# Tom Green **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 21, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853 "2000-01-21T02:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WIU\_Wozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WIU\_Wozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIU_Wozman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/1 "2000-01-21T02:14:00Z")
I know many people don’t like his humor…at all. As a fan, I’d like to defend the man. As popular as Candid Camera and Super Bloopers and Practical jokes was, I can’t believe that anyone would object to his unscripted, make 'em look stupid comedy. I completely agree that he is very offensive, but that does not constitute taking him off the air. He is a man with a twisted sense of humor that many find funny. Can a network or organization regulate that? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/2 "2000-01-21T02:23:00Z")
Humor? He goes to a public place, then acts like an ass till he gets thrown out. Any fool can do that; where’s the humor? ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/3 "2000-01-21T02:27:00Z")
You don’t like to laugh at just _any_ fool Max? ---
**Author:** ![WIU\_Wozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WIU\_Wozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIU_Wozman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/4 "2000-01-21T02:41:00Z")
Ya know, any fool can do it, but who among us has the testicular fortitude to actually walk up to old ladies and ask them sexual questions? That’s the humor. * * * View every exit as an entrance someplace else ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/5 "2000-01-21T02:48:00Z")
Tom Green is fearless. I would rather risk physical injury or death than do what he does. ---
**Author:** ![LongHrn99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LongHrn99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LongHrn99)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/6 "2000-01-21T03:09:00Z")
I do the same kind of crap to people all the time, yet I don’t get paid. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/7 "2000-01-21T03:09:00Z")
I think he’s pretty funny. Occasionally I think he goes to far, but it makes for interesting watching. I definately laugh my ass off. * * * If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle. -Spanish Proverb ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/8 "2000-01-21T04:35:00Z")
I dunno, at times he’s pretty hilarious-I remember with great fondness the time he traveled to Roswell, and on an impulse told the paper there that he was in town to do a show on snakes…(yeah, right.)…and even proceeded to give an interview with the local paper on what he was doing(apparently a good way to catch snakes is to jump up and down very vigorously and scare them out of the ground…)-but at the same time it seems that he goes a bit far at times. I’m specifically speaking here of the way he treats his parents, now being a good person I naturally assume that he at least has their permission to air their reactions to his latest attempt to piss them off…but I’m still not sure. Overall, I’d say that he has some great moments, but isn’t really that consistent. Also an awful lot of the time he’s just a jerk. * * * I think I know I mean Yes but it’s all wrong That is I think I disagree ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/9 "2000-01-21T04:55:00Z")
I love Tom Green! Then again, I love Chris Elliott, Pauly Shore, Adam Sandler, and Pee Wee Herman too. I’m sick. "My bum is on the cheese, my bum is on the cheese. . . ". Cracks me up EVERY FREAKING TIME! * * * \>^,^\< KITTEN Fluff yer hair Beula, I’s feelin frisky - M.S. ---
**Author:** ![WIU\_Wozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WIU\_Wozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIU_Wozman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/10 "2000-01-21T05:27:00Z")
To quote “The Front Page” “…Journalists!!..stealing pictures off of old ladies who’s daughters got raped…” I’ve actually heard of this. Is he going THAT far? If that’s not inappropriate(and that’s the evening new) what is? * * * View every exit as an entrance someplace else ---
**Author:** ![LongHrn99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LongHrn99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LongHrn99)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/11 "2000-01-21T05:31:00Z")
I think going to far was feeding his grandmother candy off of a dildo. The vibrating kind. ---
**Author:** ![NewtonsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@NewtonsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NewtonsApple)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/12 "2000-01-21T19:52:00Z")
Glad to see that sick twisted Ridalin deprived freak go! His prank of the Lesbian paint job on the car was the first and last straw. Whatta dick! I hope he never sees the light of “studio lighting” ever again. -N ---
**Author:** ![WIU\_Wozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WIU\_Wozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIU_Wozman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/13 "2000-01-21T21:06:00Z")
Newton, I’m sorry I misled. He is not being definitely taken off the air, but there are many advocates of this, and MTV is feeling the heat. I’ll be more careful in my words next time. * * * View every exit as an entrance someplace else ---
**Author:** ![NewtonsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@NewtonsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NewtonsApple)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/14 "2000-01-21T21:26:00Z")
damn, damn ,damn. Note to self; write to MTV and get that guy taken off! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gl0worm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/779978/32.png) [@gl0worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gl0worm)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/15 "2000-01-24T00:11:00Z")
\\TOM GREEN FOREVER BABY!\\ ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/16 "2000-01-24T01:34:00Z")
The man is a genius (and Canadian!). And he’s also going to get himself killed one day, but that’s all part of the fun. And the shows most certainly were better before MTV picked it up. * * * “What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” --W.C. Fields ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/17 "2000-01-24T04:53:00Z")
Who the hell is Tom Green? ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/18 "2000-01-24T04:55:00Z")
BTW, I don’t have cable, just another bill I prefer not to have to pay. Why should I, I get 5 channels for free and I watch too much TV as it is 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WIU\_Wozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WIU\_Wozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIU_Wozman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/19 "2000-01-24T09:21:00Z")
Techchick, Tom Green is a very vulgar comedian who takes his humor to unsuspecting citizens. This man once put a statue of his parents having anal sex in their lawn. He’s hilarious. * * * View every exit as an entrance someplace else ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853/20 "2000-01-24T20:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by WIU Wozman: > \*\*Newton, I’m sorry I misled. He is not being definitely taken off the air, but there are many advocates of this, and MTV is feeling the heat. I’ll be more careful in my words next time. > \*\* ## I had heard from two different friends that he dressed up like a Nazi storm trooper and walked into a synogoge during a Bar Mitzvah, and that MTV dropped him because of it. However, I have seen commercials for the new season since then, so am I just the victim of an urban legend? One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. -Nietzche [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-green/17853.md?page=2)