Tom Green is a Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian, talk show host, and media personality who is perhaps best known for his MTV television show The Tom Green Show.

Raised in Ottawa, Green began to hone his comic skills as a teenager, pulling gags for the amusement of his friends. Along with doing stand-up while in college, Green released a rap album and created a hit radio show at the University of Ottawa. After graduation, Green managed to get the first incarnation of his signature TV series, The Tom Green Show, on local Ottawa television in 1994. A hit, The Tom Green Show landed on Canada's Comedy Network and officially hit the big time when MTV bought it and began airing it in the U.S. in 1999. During its two years on MTV, the show garnered high ratings due to Green's penchant for pushing the limits of taste with such gags as shagging a dead moose and delivering animal parts to his parents' house, and for involving innocent bystanders in his "confrontational comedy." Green even managed to top the episode featuring his trip home with Presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky when he transformed his spring 2000 battle with testicular cancer into the infamous "Cancer Special" for MTV.

During Green's early MTV tenure, he moved to films with a small role in the Saturday Night Live-based comedy Superstar. Green's antics as a nerdy college student, particularly placing a live mouse on his tongue, subsequently became one of the main draws of the raunchy teen hit Road Trip. This was followed by a role in Charlie's Angels. After “The Tom Green Show” ended, Green turned his attention to his first movie vehicle, co-writing, directing, and starring in Freddy Got Fingered.

In June 2003, Green had the chance to guest host The Late Show with David Letterman, which led to him hosting his own late night talk show on MTV entitled The New Tom Green Show. From 2006 to present, he has hosted his internet talk show Tom Green's House Tonight from his living room, and as of January 2010, has started performing stand-up comedy on his world tour.