| Dirty Sanchez | |
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 Series 1title card | |
| Genre | Comedy Reality television Stunt show Toilet humor Shock humour Physical comedy Slapstick |
| Created by | Lee Dainton Mathew Pritchard |
| Directed by | Becky Staniforth (series 1) Jim Hickey (series 2-4) |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 29 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Sean Murphy (series 2-4) Becky Staniforth (series 2) |
| Producers | Jake Cardew Becky Staniforth (series 1) Jim Hickey (series 2-4) |
| Production locations | United Kingdom Val-d'Isère,Savoie, France Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Oslo, Norway Sweden Berlin, Germany Prague, Czech Republic Greece Milan,Lombardy, Italy Spain |
| Cinematography | Martin J. Roach (series 2-4) |
| Editors | Michael Green (series 1-3) John Carozzi (series 4) |
| Camera setup | Single |
| Running time | 22–30 minutes |
| Production company | MTV Networks Europe |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV (UK and Ireland) |
| Release | 2 July 2003 (2003-07-02) – 2007 (2007) |
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Dirty Sanchez is a Britishstunt andprank television series featuring a group of threeWelshmen and oneEnglishman harming themselves, and each other, through dangerous stunts, which ran from 2003 until 2007. It was known asSanchez Boys andTeam Sanchez in the United States. The performers are the WelshmenMathew Pritchard,Lee Dainton,Michael "Pancho" Locke and the EnglishmanDan Joyce and was originally based inNewport, Wales, but later series of the show took place elsewhere in the United Kingdom and the world. Pritchard and Locke also starred as the "Pain Men" inChannel 4'sBalls of Steel. The series is similar to the American seriesJackass and the Finnish seriesThe Dudesons. The show aired onMTV UK in the United Kingdom and onMTV2 in the United States.
Dirty Sanchez consists of three Welshmen namedMathew Pritchard,Lee Dainton, andMichael "Pancho" Locke, and one EnglishmanDan Joyce. Pritchard and Dainton became close friends after being in a skateteam together. Dainton bought avideo camera and started filming skate videos with Pritchard. They also participated in various skateboarding competitions where they met Pancho. They met Dan after Dainton saw him onThe Vanessa Show. Dainton then drove toPlymouth to film with Dan for a video he was making. The 4 became close friends and started filming stunts and pranks together for around 18 months. Dainton decided to make aDVD out of it titledPritchard vs Dainton, which came out on 23 May 2001. It was the most popular skateboarding DVD in the United Kingdom. After the executives atMTV UK saw the DVD, they wanted to make a TV show out of it. The original plan for the TV show was that Pritchard, Dainton, Pancho, and Dan traveled through the UK to find "the most fucked up people". The Sanchez Boys did not like that idea, but the executives were only interested in the stunts and pranks rather than the skateboarding. The Sanchez Boys then agreed that they would be performing the stunts and pranks themselves. The first series aired in 2003, and became the most popular MTV UK series of all time. It was broadcast in over 64 countries to over 400 million people in total.
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Series one featured eight episodes and focused on each of the Sanchez members. Each episode would have them, friends and family talking about each of the Sanchez members on a certain topic the episode is about, with stunts performed in between each part of the interviews. The last episode had apsychiatrist review each of the Sanchez members behavior throughout the series.
The first series received mixed reactions. Some people called it a lackluster imitation of the American showJackass; others complained that it pushed the boundaries of taste too far due to the extreme stunts and strong profanity, as well as full-frontal male nudity. The boys are praised by others for their fun-lovinghedonism and courage in their dangerous stunts. One review claims "They make Jackass look like the Royal Shakespeare Company", and also on the cover of theDirty Sanchez: The Movie DVD, there is a similar quote byMAXIM saying "Makes Jackass Look Like The Teletubbies."
The second series also featured eight episodes but focused on the Sanchez members trying out different jobs for one week. The first episode had them working in a hair salon. The second episode had them working on a construction site. The third episode had them train to perform a martial arts show. The fourth episode had them train to beRoyal Marines. The fifth episode had them train to be airport fire fighters and the sixth episode had them train to be cowboys. Episodes seven and eight were aBehind the... andBest of... the series. The series became the biggest hit in MTV UK history and is still the only MTV UK series to be broadcast in the United States.[citation needed]
The third series featured six episodes and focused on the Sanchez members touring six countries to perform six live shows with their tour manager, Johnny B, in Europe. The tour began in Sweden, then to Germany, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy and finished in Spain.
