Steve-O Talks New Super Dummy Comedy Tour, Tom Cruise, & More
ComingSoon Senior Editor Brandon Schreur talked to Steve-O about his upcoming United States comedy tour, Steve-O: The Super Dummy! Tour.
Steve-O mentioned what followers can anticipate out of his new tour, why he has a private vendetta towards Tom Cruise, what turning 50 means for the way forward for his profession, and way more.
Steve-O: The Super Dummy! Tour kicks off in October. Click right here to go to the official web site for extra data and to buy tickets.
Brandon Schreur: Can you inform me somewhat bit about what individuals ought to anticipate from The Super Dummy Tour? What is it wish to be doing this and what are you excited for followers to see?
Steve-O: What it’s, it’s a multimedia dwell comedy occasion. To give somewhat little bit of a background to it, I took on stand-up comedy as a brand new vocation over a decade in the past. It was 2010 after I started relentlessly touring comedy golf equipment. At the time, it was simply me, the microphone, and no matter occurred on stage. I taped my first comedy particular in that format in 2015. I went about placing collectively a brand new present in 2016, which simply occurred to me as being comprised of tales that had largely occurred on video digital camera.
I believed, ‘Man, this new show I’m doing, I’m telling tales that there’s footage for.’ Like, wow, what if I edit the footage in throughout post-production and make it multimedia tales which might be illustrated with precise video footage? That was my second comedy particular, which labored tremendously nicely. Then it left me with the will to include the multimedia part into the precise tour. Also, after that second comedy particular, I had began to search out it miserable that I used to be dwelling up to now with all my stand-up materials. Reprising outdated tales and experiences; I very a lot wished to carry recent, new materials into the fold, in addition to loopy new footage.
I set about recording stunts that have been simply means excessive. That was my Bucket List tour. That labored tremendously nicely. Now, Super Dummy Tour is sort of the following part of the evolution of this format that I’ve stumbled upon.
I believe what is especially satisfying for me and what’s most interesting in regards to the present is the truth that I, together with many others, have needed to abide by the neighborhood pointers of YouTube and social media, to be additional cautious to not present nudity or something too loopy. It’s simply sort of loads and it’s irritating, feeling stifled by these neighborhood pointers. What I’ve performed with my multimedia comedy has been actually gratifying and satisfying to simply intentionally movie issues which might be wildly inappropriate and unsuitable for YouTube, streamers, and even Jackass films, for that matter. To actually push issues to sort of new ranges of edginess and craziness. That’s what it’s all about.
Now, with the Super Dummy present, it’s an train in attempting to lift the bar but once more. And doing it after I had simply turned 50 years outdated.
Sure. Two competing issues.
I don’t know what presents extra of an impediment for me. My superior age or the unimaginable top the bar at the moment rests at. Trying to lift the bar, at any age with the place it’s at, can be robust. Doing it at 50, it makes it sort of all of the extra scrumptious for me to…attempt to surmount these obstacles. In a means, it’s a comedy of errors. I sought to out-crazy myself — crazier than ever earlier than — and a few of the concepts I got here up with have been admittedly not good concepts. My epic fails, I don’t shrink back from the extent at which I failed nor the surprising ranges at which I succeeded. It’s all rolled into one and it’s an actual battle towards Father Time, is what I consider it.
I’ve been leaning into the precedent of sure artists who’ve been extremely bodily of their 50s. Namely, Tom Cruise and Tony Hawk. Tony Hawk is my buddy, so he’s protected. Tom Cruise, not a lot. Even if it’s solely in my very own head, I’ve declared battle with Tom Cruise.
That nonetheless counts.
My stunts, on this present, I believe objectively make Tom Cruise appear to be a giant, fats p—-.
I’m going to run with that quote, proper there.
Yeah. That’s my aim, anyway. I believe Tom Cruise doing his personal stunts; if Tom Cruise was a Jackass, if Tom Cruise have been to do Jackass stunts, I believe that may find yourself trying like Steve-O’s Super Dummy Tour.
I suppose you bought to search out out, sometime. I’ve seen a few of the stunts you’ve been selling and teasing on Instagram for this new tour. I believe it was simply yesterday you had the one with the Cybertruck. That one appeared prefer it damage, I’m dying to see how that ends.
That one was positively uncomfortable. It’s good enjoyable, man. Everything I did for this tour has been, it’s been enjoyable, man.
I’m positive. It appears to be like prefer it’s tons of enjoyable, it appears to be like prefer it’s tons of enjoyable. I can’t wait to see it. Just on the stand-up facet of issues, such as you mentioned, you had your earlier stand-up specials, it sounds prefer it’s sort of been evolving alongside the way in which. How does it really feel to get again up there now and do it once more? Are there nonetheless nerves that include it or is the fourth time the attraction and also you’re good to go?
