Jackass

Jackass is a TV show, originally shown on MTV and first produced in 1999 in which a group of men do various silly and/or dangerous stunts for fun. Its popularity led to a full-length movie version (essentially the same as the TV show, but for much longer and with less censoring). Its target audience is mainly boys, especially teens.

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 Margera
Ehren McGhehey
Phil and April Margera - Bam's parents and, more often than not, stunt victims.

Some of the sketches featured on the show are:

Plunger Wake Up (Bam Margera, Phil Margera) - Bam silently goes into the room where his father, Phil, is sleeping, carefully places a stereo on Phil's bed, and turns it on at full blast. When Phil wakes up, startled, Bam bangs on a pot and uses a plunger on Phil's face.
Beard of Leeches (Johnny Knoxville) - 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 (Dave England) - England goes down hills with rollerskates attached to his knees and a pair of wheels held in his hands.
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 people's meters is illegal.

Johnny Knoxville and others participated in the Gumball 3000 Britain to Russia and back rally for the show.

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.

The Smoking Gun, a Web site that contains documents of police reports and court documents, made public a suit by a man named "Jack Ass" who sued MTV and its parent company.

3 Fat Cunts are a couple of guys trying to make videos in Jackass style.

"Jack-Ass" is the title of a track from Beck's 1996 album Odelay.

Jackass is another word for donkey - literally a male donkey, since "ass" is an ancient term for donkey, while "jack" is a term for a male donkey, with "jenny" the term for female.