Nitro Circus is a new Jackass-style series produced by Johnny Knoxville that airs on MTV One at 10pm on Sundays – because watching someone go arse over tit off a mountain bike and land chin-first in a pile of crap makes you feel that little bit better about having to work in the morning.

Bizarre’s Foxy once had a reader ring her up and say he was going to cut off his foreskin with a scalpel, put it in a condom, swallow it, poop it out, and sew it back on again. It took her over an hour to persuade him that this was an impossibly retarded idea that wouldn’t work and could potentially kill him, but he was convinced it would earn him fame as ‘the next Dirty Sanchez’.  Does crew member and motocross racer Jolene Van Vugt think shows like Nitro Circus tempt viewers to take idiotic risks, or are they harmless fun? “The series encourages people to take a step outside the box and try new things, sure – but in a good way. Five out of the six-strong crew are professional extreme sportspeople. That said, we did manage to break Knoxville’s penis trying to teach him to do a backflip on a dirt bike. And one of the guys put so many powdered doughnuts in his mouth at once that they came out of his nose.” Doh! Nut.