Tom Green

At 52 years old, Tom Green has this physical status:

Michael Thomas Green (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian comedian, actor, and talk show host.

He rose to fame thanks to his own branded shock comedy, as seen on MTV's appropriately named The Tom Green Show (1994–2000).

Green is also known for his roles in the Hollywood films Road Trip (2000), Charlie's Angels (2000), Freddy Got Fingered (2001; directed by Green himself), Stealing Harvard (2002), and Shred (2008).

Drew Barrymore (2001-2002), who co-starred with him in Charlie's Angels and Freddy Got Fingered, was briefly married to him. Green appeared as a late-night talk show host on MTV in June 2003.

He hosted his internet talk show Tom Green's House Tonight from his living room from 2006 to 2011, and then performed stand-up comedy in 2010.

Green hosted Tom Green Live on American cable network AXS TV from October 2013 to November 2014.

Early life

Green was born in Pebble, Ontario, Canada, the older of two sons born to Mary Jane, a communications consultant, and Richard Green, a computer systems analyst and retired army captain, and retired army captain. He grew up on a Canadian Army base near Pembroke, CFB Petawawa, and Gloucester, Ontario, where he attended Henry Munro Middle School, Colonel By Secondary School, and Cairine Wilson Secondary School. Green studied television broadcasting at Algonquin College and graduated in 1994.

Personal life

Tom Green was married to actress Drew Barrymore from July 7, 2001 to October 15, 2002. Green filed for divorce in December 2001. Green said in 2010 that he had not seen Barrymore since the separation, though Barrymore has raved about him. The pair met and spoke for the first time in fifteen years on September 25, 2020, when Green appeared on Barrymore's eponymous talk show for the first time in fifteen years.

Green, a 2009 contestant on the reality television game show The Celebrity Apprenticeship, helped the Butch Walts and Donald Skinner Urologic Cancer Research Foundation. He later said that he would not be alive today if it wasn't for Donald G. Skinner.

Green became a resident of the United States on February 21, 2019.

After having spent decades in Los Angeles, Green announced on July 18, 2021, that he had returned to Canada to live on a 100-acre farm on White Lake in Central Frontenac, Ontario.

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Career

Green, a 15-year-old green belt joker, began performing stand-up comedy at local pubs, including Yuk Yuk's comedy club.

Green hosted an overnight call-in show on the University of Ottawa's campus radio station, CHUO, while attending Algonquin College as a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity. The 1990 spectacle, which began as a rap music show dubbed The Rap Show, was followed by an electronic music performance hosted by Glenn Humplik. Tom and Glenn became friends and joined forces to produce The Midnight Caller Show, which ran from 1993 to 1996. The basic idea of The Midnight Caller was to have listeners call-in with Tom and Glenn ridiculing them (or "razzing") soon after deciding to hang up on them. Green began working as a rapper in the early 1990s under the alias "MC Bones." "Pin the Chameleon" was one of his MCs' "Pin the Chameleon". "Check The O.R." was the single on record. In 1993, he was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Rap Recording and later received the Muchvincibe Best Rap Video Award. He opened Not The Green Tom Show as the MC Face in 1998.

Green soon had his own non-paid television show on cable television on public-access television. On Rogers Television 22 in the Ottawa area, the first iteration of The Tom Green Show ran from September 1994 to 1996 as a one-hour no commercial public cable access service. In two seasons, it had 50 episodes. The Tom Green Show was a variety of show styles, with guests coming to the studio and bands performing before a live audience.

He was recruited by the CBC in 1996 to cover the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games, including during the road trip in his sweltering unconditioned Chrysler K car. When the roof of the car was scraped off, Tom Green ingeniously solved the air conditioning issue, the car's roof was spared — turning it into a permanent “convertible.”

These CBC feature stories brought him national exposure (both Canada and the United States) with his Jackass style pranks, antics, and humour.

On CBC, The Tom Green Show appeared on CBC in October 1996 as a pilot. The show was later picked up by The Comedy Network in Canada in 1997 and aired 26 episodes over the course of two seasons.

In January 1999, MTV acquired the Tom Green Show, where he gained a following in the United States and around the world. The MTV version of the show was similar to his earlier versions; it was hosted by Green and co-hosted by two of his long-time acquaintances, Glenn Humplik, who sat behind a window and became known as "the guy in the window" after drinking cups of coffee. Derek Harvie, co-wrote the show with Green, appeared in segments occasionally. Many of the sketches were directed at his parents, who seemed to be shocked and ashamed by their son's antics.

