{"id":2512204,"date":"2026-07-22T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2512204"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:02:39","slug":"the-jackass-guys-might-be-the-cure-for-male-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-jackass-guys-might-be-the-cure-for-male-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Jackass\u2019 Guys Might Be the Cure for Male Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"ImageBlock-module-scss-module__rUGLEG__container\">\n<div class=\"ImageBlock-module-scss-module__rUGLEG__imageContainer\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.6667%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-module-scss-module__0ovlkG__blockParagraph\" blockindex=\"1\" articletitle=\"The \u2018Jackass\u2019 Guys Might Be the Cure for Male Loneliness\">We\u2019re dealing with a male <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/loneliness\">loneliness<\/a> epidemic in the United States, and the men of<em> Jackass<\/em>, a franchise which began as an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/mtv\">MTV<\/a> series, just might have the cure. According to the Survey Center on American Life, only 27 percent of American men say they have six or more close friends, down from 55 percent in 1990. In other words, having a crew is increasingly rare, a real problem with seemingly few solutions. Yet somehow, Johnny Knoxville and the men of the <em>Jackass<\/em> franchise have not only maintained their bonds for a quarter of a century, they\u2019ve enhanced them.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-module-scss-module__0ovlkG__blockParagraph\" blockindex=\"2\" articletitle=\"The \u2018Jackass\u2019 Guys Might Be the Cure for Male Loneliness\">In their latest <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/film\">film<\/a>,<em> Jackass: Best and Last<\/em>, the crew celebrates their 25th anniversary, looking back at decades of antics and injuries. But when you look beyond the mayhem, one thing is clear: These men love each other and are there for each other. Knoxville might say in the film that \u201cwe haven\u2019t learned a goddamn thing\u201d through all their shows and movies, but the lesson they\u2019ve learned, and the one we can take from them, is actually pretty clear: Male friendships matter. But when it comes to<em> Jackass<\/em>, that\u2019s a lesson that should be taken metaphorically, because the \u201cdon\u2019t try this at home\u201d of it all absolutely should be taken literally. <\/p>\n<section class=\"RelatedStoriesV2-module-scss-module__Hqo30W__container\" data-gtm-action=\"Read_More\" data-variant=\"v2\" data-loading=\"true\" aria-busy=\"true\" aria-label=\"Loading related stories\">\n<p><h4 class=\"RelatedStoriesV2-module-scss-module__Hqo30W__headlineText\"><span class=\"RelatedStoriesV2-module-scss-module__Hqo30W__headlinePrefix\">Read More<!-- --> on <\/span><span>Entertainment<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newsweek.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re dealing with a male loneliness epidemic in the United States, and the men of Jackass, a franchise which began as an MTV series, just might have the cure. According to the Survey Center on American Life, only 27 percent of American men say they have six or more close friends, down from 55 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2512205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21799,412699,307878],"class_list":["post-2512204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-film","tag-loneliness","tag-mtv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-\u2018Jackass-Guys-Might-Be-the-Cure-for-Male-Loneliness.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512206,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512204\/revisions\/2512206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}