Watch the trailer for 'BEAUTY DAY' , the Original Jackass Guy!

                                  

That's right peeps! Way before we got the cool culture shock from MTV and the guys from Jackass there was Ralph Zavadil, the star of The Cap’n Video Show on Canadian public access TV from 1990-1995. The Canadian basically brutalized his body for the audience’s amusement years earlier.

Filmmaker Jay Cheel has not only chronicled the rise, fall and cultural impact of Zavadil's The Cap’n Video Show, he was on the scene for the comeback. The film will premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their Canadian Front series next month.

Plot:

BEFORE THERE WAS JACKASS… BEFORE THERE WAS TOM GREEN THERE WAS RALPH ZAVADIL. His cable access television show, The Cap’n Video Show, ran from 1990 to 1995, spawning a small but loyal cult following. Each week Ralph performed a series of idiotic and occasionally dangerous stunts, challenging the sensibilities of his small Southern Ontario audience. With the advent of the internet and reality television still years away, his unique brand of gross-out stunt comedy was truly ahead of its time. All it took was a broken neck for him to get noticed.

The film is screening at MoMa in Manhattan on March 20 and 21. Click here for more info.

                      

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