The Tom Green Show used humour often. According to Green's most popular skits, including pretending to "hump" a dead moose (which was referred to by rapper Eminem in "The Real Slim Shady"), drinking milk by sucking on a cow's teat, and sticking a cow's head in his parents' bed when they slept because his father was a fan of The Godfather films. Green also hung his own illegal work of art in the National Gallery of Canada (which remained untouched for days), with the added twist of later returning and vandalizing it to the horror of onlookers.

Green went to the press conference of Grey Owl, where he serenaded and kissed Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan, who believed Green was a journalist, told him not to leave his day job. Even after the pair's success as a co-host and longtime acquaintance, Humplik continued to work at his phone company job, afraid that his entertainment career would not last. Green teased him regularly and even gave Humplik's office phone number on the radio.

Green later wrote "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song), which he wrote during MTV's Spring Break while doing a show on a cruise ship. The album became a number one hit on Total Request Live after airing the music video on his show and encouraging his followers to request it, and was also referenced to in Eminem's album "The Real Slim Shady." "It's not fair to 98 Degrees," the film director yelled at the time. Later, in his autobiography, he revealed that MTV had coerced him to do so in order to maintain the image that Total Request Live had been largely unrecognizable (the show's producers were entirely unaware of "The Bum Bum Song" at the time).

Green's increasing fame made it impossible for him to ambush people during man-on-the-street segments, causing him to threaten mainly senior citizens and non-English speakers. Since being diagnosed with testicular cancer in March 2000, he stopped producing new episodes of his television series but continued to appear on the channel in the form of reruns and other promotional materials. Green's success during this period culminated in him gracing the front cover of Rolling Stone magazine's June 8, 2000 issue.

Jackass appeared on MTV six months after The Tom Green Show went on hiatus. Many of the segments on Green's show were very close to those of Green's: Bam Margera rudely awakening his parents, the cast of Jackass drowning on crutches, swimming with sharks, etc.

In early 2000, Tom Green was diagnosed with testicular cancer and successfully treated. Green wrote, produced, and starred in a one-hour MTV television special entitled The Tom Green Cancer Special, which chronicled the days leading up to his surgery as well as a gruesome video of his own surgery. The episode received widespread acclaim for revealing a vulnerable, human face of an otherwise juvenile television personality. During this period, he founded the "Tom Green's Nuts Cancer Fund" to raise funds for cancer research. Green also spoke in front of thousands of students in the University of Florida in mid-2000 and performed "Feel Your Balls" to educate others about testicular cancer.

Despite the fact that Green's cancer caused the Tom Green Show to suspend development, a common belief is that the show was cancelled due to a suspected segment in which Green appears as Adolf Hitler at a bar mitzvah or another Jewish function disguised as Adolf Hitler. Green, on the other hand, has denied that such a segment exists, and there is no evidence to indicate that such an event occurred. In his 2004 autobiography, Hollywood Causes Cancer, he mentions that it began when some Boston teenagers were caught videotaping themselves doing a similar stunt, and that security alerts would have called them "Tom Green." "I would never do a mean-spirited, anti-Semitic joke like that," Green says, it's both funny and not amusing. I'm still get asked about it every day, and it's frustrating. And, for the record, it didn't happen. Because this segment does not exist, there is no one on this planet who has ever seen this particular thing on tape. If it did exist, it would have unquestionably resurfaced its ostensible, hateful head on the web by now. However, it will not exist because it doesn't exist. I've never put on a Hitler costume. In fact, I've never been to a Bar Mitzvah" before.

Green's fame soon earned him roles in several Hollywood films, including Road Trip, Charlie's Angels, Freddy Got Fingered (which he also wrote and directed), and Stealing Harvard. In a famous scene where he stuck a mouse in his mouth, Green maintained his trend of comedy in Road Trip.

Freddy Got Fingered received five categories at the 2001 Golden Raspberry Awards, which were rewarded to the year's worst movies of the year. Green received his awards at the academy, making him the first artist to do so in the award's 20-year history and the second recipient to do so after 1995's showgirls under new director Paul Verhoeven. Green arrived in a white Cadillac, clutching a tuxedo and rolling out his own red carpet at the awards ceremony. Green said, "We set out to make this film, we wanted to win a Razzie," says Green, "this is a dream come true for me." On stage, he began to play the harmonica and did not stop until he was pulled away from the stage.

