Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 77

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 77

Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded by: Andru Valpy, Natty Somers

Air Date: 05/18/2011 6:00 PM on UMFM 101.5 FM
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Rebroadcast: 5/25/2011 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM

This week's episode was a very special episode. 

Our guest was Mr. Tom Green, a Canadian comedian who has been active in the industry for over 25 years. Tom will be performing at Rumors Comedy Club in Winnipeg on May 26, 27th and 28th 2011


Tom started with stand up comedy in 1986 with a stand up routine, performing at various clubs around his home town of Pembroke and Toronto Ontario, including a few shows at Canada's famous Yuk Yuk's comedy club. 

While attending college in Ottawa, Tom hosted a radio show on from CHUO FM 89.1 FM from the University of Ottawa entitled "The Rap Show" until he eventually met up with friend and later co-host Glen Humplik to form "The Midnight Caller Show". 

In the early 90's Green was part of a Canadian hip hop group called Organized Rhyme and he rapped under the alias "MC Bones". In 1992, Organized Ryme released a single entitled "Check The O.R." which was nominated for the 1993 Juno's for Best Rap Recording, and had also won the Much Vibe Best Rap Video award in 1992.

He later moved on to Rogers Television 22 in Ottawa as part of a public-access tv station where he formed the now famous "Tom Green Show" from 1994-1996. 

In January of 1999, be was picked up by MTV bringing his low-budget Canadian series to a new audience of viewers in the United States and around the world.



In 1999 Tom wrote and produced "The Lonely Swedish (Bum Bum Song)" which quickly made it to the top of MTV's "Total Request Live" (TRL), and after five days of being number 1 Tom retired the song as he felt it was unfair to 98 degrees. 

Tom continued on MTV networks until late 2003, during which time he produced a one hour MTV Special on his Testicular Cancer treatment. 

Green continued to rise to fame after the cancellation of The Tom Green Show making cameo appearances on various films like Freddy Got Fingered and Charlies Angels, and even hosted The David Letterman Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and appeared in several commercials for the Canadian Cable Public Affairs Channel. 

In 2006, Tom Green announced he would be hosting Tom Green's House Tonight, a live talk show that would broadcast from his home in Hollywood Hills. On June 15th, 2006 the show aired with a partnership with ManiaTV.com. 

The show continued with Maniatv until January 2008 where tom launched TomGreen.com. The show continues to this day, and is credited as "the highest rated, longest running, and only talk show on the Internet".  The show still airs on occasion at TomGreen.com.

In 2009 Tom started doing stand-up comedy again with several shows in Los Angeles and a secret MySpace event in New York City. 

On November 10, 2009 Tom announced his first ever world stand-up comedy tour which started in 2010. 

On this weeks episode, we talked to Tom Green in anticipation of his Winnipeg stop over at Rumors Comedy Club from May the 26th, 27th and 28th. Though there are a few tickets still available for this show, Rumors comedy club is anticipating a sell out. 

During our exclusive conversation, Tom elaborated on being the first member of media to report on the death of Osama bin Laden by means of Twitter. 

He explained that he felt the main stream media was embarrassed that they had been scooped by The Tom Green show and posed the question to our audience as to why his tweet did not receive any coverage.

Tom ended the show by announcing what fans could expect at his Winnipeg stop-over and expressed his honest appreciation and excitement about visiting Winnipeg for the first time. 

You can look forward to our review of Tom Green's show at Rumors Comedy Club in two weeks time on http://wakeupwinnipeg.com. 

Meanwhile, we ended the show with the Organized Rhyme single "Check The O.R'.







For more information about this episode, be sure to download it in full in the iTunes music store, and visit our website at http://wakeupwinnipeg.com.

Also be sure to tune in to City Scape UMFM on Saturday May the 21st as host Chris Reid follows up with Tom Green for more on his Winnipeg tour.

Tickets can be reserved by calling Rumors Comedy Club at 488-4520 or by visiting http://www.rumorscomedyclub.com

We look forward to seeing you next week on our next episode of Wake Up Winnipeg. 

Until then,

-Av