The Tom Green Show
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The Tom Green Show was a Canadian (later American) television show which first aired in 1993 on Rogers Community 22, a public-access television channel in Ottawa, Ontario, and was later picked up by the Comedy Network. In 1999, the show moved to the United States and aired on MTV until its cancellation in 2000.
It was a comedy show hosted by Tom 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 set and became known as "the guy in the window". Derek Harvie, who co-wrote the show with Tom, occasionally appeared in a few of the segments.
The show became notorious for Green's outrageous stunts, like humping a dead moose on the side of the road and putting dog poop on his microphone while interviewing people on the street. He also frequently abused his parents, at one point waking them up in the wee hours of the morning with a severed cow head.
The show also had a few recurring characters and sketches, including Billy Bob (a redneck who loved caramels and shaking his leg), Hockey Guy (a hockey player who would skate up in front of people and clumsily fall down), and a police station sketch.
He also explored the quirks of his friends. Green drew attention to Giroux's unusual laugh and discomfort with the smell of copper. They aired clips from a lengthy argument of whether a bear or a cougar would win in a fight.
When the show moved to MTV, Green released a single called Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song), encouraging visitors to download the song off his website, burn it onto CDs and distribute it to friends. The video quickly shot to number one on Total Request Live but it was immediately retired after it reached number one.
In 2000, Green made a one-hour special out of his testicular cancer surgery. The episode received wide critical acclaim for revealing a vulnerable, human side of an otherwise juvenile television personality.
The show was briefly revived by MTV in 2003 as The New Tom Green Show, which was retooled to have more of a late-night talk show format, but was canceled after a few months due to poor ratings.
A frequent rumor says that the show was cancelled because of a segment where Green allegedly shows up at a Bar Mitzvah dressed as Hitler. However Green has repeatedly denied that such a segment exists. Racist jokes were never done on the show.