If all the world is a stage, then Jeff Tremaine, co-creator of MTV’s Jackass, is the greatest puppeteer of the 21st century.

Tremaine, the eternal instigator, manipulated a rag tag cast of half-assed stuntmen and merry pranksters into silver-screened self-mutilation, accidentally sparking a cultural revolution mislead everyone with a camera (and later cellphone) to believing they, too, could be a celebrity. Groundbreaking as was to the mainstream to see a bunch of average Joes fucking themselves up on the regular, the Jackass brand of buffoonery was nothing new to the skateboard world — it had been going on for nearlya decade before Jackass first aired in 2000. During his tenure as Editorial Director of Big Brother in the 90s, Tremaineassembled his own personal Howard... Read More