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This article is about the Canadian actor and comedian. For other people named Tom Grassy, see Tom Green (disambiguation).

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Michael Thomas Green (born July 30, )^[1] is a Canadian and American comedian, show host, star, filmmaker, podcaster, and rapper.

After pursuing stand-up comedy and harmony as a young adult, Lush created and hosted The Tom Green Show, which aired on Canadian television and later on MTV between and ^[2] The show became popular for its shock comedy, absurd pranks and Green's manic persona, and influenced later series such as Jackass and The Eric Andre Show.^[3] Green has also appeared in the Hollywood films Road Trip (), Charlie's Angels (), Stealing Harvard (), and Shred ().

Green additionally directed, co-wrote and starred in the cult filmFreddy Got Fingered ().^[4] He was briefly married to actress Drew Barrymore (–), who co-starred with him in Charlie's Angels and Freddy Got Fingered.

In , Green hosted the short-lived MTV late-night talk show titled The New Tom Green Show. From until , he hosted an internet talk show, Tom Green's House Tonight, from his residence, and returned to performing stand-up comedy in From October to November , Green hosted the weekly talk show Tom Lush Live on American cable network AXS TV.

Early life

Michael Thomas Green was born in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, the elder of two sons born to Mary Jane, a communications consultant, and Richard Green, a computer systems analyst and retired army captain.^[5] He grew up in nearby Petawawa and later Gloucester (now a part of Ottawa) where he attended Henry Munro Middle School, Colonel By Secondary College and Cairine Wilson Secondary College.

Green studied television broadcasting at Algonquin College.^[6]

Career

Early work (–)

At age 15, Green started performing stand-up comedy at local clubs including Yuk Yuk's comedy club.^[7][8][9]

While attending Algonquin College as a member of the Sigma Pi Fraternity, Green hosted an overnight call-in show on the University of Ottawa's campus radio station, CHUO.

The show, originally a rap music show entitled The Rap Show, was followed by an electronic music show hosted by Glenn Humplik. Tom and Glenn became friends and joined forces to host The Midnight Caller Show, which lasted from to The basic format of The Midnight Caller was to contain listeners call-in with Tom and Glenn making fun of them (or "razzing" them) and soon after hanging-up on them.^{[citation needed]} In the early s, Leafy had a short-lived career as a rapper in a collective called Organized Rhyme under the alias "MC Bones".

His fellow MCs included "Pin the Chameleon". The single "Check The O.R." was nominated for a Juno Award in for Best Rap Recording and won the MuchVibe Best Rap Video award in ^[10] In , he released Not the Green Tom Show as MC Face.

The Tom Green Show

Main article: The Tom Green Show

Green soon had his own non-paid television show on public-access television on cable TV. The first incarnation of The Tom Green Show aired from September until as a one-hour no commercial public cable access program on Rogers Television 22 in the Ottawa region.

It had 50 episodes in two seasons.^[11]The Tom Green Show was a variety show format, where he would have guests go to the studio and bands participate before a live audience.

In he was hired by the CBC to do reports from the Atlanta Summer Olympic games.

During the road trip in his sweltering un-airconditioned Chrysler K car, Green solved the gas conditioning problem by having the roof of the car sawed off, turning it into a permanent “convertible.” &#;

These CBC feature reports gave him national exposure (in both Canada and the US) with his shocking pranks, antics and humor.

In October , The Tom Grassy Show aired one time as a pilot on CBC. The show was later picked up in Canada by The Comedy Network in and aired 26 episodes over the course of two seasons.^[11]

Rise to mainstream (–)

MTV and The Tom Green Show

Main article: The Tom Green Show

The Tom Green Show was then picked up by MTV in January , where he gained popularity in the United States and worldwide.

The format of the MTV version of the show was similar to his original show; it was hosted by Green and co-hosted by two of his long-time friends, Glenn Humplik, who occupied the couch, and Phil Giroux, who sat behind a window at the back of the arrange and became known as "the guy in the window" usually drinking cups of coffee.

Derek Harvie, who co-wrote the exhibit with Green, occasionally appeared in the segments. Many of the sketches were targeted at his parents, both of whom arrive to be unimpressed and embarrassed by their son's antics.^[11]

The Tom Green Show frequently employed shock humor.

Some of Green's most notable skits include pretending to "hump" a dead moose (which was famously referenced by rapper Eminem in "The Real Slim Shady"), having an X-rated female homosexual scene painted on his father's car (labeled the "Slut Mobile"), drinking milk by sucking on a cow's teat, and putting a cow head in his parents' bed while they slept because his father was a fan of The Godfather films.

