Brandon 2Jackass
September 21st 2006 06:34
Jackass was a half-hour American television series starring Johnny Knoxville amongst many others, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, which features 12 people performing various dangerous, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks.
The program was blamed for a number of deaths and injuries involving teens and children imitating the stunts. In the fall of 2000, Senator and then-Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut began a campaign to have MTV pull the show off the air. MTV began to give in to some of Lieberman's demands and this led to the cast and crew finishing the show in 2002. Here are some clips from the Jackass TV series.
After the show went off the air, the cast reunited in 2002 to film a full-length motion picture version of the show entitled Jackass: The Movie. The cast made it clear that the film was their "farewell" to the fans of the show and the movie format allowed the cast to circumvent the censors. The movie was filmed with a modest budget of approximately $5 million, but earned more than $22 million during its opening weekend, effectively managing to secure the top spot at the box office for its debut. It eventually grossed more than $64 million in the United States alone. Below is the beginning of the movie.
"Jackass: Number Two" the sequel to the first movie will be opening in America this month, almost all of the original cast will be back. Here is the trailer.
* This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Jackass (TV series).
The program was blamed for a number of deaths and injuries involving teens and children imitating the stunts. In the fall of 2000, Senator and then-Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut began a campaign to have MTV pull the show off the air. MTV began to give in to some of Lieberman's demands and this led to the cast and crew finishing the show in 2002. Here are some clips from the Jackass TV series.
After the show went off the air, the cast reunited in 2002 to film a full-length motion picture version of the show entitled Jackass: The Movie. The cast made it clear that the film was their "farewell" to the fans of the show and the movie format allowed the cast to circumvent the censors. The movie was filmed with a modest budget of approximately $5 million, but earned more than $22 million during its opening weekend, effectively managing to secure the top spot at the box office for its debut. It eventually grossed more than $64 million in the United States alone. Below is the beginning of the movie.
"Jackass: Number Two" the sequel to the first movie will be opening in America this month, almost all of the original cast will be back. Here is the trailer.
* This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Jackass (TV series).
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