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At last: an in-depth look at the world of competitive bearding. The hairy gents of Beard Team USA are training for the world championships in Norway, where top beardsmen clash in categories like Imperial Moustache and Full Beard Freestyle. Their big star: Jack Passion, the defending champ, who was the first American to win Full Beard Natural. As he says, "That name is 'Jack Passion, World Beard Champion.' It's not 'Jack Passion, Awesome Guy With a Beard.' " He's also written The Facial Hair Handbook, which he calls "the cornerstone of my beard empire."

Whisker Wars is so funny you keep thinking it has to be some lost Will Ferrell movie, but it's a documentary series from the same producer who gave us Ice Road Truckers. These are some sublimely twisted characters – where else can you hear someone brag that he's the "Muhammad Ali of beards"? If you don't choke up when you hear the legendary Willi Chevalier recount how he lost three-quarters of his whiskers in a "tragic power-drill accident," you have no heart. Or maybe you just have no follicles. ROB SHEFFIELD

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