The fourth series featured seven episodes that went behind the scenes of the movie and showed the boys reactions to each sin that they had to perform in each of the countries.
The first spin-off series, calledMTV Wrecked, was hosted by Pritchard and Dainton, which saw them get two contestants to do Dirty Sanchez styled stunts in order to crown a winner. The series would feature eight episodes.[citation needed]
The second spin-off series once again only featured Pritchard and Dainton. The series followed them looking for the ultimate 'highs' in Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, Cambodia, South Africa, India and Japan. They did painful stunts in order to get a 'buzz', they did naked skydiving, hadpainful tattoos to fit in with Filipino tribes, and tasted old remedies and substances such asayahuasca andpsilocybin mushrooms which are used in some countries to experience an alerted state of consciousness which in high enough dosages can lead to powerfulhallucinations and a state ofeuphoria. This series also had eight episodes.
At the 2004 and 2005Carling weekend at theReading and Leeds festivals, the Dirty Sanchez team performed a variety of stunts live onstage at the cabaret tent, including attacking their legs with a meat tenderiser, being dragged across a sandpapered stage on bare buttocks, and smoking abong filled with their own urine and pubic hair instead of water and marijuana. They also appeared at the Leeds leg of the festival in 2006.
On 1 June 2007,Dirty Sanchez confirmed a full stage show with DJ at Reading Festival 2007. They also performed live in the summer of 2007 every Monday at Bar M inIbiza.
In 2009, Dirty Sanchez toured Australia withThe Dudesons during theSoundwave Festival.
All four of the boys did one final show together in 2010. However, Lee Dainton and Mathew Pritchard continued doing live shows calledPritchard vs Dainton. The last everPrichard vs Dainton live show was in 2015.
On 12 December 2019, the boys reunited inTramshed, Cardiff for the first time in over a decade. Instead of doing stunts, the boys showedDirty Sanchez: The Movie to a live audience followed by a Q&A.
| Dirty Sanchez: The Movie | |
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 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Jim Hickey |
| Based on | Dirty Sanchez by |
| Produced by | Bobby Allen Rupert Preston |
| Starring | Mathew Pritchard Lee Dainton Michael "Pancho" Locke Dan Joyce |
| Narrated by | Howard Marks (warning only) |
| Cinematography | Martin J. Roach |
| Edited by | James W. Herbert |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Pathé Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £1,208,708[3] |
Dirty Sanchez: The Movie, arealitycomedy film based upon the series, was released on 22 September 2006. It is in the format of a world tour[4] and incorporates stunts related to theseven deadly sins. Stunts are on a larger scale and more extreme than stunts shown in the TV show.The film also features the first cross over battle between two stunt groups. In their tour of Japan, the Dirty Sanchez team battles theTokyo Shock Boys to see who is more extreme. In the end the Tokyo Shock Boys refuse to do a live show withDirty Sanchez due to their disgusting antics.
The movie begins with the boys smashing a car through acaravan and they end up "dying" and going to hell, where they meet Satan (played byHoward Marks[5]), who tells them what they need to do to get their lives back.
The most notable stunts include: The boys walking on a grass field while trying to avoid the clay discs that are being fired at them byskeet shooters;Mathew Pritchard attempting to break the world record for most paintball hits to the body;Pancho gettingliposuction without anyanesthesia andDan Joyce drinking the fat later; Pritchard having the tip of hislittle finger chopped off; andLee Dainton slamming hisforehead ondrawing pins.
The movie ends with Satan being pleased by the boys' efforts for the seven sins and allows them to live but asks if there is anything else they want to admit. Pritchard admits that he has tricked Pancho by puttingImmac on his eyebrows which made them fall out. Pancho becomes enraged and storms out of the set and threatens to kill or injure the film crew. Pancho storms outside and waits for a bus while stating that he feels like a "spaz". It ends with a montage of deleted stunts being played during the credits and Dainton revealing what the "Sleep When You're Dead" tattoo really means, which leaves Pritchard in anger. Some of the deleted stunts are fully shown in series 4.
