Jackass is also another word for donkey.
Jackass is a TV show, originally shown on MTV in which a group of men do various silly and/or dangerous stunts for fun. It has become amazingly popular and has even resulted in a full-length movie (essentially the same as the TV show, but for much longer and with less censoring).
The known members of the Jackass team are:
- Johnny Knoxville, the nominal presenter of Jackass.
- Steve-O
- Chris Pontius
- Raab Himself
- Preston Lacy - more often than not chasing Wee Man in the 'big fat bloke chasing the midget' funny sketches.
- Jason Acuña, a.k.a Wee Man - more often than not being chased by Preston Lacy, as above.
- Ryan Dunn
- Dave England
- Bam Marghera
- Ehren McGhehey
- Phil and April Marghera - Bam's parents and, more often than not, stunt victims.
These may not be the proper names, and some of them may need fleshing out a bit - please feel free to edit them.
- The Plunger Wakeup (Bam Marghera, Phil Marghera) - This is where Bam silently goes into the room where Phil is sleeping, carefully places a stereo on Phil's bed, turns it on at full blast then when Phil wakes up startled bangs on a pot and uses a plunger on his face.
- The Gettysburg Address (Johnny Knoxville) - This was where Johnny wore an Abraham Lincoln style suit and top hat and had Leeches attached to his face to make the 'beard' that Lincoln had, while giving the Gettysburg address.
- The Human Tricycle (Actor Unknown) in which a man goes down hills with rollerskates attached to his knees and a pair of wheels held in his hand.
- Party Boy (Chris Pontius) - A running gag in which Pontius, to the tunes of the same techno beat, tears off his jogging suit and dances around a la Chippendale's in a thong and bowtie to the embarassment of those around him.
- The Meter Fairy (Ehren McGhehey) - McGhehey dressed in a pink fairy outfit and went around putting change in other people's overdue parking meters. This seeming act of generosity was played for gags both by McGhehey's costume and by ribbing the Traffic Enforcement Police, who informed him several times that putting change in other peoples' meters is illegal.
In summer 2003, Johnny Knoxville left the show. Remaining cast members are now featured in the shows Viva la Bam and Wildboyz.
Jackass has been blamed for a number of deaths and injuries involving teens and children imitating the stunts. In 2001, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut asked MTV to pull the show of the air entirely, or tone down its content after several incidents.
On the site The Smoking Gun a site that's run by Court TV that contains documents of police reports and court documents, a court document was made public through TSG reporting that a man whose name was Jackass sued MTV and it's parent company.
