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Ron
Jeremy - The "HARDEST" Working
Man in Show Business
"I love Portland. Every
time I am there, I am struck by how accepting people are
of others’ sexual diversities. When we began to brainstorm
Club Sesso, I immediately wanted to have Portland as our
first location. I have enjoyed an amazing career solely due
to the fact I was allowed my sexual freedom. I want to give
other people the chance to enjoy their sexual freedom in
a high-energy nightclub environment that is upscale and fun."
 Nicknamed “The
Hedgehog” for his spherical hirsuteness; Ron was ranked
#1 on the AVN
Magazine “100 Top Porn Stars of All Time” list.
Jeremy has also appeared in non-pornographic films with studios
such as Troma
Entertainment.
A porn industry icon, Jeremy’s audience has always
identified with him because of his average looks and humble
personality. Jeremy has starred in over 1700 films, directed
250 and become porn’s biggest ambassador to the mainstream
over the last 20 years. He has appeared in 60
mainstream films, was a consultant on Boogie Nights and
9 1/2 Weeks, has appeared in 14 music videos, VH1’s
Surreal Life and starred in the critically acclaimed Pornstar:
The Legend of Ron Jeremy and Being
Ron Jeremy.
Film
Outside the adult film industry, Jeremy worked as a "special
consultant" for the 1986 film 9½ Weeks.[20] He
also worked as a consultant on the 1997 film Boogie
Nights – which chronicled the emergence of
the fictional porn star Dirk
Diggler (Mark
Wahlberg, loosely based on the life of porn star and
former co-worker of Jeremy's, John
Holmes) – and the film The
Chase, in which he has a small cameo as
a news cameraman. He also appeared in the 1999 film The
Boondock Saints, played a bartender in 2002's Spun,
and also acted in 2003's cult film Zombiegeddon.
He was an extra in Ghostbusters,[21] played
a male strip-club announcer in Detroit
Rock City, and had a cameo in the film Killing
Zoe and in the porn spoof, Orgazmo.
He has also appeared in a number of films released by Troma
Entertainment, such as Terror
Firmer The Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie and Poultrygeist.
He was also the subject of a feature-length biographical
documentary, Porn
Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy, released in 2001
and widely distributed on DVD by
mainstream retailers. Within that same year he is briefly
seen on the Heavy Metal Band Fear
Factory's DVD Digital
Connectivity. In 2003, Jeremy appeared as himself
in, and lent his name to, the comedy film Being
Ron Jeremy, a parody of Being
John Malkovich.Jeremy is a frequent interviewee
in documentaries about the porn industry, or related subjects
such as Fuck:
A Fuckumentary.
In 2007, he appeared in the comedy film Finishing
the Game as himself.
He also has a cameo in Crank:
High Voltage, playing himself as a protester angry
at the low salaries porn stars get. Jeremy once again appears
as himself in the 2009 release One-Eyed
Monster, a horror film parody predicated on the
premise that an alien force takes over Jeremy's penis and
begins killing people in the woods.[22][23] In
an effort to uniquely promote the film, Ron Jeremy's penis
started its own blog[24]and
began to Twitter on April 2.[25]
Television
Jeremy appeared in the second season of The
Surreal Life[26] during
which, he developed a close friendship with Tammy
Faye Bakker and the ninth season The
Surreal Life: Fame Games,[27] in
which he finished second to Traci
Bingham on the season finale, which aired on 25 March
2007. Jeremy also appeared in a segment on Comedy Central's Chappelle's
Show. He has also made appearances on Penn
and Teller's Bullshit! in
episodes regarding penis
enlargement and circumcision.
In 2005, he appeared on the UK reality
TV show, The
Farm.
Jeremy is also part of a running
gag on ESPN's Jim
Rome Is Burning and Premiere
Radio Networks' The
Jim Rome Show. Rome, who normally despises the
porn industry, has a new-found respect[citation
needed] for Jeremy for recording a program bumper
saying, "This is Ron Jeremy, head coach of the Miami
Heat, and you're watching Jim Rome Is Burning." The
bumper is a reference to Jeremy's striking resemblance
to former Miami
Heat and current Orlando
Magic head coach Stan
Van Gundy.
Jeremy appeared in the Robot
Chicken episode, "A
Piece of the Action", which was voiced by Michael
Benyaer. In this episode, he and several others parody The
Surreal Life and Lord
of the Rings. The segment lampoons his penis
size by having his character unseat a knight on horseback using
nothing but his erect penis. Jeremy appeared as himself
in the 2001 Family
Guy episode "Brian
Does Hollywood", in which he is a presenter
at the "Woody Awards" for which Brian
Griffin is a nominee.
