What is MTV thinking?

LOL... after dropping partial support of the crew, they've now decided to hand over the network to the Jackass guys for an ENTIRE day. If you are a fan of them, as I, you should get a kick out of this story!

Jackass' dislocating MTV sked for a day

By CRISTINA KINON

Thursday, February 21st 2008, 4:00 AM

'Jack'-ed up group of men in thongs, run amok through the throngs in Times Square.



MTV is allowing the boys of "Jackass" to take over the network for 24 hours straight, starting Saturday at noon, and executive producer Jeff Tremaine has no idea why.

"It's quite irresponsible of MTV, allowing us to do this," Tremaine told the Daily News. "None of these guys were made for live television, so it should be quite interesting."

Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius and many others will be on hand to cause a ruckus as well as pop up in lost footage and taped segments that will be shown throughout the day.

"I'm not trying to bore people with old episodes that they've seen a million times," said Tremaine. "We're running wild on the streets of New York this week, shooting a bunch of stuff. We never really shot in New York before, so it's fun. We're going crazy."

The 24 hours of pandemonium will also include an hour-long tribute to stunt master Evel Knievel.

"That ended disastrously for us, so that should be fun for everyone to watch," said Tremaine. "Knoxville almost lost a penis in that deal. He tried to ride a motorcycle for the first time. He actually tried to backflip it, and got about halfway around. He's recovering, but he still has his catheter in as we speak."

On why they chose Knievel to honor, Tremaine said all the "Jackass" guys looked up to the daredevil, but not for his successes.

"When we watched Evel, you never really wanted to see him land a jump, you just wanted to watch him go for it and watch the carnage," Tremaine said. "That was the inspiration for 'Jackass' in the first place. If you land it, you've got to do it again."

Saturday's special is intended to drum up interest in the launch of Jackassworld.com, where Tremaine and the "Jackasses" will be taking their act full-time.

"The premise of the Web site is, instead of just shooting when we have a big movie, we're just going to constantly shoot," said Tremaine. "It was almost impossible to get Knoxville to stop shooting the last movie we had, so this sort of satisfies his need to just always be shooting something. It's not to say we won't ever do a third movie, but until then we're going to be doing a bunch of new stuff all the time."

The best thing about the site? It's uncensored.

"No bleeps or blurs," said Tremaine.

So what does Tremaine suspect he'll be doing after a full day of "kicking back and watching the destruction" of his "Jackass" crew?

"Throwing up and apologizing."

ckinon@nydailynews.com

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So readers, what do you think?

Have Johnny Knoxville, Bam, Steve-O and the rest of the crew lost the rest of their brain cells from all the stunts?

More Importantly, has MTV lost it's mind letting them take over? (I personally am going to try to catch as much of the craziness as possible!)

What do you think of the Jackass crew?

What other interesting news stories have you seen lately?

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