Est. 2011  ·  Extreme Is Evolution

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The internet's most reckless stunt crew made a playground out of the East Coast and San Diego — fire, surf, snow, fireworks and full-send chaos. Two seasons, 60+ videos, a stack of national TV appearances, and one motto. It's all here.

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The World Is Your Playground

The Legend

A crew of maniacs
with a video camera.

Four friends, a pile of GoPros, and a serious disregard for their own safety. JoyRidersTV grew into a homegrown stunt show — inspired by Nitro Circus, powered by friendship — that lit things on fire, surfed the campus fountain, and jumped off anything tall enough to hurt.

That was then. These days the crew is deep into their late 30s — day jobs, families, knees that file complaints. But the footage never got old, and neither did the stoke. This is the archive: every episode, every jam, every appearance we made on national TV, finally in one place that looks as loud as we felt.

"Older knees. Same stoke."

Watch In Order

The Two Seasons

Season 1

The Beginning of JoyRidersTV

Where it all started. The pilot, the bungee extravaganza, the Halloween special — 10 raw, fearless episodes.

Watch Season 1 ›
Season 2

JoyRidersTV Is Featured on TV!

Bigger stunts, better cameras, and the run that got us on ESPN, SyFy, truTV and beyond. Slip n Die to the fountain finale.

Watch Season 2 ›

Every Last Clip

The Vault

The whole catalog, filed by flavor of chaos. Tap any thumbnail to play.

Hall of Fame

The Ones You Remember

Most Viral

Fire Cliff Jump

The one that got us the call from America's Got Talent — and the one YouTube took down. Coming back, hosted right here.

Re-upload coming soon
Best Prank

Taco Bell Gorilla

A gorilla hits the drive-thru. The manager comes outside. Chaos ensues.

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Most Beloved

LED Stickmen

Glow-suit snowboarding in the dark. The internet's favorite thing we ever filmed.

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Latest Drop

Energy Drink Battle

A brand-new throwback edit from the vault — years in the making, finally cut. Dropping on the channel.

Premiering soon

As Seen On

JoyRiders Went National

Backyard stunts that made it onto real TV. Watch the actual segments right here — no digging required.

Also featured on Ridiculousness (MTV · Rob Dyrdek), World's Dumbest (truTV), and in Baltimore news ("JoyRiders turn Baltimore into Olympic Village") — those cuts are headed here next.

The Big Stage

America's Got Talent

It started with a phone call. AGT's producers had seen Daniel jump off a cliff on fire, and they wanted more. We had two months to dream up a stunt and film an audition tape — so we built a human fire Rube Goldberg machine and poured everything we had into it, finishing the edit hours before the deadline.

The first year, they said it was too complex and dangerous for an indoor stage. So the next year, when AGT opened an extreme-stunt division, we came back — and this time we made it onto the stage. We met the Godfrey family there too (Greg Godfrey went on to found Nitro Circus, the very show that inspired JoyRidersTV). We hit our stunt clean and the crowd went wild — and then all four judges gave us a unanimous no. Call it what you want. We walked away exactly as advertised: too extroooime for TV.

JoyRiders On Fire — Rube Goldberg Machine ▶ Watch the audition
The JoyRiders crew at America's Got Talent
The whole crew, showtime
Daniel performing on fire
Daniel · on fire
Behind the scenes at AGT
Behind the scenes
The four JoyRiders founders on day one
The founders. One SUV. A hand-painted banner. Day one.

How It All Started

Born in
music school.

JoyRidersTV started at Duquesne University, where Jonathan, Jimmy and Neil met studying music. The campus TV station needed material — so they pitched a stunt show, drafted Daniel as the resident guinea pig and idea machine, and premiered the first episode in a classroom.

It got howls of laughter. It was also, instantly, way too extreme for school. So they pulled it off campus, took it straight to YouTube, and made it their own. The rest is fire.

The Riders

The Crew

The founders who started it, and the dozens of friends who showed up, suited up, and sent it.

Jonathan RosenberryCo-Founder · Video Producer · CEO · Extremist

The leader and video-production obsessive behind most of the extreme-stunt and extreme-play ideas. They call him “the Caveman” — hairy, and permanently posted up in the editing cave to make every episode happen. Now he's making videos to save animals and preparing to raise a newborn with his wife.

Jimmy LickCo-Founder · Film Production · Musician · Backflipper

Diehard snowboarder, surfer and musical genius — plus the crew's graphic designer, skit writer and production wizard. Now in San Diego, still chasing slopes and waves every year and filming high-end weddings with his wife. Dad of two.

Neil's JoyRiders logo tattoo
Neil SolomonCo-Founder · Stokeman · Music & Mayhem

The band's frontman and the mastermind behind the Taco Bell gorilla. Loved JoyRiders enough to tattoo the logo on his arm. Now works a big job in NYC, raising two young kids with his wife.

Daniel RosenberryCo-Founder · Stuntman · The Guinea Pig

The guinea pig — and usually the main event whenever a stunt went down. Fearless expert snowboarder. Now sailing the open water on a monohull with his wife and toddler, with number two on the way.

+ the whole extended JoyRiders family — dozens of friends who showed up, suited up, and sent it. Full roster coming soon.

Where are they now?

In their late 30s, day jobs, families — and still misbehaving. We're filming sit-down interviews with the founders — "what's the most extreme thing you did recently?" — to drop right here. Stay tuned.

What's Next

The JoyRiders Playground

Here's the big idea: an app where you rack up points for getting outside and getting extroooime — bonus points for dragging your friends along. Post your sends, climb the ranks, turn play back into a sport. This site is step one. Want in when it drops?

The world is your playground.