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TEN YEARS AGO, I got thrown through a wall in a shopping cart at an artist-run space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a histrionic (and injurious) opener to a half-hour set wherein I restaged stunts from Jackass—the slapstick media franchise that debuted in 2000 as a television series on MTV—alongside visually similar works of early performance art by Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, Marina Abramović, and Vito Acconci. Between such actions as permitting alarmingly zealous attendees to wax my chest and getting shot with a toy gun, I quoted from Julia Kristeva’s foundational 1980 treatise on gr...

Men have put themselves in harm’s way on purpose since before there were wheels under which they could be crushed.

Jackass Forever has landed at the perfect time, bringing a couple of hours of uncomplicated physical comedy to soothe our exhausted brains.

After more than a decade away, the death-defying pranksters of Jackass are back. Laura Harding straps in.

Sometimes, sitting down to watch a bunch of guys laugh at each other as they get brutalized and borderline tortured is the best form of comedy there is.