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JEFF TREMAINE
The story of Jeff Tremaine is sort of similar to that of Cinderella, that haggard little wench come celebrated toast of the town, but not really.
Born a poor white military brat, Jeff was hustled from state to state until finally settling in the area of Rockville, Maryland. There he defied his parents on a regular basis and got into all sorts of ne’er-do-well activities such as skateboarding, BMX, reggae music, and art. Perhaps most key to this fairy tale is that in high school Tremaine made the acquaintance of Adam Spiegel, a hyperactive little pipsqueak that puberty had somehow kipped over and left with an extremely high voice for an extremely long time. In 1985, Jeff was booted from the parental nest and landed in St. Louis. There he attended Washington University and committed the most egregious act of his life—joining a fraternity—although he still contends it was a “cool fraternity,” whatever the fuck that means. Anyway, he did the fine art thing and graduated in 1989 with a penchant for funk-metal music and cross-eyed fashion, the combination of which may or may not have provided the inspiration for Funk Pelts, his garage op T-shirt line.
Diploma in hand, Tremaine headed out west to join back up with his childhood friend Adam, now more popularly known as Spike, who was working as a photographer for the BMX magazine Freestylin’ along with art director Andy Jenkins and editor Mark Lewman. Soon after Jenkins quit in ’89, Tremaine slid into the layout jockey position on Go, the soon to be dead end result of a collision between Freestylin’ and BMX Action.
When the BMX industry took a shit akin to something that might’ve fallen out of King Kong’s ass, Tremaine briefly waffled over to a snowboard magazine in 1992 before hired on as the art/editorial director for Big Brother, a fledgling skateboard rag that had gotten off on the altogether wrong foot with its first issue. In time, however, his leadership took Big Brother to new and exciting levels of distribution, notoriety, and an all-encompassing sense of stupidity not normally tolerated in any industry (excepting Hollywood now).
It’s no big secret what happened past this point in the life of Jeffrey James Tremaine. In addition to helming the Jackass franchise, Tremaine has served as Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Wildboyz; Executive Producer and Co-Creator on Rob and Big; and director on music videos for Turbonegro, Andrew WK, and The Sahara Hot Nights.
Recently, Tremaine served as Executive Producer on two new show’s for MTV that aired in Spring ‘09: Nitro Circus, following professional motocross racer Travis Pastrana and his buddies, and Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory, featuring Rob Dyrdek as he runs his business empire in a fantasy factory filled with surprises.
In addition, Tremaine also produced the critically acclaimed documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia and directed Birth of Big Air about famed BMX biker Matt Hoffman.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE
Johnny Knoxville, who rapidly gained fame as the creator and star of the controversial MTV reality series “Jackass,” is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents.
Johnny starred in and produced both box-office hits, Jackass and Jackass Two. He has also been seen in The Ringer for the Farrelly Brothers opposite Catherine Heigel, and starred as Luke Duke in Warner Bros hit Dukes of Hazaard with Seann William Scott. Before that he was seen in The Lords of Dogtown directed by Catherine Hardwicke and co-starring Heath Ledger and Emile Hirsch. Prior to Lords of Dogtown, Knoxville starred in a wide variety of films including the John Waters ensemble comedy, A Dirty Shame with Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak and Selma Blair. He was also seen in MGM’s box-office hit Walking Tall, starring opposite the Rock, as well as Barry Sonnenfeld’s sequel Men In Black 2.
Johnny and his Dickhouse Production partners, Jeff Tremaine and Spike Jonze have produced shows for MTV including Nitro Circus, Rob and Big, and The Dudesons. He also produced the critically acclaimed documentaries The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia and Birth of Big Air about famed BMX biker Matt Hoffman. Coming up next, Knoxville will star in the upcoming third installment of the Jackass franchise, Jackass 3-D, which will be released on October 15, 2010.
Currently, Knoxville and his cousin Roger Alan Wade host a Sirius Radio Show on Channel 65 called “Me and Rog”. Knoxville’s show airs Saturdays at 8pm ET.
Born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, Johnny became interested in acting at an early age. At the age of 18, he moved to California to pursue his acting career and supported himself through appearing in commercials, and occasionally writing for magazines such as Blunt, Bikini, and Big Brother. In 1997, Knoxville pitched his idea for “Jackass” to Jeff Tremaine of Big Brother Magazine, and thus began his acting career.
Koxville currently lives in Los Angeles.
STEVE-O
Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) has become a household name and it all started when he snatched a video camera from his father’s closet when he was fifteen years old. From there he started producing homemade skateboarding videos featuring dangerous stunts mixed with comical behavior.
He was born in London and by the age of twelve, had lived in five countries and communicated fluently in three different languages. He holds citizenship in three countries - the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
After finishing high school in London, and completing a year at the University of Miami, Steve-O realized that college wasn’t for him. He enrolled in Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College to help further his goal of becoming a professional stuntman. After graduating Clown College, and determined to make it in Hollywood, he began to pitch his home videos to producers.
