Tuesday, February 26, 2008

It's Not The Green Tom Show.


Ladies & Gentleman, allow me to take you back in time. The Year? 1999. Manchester United won the treble, The venga boys were riding high in the charts, The Kosovo crises, etc.
MTV which had been around since the early eighties took a new turn when instead of only playing music, they began to include original and in house content. The flagship
show For this was the Tom Green show.
1999 was a big year for myself. It was the year that i finished primary school and moved onto secondary. needless to say the Tom green show was perfect for my underdeveloped adolescent mind. It's mix of "gross out" and potty humour made it the suitable candidate for the talk of the playground. As surely only A twelve/thirteen year old could enjoy a man with such low self esteem that he would carry around a severed cows head, suck milk from a cow and perform other cow unrelated stunts. Yet the public lapped it up. At the height of Tom Greens powers, he got to number one in the United states with his "Bum Song."
The show rode high in the viewing figures for MTV till 2000 when it was surprisingly cancelled, A frequent rumour says that the show was cancelled because of an alleged segment where Green shows up at a Bar Mitzvah dressed as Adolf Hitler. Green, however, has repeatedly denied that such a segment exists, and there is no evidence to suggest otherwise.
Apart from some movie work, Freddie got fingered, roadtrip among others and his failed marriage to drew Barrymore and his fight with cancer It is safe to say to say that Tom has Fallen off the radar. Until now!

TOM GREEN IS BACK & THIS TIME IN POG FORM!
By pog form I mean Internet TV Show. The show is streamed live from his house live at six pacific US time, (2 am our time) with previous shows archived on the website. From the looks of it, it seems that he is attempting to create a Jay Leno type show, However it does seem to be picking up in popularity as The Canadian Comedy network and various cable stations are picking it up in the US. So it seems Tom Greens career isn't over and perhaps one day we might yet again see him hump A dead moose.
man can only Dream!

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