Jackass Forever returns for season 16 on Netflix

Johnny Knoxville’s favorite stunt show is back for a 16th season on Netflix today, three years after its abrupt pause during COVID lockdowns.

Jackass Forever picks up where Jackass 4 left off in 2022, bringing back the original crew—Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey, and Jason “Wee-Man” Acuña—plus a new wave of daredevils. The reboot was greenlit after fan campaigns and a surprise trailer that raked in 100 million views in a week, proving the franchise still commands a global audience willing to watch people break bones for laughs.

Production faced delays when Knoxville suffered a near-fatal heart attack during filming last year, but the cast rallied to finish the season after his recovery. Early reviews highlight stunts like a shopping cart jump off a moving vehicle and a human piñata cracked with a bat—classic Jackass chaos scaled up for a streaming era. The show’s return also signals Netflix’s push to keep its stunt-comedy crown after it canceled The Eric Andre Show and Trolls Tell No Tales last year.

What happens next is anyone’s guess. Will this be the final season, or will Knoxville and Netflix keep the stunt train rolling with spin-offs or a fifth movie? Either way, Jackass Forever arrives at a moment when viral stunts are harder to pull off without social media’s attention span. The show’s survival proves that sometimes the dumbest ideas still hit the hardest.