tom green: hot or not?

In: Media| Television

5 Jun 2006

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That’s right boys and girls, the moment we’ve all been waiting for.  Our favorite repulsive, reclusive, and shockingly funny comedian from the Great White North is giving the talk show format another kick at the can.  Tom Green’s first community cable show was absolutely hysterical, and Green regularly pushed the limits of TV censorship and content restrictions as far as anyone ever had.  The MTV reincarnation was horribly weak, mostly because Green was too real for reality TV and MTV couldn’t let him do any of his most ridiculous, disgusting humour.  After all, Tom Green never was known for his sophisticated wit or sketch comedy writing skills.

So his new show, broadcast online from his very own living room will go in one of two directions: either it will be incredibly horrible, or it will be incredibly genius.  And the kicker is that it has absolutely zero to do with Tom Green’s talent, ability, or likeability.  It has everything to do with whether or not enough of us are willing and ready to watch a talk show on our computer monitors.  If Green can attract a large enough audience to justify celebrity guests and advertisers with reasonable sized budgets, this show will become the new poster child for next generation content production.  If it flops, Tom Green will once again be the whipping boy for a concept far ahead of its time.

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michael gibson

June 5th, 2006 at 7:29 pm

hi again,

i adore alternative, comic tv…
the wackier the better.
and it’s transision onto the web is long overdue…. but!

shame on tom green.

i just followed your link to his page and clicked on his media player with glea at the thought of tuning into something special.

hum… it didn’t work…

i scanned the page for relevant info and found this on the side

THE CHANNEL WILL BE UNDERGOING REGULAR MAINTENANCE. WE WILL BE UP AND DOWN FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, AS WE COUNT DOWN TO LAUNCH. THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE LIVE CHANNEL, AND LIVE TALKSHOW. TOMGREEN.COM LIVE. STARTING JUNE 15TH. 12 MIDNIGHT EST. PHONE IN. WORLDWIDE…

i was a little upset.

bad! bad! bad! … Tom, don’t put the player if there’s no content… golden rule of the internet sweetheart…

anyhow.

nice to see some new stuff on your blog nolan…

keep the faith… the lack of punters ain’t going to stop me.

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nolin

June 5th, 2006 at 7:34 pm

dissapointing indeed! the silver lining, at least, is that there’s plenty of whacked video clips on his blog for your viewing enjoyment in the meantime. (http://www.tomgreen.com/blog.php)

we’ll see if the new online tv show is any good or not soon enough. the blog footage is hit and miss, i’ve found.

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