In July 2000, Tom Green became engaged to actress Drew Barrymore. After Barrymore, a Greenwich boy who was a fan of Green's show, asked Green to appear in Charlie's Angels, which Barrymore played and produced, Green and Barrymore met. On July 7, 2001, Green and Barrymore married. "We lived together for a year before we were engaged for a year before we were married," Green's book Hollywood Causes Cancer says. Barrymore appeared in her then-fiancé's infamous 2001 film Freddy Got Fingered.

Green and Barrymore joked with the media about when and where they were going to marry in the lead-up to their wedding. Green hosted the American television show Saturday Night Live on November 18, 2000, the most notable occurrence occurred on November 18, 2000. Green introduced Barrymore on stage and teased the audience about the couple's marriage at the end of the episode. In the end, the stage was set for a wedding before Barrymore, who had "cold feet" and left Green alone to end the show. The SNL incident made viewers and journalists curious about whether the couple had really planned to marry on live television or was simply staging a publicity stunt. Green went on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to toy with the public once more, this time claiming that his bride's baby could be pregnant.

On December 17, 2001, Barrymore and Green filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable inconsistencies. On October 15, 2002, their divorce became official.

Green starred in and produced The Tom Green Monkey Hour in 2002, where he terrorized strangers in Japan. Green also founded Bob Green Films, a Vancouver-based film company; he appeared in and was executive producer for a half-hour special called The Skateboard Show on The WB.

MTV gave him his own late-night talk show, The New Tom Green Show, in mid-2003, after Green guest-hosted The Late Show with David Letterman. The critically acclaimed show ran for fewer than three months, and it consisted of a traditional monologue, segments, and interviews with guests. In several interviews, Green has stated that David Letterman was one of his early influences.

The show was cancelled by MTV eleven weeks after its premiere in September 2003 due to poor ratings. According to reports, the show attracted 889,000 viewers in the first week and then the show attracted 255,000 viewers in the last week. In Green's book Hollywood Causes Cancer, he said that the show "was very costly to produce and not really the kind of program that MTV has traditionally been known for."

Green's autobiography The Tom Green Story, which explored in detail his Hollywood career, short-lived marriage to Drew Barrymore, and his battle with testicular cancer, was published on October 12, 2004.

Green appeared on character-based talk show Primetime Glick with Jiminy Glick (played by Martin Short) in a significant scene in the book. Green said this unaired interview was the first time he walked off any show, and that was due in large part to Short being "mean" and ridiculing his testicle. Green defended his position on his online blog when Short brought up the incident in a 2005 interview.

Green returned to rap in 2005 and formed The Keepin' it Real Crew, which featured DJ EZ Mike of the Dust Brothers, where they performed two Canadian live tours (June 2005 and January 2006). Green released his second solo album in Canada, Prepare For Impact, which also included a bonus DVD showcasing clips from his live tour on December 6, 2005. Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers co-produced the album. The album featured comedic tracks (such as "My Bum Is On Ya Lips" and "I'm an Idiote") as well as more serious tracks where he sang of his Hollywood career.

On his Tom Green Live show, he has performed on Too Short, Flavor Flav, Grand Buffet, Mickey Avalon, People Under The Stairs, Xzibit, and other well-known rap artists. Basement Jams, his second solo rap album, was released on his website in January 2008 in a download-only version.

Tom performed a sample of his latest song "It's Been A Long Time Coming" on Last Call with Carson Daly in March 2009. Green has stated on his website that he expects to debut a new rap album in 2010 and addresses working with music producer Detail. In a February 2010 interview, Green discussed the upcoming album "Other Side Of The World" and announced that he was designing a television show after the success of his first major American rap album. Green wrote a response to a fan question in tom.com's Forum section on November 10, "Expect some singles in the future." "Unfortunately, the album is out."

Green recorded and released a 2011 version of "Check the O.R. "" in July 2011. At the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, reunited Organized Rhyme and reunited. "Check The O.R.," The Comedy Network's website featured the group's latest music video in October 2011. "Redux" is a play on words that refer to the redux.

Green's latest album, The Tom Green Show LP, debuted on May 17, 2019, and it featured his latest song "I Wanta Be Friends With Drake."

In the 2000s, Green has attempted to bring some of his older, controversial content behind him in order to become a more popular entertainer. Green appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and appeared on several shows where he flies around America looking for "interesting people," often bringing the most colorful person with him to the studio. The focus in these segments is more on the interviewees' odd behavior, with Green generally playing the straight guy.

