CKY / Jackass

introduction:

In 1998, Bam Margera was an amateur for Toy Machine skateboards and was getting video footage ready for their latest project, "Jump Off A Building." For years, he and his friend Brandon DiCamillo and others had filmed crazy stuff for fun, so they decided to put about 5 minutes of their skits and stunts on the video. It got a good response, so Bam decided to make an hour-long video of their best footage. He needed a soundtrack, and his brother Jess was drummer for a band called CKY, so he asked if he could use CKY songs for the soundtrack. They even recorded some tracks just for the video with Bam on vocals. On March 1, 1999, "cKy" was released through Landspeed wheel company. By summer, it was the most popular skate video of the year. It was sold out nearly everywhere by Spetember. With the success of the video as well as the band, Bam decided he would make a sequel.

After a long wait, fans were given "CKY2K" on April Fool's Day, 2000. This video got even more publicity and circulation, and now people across the world were laughing their asses of at the crew's antics. Big bands like Limp Bizkit and Green Day were huge fans, and Blink-182 even wanted Bam to be in a video for them. They had all become celebrities, and people everywhere were talking about when Brandon wiped shit on Ryan Dunn's face. With all this attention they caught the eye of MTV, who asked Bam if he would like to do a show for them.

On October 1, 2000, "Jackass" premiered on MTV and quickly became the highest-rated cable show for Sunday nights, and the video crew became celebrities. Ryan Dunn even talked about walking into a bar in Ohio and people crowded around and asked for autographs. With all the new hype surrounding the videos, 411 Video Magazine released CKY2K on DVD in January 2000. To be continued...

[Interviews: Brandon DiCamillo & Rake Yohn]

By Justin Netti


Justin Netti: OK, my first question is your names, ages and where you live.

Rake Yohn: Haha.

Justin: Pretty easy one

Rake:  OK..Rake, 25, West Chester, PA.

Brandon DiCamillo: Brandon, 29, West Goshen, PA.

Justin: OK, do you have any jobs?

Bran: Yeah, I work at fuckin' gay ass Neiman Marcus. My boss is a fuckin' douche bag.

Rake: Iím a synthetic organic chemist, responsible for process automation in the chemical development department. I am a synthetic chemist.

Justin: How do you know Bam? Like when did you meet him?

Bran: I never did yetÖI guess I met him in high school and he lived about a mile away. And I just met him like that.

Justin: When did you get started into CKY?

Bran: Well Rake got us into it. We just always filmed stuff after school back in like high school and shit. I mean, we just filmed bullshit like the shit we film now. And then I saw Bam filming and he saw my tapes and cause we just played 'em in this one class so I guess back in high school we just started filming. We always filmed that shit but now people just wanna see it..

Justin: What's it like to be in the new stuff now that it's out worldwide?

Rake: Oh it's fuckin' (quarreling in the background, laughing)

Justin: OK can you tell us a little about the first CKY, like how you got it started?

Bran: OK, well have you seen "Jump Off A Building" [Toy Machine Video 1998]?

Justin: Yeah.

Bran: You know the part at the end where we filmed like 5 minutes worth?

Justin: Yeah.

Bran: Like, we fucked around and we would film stuff normally and I guess Bam was like "Ed, let us put this in the Toy Machine video" and he was like "OK, thatís awesome, just go film something crazy", so we just fucked around. And then it got a good response, people were laughing and shit so Bam was like "Weíre gonna make like an hour ordeal with just our bullshit." So he told that to, I guess Tum-Yeto, that fuckin' company. So they were just like "Yeah weíll put it out," but I guess they didnít know really what they were putting out. And thatís that.

Justin: OK, Brandon.

Bran: Yeah.

Justin: Did the bucket hurt? Like the red bucket [In Landspeed]?

Bran: Oh yeah, the red thing? Yeah the red thing...it's like a fuckin can!

Rake:  A steel can!

Bran: Like a can for Christmas cookies. Naw, it didnít hurt too bad. It's alright.

Justin: What's the funniest or craziest thing youíve ever done?

Rake: Probably to fuck Brandonís sister...

Bran: Fuckin' Rake. Iíve never done anything crazy. Oh, well. One time we broke into the school and fucked up everything.  Filled up everything with the fire hydrants...the fire thingsÖextinguishers! We smashed up - Oh, we skateboarded inside in 7th grade and we got busted (laughter).

Rake: Haha. Oh, man. The craziest thing heís ever done was the cash deposits.

Bran: Um, the craziest thing Rake ever did

Rake: Iím tryin to think what was the craziest thing I ever did.

Bran: Iíll tell you what was the craziest thing Rake ever did. It happened like 2 weeks ago. Some girl came in...well, Rake looks like his roommate kinda, and this girl came in and was bangin' the roomate, you know? And the house is set up real weird, like you gotta go through a bathroom to go into a bedroom. And this girl was all drunk. It was like 5 in the morning and they both have long hair and goatees, Rake and this Scumbag Bill guy, and this girl just comes into Rakeís room at like 5 in the morning and she was like "uughhh" and was all wasted and shit. So she just goes into Rakeís bed and Rake is like "What the fuck!", so he just bangs her.

Rake: She was naked!

Bran: And then the next day they all figured it out.

Rake: I donít know how the fuck she got in there.

Bran: And then Rake bangs Scumbag Bill up the ass (laughter).

Justin: Did you guys get hurt a lot when you filmed?

