Tom Green
Social media is making us more anti-social.
I love playing in Vegas because you've got people from all over the world, and you're already accepted. It's kind of a great mixture of people that come out to the shows, and that makes it fun.
With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.
I'd love to interview Mark Cuban!
I'm incredibly proud to bring back 'Tom Green Live' for a third season on AXS TV. AXS TV's commitment to unique, out-of-the-box humor, in a completely open and uncensored format, is unparalleled.
I used to do stand-up when I was in high school. But I was also making beats for this rap group, and when we got a record deal, I sort of stopped doing the comedy and focused on the music instead. When that ended, I decided to go back to school, take broadcasting, and start my show on public-access TV.
When you work in television, working for a big corporation, no matter who you are, you can always get cancelled. That sucks. Do you really want to work with an axe over your head for the rest of your life? Not me, not really, and not if you don't have to.
You can't let regret stifle your creativity.
I'm a different guy on stage.
I'm a little bit of a techie.
I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.
I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.
I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.
I clearly remember what it was like before Facebook and before cellphones. They didn't have any of that when I was in high school.
I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.
I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.
I have so much more fun doing stand-up. I can't even begin to explain.
It takes a long time to put a movie together. It can take years.
When I started doing stand-up again, a lot of it was coming from an angrier place, and I quickly learned that doesn't spell a good time in a comedy club.
All of my old videos and the things I did on MTV, my old public access show - it was sort of all made for the Web, even though they were made before the Internet was broadcasting video.
I first met the 'Trailer Park Boys' when they did my web television show, and since then, I've hung out with them a few times.
I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.
I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.
My show on MTV, as outrageous as it was, it was also making a point, which was, 'Look at what we're doing here. This is something that you don't see on television every day, because you're not allowed to do this on television.'
I could sit here and say, 'What would have happened if I hadn't made that crazy television show, if I hadn't made those crazy movies?' Well, I'd be back in Canada working at Dairy Queen.
Vegas is exciting, and it's nice to be somewhere on a regular basis rather than just criss-crossing the country. It allows me to have a semblance of a life.
I'm talking about some real subjects and issues in my standup. I'm attempting to make a point about technology and how it's changing our society and our lives, and our addiction to social media, and how it affects marriages and relationships.
When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you're 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you're speaking truth to power.
It's nice to go skating in a parking lot and hang out with people who aren't talking about their next movie role.
I recommend people don't get in high-profile marriages. There are a lot of people in the world. You don't have to marry someone with their own team of publicists, managers, agents, and lawyers.
I assumed I'd never be divorced.
Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.
If I ever interview somebody, I make sure I listen to them. As a comedian, I've gone on so many shows, I've wanted to take things to a crazy place. Sometimes the hosts don't like that.
I grew up practically getting into this business because of David Letterman. I wanted to do comedy-based interviews.
Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy in the same way now.
I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there.
There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.
I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.
If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy.
When I started my show, it was a public access show in Canada, and I was a broadcasting student in the early '90s, years before I was on MTV. We were kids sort of experimenting and trying to take on the system - you know, the media machine.
I've always had fun looking forward, seeing where technology is going, and finding interesting ways of applying that to comedy.
Technology can't eliminate the need for people going to want to go out and see theater and standup comedy.
Drew is a wonderful woman. I love her very much. I wish our marriage could have worked out. I wish her much happiness.
I was happy to be turning 40. It was a good one.
I definitely think L.A. would be a very difficult city to move to and try to make it in. There's a lot of people down there, and it's tough to stand out in the crowd.
I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.
I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.
I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.
Certainly, every movie has to be looked at differently. But I think what happens is, every couple of years, a movie comes along that everybody then tries to copy.