it's located right off the street from
the comedy Zone where our new friend Tom
green will people be performing all
weekend so thank you for joining us
welcome to River City live and you'll be
at the comedy zone all this weekend you
got some shows I know you've been
touring like crazy really all over the
world yeah pretty much the last 10 years
that's what I've been doing non-stop
traveling and I loved it I was in Israel
this year for the first time that was
amazing went to the birthplace of Jesus
on my comedy tour got the keychain the
coffee cup at school I went to Amsterdam
and in all over England and Australia
and it's been it's been great but I've I
performed in every state in the u.s. I
love it I'm having a good time I love
traveling around America I'm Canadian so
it's cool to see all sorts of new places
and interesting people and I'm having a
blast when you travel around you're in
different countries you have to change
up what you're doing because some jokes
might not hit because of just the
barrier of what's happening a little bit
I mean you kind of get a sense when you
perform
first of all I've sort of lapped the
world a few times so look the first time
I toured in Australia you know to
certain cultural references or it's
usually just media references they don't
but you know the thing that's really a
bigger surprise is it's actually more
similar than it is different it's
actually disappointing all the way to
Australia and you together for the first
time you're you know go out and order
your grande vanilla latte at the
Starbucks and you're eating the same
food and it's sort of the same so that's
that's that's a drag but you know I've
been to some places that are completely
different - I've done a lot of USO tours
with the military and badou Iraq and
Afghanistan and and so that'll be
different you know because you try to
but you know people laugh at people want
to have a good time when they go to
shows we're all watching the same media
we're all glued on our Facebook pages
and are on our cell phones so we we sort
of pick up the same kind of reference no
matter what part of the world were in
and obviously you're a master of your
craft our director Ryan our director
Ryan's a huge fan of you and one of the
things that he always says whenever a
comedian comes in he always compares
them to you because you do such a great
job of engaging the entire audience and
then at the ending somehow you figure
out a way to get everybody in and come
full circle with it
yeah I do could a mixture of material
which I'm always writing and and
changing and and and improv and crowd
work and I started doing stand-up when I
was 16 years old thirty years ago and in
Canada and I did that you know when I
was young I stopped doing stand-up for
many years when I was doing the Tom
green show on MTV and so I think kind of
helped me because even though I've been
doing it a long time it's really kind of
new and exciting again I've got a lot of
energy to put into stand-up I was when I
was doing the show on MTV I think I kind
of regretted having stopped doing
stand-up and and now that I'm back into
it I'm loving it so and if somebody sees
your show here but they're like I want
to follow him I want to see him again
you're in Las Vegas on a regular basis
yeah yeah every Sunday and Monday night
I do a residency at Harrah's Casino so
if you want to come see me in Las Vegas
we're having fun over there too but come
see me tonight and tomorrow night at the
comedy zone you don't have to go to Bay
there are some comedians we can ask them
like okay how blue is your show who is
it for but I want to know is this a show
that I can sit with my 20 year old son
and we can both enjoy it or do I need to
sit at a different table yeah your 20
year old yeah no it's it's it's it's I
mean there'll be a little bit of that
you'll laugh about it afterwards
I mean it's it's not a really blue shell
I talk a lot about technology and our
addiction to social media I talk about
my I make fun of myself a lot there's
plenty to make fun of there I talk about
some of my things that I've done in my
career over the years but it's really
focused on a lot of general sort of
things that are going on in our world
today not too political
I do talk a little bit about the
president because I know Donald Trump
personally he fired me on the Celebrity
Apprentice I know the president the
president knows me anyone who knows me
maybe should not be President
I don't want to get this is your problem
but no I try to keep it fun all right so
Tom Green is that the comedy zone form
or place you go to calm a his own
dot-com scram or to come right up to
this