Bam Margera's Jackass Prank Landed Him on Jennifer Aniston's Blacklist

Sometimes a prank goes so spectacularly sideways that it haunts you forever. That’s exactly what happened to Bam Margera and the Jackass crew back in 2001, when a fake kidnapping at Pink’s Hot Dogs in Los Angeles spiraled into what Margera now suspects is a lifetime ban from Jennifer Aniston’s good graces.

Here’s how it went down: the Jackass crew orchestrated a fake abduction of Brad Pitt using prop crowbars while he was waiting in line. Pitt, apparently a good sport, called Jennifer to tell her what had just happened. Except that phone call became the moment everything fell apart. According to Bam, Jennifer absolutely exploded, yelling,“You f***ing what?! Get your a** home!”It was the kind of reaction that made it crystal clear: the prank had crossed a line nobody expected.

Bam opened up about the whole debacle recently on the Living Proof podcast, and his takeaway is pretty straightforward—he figures he’s kissed goodbye any chance of working with the Friends star. When someone responds that intensely to a stunt, you don’t need a formal blacklist notice to know where you stand. What makes this story particularly interesting is the timing: Jen and Brad were married when the prank went down, and they’d divorce just a few years later. You can’t help but wonder if the prank was one of those small moments that revealed something about the dynamic between them, or if it just became ammunition in whatever tensions were already brewing.

The beauty of Bam telling this story now, in 2026, is that it’s far enough in the past to laugh about—but not so far that the embarrassment has fully faded. It’s a perfect encapsulation of Jackass-era chaos: someone thought a fake kidnapping would be hilarious, nobody anticipated the fallout, and decades later, you’re still talking about it.