Influence
Various groups have created shows based on or similar to Jackass. These include:
- Extreme Duudsonit aka The Dudesons (which also started airing at 2000, although they had been filming their stunts ever since 1990s)
- Dirty Sanchez aka Team Sanchez
- Nitro Circus
- Tokyo Shock Boys
- Crazy Monkey
- Rad Girls
- Janoskians (Australian comedy group who gained popularity from YouTube)
- Les 11 commandements (The 11 Commandments)
- Mega64
- N.O.I.A. (Brazil based Jackass)
- AF (South African based Jackass)
- Dickstroyers (Spain)
- Das Mafia (Canada)
Jackass-type behavior has also been depicted and used as plot devices on multiple other television shows - an example of which is episode 19 of season 3 of CSI: Vegas, in which one of a group of teenagers is shot and killed while performing (and filming) a stunt.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts: every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)
“If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.”
—Derek Wall (b. 1965)