Tom Green Live

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Tom Green Live
Tom Green Live title card
Genre	Internet Talk show
Camera setup	Multi-camera setup
Running time	approx. 60 minutes
Creator(s)	Tom Green
Starring	Tom Green
Country of origin	USA
Original channel	ManiaTV! tomgreen.com
Original run	June 15, 2006–present
No. of episodes	72 as of November 16, 2006
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Tom Green Live is a webcast show which airs from Monday-Thursday (8 PM PST/11 PM EST) on Tom Green's website, tomgreen.com.

1 Description
2 List of shows
3 Trivia
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[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 over 9000 call-ins and special guests to keep things interesting. The show is set inside Tom's living room, where a studio has been constructed, the booker for the show is a volunteer hired off the interner (Zack Wolk). 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. Now the only major problem is over 9000 callers; either trivial or prank calls.

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. Currently the show is planned to air from Monday to Thursday 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.

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 September 20 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 Neil Hamburger). And then there are also the occasional pre-recorded clips such as Costa Rica, Tom skateboarding, Tom's foot surgery, etc.

[edit] List of shows

See List of episodes of Tom Green Live

[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^[1] and Howard Stern.^{[citation needed]}
The show is also a prime target of many collective internet groups 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.