The new film “Jackass Forever”—which features much of the original crew—banks on the indignity of middle-aged men enacting new versions of the dangerous and disgusting maneuvers of their long-ago youth.
blamed a spine-chipping tumble onstage for decades of debilitating agony. Chevy Chase checked into Betty Ford, in 1986, to deal with an addiction to analgesics. It would seem that physical comedians, like athletes and dancers, must eventually pay a price for using their bodies as instruments.
The “Jackass” formula of documentary comedy has remained consistent since the original television show. Each installment presents a series of astonishingly ridiculous challenges, sometimes captured with covert cameras in public spaces, that a gang of giggling bros inflict upon themselves, the ultimate goal being some outrageous spectacle of pain and humiliation.
The original cast emerged, in the nineteen-nineties, out of the nudity-peppered underground skateboarding magazine, which featured written and photographed reports of generally less elaborate but no less stupid skater antics, and which eventually produced a series of VHS tapes featuring similar fare. One of these includes a notorious segment in which the L.A.
Beginning in 2013—a few years after the “Jackass” gang had released its penultimate theatrical film, the visually magnificent “Jackass 3D”—the prank-and-stunt format flourished on the video-sharing app. Viewers who might have gathered to gawk at “Jackass” on television instead trained their eyeballs upon user-generated platforms where access to on-camera teen idiocy had been radically democratized.
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