Not once but twice did we spend a little bit of time with Steve-O from Jackass on his recent UK leg of the Bucket List Tour and boy do we have some thoughts to share with you! Here’s our Steve-O Bucket List tour review.

Packed full of wild stories to tell and even wilder footage Steve-O is no stranger to a stage and a stunt. With Steve’s 50th birthday a mere 10 days away from the day I asked him if the Bucket List tour was created with an idea in mind that this would be the last time these intense stunts would be attempted for a show. Steve replied, “It was, but now I want another tour and THAT will be the last ever intense stunts tour”
So, if you didn’t manage to get tickets for this now mostly sold out UK tour you can rest assured knowing that there may just be another tour on the horizon one day soon. In addition, if you wanted to catch this show then Steve is recording the entire London gig for a comedy special release coming soon!
Steve O’s Bucket List Tour has been shot over the last 2 years and combining a stand-up commentary comedy show and a huge screen Steve puts on this powerhouse powerpoint display of standup comedy and multimedia. The clips shown on the big screen were too gnarly to even be seen on Jackass and see Steve jumping out of a plane (with a sick twist and surprise) to my personal favourite segment, the Vasectomy Olympics which saw one person in the audience pass out at the show in Stoke.

Multiple people have been passing out at the shows due to the rather graphic content Steve has been showing on the big screen but fear not if you’re prone to passing out, there will be a camera man on hand to film you out cold and you’ll be added into a show compilation of others like you who have passed out at a show! The funniest thing was making sure the guy who passed out (Steve said it’s mostly guys) was okay before asking him if he could now use the footage in his recorded comedy show home entertainment release. The fan was all too happy to oblige.
With stand-up shows and the audience knowing full well the kind of person Steve-O is I expected a lot of drunken idiots to be showing up and heckling the poor guy. There’s a time and place for that and it’s certainly not during the show. Thankfully, heckling was condensed down to one idiot at Manchester and two idiots at Stoke but Steve had some choice words for them whilst keeping it lighthearted and funny.
Recording of any kind is also not allowed yet people still got their phones out at times to the point where Steve had to advise a few people to turn it off and put it away. This issue could have easily been sorted if pouches were given out to people to lock their phones in just like they did with Kevin Hart at Manchester Arena. That worked perfectly and not one person had a phone out all night, if they did, instantly ejection from the venue.
Steve-O Bucket List VIP Tickets

On the Saturday night in Manchester we had VIP tickets and wanted to see what the experience was like from a VIP standpoint.
The answer to that question was very little.
We started with a giant queue outside before entering the venue (no dedicated VIP line), we were given an unreserved choice of the first 4 rows of seats at the Manchester Academy and a signed poster (you could pick one up for £15-£20 at the merch stall). That was it.
For just over £100 the tickets were around £52 so you’re paying £48 for a better seat and a £15-£20 poster with no meet and greet included in the package.
Throw in a meet and greet and it’s worth every penny but every seat in the house is a good seat with the show being mainly focused on a big screen.
On other legs of the Bucket List Tour meet and greets were included. You’d stay in your seat after the show and Steve-O would come back out and have photos with you. I’m not sure why that wasn’t included on the UK tour but people definitely thought (myself included) that meet and greets were part of the UK tour.
Steve was all too happy to not only take pictures with folks outside before the show but after a crowd diving stunt outside of Manchester Academy he spent time and met everyone there too. For free.
For me, the VIP package didn’t feel worth it unless the meet and greet was included. The tickets have sold out now (to my knowledge) but I’d have just gotten a normal ticket and then tried my luck meeting him after the show. It might not be the same at every gig but you’d save a good £50 ish all the same.
This entire tour Steve has been known to stay behind after gigs and make sure that every single person has a photo with him. That’s not only tiring but rare for ANYONE to do that. You didn’t need a VIP experience when someone is clearly going out of their way and taking large chunks of time out of their evening, tired after a show, to make sure everyone who came to see him feels special and gets that opportunity to meet him.
That’s rare nowadays and it does not go unnoticed or under appreciated.
Bucket List Tour Review
Interviewing Steve on his Tour Bus
Get ready to see some stuff. That’s all I’m going to say! Me and my friends Lauren and Jake had a blast both days!
Assuring the audience it’s a love story Steve went into detail about his fiancé Lux who embraces him for who he is and not only that, gets involved in some of the crazy stunts he’s a part of.
Get ready to see a lot more of Lux than I think anyone was expecting on a big screen in front of a 1000+ seater audience.
From holding his breath in a paddling pool of pee to pooping on a fan and more there’s some quite visual clips to feast your eyes on before Steve comes out and comments on them before delivering his finely tuned script as segway into the next gnarly stunt.
Jake and Steve
I enjoyed the format of the show going from a stand-up comedy sketch to showing some footage but quite a lot of folks were expecting stunts on stage. I’m not sure where this came from or if it was just high expectations from a crowd going to see a man famously known for his on-stage antics but this is definitely not a physical show and is much more of that laid back set-up with comedic delivery and finesse. 
The show is nothing short of unforgettable but with us seeing it twice we got to see the slight script tweaks here and there but the show stayed mainly the same. If you’re watching the tour on more than one date you’re going to get pretty much the same thing but I was still laughing in the same parts and that speaks volumes. It’s like watching a movie for the 100th time and you still laugh at the same jokes, that’s when you know you’ve got something special. 

For the amount of times Steve has had to deliver this show to an audience even he was laughing at his own craziness and basking in the reception from the crowd.
From relationships to hitting 50 and even his ambition to open up an animal sanctuary it’s a very honest Steve-O. A man who is now clean and sober who thankfully hasn’t lost his crazy streak and ability to shock and entertain. 
Going into the show I was expecting a much different Steve-O. I was expecting some sort of ego and take no shit attitude but instead I found a kind, generous and outgoing man who did nothing but appreciate every single person who came out to see him.
Walking past Manchester Academy we clocked Steve-O coming out of the tour bus with no one around him, suddenly a few groups spotted him and ran at him like a stampede of fanboy craziness. I hate nothing more than people who do that, when respect for someones time goes out the window all for the sake of a photo or signature.
He took photos with them but said he had to go inside and would be out after the show, the fans didn’t listen and more flocked towards him. We were standing our distance away from him and leaving him be before he then called us over himself and asked us to join him for a photo. 
Lauren and Steve
That showed me the kind of person Steve was and even the next day, we managed to get onto Steve’s tour bus (huge thanks to Skinny Vinny) and he spent easily a good 15-20 minutes just chatting away. So humble, so kind and nothing was too much despite being inside a tour bus which is essentially his home for the entire tour. Inviting someone into your home, your personal space for that more intimate experience. That’s a special thing for anyone and that bus… damn! 
Steve O’s Bucket List Tour was well worth the trip and you just know something crazy will happen eventually. During the Manchester show Steve asked everyone to meet him outside the tour bus as he proceeded to jump off a ledge into the crowd and surfed his way around a Manchester car park.
The Stoke show was much more laid back as he just spent time with people outside of his bus without any crazy stunts and before that at the end of the show asks people to get their phones out to take a photo of him on stage and then he takes a photo with everyone else. If you tag Steve on Instagram he said he would like everyones photos, I put that to the test over 2 days with 5 photos and he liked, every.Single.One.

Merchandise ranged from books to hats and hot sauce and even signed skateboards including the Johnny-O board which was also signed by Jackass Co-Star Johnny Knoxville. 
Merchandise ranged from pins for £5 to the Johnny-O board for £125 so there’a a range of merchandise for all budgets.
It’s a show well worth watching, a mix of watching Jackass on the big screen which is always a show that feeds off audience reaction and a comedy show combine. Steve-O thank you for your kindness and for being an absolute legend on and off stage.
A show not to be missed but a show with a difference. A finely tuned show and tell machine with Steve-O charm that hit home not once, but twice for us!
Want to stock up on more merchandise?
Head on over to Steve-O’s official website at https://www.steveo.com/
Show some love to Skinny Vinny at https://www.skinnyvinny.tv/
Steve-O Bucket List Tour review by Sean Evans