The Tom Green Show

"The Tom Green Show" is perverse, insolent, and disgusting...but it is equally compelling.

Imagine the ineptitude of "The Jerry Springer Show," the hilarity of "The Simpsons," and the vulgarity of "South Park," all merging together into one half-hour show. A show where boundaries are crossed, and tastelessness is pushed to new heights. This is one show where nobody is spared from the imposing wrath of one single man! He's rambunctious, he's spontaneous...he's the amazing, one-and-only Tom Green!

"The Tom Green Show", hosted by none other then Tom Green himself has one simple concept: Mr. Green chooses people at random, and cajoles them to throw away their dignity in order to humiliate themselves in front of roaring crowds sitting in the audience seats. These hapless folks, ranging from store clerks to anonymous senior citizens do not realize what sort of embarrassing situations they are getting themselves into! Tom Green's co-host is the rotund but affable Glenn Humplik, an innocent and benign man with a simple life and a fairly mundane job. This man is a saint compared to Tom Green. Humplik is also a part-time employee at a telephone company. Hey, he also likes to look at (GASP!) his sister's mammary glands! Then, there is that guy by the window, who just sits there, laughing incessantly at every joke Tom Green makes...

What is the point of "The Tom Green Show?" Well...I really wish I knew. I cannot attest that this show has a lot of intelligent, insightful meaning, but at least it never fails to make you laugh. There are so many memorable moments in this show that I can hardly contain myself. (How many times have you heard that line before?) Some of the most outrageous segments to look out for include "urine trouble," where Humplik is in serious distress, and "talk to the poo," which is...you've guessed it. Another unforgettable scene was when Tom Green made "home movies" involving both a sheep and a pizza delivery man. Yet, there are other controversial moments which are far too graphic to describe... It is moments like those segments involving scatological humor that make you glad that there are people out there like Tom Green who are entertaining the public. They make an impact in society...

Apparently, this show's success is credited to Tom Green's sick but perceptive sense of humor. He can turn any generic event into a circus. As well, in the face of danger, Tom Green never backs down...he leaps into action! From skateboarding to swimming across Lake Washington, Tom Green is ready, willing, and able. Tom Green continuously keeps his viewers awed and amused. He often concocts the most bold, daring coups ever. His enterprises are always unanticipated, never routine. Sometimes they are uproariously hilarious, other times, you will be shaking your head in tremendous shock. Nevertheless, "The Tom Green Show" is a thoroughly fun and pleasant television show that is worth at least thirty minutes of your life.

Personally, I find "The Tom Green Show" to be downright ribald. It is all in bad taste, but I find this show to be so comprehensively impudent that I cannot help but to snicker loudly. Novelty does count and Tom Green can always find novel ways of transforming seemingly ordinary and harmless circumstances into laugh riots. Tom Green is a disturbed little man. That's what makes him such a legend! As for Glenn Humplik, I feel really sorry for this character. I would be distraught if my best friend began ridiculing me on national TV. However, everyone knows that Humplik is a good sport and should therefore take the teasing blithely.

"The Tom Green Show" is great. It if often freaky and ludicrous, but it is a joyous occasion to see people make idiots of themselves in front of camera. If ever Tom Green has a message to say to the people of the world, then he would probably say that everyone needs to lighten up a bit and have a little fun. It is acceptable to make a travesty of yourself in front of millions of people; that is only human nature. Anyway, this show is guaranteed to make you laugh so hysterically that you will embarrass yourself in front of your loved ones. Just sit back on your comfortable couch, forget your daily troubles, and prepare to laugh out loud.

Watch out, Tom Green may be coming to your neighborhood soon...

Here are some words of wisdom from Tom Green: "My bum is on the Swedish...SWEDISH...Swedish...SWEDISH"

SPECIAL NOTE: If you ever plan to swim in Lake Washington, remember what Tom Green has said. Since the human body is "composed" of 80% water, then only 20% of the human being should have to swim. The remaining 80% of the body must "mix in" with the water. Okay? Good. This is Tom Green's theoretical theory!

P.S. Do not forget to check out Tom Green's new music number, "The Bum Bum Song ('Lonely Swedish')." It will definitely change your perspective about the human rear end!

RATING: Superb Entertainment! (These comments are based on the overall impression of the TV show. Television shows will not earn a star rating. This is because each episode will vary in its quality.)

One of the greatest wastes of space ever devised. I'm not the type to look down on low-brow humor, either.

Tom Green is not funny, or talented, or clever, or much of anything but a dumb frat-jock suffering from a severe case of ADD.

On the other hand, Andy Dick's parody of him (on the Andy Dick show) is utterly hilarious.

Tom Green is the perfect example of networks trying to pander to a target audience. Have a little faith in the youth of today.

The comment that has most irked me is how unique and ahead of his time Tom Green is. Tom Green does 3rd grader jokes. He annoys other people, and that's all.

Andy Kaufman was a genius because he didn't try to push peoples buttons, he just tried to be entertaining and nobody at the time got it. Watch a special on him, or read his bio. He did things that were incredibly sophisticated (i.e. the Mighty Mouse record on SNL, or the talk show where his desk was four feet higher than the guest). He didn't just run around screaming "Poopie!" and getting a cheap laugh, or cause some guy to go into a frenzy by walking up to him and kicking him.

Tom Green is an immature little punk who gets paid to annoy people. Don't fool yourselves into thinking him a social engineer to justify laughing at toilet humor. And for the love of Kaufman, please stop comparing them.

The comment from the other guy that said The Tom Green show is a perfect example of TV companies 'pandering' us is wrong. Plain wrong. MTV didn't create Tom Green. Mary-Jane and Richard Green did. Tom has risen from public access TV. He wasn't being paid to do it. Whether people like it or not (And a lot hate it) Tom Green has made it. He was given the Comedy network and MTV shows because his Rogers 22 show was rated highly. MTV didn't pick him because they thought that's what we wanted to see, we DID want to see it, the proof was in the audience figures. Don't like it, don't watch.

No offense to my friends to the south (America), but MTV's "The Tom Green Show" does not do the original show justice.

Granted, its still over the top hilarious, but in Canada, the show was completely uncensored. Tom was completely free to be as crazy as he wanted to be without having anything censored. A few of his segments that originally aired in Canada have aired on the American show with language and other stuff cut out. That sucks!

Tom, on behalf of all your fans in Canada, please come back and do your show here the way we remembered it. Or at least do your show on a network that will let you get away with a little more stuff than now (who knew MTV had a standards and practices department).

And to you American viewers who are interested in the original Tom Green Show, I highly recommend you look for the following videos featuring the best of the original Tom Green Show:

"Something Smells Funny", "Tonsil Hockey", and "Road Kill" on VHS, and "Endangered Feces" on DVD.

Thank you.