The #1 Reason Hunter S. Thompson Killed Himself
- Fred
- 1 day ago
- 1 min read
I want to be crystal clear, I like Johnny Knoxville, I do. He has a real devilish charm about him.
And I like the Jackass Movie Franchise. I'm not some high-brow snob, talking about the opera or the films of Federico Fellini. I liked the TV series and watched all the Jackass movies, even the .5 ones. Give me low-brow humor all day long. My grandkids will talk about Jackass the way I wax poetically about the 3 Stooges.
But Alex Morris, in her interview with Johnny Knoxville for Rolling Stone Magazine (below), acts like she is interviewing Francis Ford Coppola about the Godfather movies.
It is rare that I have seen an interview where the tone was so far off from the subject matter.
We're talking about Jackass.
Tennis-balls-to-the groin, bull-dodging, vomit-inducing, Jackass.
To watch Alex Morris get serious and question Knoxville about the Tao of Jackass made ME want to vomit.
Rolling Stone in 2026 is like the last words of Hunter Thompson's Football Season is Over:
No More Fun. Rolling Stone is now 58 years old, almost the antithesis of the counterculture rag that it was in the 1970's. What Thompson described in his last missive, now applies to the magazine that once employed him.
Hunter Thompson didn't kill himself, you counter?
Just last month, the State of Colorado said he did.
Hunter Thompson would be aghast at what Rolling Stone has become.
