The Tom Green Show
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'''''The Tom Green Show''''' is a North American television show which first aired in [[1994#September|September]] [[1994 in television|1994]]<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162828/ "The Tom Green Show" (1994)]</ref> on [[Rogers Television|Rogers Television 22]], a [[community channel]] in [[Ottawa, Ontario]] until [[1996 in television|1996]], and was later picked up by the [[Comedy Network]] in [[1997 in television|1997]]. (In 1996, Green also produced a pilot episode for [[CBC Television]], although the CBC did not pick up the series.)
In [[1999#January|January]] [[1999 in television|1999]], the show moved to the United States and aired on [[MTV]]<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162118/ "The Tom Green Show" (1999)]</ref>. The MTV show stopped production when Green was diagnosed with [[testicular cancer]] in March 2000, and he stopped production on his TV show, but continued to appear on the channel via reruns and other promotional materials.
==Personalities==
''The Tom Green Show'' was a comedy show hosted by [[Tom Green]] and co-hosted by two of his long-time friends, [[Glenn Humplik]], who occupied the couch, and [[Phil Giroux]], who sat behind a window at the back of the set and became known as "the guy in the window" usually drinking cups of coffee. [[Derek Harvie]], who co-wrote the show with Green, occasionally appeared in the segments. Many of the sketches were targeted at his parents, both of whom appear to be not impressed and embarrassed by their son's antics.
==Outrageous stunts==
The show became notorious for Green's outrageous stunts, like humping a dead moose on the side of the road and putting dog [[feces]] on his microphone while interviewing people on the street. On several occasions, Green has dressed up in women's clothings and wore exaggerated makeup and a wig, while parading around the street in a peculiar "persona." In "Oxymen Girls", he walked around the streets in this fashion while applying a white creamy substance liberally on his face while screaming "Oxymen makes me really pretty!" repeatedly to unsuspecting passers-by. One particular skit had him taking the film crew to a pharmacy to buy [[condoms]], as he repeatedly used the word "condoms," lectured the pharmacists on [[STDs]] and described his plans for sexual activity. He also frequently abused his parents on the show, at one point waking them up in the wee hours of the morning by planting a severed cow's head in their bed, because his father was a fan of [[The Godfather]] films.
He even had an [[X-rating|X-rated]], lesbian-pornographic scene painted on his father's car (which he called the "Slutmobile") to surprise his parents, due to the fact that he thought they "liked lesbians." This went on to the point where he drove the car to a crowded bus stop to take his father to work, while embarrassing him at the same time. In another sketch, he painted their house several colors while they were away for a week, but he ended up painting it back to normal after being threatened with the loss of his car. Other examples of Green's stunts was where he picked a female audience member to go on a date with him in the studio. While Green was playing his guitar [[serenade|serenading]] the young woman, a crew member dropped his pants to show Green's and her names written on his posterior. At the premiere of the movie [[Grey Owl (film)|Grey Owl]], he posed as a journalist, sang to actor [[Pierce Brosnan]] and kissed him. Occasionally Green's skits were less off the wall, such as "People Helpers", where Green and a crew member seriously assisted wheelchair-bound individuals, the skit more being about Green spoofing his own self.
==Recurring characters and sketches==
The show also had a few recurring characters and sketches, including Billy Bob (a redneck who loved caramels and shaking his leg), Hockey Guy (a hockey player who would skate up in front of people and clumsily fall down), and a police station sketch.
He also explored the quirks of his friends. Green drew attention to Giroux's unusual laugh and discomfort with the smell of copper. They aired clips from a lengthy argument of whether a bear or a cougar would win in a fight.
==The Bum Bum Song==
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When the show moved to MTV, Green released a single called "[[Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)]]", encouraging visitors to download the song off his website, burn it onto CDs and distribute it to friends. After airing the music video on his show and appealing to his audience to request it, the song became an instant number one hit on ''[[Total Request Live]]''. He quickly called for the video to be retired because "it's not fair to [[98 Degrees]]." Later, in his autobiography, he revealed that MTV had pressured him to do so in order to maintain the image that Total Request Live was, in fact, a live request show (the next week's episodes had been pre-taped on location, and the producers of the show were completely unaware of "The Bum Bum Song" at the time).
==Special episodes==
In one episode aired in early [[2000 in television|2000]], Green visited his parents in Canada with [[Monica Lewinsky]]<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0726071/ Season 1, Episode 1: Tom Brings Monica Lewinsky to Canada]</ref>, and used the occasion to fool local reporters into thinking that they would make an important "announcement" together, which turned out to be a related to Monica's new interest in designing fabric handbags.
In 2000, Green made a one-hour special out of his testicular cancer surgery<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331000/ The Tom Green Cancer Special (2000) (TV)]</ref>. It focused on his reaction to the cancer diagnosis, as well as his family's, and footage of the actual surgery was included in one scene. The episode received wide critical acclaim for revealing a vulnerable, human side of an otherwise juvenile television personality.
In March 2002, he also starred in and directed a one-hour special called ''The Tom Green Subway Monkey Hour''<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316706/ Subway Monkey Hour (2002) (TV)]</ref>, where he tormented strangers in [[Japan]].
==Revivals==
The show was briefly revived by MTV in 2003 as ''[[The New Tom Green Show]]''<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373577/ "The New Tom Green Show" (2003)]</ref>, which was retooled to have more of a late-night talk show format, but was cancelled by MTV a few months after its premiere due to MTV deciding that wasn't the direction they wanted to go in.
[[June 15]], [[2006]] premiered Green's new live call-in show for his website called ''[[Tom Green Live]]''. A partnership between TomGreen.com and [[ManiaTV.com]]. The show takes place in his own living room in the [[Hollywood Hills]] overlooking the [[San Fernando Valley]], airing Monday - Thursday at 11 p.m. EST (and also whenever Green feels like going on the air).
==Popular culture references==
A claymated Green was on [[Celebrity Deathmatch]], in which Nick Diamond commented "Tom Green has found success, by having his show in a ''very'' convenient timeslot!" At the time of the episode's airing, the Tom Green Show was scheduled immediately after Celebrity Deathmatch, possibly suggesting the Tom Green Show was riding the coattails of the huge popularity of Celebrity Deathmatch.
==Cancellation Rumor==
A frequent rumor says that the show was cancelled because of an alleged segment where Green shows up at a [[Bar Mitzvah]] dressed as [[Adolf Hitler]]. Green, however, has repeatedly denied that such a segment exists. <ref>http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/tomgreen.htm</ref> He mentions the rumor in his 2004 autobiography, ''Hollywood Causes Cancer'', stating that it started when some Boston teenagers were caught videotaping themselves performing that particular stunt and, when asked by security, they used the name "Tom Green." He says "I would never do a mean-spirited, anti-Semitic joke like that - it's both abhorrent and not funny...To this day I still get asked about it, and it's annoying. So again, for the record, it didn't happen. There is nobody on this planet that has ever seen this bit on tape because it does not exist. If it did exist, it would have certainly reared its ugly, hateful head on the Internet by now. But it won't, because it doesn't exist. I've never put on a Hitler costume. In fact, I've never even been to a Bar Mitzvah." Racist jokes of any kind were never done on the show.
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tomgreen.com Official Website]
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