It wasn’t prepared for primetime.
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star JB Smoove, who additionally used to write down on “Saturday Night Live,” has revealed a few of his failed sketch concepts, which included a weird pitch for Johnny Knoxville.
Throughout a current look on the podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa,” Smoove stated that if he ever hosts “SNL,” he desires to do a “musical monologue” of his failed pitches, together with one explicit sketch that he known as “urine detective.”
“I wrote that for Johnny Knoxville, when he was gonna be the host. You know Johnny Knoxville? He’ll do crazy crazy s – – t,” Smoove stated in regards to the “Jackass” star, who hosted “SNL” in Might of 2005.
Smoove added, “I wrote he was a detective, and he would solve crimes based on your urine sample. So he would taste your urine sample and say ‘Oh, no. This man this man didn’t do this murder, but he did a lot of other s – – t.’”
Knoxville, 53, has since calmed down on his “crazy” stunts. In September, throughout an look on the “Inside of You” podcast, Knoxville stated, “After the last concussion on ‘Jackass Forever,’ which really gave me problems for 6 months, I can imagine how it scared my kids.”
Knoxville has three youngsters — daughter Madison, 28, who he had along with his first spouse, Melanie Lynn Clapp, and son Rocko, 14, and daughter Arlo, 12, along with his second spouse, Naomi Nelson, whom he divorced earlier this yr.
Knoxville stated that after he bought a “traumatic brain injury with a concussion, brain hemorrhage and I broke my wrist and ribs,” he informed his youngsters, “‘Look, Dad’s not gonna do that anymore.’”
Smoove was a author on “SNL” from 2003 to 2006 after shedding out on a job within the forged.
“So I did make it to the final three,” Smoove defined about his audition.
“It was myself, Finesse Mitchell, and Kenan Thompson. We were the last three. We did our NBC test, everything,” Smoove recalled.
Mitchell and Thompson had been each chosen. Mitchell left “SNL” after three seasons, and Thompson remains to be on the present because the longest-running forged member, having been on it for 22 seasons.
Smoove did seem on digital camera in a number of uncredited roles throughout his time on “SNL.”
“Everybody’d just wait for JB to pitch the craziest things in the world,” Smoove stated, “and I would really play to the audience of these writers in the room.”
