As the appointed time for his interview with XBIZ approaches, Pierce Paris, the 2020 XBIZ Gay Performer of the Year, sends along a quick DM: “Look who is texting me at this moment!” he writes. “LMAO!”
The note is from notorious jokester Steve-O, of “Jackass” infamy, who is requesting “good butthole images” of Paris that Steve-O can manipulate to make it seem as if a tiny version of himself is climbing out of said butthole.
I really don’t care about how ridiculous or stupid or non-attractive I may look doing some of these things. That doesn’t even cross my mind. This is just a way for me to express myself.
Several days later, Paris is still chuckling at the unusual request — well, unusual for anyone other than the handsomely chiseled and entirely affable stud. Over the past few years, and particularly during the pandemic, Paris achieved a notable level of viral internet infamy with an ongoing series of hilariously shocking stunts that typically involve his butthole, plus-sized penis, low-hanging balls and/or a combination of all of the above.
These bite-sized servings of ribald humor — such as a putting green whereon a golf ball lodges itself in his rectum — have brought Paris to the attention of mainstream comedians like Tom Segura, who hired the performer to produce similar skits for “Your Mom’s House,” the video podcast he hosts with his wife and fellow comedian, Christina Pazsitzky. In fact, Paris was prepping a new skit for Segura, with the assistance of performer and fellow scamp Wolf Hudson, when Steve-O made his request. Paris shifted his schedule around and enlisted Hudson to film brand-new butthole footage to Steve-O’s specifications in the morning, before shifting his attention to Segura’s project later that same day.
The footage was featured in a comedy skit Steve-O released on Twitter in early December. The swordsman will also be featured in filmed segments for the comedian’s upcoming comedy tour, which could vault Paris to a new level of mainstream notoriety.
As a thank-you gift to Segura and Pazsitzky for welcoming him as a guest on their show, Paris devised a satiric “magic trick” which involved inserting a miniature Rubik’s Cube into his bum, massaging his ass cheeks and then removing the toy — solved. That clip went viral, too.
“And so that’s how I spent my day yesterday,” Paris notes with a laugh. “I spent most of the day filming in front of a green screen so Steve-O could look like he’s climbing out of my butt. That’s how he rolls.”
As Paris explains it, next year Steve-O plans to “really go hard with the funny XXX stuff on his next tour.”
“And he’s involving me in it,” Paris adds. “He’s going to basically start exploring his butthole. He goes to the doctor for a colonoscopy and then comes to me, the gay porn star, for training in how to put stuff up there. It’s great.”
That footage likely won’t be seen until later in 2023. In the meantime, fans and admirers hungry for a glimpse of Paris can spot him right now in mainstream film “The Whale” starring Brendan Fraser, whose character is seen masturbating to gay porn featuring Paris — a scene specifically filmed for the Oscar-buzzed movie.
In the world of adult entertainment, Paris has been at the forefront of male performers who film gay, straight, bisexual, trans and fetish studio content, a small-but-steadily increasing group that has notably included XBIZ Performer of the Year Dante Colle as well as Hudson, Dillon Diaz, Michael Delray, Johnny Hill, Kaleb Stryker and others.
A busy content creator, Paris is also ready to relaunch PierceParis.com to include his self-produced work as well as bonus content for those curiosity-seekers who want to check out his viral comedy clips without first having to search through explicit content.
The web relaunch was borne out of necessity following the wild success of Paris’ “Running Butthole Challenge” meme a few years back.
“It started in 2019 with these videos going viral after viral after viral,” Paris recalls. “Then in 2020, right around when the pandemic started, the algorithm changed on Twitter. Maybe it was a censorship thing, I don’t know. But the traffic went down to nothing, absolutely nothing. So now with my website, if people want to watch these clips after seeing them on Tom Segura’s show or whatever, they can find me without having to depend on Twitter or social media.”
The week Paris spoke to XBIZ, he had decided to kick off the holiday season in his own inimitable style by reposting what he happily describes as a Christmas perennial: a clip that begins with Wolf Hudson smiling like the Grinch and pulling gently on a string of miniature Christmas tree lights. The camera slowly pans away from Hudson and follows the lights as they wrap around a small, spinning tree, then continues panning until the big reveal — Paris on his back, legs in the air, with each bulb on the string popping neatly out of his rectum.
