Name: Tom Green's Live Web Show Was One of the Wildest Things on the Internet
Uploaded: 2025-03-27T16:00:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Green's Live Web Show Was One of the Wildest Things on the Internet' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Green's Live Web Show Was One of the Wildest Things on the Internet' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-27. Transcript available.

how did you deal whenever there were tough times like because you had so much
of like recording
yourself like setting you know like kind of like living under your own
recording schedule and stuff
like that were there days off like when you um would just have your show from
home right was
there days where you would just like take off what was that shoot schedule like
when you were
when i was doing the web show yeah at home well i mean it was so there wasn't
really
sort of uh podcasting yet wasn't really a thing really right so so we built the
studio
and it would basically just stream to my website i mean there was no instagram
yet
youtube had just started um and people would come and watch it on the front
page of tom green.com
and we actually had like a company in san francisco that made like the the
video playback system you
know so cdn content distribution network it was basically so we would upload a
video to that we
there was we weren't uploading it to youtube and linking it or there was there
was no youtube really
so so it was kind of just a big sort of science experiment that i was doing
with uh you know my
group of friends um and you know i i had uh i had the sort of goal of trying to
sort of
make it a show that would become profitable get advertisers and maybe sell it
to television which
we did a little bit of that you know so you know i was kind of uh pretty driven
i guess and it's kind of
what i noticed now with like podcasting which is amazing is like you know the
people that have these
incredible businesses that they've got going these incredible you know artistic
visions they have for
themselves they're all kind of have that same kind of drive in them you know
they get up in the morning
their mind is just like how are we going to make this better today you know how
are we going to make
this awesome today you know so it was kind of it was kind of like that you know
we were getting up and
turning on the studio every night and i didn't be inviting up you know rappers
and too short came
up and you know jurassic five and exhibit and then you know you'd wrap up
comedian invite comedians up
and like joe rogan would come over and you know norm mcdonald who i became good
friends with you know
would start coming over all the time and you know literally like hundreds and
hundreds of people come
over and it became this kind of really fun thing to do um i wasn't doing stand-up
at the time i hadn't
done stand-up in years so i was really just doing that and um you know it was
it was ridiculous i mean
we were just enjoying the absurdity of it and um oh yeah was it so stressful or
were you just i it was
because i put pressure on myself and i would actually get stressed out about it
and then we would have
people that would prank call us so i had this phone system on the desk and you
could just call it and
it would ring and i'd hit answer and so we had like you know people trolling us
basically i remember
getting rick rolled for the first time you know that's like and it was like oh
i kind of felt like
i don't know if i'd ever heard of rick rolling before i got rick rolled you
know and um it's cool and
it became kind of like a little bit of a game you know like where we were there
was a switch that i'd
built with uh uh bill schnitzer was his name he worked there and uh victor a
couple of the guys that
worked there and uh we built the switch under the desk it was like metal and it
was like we got a metal
box with a switch and we had wires and we soldered them together and then the
wires ran out to the
computer and then bill was able to program the computer so that when like i
flipped that switch
it would like if everything was off it's the middle of the night in my house it's
quiet night nobody
there and if i were to get up at one o'clock in the morning by myself and put
clown makeup on which i
often did and and a top hat and walk out into my living room and flick the
switch the switch would turn
on the lights would turn on the cameras would turn on the computers this
computer would tell this
computer to start recording uh the phone system would turn on it would send it
to the front page
of my website just one switch i haven't done anything just all i've all i've
done is put on some clown
makeup and flipped a switch right you don't have to put on the clown makeup but
i did do that oh yeah
you better it was called the french clown of midnight i'd speak in french in a
clown makeup
um and you wonder why it didn't work out but um and uh but uh and uh then the
phone would start ringing
and i'd just be doing the show i'd have a switcher on the desk so i could
switch the cameras and uh i
would just start taking calls and it was really the only live video on the
internet like really like
that's there was no instagram live or anything so it was like you imagine when
i was a kid i wanted to
do pr i like prank calling the radio station like i'd like to call into the
radio station and uh i would
call into the radio station and i'd record it and then i'd call into the radio
station and i'd pretend
i was like my friend's father and i'd call and i'd start complaining about my
son and i'd use his name
and i'd play the tape back to him and it was hilarious to me you know and um so
i loved that like
pranking a radio station and i kind of started to realize like we're the only
live show on the
internet right now with a phone with no call screener all these people like me
around the world could now
call in and prank me you know and so we kind of got into this little sort of
war basically you know
which is which was fun because i would get angry about it but then also i kind
of didn't have to
turn the phone on right you know um so it was it was it was really fun and you
know i got to meet
a lot of great people you know i mean that's where i really got to hang out
with you know joe rogan
for the first time really and uh and norm who i became really close with and
and so many other people
and you know it was it was amazing so it's weird like i find myself sometimes
now talking about 2005
like it was like 50 years ago or something like that but it really is things
have changed so much
in the last 20 years with social media that it does really feel like kind of a
different
world like i remember norm would come up yeah and you know the first time he
came up i just couldn't
believe i was going to hang out with him you know and hang out with him for two
hours on camera um
sort of in some ways kind of doing a make-believe talk show even though there
were people watching it
was kind of like you know experimental talk show and he was getting into that
and then the show would
end and we'd go you know on youtube and go look at videos and i was like i
remember it was like
youtube was so new that it was just the strangest thing i'd be sitting with
norm mcdonald after doing
this for two hours and we're sitting there watching you know crazy clips that
he would find uh you
know like baby versus cobra you know with the cobra's mouth sewed together
those are good grape lady falls
i remember watching these videos with norm and just dying of laughter you know
in the middle of
the night and just thinking this is this is cool
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