The DVD ofDirty Sanchez: The Movie was released on 22 January 2007 byPathé's home video distributor20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The movie premiered on television on MTV at 10:30pm on 5 August 2007. Many of the scenes and stunts were cut short or not shown due to censorship reasons.[citation needed]TMF broadcast the movie later that month.
The movie premiered at the 2007Tribeca Film Festival. Described as Jackass on crack, the film is about "wicked nasty stunts such as liposuction drinking games, beer enema shotguns, things that shouldn't be done with male genitalia, and more...."[6]
The film was released on DVD in North America on 11 September 2007 byDimension Extreme andAlliance Atlantis. The film was also released onBlockbuster. When the film was released in the United States onBlockbuster, it made £4,000,000 butHarvey Weinstein bought the film because he didn't want to have any competition withJackass. "He bought the movie only to hide it", Mathew Pritchard said.[7]
CriticPeter Bradshaw ofThe Guardian gives the film a score of 3 out of 5. He admits the film is not in good taste but describes it as a film "you feel guilty and ashamed for enjoying" and jokes "for sheer self-destructive lunacy they might deserve an award".[8]
OnRotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 40% based on reviews from 5 critics, with an average rating of 4.5/10.[9]
The film was shot in chronological order and was only theatrically released in the United Kingdom, it was also released on the exact same date asJackass Number Two. The boys got kicked out of half of the visited countries because of their mischiefs. Mathew Pritchard reportedly never wanted to meet theJackass cast. Dan Joyce was originally supposed to receive breast implants on one side of his chest; this was later changed to Pancho getting a liposuction because the healing time for Dan would be too long. The boxing match between Lee Dainton and Pritchard actually went on for 4 rounds, but it was edited to only 1 round just to mess with Pritchard, the full fight is shown in series 4. The original plan was for Pritchard to chop off a whole entire half of his right little finger, until MTV stepped in and prevented this from happening; it was later changed to just the tip.
On 4 August 2021 Mathew Pritchard was invited to Matt Stocks'podcast. At the very end of the podcast, Pritchard stated that a sequel toDirty Sanchez: The Movie was planned and funded, but MTV never let filming happen. "If MTV did let it happen, I was gonna be having "I love Dainton" lasered off my knob, and have "I love Dainton" tattooed on my ringpiece," Pritchard said.[10] This sequel was reportedly planned to be a3D film after the huge success ofJackass 3D (2010).
Pritchard and Dainton – The Rise and Falls is a 2014 documentary based on the series, directed and produced by Jim Hickey, and Lee Dainton.[11] It details the series' ten-year history, including interviews with the team and never-before seen footage from various episodes. Originally scheduled for release in March 2014, it was in production for roughly six months but was restrained by MTV, who owned the rights to the series' footage.[12] Pritchard and Dainton started acrowdfund onKickstarter for £10,000 on 5 February 2014 to purchase the rights. Within two days the target was reached.
The documentary premiered inBrynmawr in July 2014,[13] and was released on DVD later that year.[14][15] It is narrated by Howard Marks, who had a brief appearance in the Dirty Sanchez movie as Satan.
Mathew vs Pritchard is a short documentary based on Mathew Pritchard's life.[16] This documentary features the story of Pritchard from a daredevil with his own TV show, to a healthy triathlon athlete with his own vegan cooking show. He also tells howDirty Sanchez started from his perspective, with old and never-before-seen footage playing throughout the documentary. Lee Dainton also makes a brief appearance in this documentary.
The Sanchez Story is aweb series available on the officialDirty Sanchez website.[17] It is hosted by Matt Stocks and has been in the works for four years. It marks the first time in over a decade that all four Sanchez boys have appeared on camera together. The boys, along with Matt Stocks, meet up at Mathew Pritchard'sSleep When You're Dead barber and tattoo shop in Cardiff to discuss the history and behind-the-scenes stories of theDirty Sanchez TV show, movie and live shows. "We were planning a fullDirty Sanchez reunion tour this year, butCOVID-19 had other plans so we bring you this exclusive video series instead," Matt Stocks said. This series has released two volumes so far.
Front and Rear End:
Jobs for the Boyos:
European Invasion:
Dirty Sanchez the Movie:
This is the track listing from the Soundtrack CD
Sanchez Get High – Pritchard 'V' Dainton:
