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Tom Green: Road Trip
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Madeline Zima (”Californication”), Kate Albrecht (”Entourage”) and Tom Green (”Road Trip”) ... star. Irving Rothberg directed. “Legacy” is produced by Michael Kolko and Jason Dudek, who co-wrote the screenplay with Samantha Silver. Greg Strasberg exec produced.
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Raised in Ottawa, Green began to hone his comic skills as a teenager, pulling gags for the amusement of his friends. Along with doing stand-up while in college, Green released a rap album and created a hit radio show at the University of Ottawa. After graduation, Green managed to get the first incarnation of his signature TV series, The Tom Green Show, on local Ottawa television in 1994. A hit, The Tom Green Show landed on Canada's Comedy Network and officially hit the big time when MTV bought it and began airing it in the U.S. in 1999. During its two years on MTV, the show garnered high ratings due to Green's penchant for pushing the limits of taste with such gags as shagging a dead moose and delivering animal parts to his parents' house, and for involving innocent bystanders in his "confrontational comedy." Green even managed to top the episode featuring his trip home with Presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky when he transformed his spring 2000 battle with testicular cancer into the infamous "Cancer Special" for MTV.
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During his treatment, Green's show went on extended hiatus. The show was coming close to ending its run, because Green was starting to parlay his cult-figure status into Hollywood stardom. By 1998, Tom Green already had appeared in two Canadian independent films: "Clutch" and "The Chicken Tree". He then landed a bit part in the ill-conceived Molly Shannon vehicle, "Superstar". It wasn't until the college comedy "Road Trip"... that Green gained widespread notoriety (mostly by having a rodent defecate in his mouth).
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On one segment, Green tries to resuscitate a dead moose on the side of the road, even to the point of simulating sex with the animal’s carcass. On one occasion when Green was appearing on another Canadian talk show, he opened a suitcase halfway through the interview and pulled out a decaying raccoon carcass. The host actually had to run off the stage retching. One of Green’s most famous and disgusting pranks is the “Poo microphone.†In this segment he heads out to the streets to ask passers-by, “What’s your favorite part of living in
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When the station was purchased by American evangelicals, Mr. Green believed that his creative wings would be clipped. He left to produce independent videos. While he was preparing for a working trip to Antarctica, a physical revealed a leaky heart valve.
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