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Why Johnny Knoxville Turned Down "SNL" Job For "Jackass" | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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No one sets out to have a career the way
that you have and it's I just think
there's so much that's brilliant about
it and and and then you're so effing
likable, you know, and you've so you you
ride that all along, too. That is kind
of your I think your secret sauce,
>> but how does one even begin to become a
Johnny Knoxville?
>> Well, you don't go to college, that's
for sure. [laughter]
and just get on the 10 West and
[laughter] uh
>> Okay, step one, if you're listening,
don't go to college, then [laughter] get
on the 10 West.
>> Uh and your
>> Fast, Faster, and Disaster. That's
That's how you do it. Uh and you started
making these videos on your own, right?
This is we're going back to what the
late 90s.
>> Yes. What happened was honestly I I
moved out to Los Angeles to become an
actor. just two months or maybe a month
after high school. Y
>> didn't do a lot,
>> you know, right?
>> Uh for five, six years and then my then
girlfriend got pregnant and I'm like,
"Oh, I have to do something quick
because
>> I that's the most frightened I've ever
been cuz I had a little girl on the way
and I'm waiting tables and I'm like, I
got to do something quick." So,
uh, I was living next to Antoine Fukua
in this duplex and he set me up with
this casting agent who got me a
commercial agent and I started writing
for magazines and like my version of
participatory journalism like Hunter S.
Thompson type of
>> I was like, how about if I my one of my
first articles was, how about if I test
self-defense equipment on myself?
I was I was just that was my best guess
at how to support a family [laughter]
and it was all out of fear of how to
support how to support a little girl.
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