The Dudesons

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The Dudesons are a group of men from Seinäjoki, Finland, with a Finnish television show now also being shown on Spike TV in the United States and channel V in Australia. They perform varyingly deranged and dangerous stunts on the show, much like the American show Jackass on MTV (which had not yet aired when the first set of Extreme Duudsonit episodes were recorded in 2000). The group consists of childhood friends Jukka Hilden (born in 1980), Jarno "Jarppi"/"Jarno2" Leppälä (born in 1979), Hannu-Pekka "HP" Parviainen (born in 1981) and Jarno "Jarno1" Laasala (born in 1979). Laasala bought a video camera in 1993 and started shooting partying, extreme snowboarding and extreme downhill cycling videos. In 1999 he moved to Helsinki to study at the University of Helsinki where he stayed for a half year, then started working at the television station MoonTV as a cameraman and editor. It was while working at MoonTV that he got the idea to make his own television show, and Extreme Duudsonit was born. The group's stunts have included human dartboards, waking each other up by hitting each other in the genitals with baseball bats, indoor bonfires, driving while blindfolded, and snowboarding down stairwells. They have broken numerous bones and been severely injured several times. The first episode of Extreme Duudsonit was aired on MoonTV on January 25, 2001. The episodes were presented as world tours in such famous places as Las Vegas and Mount Everest, though it was obvious the stunts

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