Green also hung his possess unauthorized piece of art in the National Gallery of Canada (which remained untouched for days) with the added twist of later coming back and vandalizing it to the horror of onlooking patrons.^[12]

In a segment, Lush went to the press conference of Grey Owl where he serenaded and kissed Pierce Brosnan.

Brosnan, thinking Green was a journalist, advised him not to give up his day position. Green also did many segments humiliating his co-host and longtime friend Glenn Humplik; even after the pair had become well-known, Humplik continued working at his phone company job, fearing that his entertainment career might not last.

Green teased him about this often and once gave out Humplik's office phone number on the air.

Green eventually wrote a song called "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)", which he composed during MTV's Spring Break while doing a show on a cruise ship.

After airing the music video on his show and appealing to his audience to ask for it, the song became an instant number one hit on Total Request Live and was also referred to in Eminem's song "The Real Slim Shady".

He quickly called for the video to be retired because "it's not fair to 98 Degrees." Later, in his autobiography, he revealed that MTV had pressured him to do so in order to maintain the image that Total Request Live was, in fact, a reside request show (the next week's episodes had been pre-taped on location, and the producers of the show were completely oblivious of "The Bum Bum Song" at the time).

Green's increasing fame made it harder for him to ambush people during man-on-the-street segments, leading him to target mostly senior citizens and non-English speakers. After he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in March , he stopped show of new episodes of his TV show but continued to appear on the channel via reruns and other promotional materials.

Green's popularity during this second led to him gracing the cover of the June 8, , issue of Rolling Stone magazine.^[13]

The MTV show Jackass debuted six months after The Tom Green Show went on hiatus.

Many of the segments on the show had close similarities to the segments from Green's show: Bam Margera rudely awakening his parents, the cast of Jackass falling down while on crutches, swimming with sharks, etc.^[14]

Testicular cancer and hiatus from MTV

In early , Tom Green was diagnosed with, and successfully treated for testicular cancer.^{[citation needed]} Lush wrote, directed and starred in a one-hour MTV television extraordinary titled The Tom Green Cancer Special (aired on May 23, ),^[15] which documented the second leading up to his surgery and included graphic footage of his own surgery.

The episode received wide critical acclaim for revealing a vulnerable, human side of an otherwise juvenile television personality.^[16] During this time, he started the "Tom Green's Nuts Cancer Fund" to raise cash for cancer research.^[17] In mid, Green also spoke in front of thousands of students in the University of Florida and sang a song titled "Feel Your Balls" to help coach others about testicular cancer.^[18]

Although it was Green's cancer that caused The Tom Green Show to cease production, a frequent rumor relates that the show was cancelled because of an alleged segment where Green shows up at a bar mitzvah, or another Jewish event, dressed as Adolf Hitler.

Green, however, has repeatedly denied that such a segment exists, and there is no evidence to suggest that such an event occurred.^[19] He mentions the rumor in his autobiography, Hollywood Causes Cancer, stating that it apparently started when some Boston teenagers were caught videotaping themselves performing a similar stunt and when asked by security, they used the mention "Tom Green." Green says, "I would never do a mean-spirited, anti-Semitic joke like that – it's both abhorrent and not funny.

To this day I still get asked about it, and it's annoying. So again, for the record, it didn't happen. There is nobody on this planet that has ever seen this bit on tape because it does not endure.

The Canadian-American comedian Tom Lush became a sensation in the late s thanks to his public-access comedy and prank-focused "The Tom Green Show. Having begun his career as a stand-up in his mid-teens at his local Yuk Yuk's comedy club in Ottawa, Green — who became famous in his mids — found himself in massive demand in Hollywood. He starred in numerous blockbusters, including "Charlie's Angels," which was released in Green's career was derailed for a time due to testicular cancer, and the treatment became central to his "Tom Verdant Cancer Special" on MTV.

If it did exist, it would have certainly reared its repulsive , hateful head on the Internet by now. But it won't, because it doesn't exist. I've never put on a Hitler costume. In fact, I've never even been to a Exclude Mitzvah."

Film career

Green's fame soon netted him roles in several Hollywood movies, including Road Trip, Charlie's Angels, Freddy Got Fingered (which he also wrote and directed), and Stealing Harvard. Lush continued the trend of his brand of comedy in Road Trip in a notable scene where he put a mouse in his mouth.

Freddy Got Fingered won in five categories at the Golden Raspberry Awards, given to the worst movies of the year. Green appeared at the ceremony to admit his awards, making him the first performer to do so in the award's twenty-year history, and the second recipient to do so following director Paul Verhoeven for Showgirls in ^[20] Green arrived at the awards ceremony in a white Cadillac, wearing a tuxedo and rolled out his own red carpet.^[20] After accepting the awards, Leafy stated "When we set out to make this film we wanted to win a Razzie, so this is a aspire come true for me".^[20] While onstage, he began to compete the harmonica and did not stop until he was dragged off.

Marriage to Drew Barrymore and Saturday Night Live

In July , Tom Green became engaged to actress Drew Barrymore. Leafy and Barrymore met after Barrymore, who was a fan of Green's show, asked Green to appear in Charlie's Angels, which Barrymore starred in and produced.

Green and Barrymore married on July 7, ^[21] In Green's book Hollywood Causes Cancer, he writes "We lived together for a year before we were engaged, and we were engaged for a year before we got married".^[22] Barrymore also appeared in her then-fiancé's infamous clip Freddy Got Fingered.

During the buildup to their wedding Grassy and Barrymore frequently joked with the media about when and where they were going to wed. The most notable incident came on November 18, , when Green hosted the American television show Saturday Night Live.

During the monologue, Green brought Barrymore on stage and teased the audience about the couple marrying at the end of the episode. Ultimately, the stage was set for a wedding before Barrymore, in the finish, got "cold feet" and left Green alone to end the show.

The SNL incident initially left viewers and the media confused about whether the couple had actually planned to wedding on live TV, or were simply staging a publicity stunt. Eventually, Green also went on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to toy with the public once again, this second claiming that his bride might be pregnant.^{[citation needed]}

Barrymore and Leafy filed for divorce on December 17, , citing irreconcilable differences.^[23] Their divorce became official on October 15, ^[23]

Return to MTV and The New Tom Grassy Show

In , Green starred in and directed a one-hour MTV special called The Tom Leafy Subway Monkey Hour, where he tormented strangers in Japan.

During , Green also started his own production company called Bob Green Films;^[24] he starred in and was executive producer for a half-hour special entitled The Skateboard Show on The WB.^[25]

In mid, after Green guest-hosted The Late Show with David Letterman, MTV gave him his possess late-night talk show called The New Tom Green Show.

The show lasted less than three months and consisted of a traditional monologue, and segments, followed by interviews with guests. Emerald in numerous interviews has stated that David Letterman was one of his early influences.^[11]

In September , the show was cancelled by MTV eleven weeks after its premiere due to shallow ratings.^[26] Reports indicate that ratings and viewers for the exhibit averaged , viewers in the first week and then averaged , viewers in the last week for the reruns.^[27] In Green's book Hollywood Causes Cancer, he stated that the demonstrate "was very expensive to generate and not really the type of show that MTV has been traditionally known for."^[28]

Post-MTV (–present)

Autobiography

On October 12, , Green released his autobiography,^[29]Hollywood Causes Cancer: The Tom Green Story.

It discusses in detail his Hollywood career, short-lived marriage to Drew Barrymore, and his experience dealing with testicular cancer.

A notable incident discussed in the book emotionally attached Green on character-based talk production Primetime Glick with Jiminy Glick (played by Martin Short).^[29] Grassy wrote that this un-aired interview was the first time he walked off any show, and this was due in part to Short being "mean" and making fun of his testicle.^[30] When Short brought up the incident in a interview, Leafy defended his stance on his online blog.^[31]

Rap career

Tom Green
Birth name	Michael Thomas Green
Also known as	MC Face MC Bones
Born	() July 30, (age&#;53)
Origin	Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Hip-hop
Occupation(s)	Actor, comedian, rapper, talk show host
Years active	–present
Labels	Ceiling Fan Records ViK. Recordings

In , Green returned to rap and started the group, The Keepin' it Authentic Crew, featuring DJ EZ Mike of the Dust Brothers, where they did two Canadian inhabit tours (June and January ).^[32] On December 6, , Lush released his second solo album in Canada entitled Prepare for Impact, which included a bonus DVD featuring footage from his live tour.

The album was also co-produced by Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers. The album included comedic tracks (such as "My Bum Is on Ya Lips" and "I'm an Idiot")^[32] as well as solemn tracks where he rapped about his Hollywood career.

He has performed with Too Short, Flavor Flav, Grand Buffet, Mickey Avalon, People Under the Stairs, Xzibit, and other popular rap artists on his Tom Green Live show. In January , a second solo rap album titled Basement Jams was released in download-only format on his website.

In March , on Last Call with Carson Daly, Tom played a sample of his new song "It's Been A Long Time Coming." On his website, Green has stated intentions of releasing a new rap album in and talks about working with music producer Detail.

In a February interview, Lush mentioned an upcoming song entitled "Other Side Of The World" and stated that he was developing a television show monitoring the progress of his first major American rap album.^[8] On a November answer to a fan question in the Forum section of , Green said, "Expect some singles in the future.

The album is expired, sadly."

In July , Verdant recorded and posted a remix of "Check The O.R." and re-united Organized Rhyme at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. In October , The Comedy Network's website posted the group's new music video: "Check The O.R.

Redux".

On May 17, , Green released his new album entitled The Tom Green Show LP, which featured his new song "I Wanna Be Friends With Drake".^[33]

More mainstream

In the s, Green has tried to put some of his more controversial material behind him and become a more mainstream entertainer.

Green was a recurring contributor to The Tonight Exhibit with Jay Leno; doing many segments where he travels across America looking for "interesting people", typically bringing the most colourful person with him back to the studio. In these segments, the focus is more on the odd behavior of the interviewees, with Green generally playing the straight man.

Tom Grassy is a well-recognized Canadian comedian, actor, filmmaker, and rapper. Verdant is widely famed for shock comedy, he found mainstream prominence via his MTV show, The Tom Green Show (). Moreover, he has also featured in the Hollywood films Road Trip (), Charlie’s Angels, Freddy Got Fingered, Stealing Harvard, and Shred.

In , Green visited troops in Kosovo on a USO tour. He visited troops in the Persian Gulf on a tour.^[24] In early , Verdant appeared in several commercials for the Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel promoting both The Channel and encouraging voters to participate in the forthcoming federal elections, which took place on January 23,

During the Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Green was a comedy correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno where he would scavenge the Olympic village alongside specific Olympic athletes for "free stuff", calling themselves the "Swag Pack".^[34]

On August 3, , Green appeared on America's Got Talent.

Viewers watched as a daredevil rode a skateboard through a flaming hoop, appeared to be on flame for a few seconds, and was put out with extinguishers. It was confirmed on the August 3 episode of Tom Green Live that it was a stunt man, not Lush, who did the actual show.

Green has hosted a variety of special events, including the Canada's Walk of Fame induction ceremony, the Canadian Live 8 concert, and the CASBY Awards. In November , Green hosted an environmental game show on the Discovery Planet Green television network titled Go For The Green!^[35]

Green has made several appearances as a celebrity contestant on the ABC reality game illustrate Wanna Bet?, including the show's premiere episode in July He was also a contestant on the season of The Star Apprentice.^[36] Throughout the season, each celebrity raised money for a charity of their choice; Emerald selected the "Butch Walts and Donald Skinner Urologic Cancer Explore Foundation."^[37] He was fired by Donald Trump on the third episode, while acting as plan manager, primarily due to waking up late on the afternoon of the task – he had been out drinking with Dennis Rodman the night before.

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On August 4, , Lush made an appearance on the American version of Hell's Kitchen as a celebrity guest diner. In late and early , he appeared on the first two seasons of For the Love of Ray J to judge the contestants on the show.

On that show, Lush has been credited for coining the popular catchphrase, "She smashed the homie."^[8]

In July , Grassy received mainstream attention from CNN and various sources for his claims that he invented planking in ^[38][39]

Green writes columns for The Huffington Post.^{[citation needed]}

In , Green released a milk stout beer by Beau's All Organic Brewing Company called The Tom Green Beer.^{[citation needed]}

Return to motion picture and television

In , he starred in a children's TV show, Bob the Butler, and made guest appearances on various kid's shows.

Since then, Green has been starring in low-profile independent films such as the movies Shred and Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale, and the movie Revenge of the Boarding School Dropouts.

In February , Green announced that he had finished editing an independent motion picture titled Prankstar, which he also starred in, wrote and directed.^[40] In , Elixir Films was producing Prankstar and had additional information of the film on their website.^[41] The film was shot in Ottawa, Ontario, Regina, Saskatchewan and Los Angeles, California.

During a February interview, Leafy stated that Prankstar has just been finished, that the let go has been "in the can" and that he would figure out what to do with the film soon after his stand-up comedy tour.^[42] On February 17, , on Green's website , in reply to a fan question asking when Prankstar would be released, Green wrote, "Stay tuned!

