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Jackass


Jackass was an American television series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks. The show served as a launchpad for the television and acting careers of Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera. Since 2002, two Jackass theatrical films have been produced and released by Paramount Pictures, continuing the franchise after its run on television.The show developed from Big Brother Magazine, a skateboarding-related humor magazine that Jeff Tremaine, Dave Carnie, Rick Kosick and Chris Pontius all worked for, and featured regular contributions from Johnny Knoxville and Dave England, amongst others. The genesis of Jackass dates back to 1999 when struggling-actor-turned-writer Johnny Knoxville birthed the idea to test different self defense devices on himself as the basis for an article. He pitched the idea to a couple of magazines and was turned down until meeting with Jeff Tremaine of Big Brother. Jeff hired him as journalist and convinced Johnny to videotape this idea and other stunts for stories. The footage, which involved Knoxville being tasered, maced, and ultimately shot while wearing a bulletproof vest, appeared in the second Big Brother skateboarding movie Number Two. Johnny quickly became a hit
Robbie Williams


Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on February 13, 1974) is an English singer-songwriter. His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career. Since then, Robbie Williams has sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo artist in history. His album sales stand at nearly 50 million worldwide and has sold approximately 15 million singles around the world. This brings his total sales to nearly 65 million records. In the UK alone he has sold nearly 5.5 million singles and about three times that many albums. He appears in the list of the all-time Top 100 biggest selling albums in the UK six times, more than any other person or group. He has had eight number 1 albums and six number 1 singles in the UK, and has been the recipient of many awards including more BRITs than anyone else
Richard Zven Kruspe


Richard was born in Wittenberge, East Germany. He has two older sisters and an older brother. His parents divorced when he was young. His mother remarried, but he did not get along with his stepfather. They moved to the village of Weisen when he was young.
As a child, Kruspe was a fan of KISS. According to him, KISS "represented capitalism in its purest sense, and every child was KISS-infected because they were so big. Kids wrote KISS on their notebooks, and if the teachers saw it, they could get kicked out of school just for having it written on their books." When he was twelve, he had a KISS poster in his room, but his stepfather tore it down and destroyed it, and Richard stayed up all night putting it back together.
House

House, also referred to as House, M.D., is an American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by film director Bryan Singer. The Emmy- and Peabody-award-winning medical drama debuted on November 16, 2004, on the FOX Network.
House stars English actor Hugh Laurie as the American title character, a role for which he received a 2006 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama. The third season of House premiered on September 5, 2006, in the UnRecurring characters
Stacy Warner (Sela Ward) – Dr. House's ex-girlfriend, with whom he used to live, and former lawyer for Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
Mark Warner (Currie Graham) – Stacy's husband.
Edward Vogler (Chi McBride) – Billionaire owner of a pharmaceutical firm and former board chairman of the hospital.
Brenda Previn (Stephanie Venditto) – Head Nurse
Michael Tritter (David Morse) – Police officer who bears malice against Dr. House in a third season story arc.
Coma Guy – Nameless character who House 'visits' for lunch, or to watch a TV show. Not to be confused with "Vegetative State Guy" Gabriel Wozniak (John Larroquette), who was awoken by House in an effort to get a better medical history for his son, Kyle Wozniak.
Steve McQueen – Dr. House's pet rat which he caught one day in Stacy's attic. ited States and Canada.Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Most episodes start with a cold open somewhere outside the hospital, showing the events leading to the onset of symptoms for that week's patient. The episode follows the team in their attempts to deduce the illness causing the patient's problems.
The team arrives at diagnoses using the Socratic Method, with House guiding the deliberations. House often ignores the information and opinions from his underlings, assuming it is irrelevant. The patient is usually misdiagnosed two or three times over the course of each episode, and treated with corresponding medications that cause further complications. Often the ailment cannot be easily deduced because the patient has lied about symptoms and circumstances - lied about having an affair that led to the mystery disease, about an underlying disorder that lead to the mystery disease, about jobs that lead to the mystery disease, and so on. As a result House frequently mutters, "Everybody lies," or proclaims during the team's deliberations, "The patient is lying." Even when he doesn't say so explicitly, House often operates under this assumption.
House's begrudging fulfillment of his mandatory walk-in clinic duty is a recurring subplot on the show. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with eccentric bedside manner and unorthodox treatments, but impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses after seemingly not paying attention; he often plays video games while patients talk to him, and in one episode House diagnoses multiple patients in the waiting room in under five minutes on his way out of the clinic. Some of the simpler problems House faces in the clinic often help him solve the main case of the episode - ironic, because he claims to hate working in the clinic.