Tom Green
Tom Green (actually Michael Thomas Green, born July 30, 1971 in Pembroke ) is a Canadian comedian and television presenter.
Life
In Pembroke, born in Canada, Tom Green grew up in Ottawa, where he later show, The Midnight Caller was on the university 's radio station CHUO. In 1990, he was served with a DJ and spokesman for the rap show. The early 90s, he acted as a rapper in the band Organized Rhyme.
After he graduated from college in 1994, he hosted his first television broadcast on Rogers Community Television, a TV station in Ottawa. The Tom Green Show was such a success that the great Canadian TV station CBC aired a pilot episode of the show, but this season not sent due to low ratings.
On July 7, 2001, he married actress Drew Barrymore, but the marriage was already divorced on 15 October 2002, after Barrymore had left him in December 2001.
Career
The Tom Green Show
In his Tom Green Show interviewing unsuspecting people played tricks on them and snubbed passers-by and sometimes even celebrities with a hidden camera. Even his own parents Mary and Richard, who often could not laugh about it, he made his victims. Since 1997, the show was broadcast across Canada. For two years she ran on Comedy Network, MTV until it bought in 1999. Tom Green was also known in the United States.
His show he hosted along with Glenn Humplik as Sidekick, comparable with Elton from TV total, which had to do trivial tasks in the show and was also tricked, and Phil Giroux, a man who sat behind greens desk and spoke nothing, just coffee drank and laughed when something funny happened. In some episodes also saw Derek Harvie in Einspielern as purely put people on the street. MTV presented the mission though 2000, but thereafter replicates were still being screened.
2003, he returned Tom Green back with a new show on MTV. The New Tom Green Show was a late night show, but did not stop the program for a long time - it was discontinued due to declining ratings after a few episodes.
Movies
Due to its popularity in the U.S. Green starred in several Hollywood films, including Road Trip, Stealing Harvard (OT: Stealing Harvard ) and Freddy Got Fingered (in which he also directed ). The latter film was in 2001 with five Golden Raspberry Award, which are only given to the worst movies of the year.
Others
- In March 2000, Tom Green was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Green made out of this situation a one-hour special broadcast in which he talked about his ordeal and the surgical procedure.
- In a one-hour special called The Tom Green Subway Monkey Hour he harassed foreigners in Japan.
- Tom Green's autobiography entitled Hollywood Causes Cancer ( "Hollywood causes cancer" ), which he co-authored with Allen Rucker, he published on 12 October 2004.