Prior to his becoming a welcome presence in the world of jackass, Loomis Fall was first known for skillfully beating up the drums in the band Wax.

In 1994, Wax released 13 Unlucky Numbers, featuring their memorable song “California,” which received an even more memorable, if not controversial, video treatment courtesy of Spike Jonze (something about genuinely flaming dudes and MTV don’t mix).

Wax dissolved some time after that, but Loomis hooked up with Johnny Knoxville and eventually went on to write a number of ideas for his good friend “Knox” to painfully fulfill in the first and second seasons of jackass in 2000-2001.

In addition to his creative concepts, Loomis became typecast on the show as the official referee-type character, guest-starring in a variety of bout-boasting segments. His big breakout role came on the first movie, when he was finally able to shed the black-and-white referee stripes and don a black-and-white panda costume instead. This all came about when he expressed a sincere desire to tag along on the filming trip to Japan for jackass the movie and was told to come up with some ideas tailored in kind to the region. Well, Loomis went off and scrawled a bunch of ideas on a couple cartons of Virginia Slims, the best of which was entitled “Night Pandas,” a play-off on the “Night Monkey” antics from the television series.

The reason this particular skit stood out from the rest is because pandas aren’t indigenous to Japan—they’re from China (and lucky for them, too, because the Japanese have this funny way of eating virtually anything exotic found within their borders and the doofy-looking bears would probably now be extinct as a result of having their penises diced-up for pricey soup concoctions).

Because of this fact, Jeff Tremaine made sure Loomis had not only a ticket to Japan but a panda costume as well. Point of interest: Loomis is the cape-wearing panda that gets jacked up after being knocked into the stand of a sidewalk vendor.

Everyone felt real bad about Loomis getting roughed up in Japan, but that apparently didn’t make a difference when his featherweight frame was chucked out onto an ice rink to face-off against an iron curtain of Russian hockey players with Steve-O and Chris Pontius on Wildboyz. No more than a few brutal checks into that bit, Loomis was sprawled out on the ice in garage sale fashion and leaking blood from his prominent and now broken beak—nothing a strict and steady diet of Pop Tarts and Captain Morgan wasn’t able to mend, of course.

For several years now Loomis has skillfully chain-smoked his way through an iPod on select nights at the Burgundy Room in Hollywood, CA. He also self-released a CD entitled Cigarette, containing a collection of songs he wrote, sang, and played most all of the instruments on. Currently, however, he’s been touring with Scream For Me, where sordid reports from the road say Loomis is now going by the name “Big Daddy” and he’s expanded his highly focused diet to include wine and fish.

Even more currently, Loomis has a new record coming out soon with Tommy Stinson from the Replacements on bass, Greg Hetson from the Circle Jerks and Bad Religion on guitar, and Josh Freese from the Vandals and Devo on drums.