2001. Joe Dirt on VHS. David Spade as Joe Dirt, janitor at an LA radio station who gets his life story interviewed on-air by Dennis Miller's Zander Kelly across the movie's frame narrative.Directed by Dennie Gordon, written by Spade and Fred Wolf, produced by Robert Simonds at Happy Madison for Columbia Pictures. Co-starring Brittany Daniel as Brandy, Christopher Walken as Clem the New York mob assassin in witness protection, Kid Rock as Robby, Adam Beach, Jaime Pressly, Rosanna Arquette, Caroline Aaron as Jill the talk-show caller. Waylon Jennings narrates the opening. Sweet Home Alabama needle drop. Released April 11, 2001 through Sony.Columbia TriStar Home Video pressing, Sony's home-video subsidiary label on PG-13 comedy titles through the 2001 window. 2001 was the crossover year: Columbia TriStar had moved mainline comedies to slipcase by Q2-2001 with clamshell holdouts on rental-tier pressings, so Joe Dirt shipped primarily in slipcase with a secondary clamshell rental run. Happy Madison was Adam Sandler's Columbia Pictures production shingle (founded 1999); Spade-as-lead Happy Madison titles ran through this label exclusively until the Sony-Universal split on later Sandler pictures. Full-screen pan-and-scan was the primary transfer; separate widescreen sleeve pressing existed as a retail variant.Came out the same summer as Shrek in May and The Fast and the Furious in June, underperformed both theatrically and outlasted both on Comedy Central basic-cable rotation for twenty years.Tape plays. Sleeve wear consistent with age. See photos for the exact copy and clamshell-vs-slipcase confirmation.$5. One of one.