I've got mixed feelings on Tom Green, but Jackass is unwatchable.

Tom Green was getting started around what, '93? I remember he first started to really blow up when I was in high school, and I graduated in the spring of '96

The Arlington Road Crew was doing some of these things 5 years before CKY ever even existed, but those cable access tapes have been lost and mostly forgotten.

Unwatchable? Some of it is terrible, and all of it retarded, but if you don't crack a smile at a midget under a giant traffic cone then I don't know

I'll admit I haven't seen enough of it to say none of the pranks are good, but the people doing them and the style in which they're presented is all just impenetrably awful. I'm sure some of the actual stuff they do is funny if you can look past that, but I haven't yet.

have you seen his canadian broadcast stuff? fuck cky2k

The Canadian stuff is the good stuff.

he had a couple of years where he did some really funny, innovative comedy bits

then his awful personality intervened