Michael Thomas Green, better known as Tom Green, was born on July 30, 1971, in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. His mother, Mary Jane, was a communications consultant, and his father, Richard Green, was a former army captain and computer systems analyst. Green grew up on a Canadian Army installation near Pembroke, CFB Petawawa, as well as in Ottawa due to his father’s military service. He attended Colonel By Secondary School and Cairine Wilson Secondary School before attending Algonquin College and graduating in 1994 with a degree in television broadcasting.
Personal Life
Green married the actress Drew Barrymore in July 2000. They first met when Barrymore persuaded Green to appear in her film “Charlie’s Angels,” which she also produced and acted in. They married in July 2001, divorced in December 2001, and then divorced permanently in October 2002.
Career
Green began performing stand-up comedy at local comedy clubs when he was just 15 years old. Yuk Yuk’s comedy club was the most well-known of these locations. He did this for the following two and a half years until he chose to cancel an appointment to join his rap group on a trip to New York. He rapped under the moniker “MC Bones” for the rap group Organized Rhyme. They had brief, fleeting success in the early 1990s, when their track “Check The O.R.” was nominated for a Juno Award in 1993 and won the MuchVibe Best Rap Video Award in 1992. Green also aired a nighttime call-in programme on the University of Ottawa campus station, OHUO, while a student at Algonquin College. He teamed up with his friend Glenn Humplik to broadcast “The Midnight Caller Show,” which became an underground hit in Ottawa.
Green got his show, “The Tom Green Show,” in 1994. It was free and shown on Rogers Television 22 in the Ottawa area on public access television. Each episode lasted an hour and had no ads, and the show broadcast 50 episodes over two seasons until 1996. It followed a variety show structure, with Green hosting guests and inviting bands to perform in front of a live audience. Some pre-recorded parts were also shown, mainly showing Green pulling pranks on others, most notably his parents, Richard and Mary Jane. The show then aired a one-time pilot on CBC in October 1996. It was favourably appreciated, and The Comedy Network in Canada took it up in 1997. It aired 26 episodes on The Comedy Network throughout two seasons. MTV took up “The Tom Green Show” in January 1999, and he began to acquire fame both in the United States and abroad in other nations. He co-wrote the programme with Derek Harvie and co-hosted it with two of his closest friends, Glenn Humplik and Phil Giroux. He became famous for his style of shock humour, with controversial and/or startling sketches such as pretending to hump a dead moose or drinking milk directly from a cow’s teat appearing on the show.
His growing celebrity helped him score several more possibilities. For example, he was picked for the June 8, 2000 edition of Rolling Stone magazine’s cover. After being diagnosed with testicular cancer in March 2000, he took a break from “The Tom Green Show,” but he used the time to focus on other projects linked to his illness. He created, produced, and performed in “The Tom Green Cancer Special,” a one-hour MTV special that premiered on May 23, 2000. It chronicled his road to surgery and gained significant recognition for depicting a more vulnerable side of him. He also became a prominent champion for cancer awareness, founding the “Tom Green’s Nuts Cancer Fund” to raise funds for cancer research and performing the song “Feel Your Balls” at a testicular cancer awareness event with hundreds of the University of Florida students.
Following his cancer struggle and recovery, Green went on to appear in several Hollywood films, including “Road Trip” (2000), “Charlie’s Angels” (2000), “Freddy Got Fingered” (2001), and “Stealing Harvard” (2002). He authored and directed “Freddy Got Fingered” in addition to performing. That specific picture was widely regarded as one of the worst films of the year, and it received five Golden Raspberry Awards in 2001. (awards given to the worst movies). MTV allowed Green to host his show, “The New Tom Green Show,” again in mid-2003. Due to low ratings, the show was discontinued after only eleven weeks. He has subsequently continued to do stand-up comedy and has been involved in a variety of other ventures. Some of these include a return to rap music, releasing many albums; a return to television with appearances on reality series including “The Celebrity Apprentice” and “Celebrity Big Brother”; and the audio podcast “Tom Green Radio”.
Net Worth
Tom spent $1.475 million for a property in Studio City, California, in 2003. He advertised this home for $2.3 million in March 2021. Tom Green is a 5 million dollar net worth Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian, talk show presenter, podcaster, and media personality. A comedian, actor, and rap musician, Tom Green starred in the sitcom, “The Tom Green Show” on MTV from 1994 until 2000, and its revival, “The New Tom Green Show”. He has acted in films such as “Freddy Got Fingered” (2001), “Road Trip” (2000), and “Charlie’s Angels” (2000).