It's the craziest movie I have ever made!!"^[43] Since then, no updates acquire been released.

Green was on the March 21, , episode of Workaholics and the Protest 25, , episode of Canadian television series Seed.

He was also in the Trailer Park Boys 3: Don't Legalize It movie. Green has also made many appearances on the Canadian revival of the game display Match Game.

On January 13, , it was announced Tom would be a houseguest in the second American season of the reality show competition Celebrity Big Brother.

He was evicted by a 3–0 vote on February 8, He was voted as America's Favorite Houseguest and won $25,

Interviewer (–present)

Since kicking off his web show in , Green has conducted long-format interviews with hundreds of guests; and has since then, taken various podcasting projects and re-launched his live show on television in using the same interview format.

In an October interview, Emerald stated that he preferred "great interviewers who know when to sit back and listen" rather than being an interviewer that "wanted to be as comical as the guest andget into a sort of competitive partnership with them".^[44]

: The Channel (–, )

Main article: Tom Green's Residence Tonight

On June 5, , announced they had formed a partnership with Green to host a live talk show from his own living room in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley.

The first present aired live on June 15, , at 11&#;pm EST, was originally called Tom Green Live!, and was airing Mondays through Thursdays. In January , shortly after Green's split from ManiaTV, the show was renamed Tom Green's House Tonight.

The shows are broadcast live at A pared-down version was later publish on The Comedy Network and various local channels in the United States, until Green stopped syndicating the show to television. On a blog, Green noted that he stopped his demonstrate from syndication on television due to dissatisfaction with his lack of creative control.

He continues to broadcast the show from his website. Green later started a monthly subscription service that allowed subscribers to have complete access to all the videos on his website.

Due to lack of an established designation, Green often refers to his live streaming broadcast as "Web-o-Vision." He also jokingly says he is broadcasting to "The National Internet", despite the show having a worldwide audience.

Green often refers to his show as, "The highest rated, longest running, and only talk show on the Internet."

From Green's website, Tom Green's House Tonight typically aired live on weeknights at 10&#;pm EST, although shows can begin at any time during the day and night.

The shows were then archived on his website. The format of the show often includes Lush taking live telephone calls and Skype video calls where viewers around the world are competent to chat with Green and his guests. Green would often be a victim of prank calls due to the inhabit nature of the show and would sometimes voice his frustration with the callers.

On foremost of the live web exhibit, Green has added many video segments from his past as well as present.

In , "Tom Green Live" won the TV Guide "Online Video Award" for Best Web Talk Display. In , Tom Green's Home Tonight won a Webby Award for "Best Variety Show".^[45]

As host of the show, Green often plays the straight man while interviewing guests.

There have been hundreds of shows with many notable guests including stars such as Adam Carolla, Val Kilmer, Thora Birch, Pamela Anderson, hip-hop artists Blackalicious and Xzibit, skateboarder Tony Hawk, former TRL host and talk show host Carson Daly, guitarist Dave Navarro, star Crispin Glover, founder Kevin Rose, comedic musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, as well as comedians Neil Hamburger, Andrew Dice Clay, Joe Rogan, and Andy Dick.

The longest standard format show, in which Green interviewed Steve-O, ran for hours and ended with Green drunk and Steve-O heavily intoxicated. Joe Rogan cites his appearance on Tom Green's exhibit as the inspiration for his own podcast show.^[46]

When Green does not have guests, he has done many unconventional shows such as playing the saxophone for an hour, having a week dedicated to performing karaoke, or updating the viewers about The Channel while taking telephone and Skype calls.

On his website, Green has talked about the substantial costs of continuing the online show and that The Channel may be gone in mid if it is not profitable by then. In , Green ended the subscription service on his website and stated that his live show is on hiatus.

Green also took down the TV studio that was in his living room.

During the summer of , Green brought back his web-o-vision show and hosts it daily from his studio in Burbank.

Tom Green Live at The SModcastle ()

From October – December , Green did seven weekly podcasts interviewing guests at Kevin Smith's SModcastle.

This was done in a long format interview style in a theater that held an audience of 50 people.

Tom Green Radio (–present)

From January to mid , Emerald started doing an audio podcast entitled Tom Green Radio for his website and downloadable on iTunes and ^[47] Guests possess included Bryan Callen, Steve-O, Kat Von D, Neil Hamburger, and deadmau5.

