Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video

Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video
Directed bySteve-O
Written bySteve-O
Produced byDimitry Elyashkevich
Steve-O
StarringSteve-O
CinematographyDimitry Elyashkevich
Edited byNick Dunlap
Dimitry Elyashkevich
Distributed byJ&N Media
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
Running time
33 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Steve-O in 2003

Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video is the first DVD by television personality and stuntman Steve-O,[1] released in 2001. It mostly contains footage that couldn't be shown on related MTV show Jackass, due to censorship.

Aside from Steve-O, the DVD features Chris Pontius, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, Preston Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Jeff Tremaine, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and Ryan Simonetti. It contains a cast commentary and a bonus making-of video.

Content

Some noteworthy scenes are Steve-O drinking bong water, the fireball face off where Steve-O spits a fireball while doing a backflip, burning his face in the process, ice skating and falling through thin ice on the Cuyahoga River and the vodka IV where Steve-O gets five shots of vodka pumped through his blood stream courtesy of a registered nurse. It also contains the video "The Career Ender," appropriately titled because it was once believed to end Steve-O's career. Highlights of the Career Ender show Steve-O's first attempt at the butterfly, in which he stapleguns his scrotum to his leg.

Unauthorized re-release

After a falling-out with Steve O's old manager, Nick Dunlap, Dunlap re-released the DVD, advertising it as a "Now 100% special edition". It is the same disc sold in 2001, but with a red cover. This was completely unauthorized by Steve-O.[citation needed] Steve-O later sued Dunlap and his attorney Jason Berk.[2]

Sequels

Don't Try This at Home sold 140,000 copies,[3] and was followed by Don't Try This at Home Volume 2: The Tour[4] (2002) and Steve-O: Out on Bail[5] (2003), which show Steve-O on a tour with other Jackass cast members (such as Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn) and their exploits and stunts during that time. A fourth video, Steve-O: The Early Years (2004), records Steve-O engaging in stunts and pranks done primarily for his and his friends' amusement, as opposed to performing for an audience.

Releases

  • Don't Try This at Home – The Steve-O Video Vol. 2: The Tour (2002)
  • Steve-O: Out on Bail (2003) (a.k.a. Don't Try This at Home – The Steve-O Video Vol. 3: Out on Bail)
  • Steve-O: The Early Years (2004)

References

  1. ^ Kenyon, John (December 19, 2002). "Steve-O takes great pains". The Gazette. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
  2. ^ Hafetz, David (April 30, 2006). "MTV Jack Assets Lawsuits". New York Post. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
  3. ^ "Drunken Jackass is often too much". The Record. March 25, 2004. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
  4. ^ "Jackass-inspired 'extreme standup' show brings excess to Lupo's". Providence Journal. December 5, 2002. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
  5. ^ "Pain to Entertain". News & Record. June 26, 2003. Retrieved October 15, 2009. [dead link‍]