And Welcome to Jackass — Johnny Knoxville in sunglasses and green jacket smiling and waving against a blue sky

And Welcome to Jackass

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Published October 15, 2026

And Welcome to Jackass, also known as And This is Jackass, started as Johnny Knoxville's deadpan opening line on the MTV stunt series Jackass, which premiered in October 20002. The quote mutated into a snowclone in April 2011 when YouTuber AlkaroSmb dubbed a Passion of the Christ clip 'Hola, mi nombre es Jesus… y esto es Jackass' (translated from Spanish)3. By February 2022, Twitter users were plugging mundane activities into the template, including @RAINBOWFISH's 'i'm Johnny Knoxville and i'm about to go through her likes,' which drew more than 111,000 likes6.

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Overview

And Welcome to Jackass works as a fill-in-the-blank snowclone where a speaker introduces themselves as Knoxville (or substitutes another character), then names an upcoming activity, with the joke hinging on the gap between the show's violent reputation and whatever actually follows. Image macro versions from 2011 placed FAIL scenarios or self-destructive behavior under the opening line, matching the show's slapstick-injury humor4.

By early 2022, Twitter posters flipped the convention. Users plugged in small, embarrassingly mundane activities, so an ordinary moment got dressed up as a stunt dangerous enough for the show6. Posts in this second phase tended to stay text-only, with the comedic weight carried entirely by the mismatch between Knoxville's intro and the harmless act that followed5.

Origin & Background

Platform
MTV (Jackass TV series) / YouTube (snowclone format)
Creator
Johnny Knoxville
Date
2000

Johnny Knoxville introduced the phrase 'Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Jackass' as the opening line of the MTV reality series Jackass, which premiered on October 1, 2000, and ran until February 20022. Over the show's original run, the greeting was echoed by guest stunt performers and became closely tied to the series1.

The And Welcome to Jackass snowclone version emerged more than a decade later. On April 2, 2011, YouTuber AlkaroSmb uploaded a redubbed clip of The Passion of the Christ titled 'Hola, mi nombre es Jesus… y esto es Jackass' (translated from Spanish: 'Hi, my name is Jesus and this is Jackass')3. Spanish-language forums picked up AlkaroSmb's clip first, with English-speaking meme communities following later that year4.

How It Spread

Through the rest of 2011, image macros using the snowclone showed up across Tumblr, Reddit and humor aggregators like FunnyJunk. Most early iterations stuck to Knoxville's register, naming a painful or self-harming act after the setup line4.

The format spiked again in February 2022, when the theatrical release of Jackass Forever revived interest in the quote7. On February 10, 2022, user @rajat_suresh posted 'im johnny knoxville and this is Taking 1 Hit Of Weed And Going To Sleep,' which earned over 490 retweets and 7,500 likes5. The same day, @RAINBOWFISH tweeted 'i'm Johnny Knoxville and i'm about to go through her likes,' which collected more than 10,000 retweets and 111,000 likes6.

These tweets set the 2022 pattern: the activity named was boring or embarrassingly small instead of actually dangerous, inverting the slapstick-injury logic of the 2011 image macros3.

Timeline

2000-10-01

Jackass premieres on MTV, with Johnny Knoxville delivering the 'Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Jackass' opening line[2].

2002-02

The original Jackass series finishes its MTV run after cementing the opening line as the show's signature greeting[2].

2011-04-02

YouTuber AlkaroSmb uploads 'Hola, mi nombre es Jesus… y esto es Jackass,' the first widely circulated snowclone parody[3].

2011

Image macros using the snowclone appear across Tumblr, Reddit and sites like FunnyJunk, 9GAG and MemeGenerator[4].

2022-02

Jackass Forever opens in theaters, driving a Twitter resurgence of the catchphrase template[7].

2022-02-10

@RAINBOWFISH's 'about to go through her likes' tweet collects more than 111,000 likes, with @rajat_suresh's 'Taking 1 Hit Of Weed And Going To Sleep' version going viral the same day[6].

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How to Use This Meme

A typical post starts with 'I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to...' or 'and this is Jackass,' then names an activity. In 2011-era image macros, the activity named something painful or stupid, matching the show's stunt register3. In the 2022 Twitter version, posters often picked something small and embarrassing, like taking one bong hit before bed or reading someone's Twitter likes, so the setup oversells the activity for comic effect5.

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