Eventually, Steve-O’s videos made it into the hands of Jeff Tremaine (Jackass Creator/Director/Producer) who was working with Johnny Knoxville to create a stunt based reality show. The rest is history. MTV aired the first season of JACKASS in 2000. In 2001, Steve-O launched his own “Steve-O Don’t Try This At Home Tour”, establishing himself as an accomplished stage performer, at venues throughout the U.S. and in a dozen countries.
When the JACKASS TV series ended in 2002, the team moved on to JACKASS: THE MOVIE, released by Paramount in October of that year. Shortly thereafter, Steve-O and fellow JACKASS alum, Chris Pontius, were given a spin-off show entitled WILDBOYZ, which aired on MTV and MTV2 and lasted four seasons. In 2006, Paramount released JACKASS: NUMBER 2 in theatres and Steve-O continued to thrill audiences with his outrageous stunts.
In 2009 he competed on ABC’s hit show, DANCING WITH THE STARS, and lasted six weeks, despite an injury and having virtually no dancing ability whatsoever.
Next up, Steve-O can be seen in Paramount’s release of JACKASS: 3D, which hits theatres on October 15, 2010. Thus far (and still counting), his career as a performer has brought him to a total of 38 countries.
Most importantly, however, Steve-O has been clean and sober since March of 2008 and lives a healthy, vegan lifestyle in the Los Angeles area...but he still has no problem stapling his balls to his leg.
JASON “WEE MAN” ACUNA
Anyone who has ever been around this pint-size borracho will gladly attest to Jason "Wee Man" Acuna's popular one time slogan, "Little Man Big Mouth."
An unlikely European product...conceived in Germany and born in Italy...WeeMan was exported to the USA when he was just three-months out of the birthcanal. On American soil, he soon evolved into a trouble making little bastard and took to pushing a skateboard around the South Bay of Los Angeles. Wee Man first came to public light in 1993, when he was prominently featured in a Big Brother article spotlighting “wee” skateboarders (well, just two really, the other being Pancho Moler).
Soon thereafter he was sponsored by Bitch Skateboards, a fast and furious nightmare from which certain video tapes remain missing to this day, but his real big break came in 1995 when he was painted blue and told to go run around the streets of Hollywood for Shit, the first Big Brother skateboard video(the box cover of which he was subsequently featured).
Wee Man became a staple ingredient of the Big Brother world and routinely popped in and out of the magazine over the next several years (as a “french benefit” of his involvement with the staff, he is one of the few people on the faceof the earth who can honestly say they have gone to Disneyland with the band Slayer and lived in the same house with Rick Kosick).
After years of being badgered by the mag’s former art director Jeff Tremaine, Wee Man finally submitted to skating around in a Oompa Loompa costume
for the jackass pilot in early 2000, an act that ultimately sealed his celebrity fate and added a trademark to his name.
A little person for all ridiculous occasions, Wee Man has the luxury of ideas being specifically written for him that are tailored to his unique size and talents. This can be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, he doesn’t have to do shit other than just show up and shoot; on the other, this can mean hopping out of a van and immediately being shoved into a bullring with a pint-sized matador outfit.
In addition to his appearances on jackass, Wee Man collaborated on a home video project entitled American Misfits, survived several tours of duty with Steve-O on the stage show circuit, briefly hosted 54321 on Fox, and appeared alongside Snoop Dogg in a T-Mobile commercial campaign, which is almost as good as going to Disneyland with Slayer but not quite. He also hitched a few rides with the Wildboyz, where he drank cow blood in Kenya and went deep behind-the-transgender-scenes in Thailand.
Wee Man’s other credits include TV: The Movie, The Grind, Death to the Supermodels, and the storybook narration for The Man Who Souled the World, a documentary on Steve Rocco and his formerly evil skateboard empire, WorldIndustries. Also "The Same" a silent film. http://www.iamweeman.com/
BAM MARGERA
Bam first broke onto the national scene as a 13-year-old pro-skater known for his creative street style and wild antics. As a teenager, he created the CKY video series, which featured skating, pranks and stunts -- all filmed in his hometown of West Chester, Pa. The combination of Bam’s unique on-screen personality and the tremendous grassroots success of the CKY video series became the platform for MTV’s Jackass and the highly successful theatrical releases Jackass: The Movie and Jackass Number Two. Bam then went on to star in MTV’s Viva La Bam and Bam’s Unholy Union which he also produced and directed.
In addition to Bam’s television and film projects, he continues to be heavily involved in the music industry through his work directing music videos, his show “Radio Bam” on Sirius Satellite Radio and his “Viva La Bands” CD/DVD series and tour. A tribute to his athlete superstardom, Bam’s merchandise is one of the best selling signature series in action sports. In late 2009, Bam also released a book entitled “Serious as Dog Dirt”.
Upcoming projects for Bam include the release of Jackass 3-D in October, 2010. On television, Bam’s new half-hour television special Bam’s World Domination premieres on Spike TV on Wednesday, October 13th. The special showcases Bam and his friends Ryan Dunn and Tim O’Connor’s attempt to compete in the infamous “Tough Guy Challenge” outside of London, England.
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