Jackass [Paperback]

Sean Cliver (Author), Sean Clive (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2002

The outrageous companion to MTV & Channel 4's phenomenally popular and controversial show, the Jackass book will be a complete retrospective of the Jackass experience, all the way from the pilot episode to the upcoming major motion film, with treatments of classic skits, pranks and stunts, tons of photos, contributions from the cast, including Johnny Knoxville, biographies on everyone involved and much, much more.

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About the Author

SEAN CLIVER, an off-screen Jackass cohort who has been with the crew since before the series began, is the group's documentarian, taking hundreds of photographs of Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, et al., and recording the group's every move. He's also one of the founding members of the seminal skateboarding magazine BIG BROTHER.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: MTV Books; Original edition (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743431111
• ISBN-13: 978-0743431118
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two For Flinching, October 31, 2002

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Corn on The Cop Shades (Eugene, Oregon, USA 97405) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jackass (Paperback)

What a movie. What a show. This book continues the legacy of legendary Jackass lunacy in a safe and easy-to-use print format. It is a juicy documentation of the cast, crew and creative supernovas in action during the whirlwind production of the cinematic event, which you have no doubt recently seen and loved and laughed at.

Written by Sean Cliver ..., all the carnage, pain and carefully orchestrated stupidity has been observed, noted, and preserved for the proverbial record. Fans of Big Brother magazine will instantly recognize Sean's dry humor and arch wit (because Cliver was a crucial component at B.B. for years).

And yet, who needs words when there are also mountains of amazing photographs to gape at in slack-jawed wonder? The shots border on stunning artistic statements of composition and form, and do a fine job of capturing the definitive moments and characters of the J to the A to C to the K to the A to the S to the S.

In the future, this book will be used as a tool in which those studying entertainment history will have a porthole into that pivotal day in anti-Hollywood, when subversive elements stormed the gates, plundered pop culture, and left it smoking in the gutter.

Or maybe it will just be a thing that the Steve-O fans of the world describe as, "bro, this thing so rad, dude."

If you are inspired by the show and/or film in any way, you definitely want to own a copy of this book.

Enjoy.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Behind the scenes, jackass..., November 3, 2002

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Lisa (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jackass (Paperback)

I was so impressed by this book! Not for the sheer fact that there was a book written about the best TV show/movie in the country, but the fact it was full of pure literary genius. The masses generally think the Jackass crew is chock full of brain-depleted imbeciles who enjoy breaking bones and shreek with joy at the first sight of blood. But what they fail to remember is these guys were writers first (that's "Big Brother" magazine for those who have a hard time keeping up), then jackasses. This book is full of literary analogies. Keep a dictionary handy--you'll need it to look up all those hard words you didn't think the Jackasses knew (and neither do you, for that matter). Buy this book! It's a great behind-the-scenes book for the movie. And if you're like me, you want to know the details.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Behind the scenes, jackass..., November 3, 2002

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Lisa (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jackass (Paperback)

I was so impressed by this book! Not for the sheer fact that there was a book written about the best TV show/movie in the country, but the fact it was full of pure literary genius. The masses generally think the Jackass crew is chock full of brain-depleted imbeciles who enjoy breaking bones and shreek with joy at the first sight of blood. But what they fail to remember is these guys were writers first (that's "Big Brother" magazine for those who have a hard time keeping up), then jackasses. This book is full of literary analogies. Keep a dictionary handy--you'll need it to look up all those hard words you didn't think the Jackasses knew (and neither do you, for that matter). Buy this book! It's a great behind-the-scenes book for the movie. And if you're like me, you want to know the details.