Dave Carnie

David Ross Carnie, known as Dave Carnie, is an American writer, magazine editor and skateboarder, born on 14 December 1969, and the former editor-in-chief of Big Brother magazine. He writes freelance and has had articles published in Rolling Stone, Hustler, The Skateboard Mag, Snowboard Magazine and Bizarre, and helped co-write a couple of short films with Spike Jonze, whom he met through fellow Big Brother editor Jeff Tremaine. Through his work on the Big Brother videos he was one of the original creators of the television show Jackass and has appeared in many of its episodes, as well as making a guest appearance in Jackass 3.5. At Big Brother he is credited with launching the careers of Jackass stars including Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Chris Pontius.