Disturbing first ever Jackass stunt with real risk of death shown for first time in 27 years

The brand-new Jackass movie, Jackass: Best and Last, features a mix of brand-new stunts filmed with the current cast in their 50s and never-before-seen footage of some of the gnarliest stunts that never made it to air.

This includes a new stunt that was dubbed the ‘most disgusting thing ever seen in a movie theatre’, with many viewers saying this is proof that the Jackass crew have still got it.

While there are crews that are widely considered to do more dangerous stunts, with a British group called Dirty Sanchez essentially being a more extreme Jackass, the move that started Jackass is more extreme than anything even they did.

It's shown for the first time in 27 years in Jackass: Best and Last.

This is the first stunt shown in the film, and even though it’s archival footage (and Johnny Knoxville isn’t dead in 2026 so viewers knew he probably made it out okay) it’s such a dangerous feat that viewers have reported having to watch through their fingers.

Knoxville could’ve died in the stunt which inspired Jackass

Johnny Knoxville could have died several times in Jackass, whether it be his near-fatal run in with a bull that forced him to retire from stunts, or his fight with Butterbean that left him so concussed he began snoring immediately.

The one that began it all however saw him testing out four self-defence options, with Knoxville planning to write it as an article. He eventually pitched it to Jeff Tremaine, the co-creator of Jackass, who at the time managed a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother.

He proposed they film it, with Knoxville having his friend use pepper spray, a stun gun, and a taser on him.

The final part of this saw him shoot himself in the chest whilst wearing a bullet proof vest after his friend refused to shoot him.

Jeff Tremaine and Knoxville have spoken about how it happened, and how it led to Jackass

Explaining the stunt on the Howard Stern show in 2010, Knoxville told Stern that he used the ‘cheapest bulletproof vest he could find’.

He stated that they drove out to the desert and his friend backed out of shooting him, so he turned the gun around and shot himself in the chest.

Tremaine explained on the new Jackass podcast, explaining that Jeff Bender who was filming tried to talk Knoxville out of the stunt the entire time he was filming it.

He revealed that the stuntman put porn magazines into the vest to reinforce it, calling it the ‘most amateur hour bullsh*t’ and said it was like watching a snuff film, but said that Knoxville was so compelling he knew he ‘had something’ and ended up contacting MTV, leading to the TV show Jackass.

The rest of the segment was included in the pilot to Jackass but Knoxville shooting himself was cut, but it was included in Jackass: Best and Last.

One fan said about the stunt: “Went into the new Jackass with measured expectations bc of the clip show angle but the literal first thing they show you was shot in 1999 and it's the most insane thing i've ever seen someone do on camera.”

Another viewer replied, saying: “Even though I knew, pragmatically, that Johnny was not going to die, I was on the edge of my seat like he might have been dead this whole time.”

Someone else said: “I know he’s alive and I still watched through fingers.”

And one viewer commented: “Wait did they actually show the Bullet Proof Vest test? That's amazing, for the longest time they kinda wanted everyone to forget that lol.”

Jackass: Best and Last is available to watch in cinemas now.

The wildest stunts from Jackass

Paper Cuts - Jackass: The Movie

While on paper (get the pun?) it's perhaps the most basic stunt, this one should be in the Jackass Hall of Fame for being the most painful.

Ryan Dunn gave Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O paper cuts via an envelope in the most sensitive places, such as between the toes, between the fingers, the corner of the mouth, and worst of all, on the tip of Steve-O’s tongue.

Despite these guys regularly seeing all sorts of disgusting bodily fluids, this stunt sent the camera crew into a frenzy of puking.

Butt X-Ray - Jackass: The Movie

In the 2002 movie, Ryan Dunn placed a toy car, which was in a lubed-up condom, into his own rectum.

He then went to a proctologist under the guise of a frat party accident, and after Dunn’s nether regions got a quick scan, the reactions of the medical staff were secretly recorded for the amusement of the Jackass audience.

Having a toy car up your arse is apparently so embarrassing that the doctor told Dunn to go straight to the hospital and not tell anyone about it.

Lamborghini Tooth Pull - Jackass 3D

Now, this one is bad.

As the title of the stunt suggests, for the 2010 movie Ehren McGhehey allowed his 'crooked' tooth to be yanked out on a piece of string that was attached to a Lamborghini, which of course set off at significant speed.

Speaking to GQ a decade after the horrifying stunt, McGhehey said that the stunt 'broke my face all the way up to my eyeball'.

"It took nine months to heal."

Poo Cocktail Supreme - Jackass 3D

Possibly one of the most disgusting Jackass stunts to ever exist, the Poo Cocktail Supreme saw Steve-O get strapped into a portaloo that was attached to a bungee system, and then get flung around as the contents of the toilet engulfed him.

Yep, he was literally covered head-to-toe in sh*t, resulting in the crew physically vomiting when he stepped out.

Steve-O later revealed to journalist Graham Bensinger that due to health and safety, they used dog poo instead of human... as if that makes things any better?!

The Toro Totter - Jackass Number Two

In the 2006 movie, Knoxville joined his Jackass co-stars Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn and Bam Margera on a teeter-totter, which was in an enclosure with an angry bull.

Despite animal rights group PETA slamming the production for repeatedly using animals as a form of entertainment, this is undoubtedly one of the most outrageous stunts the Jackass guys were involved in.

Knoxville was the only one left after the bull managed to charge the others away, with him getting absolutely thrashed against the frame of the teeter-totter before making a lucky escape.