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Tom Green (born July 30, 1971Tom Green is a Canadian shock comic and television host.

Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Green grew up in Ottawa and had a radio show on the University of Ottawa's campus radio station, CHUO, before getting his first series on an Ottawa community channel, Rogers Television. It was later picked up by Canada's Comedy Channel

In the early 1990s, Green had a short-lived career as a rapper in a group called Organized Rhyme.

table typically consisted of stunts played by Green on unsuspecting people. A number of them involved Green's parents, Mary Jane and Richard Green, who consistently appeared to be unamused and occasionally angered by Tom's antics. Some of Green's most notable skits include humping a dead moose (referenced by rapper Eminem), having an X-rated lesbian scene painted on his father's car (labelled the "Slut Mobile"), drinking milk by sucking a cow's udder, and putting a cow head in his parents' bed while they slept. Green also hung his own unauthorized piece of art in the National Gallery of Canada, similar to the subsequent exploits of British graffiti artist Banksy, with the added twist of later coming back and vandalizing it to the horror of onlooking patrons. In one segment, Tom went to the press conference of where he serenaded and kissed Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan, thinking Green was a journalist, advised him not to give up his day job.

After the show moved to MTV, Green became famous in the United States. This fame soon netted Green roles in several Hollywood movies, including "won" in five categories at the 2001 Golden Raspberry Awards, given to the worst movies of the year. Green appeared at the ceremony to accept his awards.

He also 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 request it, the song became an instant number one hit on 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 was, in fact, a live request show (the next week's episodes had been pre-taped on location, and the producers of the show were completely unaware of "The Bum Bum Song" at the time).

Green's increasing fame made it harder for him to ambush people on the streets, leading him to target mostly seniors and non-English speakers. After he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in March 2000, he stopped production on his TV show, but continued to appear on the channel via reruns and other promotional materials. He made a one-hour special on his ordeal with cancer, including graphic footage of his own surgery. The episode received wide critical acclaim for revealing a vulnerable, human side of an otherwise juvenile television personality. He also starred in and directed a one-hour special called

In July 2000, Tom Green became engaged to actress Drew Barrymore. Green and Barrymore met after Barrymore, who was a fan of Green's show, asked Green to appear in which Barrymore starred in and produced.

During the build up to their wedding Green and Barrymore frequently joked with the media about when and where they were going to wed. The most notable incident came on November 18, 2000 when Green hosted . 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 end, got "cold feet." The incident initially left viewers and the media confused about whether the couple had actually planned to marry on live TV, or were simply staging a publicity stunt. Eventually, Green also went on to toy with the public once again, this time claiming that his bride might be pregnant.

On February 18, 2001, there was a housefire at the residence of Green and Barrymore. Their dog Flossie woke them around 3:30 a.m. when she barked and "literally banged on their bedroom door." Firefighters estimated damage at $700,000 in the two-story, 3,500 square foot (325 m²) home located north of Beverly Hills. The incident was soon spoofed on with guest host Katie Holmes playing Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon playing Tom Green.[1]

Green and Barrymore married on July 7, 2001, but filed for divorce on December 17, 2001, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce became official on October 15, 2002. Some speculate that the marriage failed because Green wished to settle down and begin raising a family while Barrymore still had a high profile film career to maintain and still wanted to go out with her friends and have fun.

According to some tabloid reports Green grew annoyed by Barrymore's increasingly neurotic behavior in private. On October 13, 2001, Drew Barrymore hosted and Tom Green appeared in the audience wearing a gas mask. The episode came just a month after the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York City, where is produced. Reportedly, Barrymore was already anxious about flying to New York. When news broke that NBC's Rockefeller Center studios where they were rehearsing had received a package containing anthrax, Barrymore fled the set in tears, vowing not to return.

Green would later claim that, at their wedding, most of Barrymore's show business friends (among them, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Courtney Love, and Molly Shannon) paid no attention to Green's own friends and family since they "weren't famous." Perhaps on an ironic note, Drew Barrymore actually appeared in her ex-husband's infamous 2001 film . Marking a change from his earlier work, he was compared in print to a young Johnny Carson or David Letterman. Nevertheless, it was cancelled by MTV a few months after its premiere due to dwindling ratings. Currently, Tom Green is a recurring contributor to . Aside from his television work, Green is still acting with several films scheduled for release in 2005. Furthermore, Green is editing a new film which he also directed and starred in tentatively titled . No further details about the film have yet been released.

Tom Green's autobiography, titled (ISBN 1400052777), co-written with Allen Rucker, was released on October 12, 2004. He also maintains a blog on his official website.

Green has acted as host for a variety of special events, including the 2005 Canada's Walk of Fame induction ceremony, the Canadian Live 8 concert, and the 2005 CASBY Awards. Also, in early 2006, Green appeared in several commercials for the Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel promoting both the channel and for voters to vote in the forthcoming federal elections which took place on January 23, 2006.

On December 6, 2005 Green released his first solo album Prepare For Impact.

Tom plans on opening up a chicken farm sometime in 2006 as he has stated in some interviews. Tom also has stated in the past his plan to move to Nicaragua and build a home and recording studio, but has stated Costa Rica would be the nation he does it in.

TomGreen.com

Tom Green currently satisfies his fanbase with his constant devotion to his website, http:www.tomgreen.com - He personally answers fan e-mails and constantly blogs with written and video entries, usually concerning the minutiae of his life, his dogs (two Siberian huskies named Annie and Steve, both female), his parrot Rex Murphy or his work.

On November 9, 2005, Tom posted his personal cell phone number (310-717-1919) on his blog, and encouraged readers to call him. Since then some readers have posted their own videos of their conversations with Tom [2].

Tom Green chats with George Stroumboulopoulos, CBC News: The Hour, December 7, 2005. Retrieved December 28, 2005.