The Internet Gets Green
Tom Green's bum is going on the Web.
The 34-year-old Canadian will take his shtick online June 15 as the host of Tom Green Live, a weekly call-in talk show debuting on ManiaTV.com.
Green, who most recently has been exercising his funnyman-on-the-street interviewing skills for Tonight Show skits, will produce the webcasts from the living room of his Hollywood Hills home, using the set from his late MTV show. He's set to tape 50 episodes.
"It seemed like the ultimate playground for someone like me," Green told the Associated Press Monday. "I've always enjoyed doing goofy experimental stuff that sometimes was too weird to put on a TV show but was fun artistically."
Does that mean Tom Green Live will feature something weirder than sticking feces on a microphone and gauging interviewees' reactions once said mike had been stuck in their faces? Or putting a cow's head in his parents' bed?
Cool.
Green's new venture will also be available to watch on his personal Website, which already features an assortment of his handiwork, such as a video clip of him in an underground parking garage in downtown Los Angeles as seen from the vantage point of a convex mirror. "Can I hear you say 'wonky mirror'?" he asks his at-home audience. Then Green proceeds to interview unsuspecting passersby on the street, some of whom are into it, while others most likely think he's nuts.
Despite spending barely a year on MTV, The Tom Green Show, featuring Green's serious approach to ridiculousness, made its mark. His signature song, "The Lonely Swedish," became a number-one hit on Total Request Live, he scored roles in Charlie's Angels and Road Trip and, of course, had a short stint as Drew Barrymore's husband. He filed for divorce from the actress in 2001 after five months of holy matrimony.
After being diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2000, Green chronicled his experience--from diagnosis to surgery to recovery--on The Tom Green Cancer Special, replete with a song warning boys to, um, make sure they take good care of their undercarriage.
MTV briefly revived Green's talk show, re-billed as The New Tom Green Show, in 2003, but shut it down after a few months.
But, now Green has the chance to really get down and dirty (although technically he has already wallowed in poop and animal parts).
ManiaTV's VP of programming, Richard Ayoub, told the AP that Green has been given "complete and total creative control."
"We have no standards and practices," Ayoub said. "He is going to be completely uncensored. That's what we can give him that MTV never could."
Green follows in the footsteps of comedian Bill Maher, whose online talk show "Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher" premiered Thursday on Amazon.com. The former host of Politically Incorrect described his show as "top-shelf television-style programming."
"To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors ? I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this," he told the AP last week.
Obviously Green feels the same way.
"I doubt we'll get anybody good," he said. "It's in my living room. How rinky-dink is that?"
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