Beauty Day

Ralph Zavadil's cable access show, The Cap'n Video Show, ran from 1990 to 1995, building a small but devoted cult following. Every week, he performed a string of idiotic, occasionally dangerous stunts, testing the patience of his small Southern Ontario audience.

The internet was years away, reality television further still, and Zavadil's particular brand of gross-out stunt comedy was ahead of its time. All it took to finally get noticed was a broken neck.