Bran: Uh, not really. Like the stuff you would think we would get hurt on we donít, itís just the stupid little shit that fuckin' hurts. 

Rake: You canít even tell when fuckin Brandon gets sprains and fucks up his back!

Bran: Yeah, we donít get hurt too bad.

Justin: Have you ever been arrested for doing all that shit?

Bran: No, actually. We usually tell them something stupid like weíre filming for school and I just keep talking to them, the cops and shit, theyíve never arrested us. 

Rake: Well, maybe for other crimes.

Justin: Whose idea was it do the shopping cart scene?

Rake: Brandon.

Bran: Well, I guess like back in the day,like 14, no, like 12 or 14 and me and my friends would go up to Shop Rite and push each other around and we were just like, if you smash the other guy, and he gets hurt, thatís fun. So I was like alright Bam you wanna film it? And he was like yeah ok.

Justin: Tell us a little about the new one, CKY2K.

Bran: What do you wanna know? Name something.

Justin: Like what's different from the first?

Rake: Well, you saw it didnít you?

Justin: YeahÖ

Rake: Well, this is like professionally done.

Bran: Yeah itís more professional and itís edited a lot better.

Rake: A lot more shit in this one.

Bran: Yeah, thereís some shit. Well I donít know what we did different.

Rake: More naked chicks.

Bran: I donít know. Bam was into getting hurt a lot, and trying to film that. And we tried to get people off guard, thatís like the best thing, just people not knowing it. I donít really know though.

Justin: How was the Iceland trip?

Bran: It was fuckin' awesome, Iceland's really cool. It's super expensive though. 8 bucks for a beerÖit's so expensive, I spent all my money in the first night. 

Rake: The girls look nice.

Bran: Yeah thereís girls, plenty of girls. Everyone looks the same though. Just wearing black, gray or white and they have blonde hair. But if they're hot then thatís cool. 

Justin: Was Ryan [Dunn] mad about the shit?

Rake: [laughs]

Bran: Yeah. Heís pretty mellow, Iím pretty mellow. There was like a smorgasboard breakfast, like a buffée bullshit, so like weíd all sit together and he sat with like one other person and I sat by myself and then the others sat together. We didnít talk for like an hour but we were like all together filming and were just talking. We just laugh it off.

Justin: Were you the first person to ever shit on anyone?

Bran: Maybe in that video (laughter). Thereís plenty of shitting.

Justin: Now Rake, what was up with the rental car?

Rake: AhÖI donít even want to talk about it. Not a good topic.

Bran: Rakeís super smart but sometimes heís just an asshole.

Justin: Whatís it like to be on the cover [of CKY2K]?

Rake: Yeah, it's really fuckin' great when Bam fucks with your face, and you're hung over on a Sunday, havenít washed your hair all weekend, havenít washed anything on your body all weekend. It feels real good, I look like an asshole.

Bran: But he gets free beers and gets in the bar free and shit.

Rake: Yeah, cause Iím recognized. 

Justin: You're ranked a good freestyler on Smirk.

Bran: What's Smirk?

Justin: Smirk Magazine.

Bran: Where is that?

Justin: www.smirkmagazine.com

Bran: Is it juston the internet or is it like a book?

Justin: Just people on the site love it [the Chinese CKY2K fresstyle].

Bran: Really?

Justin: Yeah.

Bran: How big is it?

Rake: I showed it to youÖ

Bran: Oh yeah. Rakeís into all the computer stuff. Iím just all retarded with it, just tryin' to figure it out. This Scumbag Bill guy, he is scumbag, bangs women left and right, heís a womanizer. (laughter) His name is Bill McKinney.

Bill: Ahh, no it's not!

 (more laughter, talking,more laughter)

Justin: Do you guys film a lot with Ryan [Gee]?

Bran: Yeah, if Bam films heíll usually call up Ryan Gee but if it's just spur of the moment weíll just go out and film. 

Rake: Yeah we got a cam, but like the funniest shit never makes the videos though, it wasnít aloud to be put on it.

Justin: Do you guys spend a lot of time with Bam?

Bran: Yeah. Well recently, no. But I mean if weíre not filming, heís with his girlfriend or Iím with my girlfriend or whatever.

Rake: Yeah I always try to hook up with him.

Bran: Rakeís gay.

Justin: Is tying up bees fun?

Bran: Yeah, that shitís awesome (laughter). That bee fuckin' died.

Justin: Have you guys started working on the 3rd CKY video?

Bran: I guess you can say yeah. We just film shit all the time, I mean just because the video's out doesnít mean weíre not filming shit. I mean we have shit and we are like "So far we can use this, this and this." We might chill out for a couple of weeks. After the video comes out nobody hangs out with anybody. We just do our own thing for a few weeks, girlfriends

Rake: Except me.

Bran: What are the Dallas Stars doing? Are they still in the playoffs?

Justin: I have no idea., Iím not all into hockey.

Bran: Right on.

Justin: Is there anything you guys wanna say for the site?

Bran: Yeah. [long pause, laughter] I donít know [more laughter]. I donít know what to say. I wanna say thank you [laughter]. What do you want me to say? You got any more questions?

Justin: No, just who you would like to thank? Is there anyone you wanna thank?

Bran: Maryland University for not letting me in.

Rake: And all those bitches that never called back. Screw you.

Justin: Thanks you guys.

Bran: No problem. Later.