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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Johnny Knoxville

02 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: How did Johnny Knoxville start producing stunt videos?

3.153 - 12.304 Johnny Knoxville

Hello, my name is Johnny Knoxville. And I feel harder than a turnbuckle about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

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You know what? I think you just may have had the best one ever.

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16.729 - 19.653 Johnny Knoxville

Would you prefer harder than a folding chair? Because I can switch.

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I like turnbuckle. It's got a nice, it's really poetic. And I want that on my gravestone. Harder than a turnbuckle. And soon.

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29.225 - 50.408 Sona Moussessian

Fall is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brand new shoes, walkin' loose, climb the fence, books and pens, I can tell that we are gonna be friends. Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend.

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Joined by Sona Moussessian and Matt Gorley, still out on a parental leave. He has a brand new baby.

Chapter 2: What hare-brained ideas are featured in the upcoming Jackass film?

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Very excited for him and for his wife, Amanda. He's got two girls now, which is just lovely. And David Hopping, filling in for him. David, good to have you here again. Thank you. Happy to be here. Nice to see you. David, you love your reality television. You just love it. Yeah. Explain one thing to me, because David loves the show Traders. Yeah.

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And so I checked out the new season of Traders because someone I knew was a contestant on the show. And I thought, I just want to see what this is like. And I've seen it before, but I don't know what the strategy is on a show like that.

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Chapter 3: How did hosting Fear Factor change Johnny's perspective?

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I was watching Traders and I thought, isn't it? They all act like. oh, I'm going to really practice my wiles and my expertise and I'm going to win the game. And I think it's not like chess. Yeah. It looks like people are just doing stuff, but I don't really see a strategy and then they get voted off or not. Yeah, it feels kind of random. Am I wrong?

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They're supposed to like really be like paying attention to people like to slip up. Like if someone is a traitor, I'm like really watching to see if she messes up and gives me any clue that she's the person going and meeting at night to like kill people in the castle. Well, here's why I watch. I watch because Alan Cummings saying the word murder.

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That is what keeps me coming back. And he says it.

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Chapter 4: What is the story behind the Claymation episode with Conan?

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I mean, he must know it's working for him because his outfits are fantastic. They're just wonderful. But and he's he's he's just chewing scenery left and right in the most delicious way. But he manages to say murder. Murder. Maybe every other sentence. Yeah. You know, and and it's so that's fun.

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And then people are doing stuff like they're running around and you've got to put this cantaloupe on top of that gravestone. Oh, no, not on that gravestone. And it doesn't seem to I try to figure out what it's all about. And I don't know.

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167.409 - 168.21 David Hopping

I don't watch it.

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What reality shows are you obsessed with, Sona?

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170.353 - 170.774 David Hopping

You know what?

Chapter 5: How did Johnny Knoxville navigate his early career challenges?

170.834 - 185.257 David Hopping

I'm not watching reality right now. I'm in the, I just like, I like horny shows. That's what I do. I'm sorry. And you knew that about me. Needed rivalry. Well, yeah. Now I'm watching the new season of Tell Me Lies. David and I talked about that.

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I don't know what that is.

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186.238 - 187.16 David Hopping

Of course you don't.

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How is it horny?

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188.482 - 192.768 David Hopping

No, it's horny. There's like sexy people sexing. And so I like it.

Chapter 6: What were the circumstances surrounding the first Jackass movie?

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Is it full nudity?

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193.79 - 223.122 David Hopping

no like do you see things no no but just like yeah it is actually it's like soft core kind of not soft core no not soft it's like with you know there's stuff there's you can see it but you can't see it yeah you see the occasional butt maybe a half boob yeah oh my god you're getting really into like details can you draw what you see oh my god can you just draw it for me you can watch it you're an adult man if you want to watch it you can sometimes my priest stops by what

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Avert your gaze, Father McNulty. Oh, my God. So reality shows. Yeah. What is your what's your go to reality show? Is it Traders or no? I would say Big Brother than Traders, which I know Blay watches. And Adam's a massive Big Brother. You're a Big Brother. I've never watched Big Brother.

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245.186 - 246.308 Adam

I like Traders, too. Yeah.

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Here's what I love about Big Brother, which is it's in a house.

Chapter 7: How does Johnny feel about his past stunts and decisions?

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The idea is it's people who are sequestered in a house and they don't get to see another person, period. Like none of the producers they see, all the camera people are behind one way mirrors. And it's watching 18 people slowly lose their mind over the course of a season because the house is very big and it's made for 18 people. But people get voted out every week.

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So when it gets down to six people in a house full of 418 people and they haven't talked to anyone else for months, it is insane. Would you agree with that assessment, Adam?

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281.592 - 299.127 Adam

I would. There's something really comforting about it. It's on three nights a week during the summer when a lot of the big sports are off-season. And it would be considered boring at times. It's people sitting around whispering on couches, whispering about strategy. But there's just something kind of passive and enjoyable about it.

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Yeah, it's better than talking to your loved ones or reading a really good moving book. No judgment. Yeah.

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Chapter 8: What insights does Johnny have about empathy from his experiences?

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They also have a thing called Big Brother After Dark, and they have all these camera feeds where you could just, when they're not on the show, you could just watch them unfiltered. And I used to put those on and work out when they were working out in the house. Like you have a friend? Yeah, like I had a friend because I live alone. Can I just say, first of all, it's just for voyeurs, I think.

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And in my day, you had to go out and do your own peeping. And I think that's one of the things we've lost in America is you had to go into someone else's yard and you had to hang around near the shrubs and then peek in through their windows and hope that someone was undressing. And that's the kind of stuff that I thought really was the fiber of this country, the backbone. Yeah.

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I peeped all through my teens, my 20s, my 30s. I leered, I ogled, I peered occasionally. And those were things that taught me valuable life skills. And now people are just... Oh, I don't have to do that. I don't have to even leave my house. I left my house wandering at night to try and find houses that were brightly lit, where people were possibly undressing, maybe on the first floor.

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Or if it's on the second floor, I had to go up a drainpipe. This is stuff that taught me to be resilient. You really had to put the work in. I got my arm and hand strength from climbing up the sides of houses. And then policemen would show up and they'd say, hey, we've got a peeper. And then I had to haul ass. I had to scurry down and I had to run. And that old cherry top would come after her.

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And they would say, peeper, peeper, stand still. And I had to run. I had to really run and run and run. And then I'd get home and my mother would say, how'd the peepen go? My mother would say, how'd the peepen go? Cheap and gold tonight. And I'd say, meh, I got chased by the fuzz. And she'd say, oh, have a fried ham. And so, you know, I'd chow down. And that's just how things were in my mind.

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Now we can just put on Paramount Plus. You ever do any peeping there, Eduardo? Back in my day. Yeah. No. No. Never.

436.937 - 439.381 David Hopping

Never. No. Don't play along with this.

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Anyone here want to join me on this peeper thing?

441.223 - 443.366 David Hopping

You're the only peeper. Oh, man, I'm a good peeper. You're the only peeper.

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