Johnny Knoxville remembers turning down SNL

The A.V. Club

"SNL wanted me to be on the show," Knoxville says in The Hollywood Reporter's Jackass oral history. "They were going to give me, like, five minutes each week to do what I do, but that would just be me. And I couldn’t do both. Our show was about to go. So I kind of bet on us as opposed to on myself. I was really flattered that Lorne Michaels asked me to have lunch with him at the Polo Lounge, but I said, “No, I’m going to do this instead.”