After the cactus video brought him even more notoriety, Holmes and his friends landed their very own MTV prank and stunt show called "Too Stupid to Die." For an Indiana kid who grew up watching "Jackass" on MTV, this was a dream come true.
On "Too Stupid to Die," Holmes' performed a variety of stunts that would be right at home in a "Jackass" movie. He snapped a rat trap on his nose. He inserted a metal screw into his earlobe with a power drill. He shot himself in the face with two stun guns. He also shot himself in the face with a paintball gun, knocking out a tooth. In one particularly memorable stunt, Holmes straddled a teeter totter, while his friends pushed a washing machine off the roof of a barn onto the other end of the plank, driving it into his groin (via The Chicago Tribune).
In his career, Holmes has sustained multiple concussions, sprains, lost teeth, and broken bones. In the end, it was all worth it. As Holmes put it, "Pain is temporary, but videos are forever" (via High Times).
