breaking: lance bangs found at the himbo dome
plus: knoxville live! and a chris pontius sighting
Credit: Dickhouse Productions, MTV, Paramount Pictures, Lance Bangs, MJ Lenderman, and Anti Records.
Welcome to Jackass News, a subsidiary of Jackass World here to bring you all the latest and greatest updates from all Jackass-related fields.
You will also notice that today’s news is not technically breaking anymore. That is because I had to get a couple of cavities filled this morning. Sorry. On to the news:
From The Glow’s music video alert email I just got. Credit: Lance Bangs, MJ Lenderman, The Glow, and Anti Records.
Spike Jonze’s prodigal alt-country son, MJ Lenderman unexpectedly dropped a music video for his song “Wristwatch” from his album, Manning Fireworks, this morning. Jake Lenderman has long been an FOJ (friend of Jackass) and this time; he put his money (music video) where his mouth (intellectual curiosity about Jackass) is and released his highest-production video yet — all directed by the one and only Lance Bangs.
Lance Bangs is a long time contributor to Jackass, credited officially as a camera operator, cinematographer, and/or second unit director depending on the project. Unofficially, he is the easiest person to freak out on the set, giving guaranteed extreme reactions like hurling or fainting. So not only has Bangs always contributed to the visual language of Jackass, but he is also allstar member of the easily prankable filming crew (like Rick Kosick or Jeff Tremaine or Raab Himself).
Bangs hasn’t directed a music video in a hot minute so I think this speaks to two things: the first being that Lance Bangs undeniably still has it (let’s freaking go) and the second being that Lenderman read my mind when I was thinking about how music videos are in an artistically tough spot and Spike Jonze's Airpods commercial isn’t helping.
Jake Lenderman and Ethan Baechtold in the “Wristwatch” music video. Credit: Lance Bangs, MJ Lenderman, and Anti Records.
The video itself is an homage to jackassery in North Carolina, as MJ Lenderman mutters the lyrics to his song while crashing tall trucks into an infamous low clearance bridge in Durham. Lenderman launches basketballs, floatees, hay bales, and more at his bandmates while ignoring the devastation he has wrought on the road. A totally Bangs idea (read more about the artistic process here).
The haters will say Lenderman sold out by getting a cool director. But is working with someone who openly puked and passed out several times on camera really selling out? It’s just epic. And Bangs knows R.E.M.
Credit: Lance Bangs, MJ Lenderman, and Anti Records.
in other jackass news:
Johnny Knoxville will be a guest tonight on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney with Bill Hader, Chelsea Peretti, and Bartees Strange. You can watch it at 10pm ET/7pm PT.
I know what you’re thinking: Mulaney and Hader and one-time host Johnny Knoxville? Is this a weird SNL reunion? Well, I hope I don’t break your heart. It’s not. But Factass: Johnny Knoxville’s SNL ep was Jason Sudeikis' first episode on the cast. And double Factass, it was also the episode where System of a Down got banned.
Anyway, I don’t know why Knoxville is there, but it might have something to do with this next thing I’m going to say.
This week The Luckiest Man in America is hitting theaters nationwide. Johnny Knoxville is in it. That’s all I know. I’ll see it, but I also see everything that Walton Goggins is in.
As of this morning, Chris Pontius is stuck in a tree.
That’s all for this week’s Jackass News update, I’ll circle back if and when there’s more news. Stay tuned for a Jackass World post on a couple of the things I mentioned here.
Johnny Knoxville in The Luckiest Man in America. Credit: IFC Films.