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Johnny Knoxville

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424 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Because there's a gun involved.

That's why the camera works so shaky with that.

Nothing was happening in my life, like two or three months before, you know, I mean, the wonderful things with the family and the kid, but professionally nothing.

And then it's like, I have a TV show.

We're about to shoot the pilot for MTV.

And then, like you said, Lauren Michaels comes calling and we go meet at the polo lounge, uh, at the Beverly Hills hotel where fear and loathing beat did begin in, uh,

It was a lot, you know, because I had no gigs before this, and he's offering me a spot like five minutes on Saturday Night Live each week.

No, to do what I do, like make a video each week.

And I really seriously considered it, but I ended up...

thinking I would go on there.

I'm not going to have any creative control whatsoever.

And I'm about to do this other thing with me and my friends.

And I'd rather where I have all the control and I'd rather bet on us than enter into that.

And would probably, I'd been lucky to be on Saturday Night Live, but I chose that.