Green visited troops in Kosovo in 2003 on a USO tour. On a 2004 tour, he visited troops in the Persian Gulf. Green appeared in numerous commercials for The Channel in early 2006, urging voters to vote in the forthcoming federal elections, which were scheduled on January 23, 2006.

Green, a comedy reporter for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Torino, was a correspondent for "free stuff" during the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, calling themselves the "Swag Pack."

Green appeared on America's Got Talent on August 3, 2006, the first time a greenback appeared on America's Got Talent. He rode a skateboard through a flaming hoop, seemed to be on fire for a few seconds, and was extinguishers. On the August 3 episode of Tom Green Live, it was revealed that it was a stunt man, not Green. That was the actual stunt.

Green has staged a number of special events, including the 2005 CASBY Awards, 2005 Canada's Walk of Fame induction ceremony, the Canadian Live 8 concert, and the 2005 CASBY Awards. Green hosted an environmental game show on the Discovery Planet Green television network in November 2008 titled Go For The Green.

Green has appeared on ABC reality game show Wanna Bet?, including the show's premiere episode in July 2008. On the 2009 season of The Celebrity Apprentice, he was also a contestant. Each celebrity raised funds for a charity of their choice over the course of the season; Green selected the "Butch Walts and Donald Skinner Urologic Cancer Research Foundation." On the third episode, Donald Trump was fired as project manager, mainly due to waking up late on the day of the job – he had been out partying with Dennis Rodman the night before. Green appeared as a celebrity guest diner on the American version of Hell's Kitchen on August 4, 2009. He appeared on the first two seasons of For the Love of Ray J in late 2009 and early 2010. Green has been praised for coining the phrase, "She smashed the homie" on the program.

Green's assertion that he invented planking in 1994 drew widespread media attention in July 2011. Green also writes columns for The Huffington Post.

In 2013, Green's All Natural Brewing Company, Beau's Beau's All Natural Brewing Company, introduced The Tom Green Beer, a milk stout beer.

He appeared in a children's television film, Bob the Butler, and appeared on various kid's shows in 2005. Since then, Green has appeared in low-profile independent films, including those from 2008's Shred and Freezer Burn: The Battle of Laxdale and the 2009 film Revenge of the Boarding School Dropouts.

Green revealed in February 2010 that he had finished editing Prankstar, which he also appeared in, and directed. Green appeared on Workaholics and the March 25, 2013, episode of Canadian television series Seed. He appeared in the 2014 Trailer Park Boys 3: Don't Legalize It Film. Green has also appeared on several television shows on the Canadian revival of the game show Match Game.

In the second American season of the reality show competition Celebrity Big Brother, Tom will be a houseguest. He was voted out of office by a 3–0 majority on February 8, 2019. He was voted America's Favorite Houseguest and received $25,000.

Since launching his web show in 2006, Green has conducted long-format interviews with hundreds of people; since then, he has hosted numerous podcasting projects and relaunched his live broadcast on television in 2013 using the same interview style. In a talk in October 2013, Green said that he preferred "great interviewers who know how to relax and listen" rather than being an interviewer who "wanted to be as funny as the guest and...get into a sort of rivalry with them."

ManiaTV.com revealed on June 5, 2006, that they had formed a joint venture with Green to produce a live talk show in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley. The first show, which was originally called Tom Green Live!, aired on June 15, 2006, at 11 p.m. EST, and was on Mondays through Thursdays. The show was renamed Tom Green's House Tonight in January 2008, shortly after Green's departure from ManiaTV. The shows are also available on TomGreen.com. A pared-down version of The Comedy Network and several local channels in the United States was later broadcast until Green stopped syndicating the show to television. Green stopped his show from syndication on television in 2009 due to dissatisfaction with his lack of creative control, which he explained on a 2009 blog. He continues to broadcast the show from his website. Later, Green launched a monthly subscription service that enabled users to have full access to all the videos on his website.

Green often refers to his live streamed broadcast as "Web-o-Vision" due to the lack of a single word. Despite the show's worldwide audience, he also says he is broadcasting to "The National Internet." Green often refers to his show as "the best-rated, longest-running, and only talk show on the internet."

