Tom's Blog

March 07, 2010

Man am I ever having a great time doing standup comedy.  I may not ever get off the road if things keep going like this.  Thanks to everyone who has been coming out to our shows.  Another great SOLD OUT weekend!  The audiences here in Dallas have been packed every night and we are having a GREAT TIME!! 

Check out all of our upcoming tour dates and come see us in your part of the world.  www.tomgreen.com/tour

We have a few more dates in the USA and then we are off to Australia and then Europe for a little adventure.  I'm really excited about doing our Australia tour!  I've never been to Australia before so this is definitely going to be a great experience for me.  I can't wait!

I'm also really enjoying the process of writing and refining the comedy show.  Every week I feel like I am making exciting discoveries.  What a great opportunity to be able to tour the country, and the world and get to perform every night.  2 shows a night!  To packed houses of great people who are drinking and eating and having a really great time.  I love what I am doing right now.

I know a lot of you really want me to come back to LA and continue doing the web talk show more regularly.  But I have to keep doing this now.  The studio at The Channel is in great shape, and we will do more shows soon.  But for the moment I have to keep doing this.  It's in my blood.

There is something very addictive to getting up on stage and doing this.  The adrenaline rush that I am experiencing every night is hard to describe.  I have done plenty of live performance over the years, but nothing comes close to standing on stage and rockin the microphone doing stand up for an hour or so.  I really do feel a strong connection with all of the audiences.  And I have to say it is a great feeling to be able to feel the way real people are thinking about different issues that we are facing in this world.  Life is full of absurdities.  Nothing makes me feel better to see there is still a healthy sense of humor out there in the world.  Sure we have a lot of problems in our lives, and in our world.  But it is great to see how much everyone is willing and ready to laugh.  We need to do that more.  Thanks to everyone who has been coming out to my shows to do so with me.  I appreciate it.

Come see me this year on tour!  I am definitely going to be coming to your town!  Let's rock!!

Tom

March 01, 2010

What's up webovision mascots! we have a web intern position open up at the channel, be familiar with php, mysql, basic html and css. Other programming languages and experience a plus.

February 26, 2010

Thanks Chicago!  Last night was amazing.  We had a great time at the world famous Zanies comedy club in downtown Chicago.  So many of the great comedians have performed in this place over the last 32 years.  You can fel the energy in the room.  And the photos on the wall are a who's who in American comedy.  Old signed head shots of Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Sam Kinison, Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy.  So many of the greatest standups of our era have performed here.  What and exciting way to kick off our weekend in Chicago.

Tonight I will be performing at the 2 other Chicago Zanies clubs, both in one night.  The early show will be at the St. Charles Zanies, and then we whip it across town for a late show in Vernon Hills.  Both suburbs of Chicago.  Then tomorrow night, (Saturday) there will be 2 shows in Vernon Hills.  So come on out and have some fun with my friend Shawn Halpin and myself as we continue this stand up comedy adventure.  We are weavng our way across the country and around the world.  Come find us on the road gang.  I'm having a blast!

www.tomgreen.com/tour

Rock n' Roll!!

Tom

February 23, 2010

We had such a great time in New York. I love New York. Now we are on our way to Chicago and I happen to love Chicago also! :) If you search around Youtube under "hockey guy" you can see me goofing off on the streets of Chicago. About 15 years ago. Hockey guy!! Let's have as much fun in Chicago this weekend as we did in New York City! Come see us everyone!! Good times!! :)

February 22, 2010

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February 15, 2010

Man this is exciting.  We have been killing it all across the country.  This tour is going amazingly well and I can't thank all of you enough who have come to our shows!  Edmonton, Atlanta, Nashville, Marco Island, Houston, Louisville, Pittsburgh, we have been killing it! 

We just had an amazing sold out weekend in Pittsburgh.  What a great time.  I feel like we are really getting into an amazing rhythm here.  I can't wait for all of you who haven't seen the show, to come catch us LIVE.  I am having the time of my life.

If you are anywhere in the vicinity of New York City I would love nothing more than to see you at the shows this weekend.  Come to Comix in the world famous meat packing district and lets rock.  Road trip!  :)  And thank you again to all of you who have come to the shows and showed your support for the tour.  It's been a blast.

Rock on gang!  See ya this Thursday Friday and Saturday night!

Tom Green

February 12, 2010

Hey gang,

Sorry that I haven't posted in a couple of days.  I was just back in Los Angeles for the first time in about 4 weeks.  It was great to catch up with everything at home for a second, see my dogs, my bird Rex Murphy and to simply touch base.  But to be completely honest, I am also excited to be back on the road.  I am having a blast and really enjoying doing these shows.  I am in Pittsburgh today, and getting ready for 5 shows this weekend.  Looks like we are headed for 5 more sell out performances, so if you are in Pittsburgh you better call the venue and get your tickets right away because they are pretty much going fast.  And if you are here on the website now, I wanna see you.

Shawn and I had a great time in Houston.  I will post a little video that we shot there today.  Frankly, I just had to take a second to decompress and we haven't been doing much video editing.  I also have some great news from The Channel here.  We are going to be doing a bit of expanding.  Our subscription service has started to grow since I have been on tour.  Now that more people have signed up, the more I am going to be able to re-invest in The Channel.  This is going to mean a more organized and more efficient system, and easier access to our content.  We have a few new people helping out full time back in Los Angeles, so expect to start seeing some changes soon.  Go click around the website today, look under the various tabs, and watch some of our award winning shows that we have available for free for our non subscribers.  And if you subscribe, of course you will gain access to all of our archives and hundreds of hours of raw and ridiculous content.  Honestly, there is so much weird stuff on this website from the past few years that I can't make it free to the public.  It is simply too outrageous, raw, and silly.  I dont think the general public would "get it" to be completely frank.  But if you know anything about me, then you know I have always liked to push the envelope and do things that are out of the box.

