When it comes to taking a fall like a champ, few people out there have the kind of dedication to pain that Jackass' Bam Margera does. This guy's been on the business end of more implements of pain and destruction than your average stuntperson - and somehow he's still alive. More than that, he's also a hilarious and twisted guy, and IGN was lucky enough to chat with him in time for the global release of Jack ass 3 - this time in glorious 3D. In this candid chat, Margera gives us the gossip on his insane, red-line lifestyle and numerous brushes with death – all for your perverse amusement. Enjoy.

Cool, no problem. Yeah, I was out there for cKy – and I got Roofie'd there – at a cKy show, and the airport thought I was too wasted to get on a flight to Perth so they wouldn't let me on the flight. I got handcuffed, put in a cop car and they took me to a Holiday Inn and made me sleep it off! Then, there were no direct flights to Perth the next day, so I had to fly to Melbourne and had an 8 hour layover. Man, I was so pissed.[laughs] Uh, you know – I do wake up at times and I feel like I'm 80 years old... and I'm only 30.I agree! I like doing what I'm doing though – and with this Jackass 3D , I broke my clavicle, I got 3 broken ribs, a broken kneecap and a broken foot. And the suckiest part about it all was, the only part that made it into the movie was the broken clavicle! [laughs] All the other injuries will be coming out in Jackass 3.5, coming out in January.

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Dude, I have a thing in Pennsylvania called 'Fast Track' – I don't even think it [normally] exists, but I'm there so much that that they're like 'oh – Bam's here again' and I get to skip the whole entire emergency room and skip right in.I have a VIP pass to the hospital. Yes.Ha, well luckily there's a medic on standby – but they're only like 50/50 percent good [laughs].The last one was the clavicle, yeah. And that was done during this skit called 'Electric Avenue' which involved 40 stun guns in a hallway on strings hanging from the roof. And there are a bunch of tyres on the ground and 2x4s that we had to jump over; it was just this giant obstacle course and I just fell so wrong that I broke my clavicle and shoulder area.Dude, 40 stun guns? Getting shot with that – it's the worst. The. Worst. I was angry for, like, the rest of the day after that one. [laughs]Well, [laughs], actually we film for ten days straight, then I fly home for seven days, then we film for another ten days straight. So we keep doing that. But, you know, there's just so much paranoia and anxiety on set – you're just not safe anywhere.Sleeping's the dumbest thing you can do. If you get a massage from the masseuse, you'll get stun-gunned, peed on or punched in the face. If you have to go to the port-a-potty to take a leak, a blue bomb will blow up in there. If you want macaroni and cheese during lunch, a mac-and-cheese bomb will blow up in your face. You're just not safe anywhere. The whole place is just one big booby-trap.Well that's the worst part; when I'm at home and I'm relaxing, I still look behind my back all quickly; I'm all paranoid.It's not permanent – but it takes a little while to go away.Oh no. No. Dude—the whole film—I can't even—look, if I had to say something off the top of my head, I'd say it's this skit called 'The Invisible Man'. Knoxville – he gets painted to match a tropical background painting. And when he puts his body up against it, you can barely see him. So they unleashed this Spanish bull – who's crazy – and as soon as he spots him, he nails him and he flies fifteen feet up in the air and lands right on his neck. And it looks like he broke his neck but he didn't. It looks gnarly as hell.Uh—I don't know! [laughs] You know what? That's Tremaine's and Paramount's problem!