Steve-O Slams "Abusive" Circus: "F**k 'em!"

Click to return to TMZ.comIf a "Jackass" star is calling you "abusive," you know you're in trouble.

TMZ got the first look at a video ad for peta2 -- the youth-centric offshoot of PETA -- in which the one and only Steve-O lashes out against animal cruelty in the circus. The daredevil, who was once a circus clown after attending the Ringling Bros. Clown College (go figure!), goes on a heated tirade against his former teachers, calling them "a bunch of dicks" for their alleged treatment of animals.

Happily, Steve-O has no issues with cruelty to himself, and as far as we can tell, he won't stop his own ridiculous antics.



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16. Stevo...all beit a good entertainer has the Ozzy syndrome but sooner! The guy is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO burned out and I feel for him. He will probably leave millions to his family OR he will give it to assisted living. DUDE! Your fried! No wonder Johnny Knoxville doesn't "hang out" with you or nor does anybody else. You were cool but now U suck BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 10:07PM on Jan 9th 2007 by bob boner

17. Go Steve-O !!!!

Posted at 11:26PM on Jan 9th 2007 by Zygote

18. Steve-o did fine in the video. He never claimed to have worked for Ringling Bros. He just said when he did work for the circus they said stay away from the elephants and it wasn't hard to figure out they are tortured. Animals shouldn't be in the circus. He did go to clown college and is pretty damn funny. Self-destructive, but funny. It is his life. And Johnny Knoxville is a stuck up d*ck anyway! Steve-O keeps it real.

Posted at 12:16AM on Jan 10th 2007 by h8er#1

19. STEVE-O ROCKS
IT DOSENT MATTER WHAT A PERSON DOES IN HIS LIFE IF HE SPEAKS UP FOR ANIMALS BEING MISTREATED THAN WE SHOULD GIVE HIM HISN PROPS

Posted at 12:59AM on Jan 10th 2007 by paul t. in cali

20. STEVE-O IS THE MAN AND HES A PRETTY F***ING FUNNY DUDE

Posted at 1:04AM on Jan 10th 2007 by PAUL TAYLOR IN CALIFORNIA

21. I can see the Evil clown in the guy . He's possessed . But God Misery loves company . I still flinch when i see the early shoppingcart races off railings of some local library . Classic . Dickhead . I can't wait for his next stunt , he'll be blown up while skiing on one ski , naked , smeared with carpenter ants and flipping the bird as he rants about Animal inslavement . this guy likes KFC . King of Cu88heads . Dickhead .

Posted at 7:02PM on Jan 10th 2007 by nASTY bOIL

22. CCBLOOM78 - I've looked into this more than just through CCF. PETA is a radical group - do some research. If you don't want to research it yourself, Penn & Teller already did it (I'll admit, it's biased, but it does show PETA for the radicals they are) Watch the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ijLulwUTY

If PETA really cared about animals, they would support no-kill shelters, instead of advocating the slaughter of thousands of animals.

The following article is by former PETA members who are true animal rights advocates. They realized what PETA was really about and didn't blindly follow the propoganda they spew out:

http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm

Posted at 1:34AM on Jan 10th 2007 by Luna

23. I don't doubt circuses are not perfect in their treatment of animals, but when you use a for-sale tramp and a freak as spokespeople, you lose ALL credibility. I have a tough time taking Ms. Anderson's pleadings seriously when she sells her body to the highest bidder.

Posted at 3:54AM on Jan 10th 2007 by ejpasseos

24. Ringling Brothers is owned by sadistic nuts. They treat people badly too!

I have a friend who worked for them and quit. They tortured those animals and they treat employees like crap

and one of them was putting hidden cameras in employee rest rooms, etc and spying on them

Just nuts

Posted at 5:33AM on Jan 10th 2007 by kay

25. And the anti-PETA sites are all run by a lobbying group for corporations that abuse animals. Ringling Brothers contributes big bucks to this guy! See

http://www.consumerdeception.com

The weirdos like Luna who come to these boards and post the antiPETA sites get paid by Berman to post them. He gives them money and "prizes"

Posted at 5:40AM on Jan 10th 2007 by kay

26. Wait whatever happened to that MTV show Wild Boyz?

Posted at 6:56AM on Jan 10th 2007 by cee

27. Kay - I don't even know who Berman is. I wish I was getting paid or "prizes", but I'm not. I just hate PETA because they pretend to be for animal rights, while at the same time killing animals. Believe it or not, I used to think PETA was a credible organization, until the news about their slaughter of thousands of animals came out.

I would love for you to show that the San Francisco Chronicle, a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper, is being paid for articles such as this:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/23/EDG11DC9BK1.DTL

You just don't want the truth about PETA being known.

BTW - you act like I'm a plant here and this is the first TMZ article I've commented on. I don't comment very often, but I have in the past, and I always use the same name. I've expressed my views about PETA because this article is about PETA and their horrible choice of a spokesperson...maybe Steve O was liberating the goldfish, from it's home in a small bowl, by swallowing it live.

Posted at 7:50AM on Jan 10th 2007 by Luna

28. I can't wait to go to the circus....you people are freaks! Oh god Oh god...I get so sick of hearing this PETA bullsh*t! You only do it b/c of the celebrities. Now, come next month I WILL be at the circus and then I am going to eat a big fat juicy steak :)

Posted at 8:57AM on Jan 10th 2007 by hahahaha

29. Thanks for speaking on behalf of animals.

Anyone who would patronize a circus is part of the abuse.

Posted at 8:59AM on Jan 10th 2007 by Keith

30. THEY DO TREAT THOSE ANIMALS LIKE SH*T. PETA OR NO PETA, IF YOU PEOPLE WERE TREATED LIKE THAT, YOU WOULD KNOW HOW IT FEELS. IT'S NOT RIGHT. HE MAYBE A LITTLE OFF BUT HE HAS A EFFING POINT.

Posted at 10:04AM on Jan 10th 2007 by So glad

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