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If you were allowed to bet on such things in Las Vegas, what do you think the odds would be that contributors to a skate skateboard-related humor magazine, a failed actor and a Florida clown would make a television series that would last three successful seasons and spawn even more successful films? We're guessing they would have been pretty high. Had you placed a bet prior to April of 2000, you would have cleaned up after the first season of "Jackass" aired on MTV.
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Johnny Knoxville
Then
Phillip Clapp (AKA Johnny Knoxville) left his hometown of Knoxville after high school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. After working as an extra and appearing in a few commercials, he pitched the idea of testing self-defense devices on himself to skateboarding magazine Big Brother.
Now

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He's a little beyond Dentyne Ice commercials now. He has starred in movies alongside actors such as Tommy Lee Jones, John Waters and The Rock. You can currently see him with a guy named Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Last Stand."
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