Comedian Kathy
Griffin recently went on a date with him in the third
season of her reality show, Kathy
Griffin: My Life on the D-List.
In 2003, Jeremy appeared on The
Frank Skinner Show on British TV, and performed
a duet ("I
Got You Babe") with former Cabinet minister Mo
Mowlam.[28]
Jeremy appeared on Chappelle's
Show as himself in a spoof called "What
if the internet was a real place?", in which he
asks Dave Chappelle if he'd like to see some of his films.
Jeremy also appeared as a guest commentator on the Fox Network's
late-night news and comedy talkshow Red
Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld in 2007.
In 1999 David Syer appeared with Jeremy in the movie Felt
but not seen. the movie was realised in South Australia and
shot at a local radio station.
In the Super Karate Monkey Death Car episode of Newsradio,
Jeremy can be seen sitting in the audience at Jimmy James's
reading, along with Brian
Posehn.
Music
Jeremy has appeared in fifteen music videos, more than any
other pornographic actor. He appeared in videos by Sublime, Mercury
Rev, Moby, Kid
Rock, Everclear, Sam
Kinison, Guns
N' Roses, Mad
Yellow Sun, Los
Umbrellos, Rottweiler Hundar (Icelandic), the Radioactive
Chickenheads, A
Day To Remember, Escape
The Fate and Necro.
In addition, he released a rap single called "Freak
Of The Week" which stayed on the Billboard charts
for twenty-seven weeks; a music video for this was also produced.[6]
Video games
Ron Jeremy was featured as a playable character in the Celebrity
Deathmatch video game; one of his famous fighting
moves is an offscreen suggestion that he unzips his pants
and proceeds to repeatedly beat Johnny Chavez across
the face with his penis.
He also appears as a fairy in the game Leisure
Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, in which he gives
tips and advice to the main character.
Video
Jeremy has recently begun to appear in a series of viral
video spoofs for video
sharing website Heavy.com.
The videos lampooned include Britney
Spears, lonelygirl15, Little
Superstar and others.[29]
Ron Jeremy is the voice of himself in a viral
video on Atom
Films entitled "Titans of Justice". The video
casts him, along with an entourage, as a porn star by day
and superhero by night.[30]
Ron Jeremy also appeared in the music video of Trucks (a British/Norwegian pop
punk band) song "It's Just Porn Mum". [31][citation
needed]
Ron has also appeared in the viral video Porn Star Insurance [32] for
The Glorious Internet.[citation
needed]
Ron has also appeared on an episode of Gorgeous
Tiny Chicken Machine Show, entitled "Pamous Movie
Star".
In January of 2009, Jeremy appeared with David
Faustino (Bud Bundy from Married with Children)
in an episode of Faustino's show Star-ving,
which airs on Crackle,
as does the Gorgeous
Tiny Chicken Machine Show.[33]
In June 2009, he made a brief appearance in the music video "10
Miles Wide" by Escape
The Fate, along with Dennis
Hof and other adult video performers.[34]
Advertisement
As a further indication of his crossover celebrity status,
Jeremy has posed in an advertisement for People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to raise awareness
of the overpopulation of domesticated
animals. In the poster, he lies partially nude on a bed,
a pair of handcuffs on his wrists. Poking fun at his notoriety,
the title of the advertisement exclaims, "Too much sex
can be a bad thing. Spay and neuter your cats and dogs."[35]
Books
Jeremy released his memoir, titled Ron Jeremy: The Hardest
(Working) Man in Showbiz, in February 2007.[36] The
book was published by Harper
Collins.[37]
Public speaking
In 2005, Jeremy made headlines when he was invited to address
the Oxford
Union. According to the Union’s librarian, Vladimir
Bermant, "Ron is the biggest and apparently the best
in the business, so I'm sure he'll have some fascinating
stories to tell." His speech defending pornography
was well-received.[38][39]
In 2006, Jeremy began a series of debates on pornography
opposing Pastor Craig Gross, founder of anti-pornography website XXXchurch.com,[40] visiting
various US and Canada college campuses as part of the "Porn
Debate Tour".[41][42]
Information above and more courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jeremy
More Ron Jeremy
http://www.ronjeremy.com
http://www.myspace.com/ronjeremy
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000465
http://www.ronjeremy-themovie.com
http://www.amazon.com/Ron-Jeremy-Hardest-Working-Showbiz/dp/0060840838
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