The pinpoint comic timing and carefully calibrated editing lend the clip a memorable comic punch. In fact, Paris’ most recent stunt is a bigger, crazier version of that Christmas clip.
Weeks of careful planning and editing go into each stunt. Spoiler alert: he doesn’t really careen down a grassy slope to land directly onto an oversized dildo. Paris is justifiably proud of the handcrafted nature of his clips. However, he’s also fond of staging sweet-yet-surreal vignettes, such as a recent clip that has him performing housework chores and preparing breakfast with a broom, spatula and other tools jauntily protruding from his butthole.
The stud traces his anarchistic inclinations to a childhood in suburban Montana and “not having a lot to do.”
“I grew up in a neighborhood full of boys who were just constantly punching and kicking each other in the balls,” he recalls. “So I had a lot of training in getting punched in the dick. I watched a lot of ‘Jackass’ on MTV and started doing stupid stunts on my own. Back then, I was hurting myself left and right. I knocked out all of my front teeth like five times.”
The grown-up Paris has a much more informed understanding of the punishment his body can take, and he’s found that he enjoys pushing the limits of his tolerance for pain — such as “being led blindfolded, on a leash, by Adriana Chechik through a room full of mousetraps.” Google it.
When he first entered the adult industry, Paris grappled with how to best utilize social media.
“I really don’t like sharing a lot of my personal life on social media,” he explained. “So I thought about how to give my viewers and fans a look at the real me, my quirkiness and my goofiness. I forget what ended up being my first clip; it might have been shoving an award up my ass. Anyway, people loved it and I thought, ‘Let’s keep rolling with this.’ And it just spiraled into the madness of these crazy skits and challenges. I mean, if you go to Twitter, my page is still 90% dick pics. But the rest of it has become a way for me to share a piece of who I am with my fans.”
Paris has always felt the urge to test the waters and tackle a challenge from an out-of-left-field perspective. He cites his entrepreneurship in starting and running small businesses, and a varied pre-adult career that included wildland firefighting and fracking in North Dakota, which he describes as a hyper-masculine atmosphere where his fellow workers would send each other shockingly raunchy pictures and jokes to blow off steam.
He is also quick to acknowledge that the humor in his skits is often at his own expense.
“I really don’t care about how ridiculous or stupid or non-attractive I may look doing some of these things,” he says. “That doesn’t even cross my mind. This is just a way for me to express myself. Sometimes people say, ‘Oh, he’s trying too hard for attention.’ No, this is just the way I grew up, sliding off my parents’ roof in the middle of winter and falling on my face, knocking out my teeth and breaking my arm.”
Paris remains deeply impressed with the mainstream reach of his goofy-sexy projects, such as his “Running Butthole Challenge” meme.
“It was just this funny little thing, a camera trick. Just, boom, this quick shot of something with shock value and then cutting away. It wasn’t necessarily what I was showing, but how it was shot that really got all the attention,” he explains. “That’s where I learned that each shot has to be a certain number of seconds. You surprise viewers with something shocking, then reset. It’s a very specific formula and I keep trying to perfect it.”
After Paris posted the original “Running Butthole Challenge,” Hudson followed suit with his own version. Soon afterwards, a female performer went viral with the challenge. Paris believes it was the right time for such a meme to explode because so many performers have learned on the job how to shoot and edit their own content. Soon, dozens of models followed suit; Paris stopped counting at nearly 200.
“It reached something like 20 million people within three days,” Paris marvels. “It just polluted Twitter; it was all over everyone’s timelines. Then it began trending, and more people would click on them. That’s when comedians like Jimmy Norton and Tom Segura found me and put me on their shows. Were people just bored and looking for a distraction? I don’t know, but it was really funny.”
In response to a question about how he plans to top himself, Paris notes wryly, “Actually, I do that all the time.”
Fair answer. But is he planning some sort of culmination point?
“Back in 2020, when the Twitter algorithm seemed like it shut me down, I think people began to wonder what I was doing,” he says. “I’m still doing the skits, just not necessarily on social media. But I’ve noticed the views have started climbing again. So maybe all of this stuff I’m doing with comedians has increased my visibility, or maybe they changed the algorithm again. Who knows? Between my website and my stuff with Tom and Steve-O, I have a lot going on for 2023. It’s going to be beautiful.”
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