Jeff Tremaine

In 1992, Jeff was hired as the art/editorial director on a new and struggling skateboard magazine called Big Brother.

In time, his leadership and creativity took Big Brother to new and exciting levels of distribution and notoriety.

During his time at the magazine, Jeff met and became involved with several of the individuals associated with Jackass, most notably freelance writer/stunt dummy Johnny Knoxville.

Through their collaborations on the Big Brother video series, Jeff and Johnny thought it would be funny to make a run at the television industry with their absurd ideas, so they enlisted the aid of longtime friend Spike Jonze.

After a year and a half of producing Jackass for MTV, the trio returned to the network's executive offices, this time pitching an idea for a major motion picture based on expanding the already ridiculous Jackass concept.

Nobody expected the joke would actually make it this far.