CKY (film series)

CKY (video series)
The covers for the original four releases: CKY, CKY2K, CKY3, and CKY4
Directed byBam Margera
Joe Frantz
Ryan Gee
Brandon DiCamillo
Written byBam Margera
Brandon DiCamillo
Produced byBam Margera
Joe Frantz
StarringBam Margera
Brandon DiCamillo
Ryan Dunn
Chris Raab
Rake Yohn
Jess Margera
Brandon Novak
Narrated byBrandon DiCamillo
CinematographyJoe Frantz
Edited byBam Margera
Joe Frantz
Music byCKY
Production
company
Bam Margera Productions
Distributed byLandspeed
Ventura Distribution
SLAM! Films
Revolver Entertainment
Release date
1999–2002
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The CKY video series is a series of videos produced by Bam Margera and Brandon DiCamillo and other residents of West Chester, Pennsylvania. "CKY" stands for "Camp Kill Yourself".[1] The series was part of the basis for what eventually became Jackass.

Four videos were released, Landspeed presents: CKY (later called CKY), CKY2K, CKY3, and CKY4: The Latest & Greatest. There is also a CKY documentary DVD, which is a supplemental item in the CKY Box Set, as well as two CKY Trilogy sets, both of which are compilation DVDs featuring scenes from the previous CKY DVDs. The videos were named after Bam Margera's brother Jess and his band CKY.

The videos feature Bam Margera, Brandon DiCamillo, their friends, and Margera's relatives performing various stunts and pranks, interspersed with skate footage of Margera and other professional skateboarders.[2] A trademark of the skating footage was to show unsuccessful trick attempts immediately followed by the same skater pulling the trick off. CKY started when Margera and his friends were in the same graphics arts class at school in West Chester, Pennsylvania. During class, they would go out to a field and film skits, eventually being compiled into the CKY series. In a 2002 interview, Margera said that more than 400,000 copies of the series have been sold.[3]

In 2018, producer Joe Frantz confirmed that he had begun remastering all four videos for HD release. They were released in 2019 on the now-defunct streaming service DCTV.[4]

  1. ^ Higgins, Matt (July 17, 2005). "BackTalk: QUESTIONS FOR BAM MARGERA; On the Air, And in the Air". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
  2. ^ "Bam Margera, 21, making the leap to fame". Tribune News Service. July 19, 2001. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
  3. ^ "Bam Margera interview from 2002 at the Jackass: The movie premiere". Archived from the original on December 22, 2021.
  4. ^ DCTV CKY PROMO, archived from the original on December 22, 2021, retrieved September 1, 2021