At only 39 years of age, comedian Tom Green has had his own TV show on MTV, The Tom Green Show, written and directed a Hollywood film, Freddy Got Fingered and married a Hollywood starlet, Drew Barrymore.
Born in Petawawa, Ontario, Tom Green grew up in Ottawa, and at 15 was doing stand-up comedy at the local Yuk Yuk’s comedy club. In 1992, Tom was part of rap group that won the Much Music Best Rap Video Award for the single Check the O.R. From 1994-1996 Tom hosted The Tom Green Show on Ottawa’s Rogers Cable. The show was picked up for two years on The Comedy Network and in 1999, Tom hit success in the United States when MTV decided to produce The Tom Green Show out of New York.
Tom soon became a celebrity in his own right, guest hosting on The David Letterman Show and Saturday Night Live. Tom’s autobiography Hollywood Causes Cancer, published in 2004, detailed his experience dealing with testicular cancer and his short-lived marriage to Ms. Barrymore. Today Tom hosts his own internet show at wwww.tomgreen.com and tours as a standup comic. Ken Rockburn spoke to Tom Green in Ottawa.
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