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| On March 11,1971 a male came into the world. His family and friends know him as Philip John Clapp, most people know him as Johnny Knoxville. His nickname when he was younger was PJ. Johnny Knoxville stands at six feet and one inch. He grew up in southern Knoxville, Tennessee. His parents are Phil and Lemoyne Clapp. His daughter is Madison Clapp. His prior wife is Melanie Clapp. His father was a car salesman. At the age of seven, Johnny KNoxville decided to take a stick to a hornet's nest near his home. At age of eight had flu, pneumonia and bronchitis all at same time and nearly died. He unfortunately suffers from asthma. He was already known as a pranskter at the age of thirteen. He changed grades from straight A's to failing grades. He jumped from a second story hotel room into a pool .Johnny Knoxville claims to get his sense of humor from his father. He Attended South-Young High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. He played baseball and football in high school. After graduating from high school, he moved to California to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasedena on a scholoarship, but dropped out within weeks. He met his neighbor Melanie, and soon after they eloped to Las Angelas, Nevada. Unfortantely they were forced to get married in a small church because he gambled away their money. Early in the marraige, he supported his family by doing commercials for Taco Bell, Coors Light, and Mountain Dew. He started to write a novel, however, he never finished it. Often times, he wrote articles for Blunt, Bikini, and Big Brother Magazines. For one of his articles he had to spend a night in a feild with 10,000 hippies during the Rainbow Gathering. In 1996, he shot himseld with pepper spray, a taser, and a stun gun. After this, he wrote an article about his experience. A few magazine companies turned this down. However, in 1997 he told the editor of Big Brother Magazines about this idea, and Johnny Knoxville was hired. There was a bidding war between MTV and comedy Central to land him on a TV show. He was offered a spot on Saturday Night Live, but he did not want it. After this, Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tramaine, and Spike Jonze thought of the idea for the show Jack"***". MTV allowed this idea. Along with those three, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Jason'Wee Man' Acuna, Dave England, Ehren McGhegan, SteveO, and Raab Himself joined the show. Jack"***" became MTV's highest rated show very quickly. He was a very big fan of Johnny Cash. Before his death he was very fortunate and was able to meet him and Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny Knoxville purchased a cabin and other possessions from Johnny Cash before his death. He has a scar on his head from getting punched by a professional heavyweight boxer. He got his role in Grand Theft Parsons after Hugh Jackman had to drop out because he already had prior commitments. He is best friends with Bam Margera. He has been linked to Jessica Simpsom and Lindsey Lohan since November 2005. In the movie Dukes of Hazzard, he was Luke, Daisy's cousin. Johnny Knoxville earned 5,000,000 from his role in Walking Tall. He was in many other movies. He was in all three Jack"***" movies, "Coyote Ugly", "Walking Tall", "Killshot", "The Ringer", "Daltry Calhoun ", "Men in Black II", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Lords of Dogtown", and a few others. He was almost nominated for the Worst Actor for "Dukes of Hazzard", "The Ringer', and "Daltry Calhoun ". In total, he had a role in twenty one movies. Johnny Knoxville is an American comic actor and a daredevil. Johnny Knoxville's orginal plans were to become an actor in normal channels. While he was filming a stunt for "Dukes of Hazzard" he was injured severely. He has always enjoyed watching people get hurt. He said "It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt, it's funny and accessible." When he wrote the article for Big Brothers Magazine, there was also a video that went with it. On every article that he wrote about stunts he tried, he always had a label on it that said "Do not try this at home!" He has a tattoo right over his heart. The tattoo is of his daughter's name; Madison. He was convinced that he was invisible because he survived when he was eight. |
| Johnny Knoxville became both a beloved goofball and a lightning rod for controversy as soon as his signature TV show, Jackass, premiered on MTV in 2000. The show, which featured Knoxville and his friends executing a variety of stupid pranks and dangerous stunts, made an instant star of its hip, easygoing, developmentally arrested host, who was quickly signed on for a variety of film projects. However, its subject matter of foolish bicycle jumps, gross eating feats, and pepper spray testing drew the ire of concerned parents whose children were hurting themselves trying to imitate their hero. Knoxville was born Philip John Clapp in Knoxville, TN, on March 11, 1971, son of a used car salesman. At age eight, the asthmatic suffered a simultaneous bout of flu, pneumonia, and bronchitis that nearly killed him. Knoxville would later joke that surviving this period convinced him he was invincible, making possible his future vocation as a performer who would injure himself for laughs. Knoxville had originally planned to go into acting through normal channels, attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, CA. However, it was while writing for a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother that Knoxville got his big break. Working on a story about self-defense equipment, Knoxville agreed to let magazine editor Jeff Tremaine film him testing the devices on himself. Hence, Jackass was born, with Tremaine, Knoxville, and director Spike Jonze serving as co-creators. MTV won a bidding war with Comedy Central, and the show became a hit -- one quickly festooned with warning labels not to try this at home. After a role in the little-seen indie Desert Blues (1995) (credited as Phillip John) and a blink-and-you'll-miss-him appearance in Coyote Ugly (2000), Knoxville was offered a string of film roles following the success of Jackass, as well as a stint on Saturday Night Live, which he turned down. However, his cinematic coming-out party was delayed when Big Trouble, which featured a nuclear weapon smuggled aboard a commercial airplane, was pushed back indefinitely due to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. In 2001, he was also cast in the smaller films The Tree, The Ranger, and Life Without Dick, in which he plays the title character. As if one Knoxville wasn't enought to keep fans in stitches, the death-defying funnyman turned up as a two-headed alien in Men in Black II before taking his small screen antics to the silver screen, unrestrained by the restrictions of television, in Jackass: The Movie (both 2002). Though to this point Knoxville's fairly minimal film roles (of course excluding Jackass: The Movie) called for any true acting ability, increasingly prominant roles in such efforts as Grand Theft Parsons (2003) and Walking Tall (2004) found the likeable Jackass successfully developing a notable film career. Following a supporting performance alongside wrestler-turned-actor in Walking Tall, Knoxville landed a role in self-described "Prince of Puke" director John Waters' Baltimore-based comedy A Dirty Shame. |
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| Mayson | |
| o my gosh i absolutely LOVE johnny knoxville! He is SO hott!!! i want them to make jackass 3 so bad!! I love his movies and i have jackass the boxed set, He is just SO AWSOME AND HOTT!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| Mandy | |
| I love johnny knoxville!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO! he's beautiful and amazing and God bless him! :))))) <3<3<3 | |