Ahead Of The Joke with Johnny Knoxville & Andrew DeYoung

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include: Success giving you brain damage, Andy’s lifelong love of Jackass as a “silly, honest, and ancient” art, squirming to hide the truth, Turkish hair transplants, the influence of The King of Comedy on Friendship, the psychedelic experience of seeing your movie with a crowd, knowing enough to know that you’re wrong, getting six tubes of Krazy Glue and "seeing what happens," reaching the shore, Tim' Robinson's philosophy that laughing is accident, John Waters as the greatest dinner guest of all time, a few concussions, getting choked out by Gene LeBell, binge watching Steven Seagal movies, primal uncomfortableness, wall-to-wall c*cks in Jackass Forever, Johnny’s dad’s auto-shop business cards that read “Father of Johnny Knoxville,” beating fear spirals, and the absolute essentiality of seeing Friendship in a movie theater.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome back to the A24 podcast.
0:07.8	For today's episode, we paired up friendship writer-director and jackass superfan Andrew D. Young with his idol, Johnny Knoxville.
0:15.3	Trust us when we say, you want to see friendship on the big screen in a crowded theater.
0:19.6	It's now playing in New York and
0:20.8	L.A. and expands nationwide on May 23rd. Here's Andrew and Johnny. Hi, I'm Andrew D. Young.
0:27.9	And my name is Johnny Knoxville and this is the A-24 podcast. Wait, where'd you come from today?
0:35.2	The fighting town of Toluca Lake. Okay, cool.
0:37.7	Fighting town.
0:38.4	Yes.
0:38.8	Okay, nice.
0:39.3	No, it's not a fighting town.
0:41.0	And yourself?
0:42.1	Pasadena.
0:43.1	All right.
0:43.8	Dude, it's so good to be here with you.
0:45.2	Nice to meet you.
0:46.4	Nice to be here.
0:47.2	I saw friendship your new film, and it is fantastic.
0:52.0	It is so fucking uncomfortable.
0:55.9	I mean, I'm just...
0:57.3	Huge compliment.
0:58.7	But in a wonderful way.
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