Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo
The Jackass takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career.
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Citizen Pain
Zacharias Holmes grew up idolizing the anarchy of ‘Jackass.’ Then he took his idols’ vision of chaos to a whole other level. This is the story of Zackass, the Most Self-Destructive Man in America.
The Kids Of Ferguson Rise Up
With the suburb’s teens a year after the death of Michael Brown.
Cheeky Genius
A profile of Nicki Minaj.
Disrupters, Disconnectionists, and Dicks
On the host of MTV’s Catfish and his new book.
‘And I Cannot Lie’
An oral history of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back.’
Tom Freston, Runaway Mogul
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
I Want My MTV
An excerpt from a new oral history of MTV.
The Eternal Adolescence of Beavis and Butt-Head
A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.
Birth of an MTV Nation
An oral history.
Tom Freston: We knew we needed a real signature piece that would look different from everything else on TV. We also knew that we had no money. So we went to NASA and got the man-on-the-moon footage, which is public domain. We put our logo on the flag and some music under it. We thought that was sort of a rock ’n’ roll attitude: “Let’s take man’s greatest moment technologically, and rip it off.”
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Islam’s Answer to MTV
A new Egyptian TV channel called 4Shbab—“for youth” in Arabic—aims to get young people interested in Islam through music videos and reality shows.
