow case...
what if it gets in your hair
and then your hair gets super greasy?
Um, you'd have to, you'd definitely have
to lie on your back the whole night.
Your pillow and sheets and stuff would be gross.
I'm a stomach sleeper, so that would not...
-Oh, well, yeah... -I would just...
(laughs): it would be, like, hair...
I mean, it would be everywhere.