The nerves are in ranging from scratch. Starting from scratch and constructing a completely new present, it’s loads. I like the method, too. When you’re working the identical materials, it should all the time evolve. But the extra you run the identical materials, the slower the evolution turns into. The tiniest little issues will change. At the start of the method, all the things is new. It’s difficult and it positive sucks when issues don’t work, however it’s all sort of trial and error. When issues do work, it’s tremendous satisfying. I don’t know if I’d describe it as having nerves round it; it’s more difficult than it’s scary.
That is smart. You’ve been doing it for some time so I’m positive [how to go about it], I’m positive it’s going to be nice.
I imply, it’s already to some extent the place I’m f—ing thrilled with it. Before this subsequent run of reveals, I’ve received extra that I’m taking pictures for it, too.
Oh, gotcha. So you’re nonetheless doing the stunts and all the things for it?
I’ve received to imagine that I’m by no means going to cease. Like I mentioned, it’s an evolution and I think about that, for the following yr, possibly even two years, there might be bits that get kicked out of the present and changed by new bits. That’s the way it occurred with my final tour.
What does that course of sort of appear to be? The means Jackass has all the time appeared, the way in which all of your stunts have all the time appeared, it all the time appears to be like so pure such as you simply wakened this morning and have been like, ‘Let’s do that right now.’ I’m guessing it’s clearly much more difficult than that.
Whenever we got down to do a giant one, it’s not the sort of factor that probably can occur spontaneously. There are sure issues that you just’ve received to arrange. I believe the stunts that I do for my very own excursions — in plenty of methods, it resembles taking pictures for Jackass. Sometimes I even get along with the fellows from Jackass they usually’ll make cameos in my factor. My shoots are possibly rather less formal, on somewhat smaller scale. Sometimes, much more unlawful. Maybe no insurance coverage. But I adore it. I don’t know if I’ve one other bodily harmful and harmful undertaking in me. I may be packing all of it into this and possibly taking a step again from the actually harmful bodily stunts.
I’m positive. Like you mentioned, you simply turned 50. Which, glad late birthday.
Then once more, possibly, Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise, I appeared it up the opposite day, he’s 62. Which signifies that he was doing stunts when he was 60. So possibly, . We’ll see what occurs. Every undertaking, I’ve all the time considered it as my final undertaking and given it hell to make it as loopy as I might.
It’s been over twenty years now, proper? Two a long time of insane, life-threatening stunts. Is it surreal to sort of look again on all that and simply be like, ‘I f—ing survived that?’
Oh yeah. For positive. I believe, even the life-threatening apart, I believe that the quantity of expertise I’ve been in a position to pack into this lifetime is genuinely exceptional. I used to be in a dialog with a few guys final week. Last week, I went skydiving 25 instances in 4 days. That may be some sort of document in its personal proper. Especially on condition that I used to be using like a wing-suit dude by way of the sky like some f—ing dragon in Game of Thrones. We actually received into some fairly loopy stuff final week.
These skydiving individuals have been speaking about what a invaluable commodity time is. And the way you by no means get it again, it’s a travesty to waste it. As they have been making these feedback, I discovered myself considering that I don’t have plenty of regrets about how I’ve utilized my time. Sure, I’ve made plenty of errors and there’s lots to remorse, however on the entire. I’ve actually, actually had a life that I’m tremendously grateful for. And 50 years outdated, goddamn, I’m in such nice form. It’s virtually like my new dependancy, well being and wellness. I’m on a health bender.
That brings up a query I used to be going to ask you. Speaking of regrets, semi-related, it’s been a few months for the reason that Post Malone tattoo. How are you feeling about that? Any regrets there?
After getting the penis tattooed on my brow, there’s that second the place you get up and sort of work out what’s happening and possibly what occurred the evening earlier than. Put all of it collectively in a fast second. I keep in mind waking up and realizing that it was actual and having a little bit of a second of panic the place I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, what have I done?’ That first day, I believed the remainder of my life may be eerily just like Bret Michaels. Always a bandana that by no means comes off. Gradually, over time, it proved to not be a difficulty on social media.
Oh, that’s good.
I didn’t even know if my face was going to be allowed on Instagram or YouTube.
It might have gone both means.
That was good, nothing has been taken down from social media because of this. Honestly, if there’s one thing that actually stands proud as notable, it’s that it’s not modified my life. You would assume that having a f—ing penis tattooed in your brow would dramatically change your day by day expertise. Quite shockingly, it has not.
Wow. I might have additionally guessed it could have modified some issues.
Right? And I by no means actually was too involved about it as a result of I knew I might get it lasered off, if I wished to. And maybe I’ll in some unspecified time in the future. But the experiment has proved to lack the urgency to do something about it. I’ve zero urgency to do something.
Well, that’s superior. It appears to be like good!
Well, thanks, man. Thanks. There’s some enjoyable stuff within the present round that. That was one of many issues that I wished to do for this tour.
