The Original Pranksters are back. It’s tough to imagine a better show title for the pairing of MTV veterans Steve-O and Tom Green, who appear at the Riviera, March 14-17. Known for stunt- and prank-filled TV shows and movies, the duo is now eager to show off its stand-up chops. Allison Duck, of sister publication Las Vegas Weekly, picked Steve-O’s brain during a joint interview recently.

On how the two met:

Steve-O: The first time I met Tom was at the Paramount Pictures lot at an advance screening of the Jackass movie, which would have been in 2002. We didn’t actually become bros until 2005 when Tom was hosting a talk show out of his living room on the Internet.

On stand-up style:

Steve-O: My first time doing stand-up was in 2006 and I had no intention of doing it. I was invited to a comedy club in Los Angeles and the person who invited me asked me to get up onstage and do a crazy stunt. So when I showed up, I couldn’t think of anything crazier for me to do than try stand-up. I remember getting real laughs. I knew from that first time that I wanted to get into it.

On new-school YouTube fame-seekers:

Steve-O: Tom made the point that 30 years ago you couldn’t do what I did in the ’90s, and I would make the point that since the explosion of YouTube and social media, that window kind of closed. … And now there’s such a flood and people are giving away everything with the click of a mouse. It was so much easier to stand out back then. We were unique… To try to be discovered in this day and age, you’re just lost in just a sea of footage.

On Amy Schumer’s joke about Ryan Dunn at the roast of Charlie Sheen:

Steve-O: Did she tell you that we talked on the phone? To be clear, the joke Amy Schumer made wasn’t about Ryan Dunn. The joke was about wishing I was dead. So I can’t really say it was disrespectful to Ryan Dunn, it was just, “Hey, I wish you were dead!” The purpose was to tell brutal jokes at a roast and I never really took that personally. I didn’t think the joke was that funny in particular but the rest of the stuff she did on that roast killed.

On attending Clown College:

Steve-O: When I found out about Clown College, I thought it was great because if I can graduate from Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Clown College, then when people see me drinking bong water and lighting myself on fire at backyard keg parties, they’ll think, “Now that’s a circus professional!” And as ridiculous as that sounds, it’s exactly what happened. The people who got credit for creating Jackass included me in their magazine because it was funny to them that I was this outrageous asshole who was also a trained professional circus clown. In a lot of ways, I owe my career to Clown College.