I am going to admit that I laughed at the Jackass movies. I used to read Big Brother magazine before Larry Flynt bought them out and I’d watch skateboard videos in the 90s and this was just an extension of that scene. So when Tony Hawk Pro Skater went huge and every suburban kid in the world was rockin’ skate shoes, it was only natural for these dudes to get big too.
I never thought Steve-O was cool. I thought he was a nutcase and that made him worth watching in the beginning, but then dude just got repetitive and played out. People started immitating him and he stopped pushing the limit, he just played the dude who did lots of drugs and drink who stapled his balls to his leg, over and over and over and over.
So when I see him, years later, smoking a bowl out of a Dr Pepper can while diddling his balls on the red carpet, for some Gene Simmon’s roast, I don’t see anything funny, I see something played out, old and tired, kinda like everytime I look in the mirror. If dude took a shit on a girl’s face on the red carpet, or put a little effort into his stunt, I’d probably be less offended, because nothing annoys me more than a lack of creativity, especially when you’re a useless hood rat who made it big by pushing limits who has obviously since accepted that his balls are all he has to offer…that’s what the public wants to see and it’s easy and formulaic.
Steve-O is over and trying to shock us all by exposing his balls while smoking out of a can on the red carpet, because he’s so crazy….asshole.
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