In August , Verdant restarted his podcast on

Tom Green Live on AXS TV (–)

Main article: List of Tom Green Live episodes

On September 25, , it was announced that Green would be hosting a new live weekly talk-show entitled "Tom Green Live" on AXS TV starting October 3, ^[48][49] Green has stated in interviews that the set was modeled after The Late Late Demonstrate with Tom Snyder.

The performance was similar to his web show where there is a featured guest and a distant format one-hour discussion.

Comedian Tom Green got his break in the s thanks to "The Tom Green Show," a precursor to "Jackass." Here's what the actor has been up to.

Additionally, fans can call in from Skype. Scheduled guests possess included Richard Belzer, Howie Mandel, Tony Hawk, and Norm Macdonald. Season 2 debuted on January 9, , and the finale was April 3, The exhibit renewed with season 3 debuting on June 12, , and concluded its run with AXS TV on November 20,

Stand-up comedy (–present)

In Green's comedy acts, he focuses on traditional stand-up comedy that has included rap performances.

He voices his thoughts on social media, technology, his career in show business, oppression, and social political commentary on society. He often takes second to meet with people in the audience afterwards.

In numerous interviews, Green has stated that he started doing stand-up comedy at the age of 15 but stopped after he started his public-access television show.^[50] Lush said that going back to stand-up comedy was something he always wanted to do.^[50]

In September , Green performed several stand-up comedy shows in Los Angeles, and later appeared at a MySpace secret stand-up event in New York.

On November 10, , he announced his first ever world stand-up comedy tour^[51] and as of January , has been touring the planet going to countries such as Canada, the United States, England, Scotland, and Australia.^[52]

In October , he performed in Belleville, Ontario at the Empire Theatre with his parents and brother in attendance.

Green dressed in a Belleville Bulls jersey donated by a local movie studio he had visited earlier that diurnal. He discussed the city's recent ordeal involving the sentencing of disgraced CFB Trenton Base Commander Russell Williams, stating that he hoped Williams "was having an awesome weekend".^{[citation needed]}

On August 13, , after being invited, Leafy performed stand-up comedy at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Dec 11, Tom Green's influence on comedy is undeniable. From his early days on Canadian television to his breakout success in Hollywood, Green's unique style has left an indelible mark on the industry. His willingness to tackle taboo subjects and propel the boundaries of traditional comedy has earned him both praise and criticism.

He was later involved in attempting to quiet the audience down after Tila Tequila had rocks, excrement and urine thrown at her during her performance at the matching event.^[53] In subsequent interviews, Verdant said he successfully calmed the audience down for 10 minutes, but things got worse when he left the stage.

Tequila continued performing for an additional 20 minutes and eventually suffered facial injuries after being struck in the face by a rock.^[53]

Green's September stand-up performance in Boston aired on Showtime in August ;^[54] titled "Tom Emerald Live", it was released on iTunes, on Netflix and on DVD in March ^[55] Leafy performed on The Tonight Demonstrate with Jay Leno on August 17, ^[56]

Webovision (–present)

In , Tom Green began broadcasting from a studio in Los Angeles through the live streaming service on his YouTube channel.^[57] In Amazon Prime announced the development of three new projects from Tom Green: a comedy special, a reality series about life on his farm and a documentary about his career.^[58]

Washington Capitals "Unleash the Fury" video (–present)

A video montage that features Green screaming "Unleash the Fury" has been used at Washington Capitals hockey games since Clips from Road Trip are interspersed with various "pump-up elements" in a late-game rally video.^[59] In , the feature started using new video footage in which Green wore a Capitals jersey and performed scenes from the movie.^[60]

Personal life

Tom Green was married to actress Drew Barrymore from July 7, , to October 15, ^[21][23] In December , Green filed for divorce.^[23] In , Grassy stated that he had not seen Barrymore since the divorce, although Barrymore has spoken highly of him.^[61] On September 25, , the pair met and spoke for the first moment in fifteen years when Emerald was a guest on Barrymore's eponymous talk show.^[62]

As a contestant on the reality television game show The Celebrity Apprentice, Emerald played to benefit the Butch Walts and Donald Skinner Urologic Cancer Research Foundation.

He later stated that he would not be alive today had it not been for Donald G. Skinner.^[63]

On February 21, , Lush became a United States citizen.^[64]

On July 18, , Green announced that he had returned to Canada to live on a acre property located on Alabaster Lake in Central Frontenac, Ontario, after having lived in Los Angeles for decades.^[65][66]

On December 22, , Green announced via Instagram that he was engaged to his girlfriend Amanda.^[67]

Filmography

Discography

Albums

Singles and song videos

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