My bum is on the Web..
My bum is on the Web.. ..and that's not very fun…
*Ahem* Hello there!
Sorry, I was just strolling down memory lane and came across this 1999 gem from actor/comedian,
Tom Green.
In fact, it got me to thinking, it feels like it’s been a long time since anybody’s
really heard from him.
It seemed like he was all over the place in the late ‘90’s and early 2000’s, dominating
MTV and popping up fairly frequently in big screen comedies.
If you’re as curious as we are, let’s track down the exploits of the Canadian star
in another edition of Where Are They Now?
Though Green may not have become a household name until MTV picked up The Tom Green Show
after being on the air sporadically from 1994 to 1997, his career dates as far back as 1986.
At 15 years old, Green started his stand-up career before focusing heavily on a short-lived
rap career with a group called Organized Rhyme, where you’d recognize early Tom Green under
the alias of “MC Bones.”
Green’s career may be a bit more diversified than many originally think, but the spark
that ignited his fame all boils down to the 1999 MTV acquisition of his titular television
production.
As the world watched him engage in a variety of ridiculous antics – including violating
a dead moose and performing Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song) – Green found himself
in headlines for reasons other than his career.
In 2000, the television funnyman broke from his sillier side after being diagnosed with
testicular cancer and worked with MTV on a one-hour special that followed his surgery.
Between 2000 to 2002, though production on The Tom Green Show ceased, Green, himself,
refused to give up the spotlight.
In a span of three years from 2000 to 2002, Green engaged, married, and divorced America’s
sweetheart, Drew Barrymore, and starred in Road Trip, Stealing Harvard, and Freddy Got
Fingered, for which he received and accepted four Razzie awards.
After a failed attempt to return to MTV with The Tom Green Subway Monkey Hour in 2002,
Green re-entered the rap scene with The Keepin’ It Real Crew, and made appearances on America’s
Got Talent, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Wanna Bet?, The Celebrity Apprentice, and
For the Love of Ray J. Taking up a bulk of his time starting in 2006,
however, was Green’s series of online talk shows, including Tom Green’s House Tonight.
The initial incarnation started out as Tom Green Live! and was available for viewing
on ManiaTV, but in 2008, Green separated from ManiaTV, moved to his own website, TomGreen.com,
and changed the name to Top Green’s House Tonight.
In 2011, Green suspended production of the award-winning show but returned in 2012 for
a year for the Tom Green Radio podcast.
Shortly after ending the podcast, Green moved to AXS TV for another incarnation of Tom Green
Live!, until ending again in November of 2014.
Over the course of his career, Tom has dabbled in a little bit of everything, but it was
his stand-up comedy that started it all.
Sporadically from 2010 to 2012, the comic returned to the stage to provide laughs for
a live audience, including a return to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
All of that’s in the past, though, and Green’s career is far from over.
While you won’t be seeing him on any of his prior endeavors, Green still has an active
stand-up career that tours all across the United States.
His movie career may not have been one worth gloating about, but that hasn’t stopped
him from popping up here and there, appearing in several 2016 films including Iron Sky:
The Coming Race and the animated film, Bling.
In 2017, Green broke from his typical character of hilarity and unusualness for James Cullen
Bressack’s Bethany, a very visual horror film in which the comic plays a professional
psychiatrist alongside Shannen Doherty.
While he’s far from as active as he once was, it’s still possible to get the occasional
Tom Green fix without having to pop in your copy of the award-winning Freddy Got Fingered.
You just need to keep an eye on his stand-up schedule to see when he’s playing in a city
near you!