In fact this is what this stand up comedy tour and my show is about.  Apart from wanting to get up onstage and have a great time with all of you folks who are coming to see me live, I also want to talk straight.   I want to live in a world where we can have access to more free voices and ridiculous ideas.  And with the internet I think we may have the opportunity to loosen the strangle hold that major corporations, networks, and studios have always put on artists, comedians, musicians and the like.  I'm tired of being fed all the same old crap, and getting out on the road and meeting with all of you webo-vision watchers I am excited to see how many of you all feel exactly the same way as I do.  The world has been getting far to serious the last few years.  I even think that comedy has gotten too serious.  I think we all need to lighten up, goof off, make fun of each other, ourselves, and everything else.  Because at the end of this ride, every single one of us will meet the same fate.  We are not going to be around forever.  So let's enjoy ourselves while we can, laugh, and have a good time.

I think the thing that has excited me the most about this tour is how many fans of this website there actually are in each city, and in every audience.  I know there are millions of viewers worldwide, but I didn't realize it was so concentrated.  When I mention Tomgreen.com The Channel on stage all of the audiences in every city have been erupting into applause.  It's exciting.  I thought I was going on tour to tell everybody about this website and spread the word.  I knew there were a lot of you out there who would be coming to the shows after seeing my shows on MTV, and some of the crazy films I have made like Freddy Got Fingered, and Road Trip.  But the response from this website community has been simply been overwhelming.  Thanks gang.  Come to the shows.  It really is becoming a very exclusive and crazy little party for all of us.

As the word of this goofy tour is spreading, we are starting to sell out all of our shows, and it seems to be building by the minute.  Thank you all for coming out to see us.  I consider myself lucky to have such support from all of you, in all of these amazing places that we are getting to perform.  I have always wanted to jump into the world of stand up comedy full force.  Having great audiences like you come out to have a good time, laugh and whoop it up, and then meet up after the show and again here online is making it that much better.  We couldn't do this without you and I have to say this whole experience really is amazing.  You all rock.

I am up and at it in Pittsburgh today.   It's 6 am and I am getting ready to take off to do some local radio interviews.  Gotta continue to spread the word about The Channel here.  If you are anywhere near Pittsburgh come down to one of the shows this weekend.  It's going to be completely fun, silly, and awesome.  I can't wait to see you all in a few hours on stage.

Next week New York City!   If you want to find out our tour dates and show times just click on the tour banner on the front page of this website.  Or go directly to www.tomgreen.com/tour

See ya on the road gang!  Let's go!!  :)

Tom

January 29, 2010

We had a great time last night in Nashville.  2 more shows tonight and 2 more shows tomorrow and 1 on Sunday.  It's great to be here in Tennessee and we had a blast hanging out with everyone after the show.

It's snowing here in Nashville today, and the news media is freaking out and acting like this is some kind of disaster.  I guess people aren't used to it, and probably don't have the right tires on their cars.  In Canada where I am from this is basically like a day at the beach.  Balmy.  :)

I'm excited to get out and hit the stage again tonight.  Things have been going great on the show and we are having a blast on the road.  The only thing that I wish is that I had jumped back into doing standup comedy full time like this a lot sooner.  

We will post some video from the show sometime today.  Thanks to everyone in the audience who came out to see the show. We had a blast, and hung out and took pictures and video with everyone after the show.  We do this at every show, and it's fun meeting all of you who are coming out.  If you shot some photos, please post them in the Forum here on The Channel.  And if you shot some video after the show, (not during) then post it on Youtube, and then use the Youtube Embed code to post the video here on the website in the forum.

This is going to be a great year gang!  Lets have a lot of fun.  And come meet us at a show.  Next week we will be in Houston, and then we keep on going!

Here are all our tour dates.  If you live near one of these shows, start planning a road trip and come see us!  Let's rock!!

www.tomgreen.com/tour

Tom :)

January 25, 2010

Well we just had 5 amazing shows in Marco Island Florida. What a great time, and a big thanks to everybody at Captain Brian's, and everybody who came to the show.

I really can't explain exactly how happy I am to be jumping into this adventure. I have always dreamed of doing a world tour like this. It's been amazing to have the opportunity to get up onstage every night and do this show. It is evolving fast. We are writing and filming and performing on stage every day. The audiences have been amazing. Thanks so much to all of you who have come out to a show, and hung out afterwards for some web video and photo fun. It's been a great time. I am really enjoying the chance to get to meet you all.

So many cool creative crazy and cool people who are showing up to the shows. It is such a good feeling to meet you folks face to face, and to discuss all the silliness that we have produced over the years. I wouldn't be going on this tour if it wasn't for the people. It's nice to be hanging with real people, and keeping it real, real talk, good times. Man I really needed to get out of LA. Although I do like the weather, and I have many great friends in the city, sometimes you need to leave.

There is a whole big world out there that needs to be explored, and a whole bunch of amazing folks that we want to meet. It's awesome seeing how many of you out there get it, and enjoy what I do. If I never left the house I would never know you were there. So come see us on tour, and lets have some laughs. Shawn and I are having a great time onstage. Come see this show LIVE and you will definitely have a good time. The last few nights have been amazing and there has been just a ton of laughs. Thanks so much to all who have come to the shows, and celebrated this goofy world we live in. We all need to do that more often.

We are going to enjoy some fun in the sun today, and then back on the road to Louisville, Nashville, Houston and more. All across america, then in April we tour Australia, and then the world! Come see us and let's have some fun! www.tomgreen.com/tour Cheers gang!! Tom