From Green's website, Tom Green's House Tonight aired on weeknights at ten p.m. EST, although television shows can be broadcast at any time throughout the day and night. The shows were then archived on his website. Green and his guests are often seen on the show's live telephone calls or Skype video calls, where viewers around the world are able to chat with Green and his guests. Green would often be a victim of prank calls due to the show's live nature, and he'll also express his dissatisfaction with the callers. Green has included several video segments from his past as well as present.

The 2007 TV Guide "Online Video Award" for the Best Web Talk Show "Tom Green Live" was awarded in 2007. House Tonight's House Tonight received the 2007 Webby Award for "Best Variety Show" in 2008.

Green often plays the straight man when interviewing guests. Hundreds of shows have been produced, including actor Adam Carolla, Val Kilmer, Thora Birch, Pamela Anderson, hip-hop singer Crispin Glover, comedian Kevin Rose, comedian David Coffin, comedian Jake Brown, Joe Rogan, and Andy Dick. The longest standard format display in which Green interviewed Steve-O lasted for 3.5 hours and ended with Green intoxicated and Steve-O heavily intoxicated.

Since Green does not have visitors, he has appeared on several unusual programs, such as playing the saxophone for an hour, having a week dedicated to performing karaoke, or alerting viewers about The Channel while taking phone and Skype calls.

Green has posted information on his website about the significant cost of maintaining the online broadcasting and that if it is not profitable by then, it will be gone in mid-2011. Green ended the subscription service on his website in 2011 and announced that his live show is on hold. Green also took down the television studio that had been in his living room.

Green began his web-o-vision show and hosted it every day from his Burbank studio.

Green's SModcastle hosted seven weekly podcasts from October to December 2010. In a theater that attracted a audience of 50 people, this was done in a long format interview style.

Green began recording Tom Green Radio for his website, which is also available on iTunes and tom.com. Bryan Callen, Steve-O, Kat Von D, Neil Hamburger, and deadmau5 were among the guests. Green restarted his Play.it podcast in August 2015.

Green will host "Tom Green Live" on AXS TV starting on September 25, 2013. In interviews, Green has confirmed that the model was modeled after Tom Snyder's Late Late Show. The show was similar to his web site, where a featured guest appears and a long format one-hour discussion was held. In addition, fans can call in from Skype. Norm Macdonald, Richard Belzer, Howie Mandel, Tony Hawk, Tony Hawk, Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk have all been on tour. Season 2 debuted on January 9, 2014, and the finale was held on April 3, 2014. Season 3 premiered on June 12, 2014, and AXS television announced its season 3 on November 20, 2014.

He focuses on stand-up comedy that has included rap performances in Green's comedies. He speaks out on social media, electronics, his work in show business, misogyny, and socioeconomic analysis of society. He will often take time to speak with people in the audience afterwards.

Green has said in multiple interviews that he started doing stand-up comedy at the age of 15, but that he stopped doing so after his public-access television show was started. Green said that returning to stand-up comedy was something he'd like to do.

Green appeared at several stand-up comedy shows in Los Angeles in September 2009 and then attended a MySpace secret stand-up event in New York. He revealed his first world stand-up comedy tour on November 10, 2009, and as of January 2010, he has toured the world visiting countries such as Canada, the United States, Scotland, and Australia.

He appeared at the Empire Theatre in Belleville, Ontario, with his parents and brother in attendance. Green was dressed in a Belleville Bulls jersey donated by a local movie theater where he had been to earlier that day. He addressed the city's latest ordeal surrounding the sentencing of disgraced CFB Trenton Base Commander Russell Williams, pledging that Williams "was having an amazing weekend."

Green performed stand-up comedy at the Gathering of the Juggalos on August 13, 2010, after being invited. After Tila Tequila's production of rocks, excrement, and urine, he was later implicated in attempting to calm the audience down. Green said he calmed the audience down for ten minutes in subsequent interviews, but the situation became even worse after he left the stage. After being struck in the chest by a brick, Tequila continued to perform for an additional 20 minutes and eventually sustained facial injury.

Green's stand-up appearance in Boston on Showtime in August 2012; titled "Tom Green Live," it was broadcast on iTunes, on Netflix, and on DVD in March 2013. On August 17, 2012, Green appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Tom Green began broadcasting from a Los Angeles studio in 2015 via the live streaming service on his YouTube channel.

Since 2007, Green screaming "Unleash the Fury" has been used at Washington Capitals hockey games. In a late-game rally video, clips from Road Trip are interspersed with various "pump-up elements." In 2010, the feature began with a new video clip in which Green wore a Capitals jersey and performed scenes from the film.

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