Tom Green

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Tom Green (actually Michael Thomas Green ; born July 30, 1971 in Pembroke ) is a Canadian comedian and television presenter .

Life

In Pembroke, Canada born, Tom Green grew up in Ottawa , where he later the show The Midnight Caller on the University -own radio station CHUO the Algonquin College got. In 1990 he became a DJ and speaker for the rap show there . In the early 90s he acted as a rapper in the band Organized Rhyme .

After graduating from college in 1994, he hosted his first television show on Rogers Community Television , an Ottawa television station. The Tom Green Show became such a huge success that the major Canadian television broadcaster CBC aired a pilot episode of the show but stopped broadcasting this season due to low audience ratings .

On July 7, 2001, he married actress Drew Barrymore , but the marriage was divorced on October 15, 2002 after Barrymore had left him in December 2001.

Career

The Tom Green Show

On his Tom Green Show , he interviewed unsuspecting people, played pranks on them and snubbed passers-by and sometimes celebrities with hidden cameras. He even made victims of his own parents, Mary and Richard, who often couldn't laugh at them.

Since 1997, the show has been broadcast across Canada. She ran on Comedy Network for two years until MTV bought her in 1999. Tom Green became known in the United States .

He hosted his show together with Glenn Humplik as a sidekick, comparable to Elton from TV total , who had to do trivial tasks on the show and was also tricked, as well as Phil Giroux , a man who sat behind Green's desk and didn't speak anything, just coffee drank and laughed when something funny happened. In some episodes you could also see Derek Harvie in clips, how he put people on the street. MTV stopped the show in 2000, but reruns were still broadcast afterwards.

In 2003 Tom Green returned with a new show on MTV. The New Tom Green Show was a late night show , but it didn't last long - it was canceled after a few episodes due to falling audience ratings. Since then it has been quiet about Green.

Movies

Due to his temporarily high popularity in the USA, Green starred in several Hollywood films, including Road Trip , Schwere Jungs (OT: Stealing Harvard ) and Freddy Got Fingered (which he also directed). The latter film was awarded five Golden Raspberries in 2001, which are awarded to the worst films of the year.

Others

  • In March 2000, Tom Green was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Green made a one-hour special out of this situation in which he reported on his ordeal and the surgical procedure.
  • He harassed strangers in Japan in a one-hour special called The Tom Green Subway Monkey Hour .
  • Tom Green's autobiography , Hollywood Causes Cancer , co- authored with Allen Rucker , was published on October 12, 2004.

Filmography (selection)

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Commons : Tom Green  - Collection of Images
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SURNAME Green, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Michael Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian comedian and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Pembroke