Joe Dirt

About Joe Dirt

Joe Dirt is a 2001 comedy film starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Erik Per Sullivan, Adam Beach and Kid Rock. The film was written by David Spade and Fred Wolf.

This episodic film revolves around white trash classic rock fan Joe Dirt (David Spade) in search of his lost family. Dirt, works as a janitor at a Los Angeles radio-station and lives in a boiler room. He is discovered by disc jockey Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller) and recounts his life-story on the air.

Joe Dirt's stories, all of them outrageous, include being born without skin covering top of his skull resulting in his mother covering it with a mullet wig which he had kept ever since; being abandoned by his parents at the Grand Canyon when he was 8; befriending a meteor (which turns out to be a frozen chunk of human faeces); and settling into a family relationship with a beautiful girl named Brandy, her alcoholic father and her faithful dog Charlie. His story continues with his meeting a self-confessed murderer who sells him a car for the price of what he has in his pocket; getting a job as a roustabout; hiring an incompetent Native American fireworks salesman (Adam Beach) as a tracker; working with a travelling carnival; being held captive by serial killer "Buffalo Bob" (in a scene parodying Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs); befriending a strange school janitor named Clem (later Gert B. Frobe) (Christopher Walken) on a witness re-location program in Louisiana; and getting a job as an alligator baiter.