Tom Green Live
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| Tom Green Live | |
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| Genre | Internet Talk show |
| Creator(s) | Tom Green |
| Starring | Tom Green |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 116 as of March 29, 2007 |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera setup |
| Running time | approx. 60 minutes |
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| Original channel | ManiaTV! tomgreen.com |
| Original run | June 15, 2006 – present |
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Tom Green Live is a webcast show which airs from Monday-Friday (8 PM PST/11 PM EST) on Tom Green's website, tomgreen.com.
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[edit] Description
A partnership between Tom and ManiaTV! (who financed the majority of the show), the webcast is occasionally scripted but mostly spontaneous, with a reliance on call-ins and special guests to keep things interesting. The show is set inside Tom's living room, where a studio has been constructed. Because of many technical issues with phones, computers, streaming, and audio in the early shows, they took off a few days to repair the systems and came back on September 13 2006. The episodes before September 13 are considered to be Test Shows, and the real episodes are considered to have started on September 13.
While Tom Green Live is not the first Internet show, it may be the first internet call-in talk show, and Tom frequently cites this as an innovation. With no reliance on advertisement funding, his show is similar to public access television. It has none of the typical content restrictions, such as a ban on swearing or nudity, although Tom often discourages talk about politics and sex and tries to refrain from swearing himself.
Originally set to be an hour long every Thursday, the webcast frequently went over this limit, and aired on other days. The show airs from Monday to Friday for one hour, occasionally going over the hour. Most shows can also be viewed in the On Demand section of tomgreen.com (which Tom calls his site "The Channel"). Although at any random time he could turn the cameras on and be live on The Channel. These usually don't make it to the On Demand section.
Tom now has a new show called Tom Green This morning 10:00am Pacific, 6:00pm GMT, he plays a game called "Double Our Rating", where the viewers have to double the amount of viewers, if the rating goes up when Tom checks the rating he stays online, if it goes down twice in a row he goes off air, on the test of the show 2 February 2007, they got up to 1420 viewers and 6 February 2007 they got up to about 630 viewers and stayed on air for 2 hours.
Some random shows on The Channel have been "The Wally And Tom Show" (Tom and his ventriloquist dummy Wally or Larry), "Leonard Mills Live" (Tom in character playing guitar and singing), or on 20 September 2006 when he left a live camera on him all night while he slept. Also on Fridays is his "Freestyle Fridays" show, where there is live music in a party atmosphere. These shows can vary significantly in length, and can last for many hours. There are also other random shows filmed in Tom's house, but not hosted by Tom. These shows are "Girl Talk Live" (various women talking about various subjects), "The Robert Kurtz Show" (Robert Kurtz searching the internet for funny or shocking content with the help of viewers who call in and send links) and "Poolside Chats" (talk show hosted by comedian Neil Hamburger). And then there are also the occasional pre-recorded clips such as Costa Rica, Tom skateboarding, Tom's foot surgery, etc.
[edit] Trivia
- Before Tom Green Live premiered, ManiaTV! ran promos for the upcoming show, one of which featured the song "Where It's At" by Beck.
- The music playing in the intro to his show is "Mixed Bizness" by Beck.
- On August 31st there was a claimed "death" on the show, started by Buzz Osborne. Tom later acknowledged it as being true, but inconsistencies in who the victim was lead many to believe this to be a hoax. It has been confirmed by ManiaTV to be a hoax. However, Tom still insists that this is not a hoax. The 'dead body' ended up being the broken Pepper Pad for the phone system.
- Tom's Parrot 'Rex Murphy' is named after Canadian commentator Rex Murphy.
- Tom Green Live has many notable viewers such as Harrison Ford, Norm Macdonald, Gene Simmons, Howard Stern and many other notable celebrities.
- The show is also a prime target of many collective internet groups (4chan, for example) for prank phone calling. Most of the shows that have featured heavy concentrations of prank calls are omitted from the saved episode database, but may still be found on websites such as YouTube.
- Comedy musician"Weird Al" Yankovic has appeared twice on "The Channel": One by himself (which is apparently no longer on the site, but can be downloaded here [1]) and one (that IS on the site) where he was paired with pro skater Mike Vallely.
