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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Johnny Knoxville

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Johnny Knoxville joins Andy Richter to discuss the colorful characters of Johnny’s childhood in Tennessee, why Johnny chose to do “Jackass” stunts on MTV instead of “Saturday Night Live,” finding your motivation through parenthood, and the new unscripted comedy series, “The Prank Panel.” Interview recorded June 15th, 2023.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, it's Andy Richter. This is the three questions and I'm excited today because

0:19.9

I get to talk with one of my favorite people and I don't like people. Generally, but I'm

0:26.6

talking to Johnny Knoxville today. We finally got this to happen. Yes, a very happy

0:31.6

here. Thank you and face to face and everything. Yes. What are you doing with yourself? Do

0:37.1

you say you're promoting something particular, right? Yeah, the prank panel on ABC. Yeah,

0:43.2

yeah. I haven't seen a full episode yet because I've been a little busy getting married.

0:48.9

Well, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. You go on the Hulu. I know. I know. I got to see it

0:55.4

because I love everybody involved you and Gabby and Eric and I just and I've heard some stuff

1:01.8

about it like Eric quitting because of you. Yeah, he quit three times in the first week. Wow.

1:09.1

It was a stressful like really seriously quit. Yeah, I was first time I was in Minnesota to see

1:15.0

my girlfriend's parents and Kim will call us as like Eric just quit. I'm like, why? You're

1:21.2

pranking him. He doesn't like it. I was like, I didn't know what to say. You know, I thought

1:26.1

that was part of the gig. Yeah, yeah. But and so eventually he quit a second time a couple of days

1:32.5

later and then later that week it was he was done. Wow. He was done and that's when I really

1:38.1

was like, okay, man, I just won't prank you anymore. You know, I think on his show, he's the hammer.

1:45.7

Yeah. And he doesn't like being the nail and I understand that. Yeah. And so

1:51.4

you know, yeah, I can see that. Yeah. Did you ever did you prank your kids growing up?

1:55.4

Like did you ever do? No, no, I mean, small things but nothing like I don't want to give them issues.

2:01.4

You know, because I say more issues. If I start then I get kind of lost. Yeah, right? And I get

2:08.0

excited and it gets worse. Yeah. I think it's funnier, but it's worse for that person. So I don't

2:13.4

want to go like people when I'm doing films, they're like, oh, you better not prank me. I'm like,

2:19.3

I won't. Yeah. I'm not different. Yeah, that's a different. Yeah, that's a different hat.

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