Tom Green's House Tonight

Tom Green's House Tonight
File:TomGreenLive-Opening.jpg Tom Green Live title card
Created by	Tom Green
Starring	Tom Green
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	52 as of October 10, 2006
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera setup
Running time	approx. 60 minutes
Original release
Network	ManiaTV! tomgreen.com
Release	June 15, 2006 – present

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.

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 call-ins and special guests to keep things interesting. The show is set inside Tom's living room, where a studio has been constructed. 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 the 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.

Another advantage to the medium is that Tom can choose to air the show at almost any time. 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!" (various women talking about various subjects), 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.

List of shows

Tom had been contracted to do 50 shows over the course of the year. It is unclear how the change to a four shows a week line-up has affected this.

Date	Special guest(s)
15 June 2006	Howdy Doody, Zack Wolk, Tom Scholle, EZ Mike, Brett Jenkins
16 June 2006	Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Jeremy Klein, Burt Dubrow
19 June 2006	Neil Hamburger
20 June 2006	Harland Williams
21 June 2006	Jeremy Klein, Ace Young
22 June 2006	Jamie Kennedy, Stu Stone
26 June 2006	(no guest)
27 June 2006	Burt Dubrow (early show), Brooke Shields, Neil Hamburger
28 June 2006	Andy Dick
29 June 2006	EZ Mike
06 July 2006	Tommy Chong, Harland Williams
07 July 2006	EZ Mike (early show)
13 July 2006	Jurassic 5, EZ Mike
17 July 2006	Kevin McDonald, Breanne Munro (Kevin's girlfriend)
18 July 2006	Dennis Woodruff
19 July 2006	Neil Hamburger
20 July 2006	Dr. Drew Pinsky
24 July 2006	Michael Ian Black
25 July 2006	The Dudesons, Melissa Rivers
26 July 2006	Bob Odenkirk
27 July 2006	Michael Showalter, Howard Lapides, surprise guests Jeremy Klein, Cassidey, EZ Mike, Brett Jenkins
31 July 2006	Tom Scholle and EZ Mike
03 August 2006	DJ EZ Mike
07 Aug 2006	Patton Oswalt
08 Aug 2006	Clam Lynch, Gabe Abelson, EZ Mike
09 Aug 2006	Chyna, Burt Dubrow
10 Aug 2006	Tony Hawk, Harland Williams, EZ Mike surprise guests Karin Catt, Colleen (her friend)
14 August 2006	(no guest)
15 August 2006	Former professional wrestler Chyna, professional skateboarder Jeremy Klein, nuclear physicist Dr. Franklin Ruehl
16 August 2006	Comedian Neil Hamburger, Deputy Cristy Joy
17 August 2006	Actor Dennis Woodruff, DJ EZ Mike
22 August 2006	Tom as Leonard Mills
23 August 2006	TV co-host Olivia Munn (Attack Of The Show!)
24 August 2006	Actor Trevor Fehrman, rock band GWAR
25 August 2006	Rappers Grand Buffet, rappers People Under The Stairs (First Episode of Freestyle Fridays)
28 August 2006	Professional skateboarder Jeremy Klein, TV hosts Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira (Attack Of The Show!)
29 August 2006	Professional finger snapper Bobby Badfingers
30 August 2006	Actress Melissa Rivers, TV writer Spike Feresten, comedian Joan Rivers (phone interview)
31 August 2006	Comedian Neil Hamburger, rock band Daiquiri, singer Buzz Osborne (The Melvins) (Neil's guest)
01 September 2006	Former professional wrestler Chyna, music producers Dust Brothers, rock band Daiquiri, Producer Howard Lapides (Freestyle Fridays)
05 September 2006	Producer Howard Lapides, comedy band Pleaseeasaur (Neil's guest)
08 September 2006	Comedy band Pleaseeasaur (Freestyle Fridays)
13 September 2006	Actor Crispin Glover
14 September 2006	Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton, turkey callers The Mauldin Brothers (Douglas and Draper)
18 September 2006	Comedian Pauly Shore
21 September 2006	Surgeon Dr. Yukubian (Tom Green Surgery Special)
25 September 2006	Reality show celebrities Wee-Man and Preston Lacy (MTV's Jackass)
26 September 2006	Professional skateboarder Jeremy Klein
27 September 2006	Parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic, singer Jack Grisham (TSOL) (Neil's guest)
28 September 2006	Guitarist Dave Navarro
29 September 2006	Rock band Reel Big Fish, comedian Andy Dick, actress Jessica Rose (aka lonelygirl15) and Yousef Abu-Taleb (aka DanielBeast), professional skateboarder Jeremy Klein, reality show celebrity Preston Lacy (MTV's Jackass), author Angel Adams, author David Alexanian, (Freestyle Fridays)
03 October 2006	Actor Elwood Carlisle, DJ EZ Mike
04 October 2006	Former MTV VJ Kennedy
05 October 2006	Former Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon
06 October 2006	Rock band Alien Ant Farm, comedian Neil Hamburger, DJ EZ Mike, comedian Andy Dick, actor Elwood Carlisle (Freestyle Fridays)
09 October 2006	Film director Todd Phillips
10 October 2006	Reality show celebrity Steve-O (MTV's Jackass), talk-show host Carson Daly
11 October 2006	Digg.com founder Kevin Rose, singer Keshia Chanté
12 October 2006	Rappers Blackalicious and Pigeon John
13 October 2006	(Freestyle Fridays)

Trivia

• The music before the show starts, of an advertisement where Tom Green is talking into the mic saying "I have no pants on." This is the intro to "Where It's At" by Beck.
• The music playing at the intro to his show is "Mixed Bizness" by Beck as well.
• 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 and Howard Stern.

See also

• Poolside Chats
• Tom Green
• Webcast

External links

• Tom Green's official site
• ManiaTV homepage
• Official Tom Green Petition