Thursday March 29, 1:23 pm Eastern Time

Press Release

ADVISORY/The World Premiere of Columbia Pictures' ``Joe Dirt,'' Sunday, April 1, 2001, 5 p.m., General Cinema AVCO Westwood, 10840 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood

WHO:        Attending from the film will be David Spade, Brittany
            Daniel, Kid Rock, Jaime Pressly, Adam Beach, Eric Per
            Sullivan, Fred Ward, Caroline Aaron, J.Lee Ermey, Megan
            Taylor Harvey, director Dennie Gordon, writers Spade &
            Fred Wolf, producer Robert Simonds, executive producers
            Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo, and co-producer Ira
            Shuman.

            Other celebrities expected to attend: Enrico Can, George
            Clooney, Ashton Kutcher, McG, Mark McGrath, Sean Penn,
            Wendie Malik, Laura San Giacomo, Carl Lewis, David Lee
            Roth, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, George Segal, Kristy
            Swanson and Mark Wahlburg.

WHAT:       From the producing team of the comedy smash "Deuce
            Bigalow: Male Gigolo" comes a hilarious comedy that says,
            "Life is a garden. Dig it."

            He's the wrong person, at the wrong place, at the wrong
            time. Joe Dirt (David Spade) is a janitor with a mullet
            hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream -- to find the
            parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a
            belligerent, trailer-park-raised 8-year-old. Now, blasting
            Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly
            optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.

            As his wandering, misguided search takes him from one
            hilarious misadventure to another, Joe finds his way to
            Los Angeles, where a shock-jock (Dennis Miller) brings Joe
            on his radio show to insult him. But as Joe's life story
            unfolds, jeers turn to cheers, and an entire captivated
            city tunes in to hear the adventures of Joe Dirt.

                              "JOE DIRT"
              WILL BE IN THEATRES ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

           Visit the "Joe Dirt" Web site at www.joedirt.com

                     "Joe Dirt" is rated "PG-13"
             by the Motion Picture Association of America

Contact:

Columbia Pictures
Tammy Sandler, 310/244-8099 (Domestic Press)
Prue Knight, 310/244-8345 (International Press)