Nicknamed “Party Boy” for his tendency to perform stunts naked, the former skateboarder admitted to UpRoxx that his worst experience while filming was “when they made the mistake scheduling three dick stunts in a row” for Jackass 3D.
“The first one, they made like a balsa wood penis to wear over my penis, and they put this woodpecker on it, and they had the woodpecker try to peck through,” the 47-year-old explained. “And it hurt really bad when the pecker would hit my pecker. The beak went into my pee hole! Oh, God, it hurt so bad. And then the next day, they had me put it in a mousetrap, which evolved into a rat trap.” The third one involved a snake.
As for the most painful stunt that did not involve his penis, Pontius pointed to a moment from his spinoff series, Wild Boyz when he performed the Glove of Ants, a rite of passage for an Amazonian tribe.
“You put these ants, called bullet ants, they weave them into this glove, and when boys come of age, you put this glove on that has hundreds of ants that have the most painful sting of any insect,” he explained. “You wear this glove for the duration of the shaman singing this song, which is about eight minutes or so. You get stung hundreds of times, and that was by far the worst, most painful, dreadful thing I’ve ever done in my life combined. It’s just like venom for 24 hours, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So yeah, that was the worst thing. I would never do that again.”