Tom Green Discusses Inventing “Public Freak-Out” Videos and Fans Asking If He Wants Sausage │ Exclaim!

Some people knew all along that a mule was a cross between a donkey and a horse, and some of us only learned about it later. Tom Green in that regard, he is one of us, as the comedian is now the leading horse expert in the country, having owned a mule named Fanny.

While in Toronto for his Stomping Comedy Tour – his lengthy jaunt across Canada, mixing stand-up with covers and original songs – Green received Exclaim! A questionnaire about returning to Canada to live on a farm, his thoughts on ketchup chips, and being immortalized in the film The Real Slim Shady.

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What are you up to?

I have a new show that I'm working on that I'm really excited about. It's kind of a continuation my show that I've been doing for the last couple of years on Prime Video. I did a show called Tom Green Countryand I made a documentary about the history The Tom Green Showwhich you can see on these channels. This was announced unofficially, but more will be announced soon. It will probably be released in 2026. In addition, I am currently on tour, performing throughout Canada, in every province. Come to me. This will be great.

And you just got married!

Absolutely. I don't want to bury the lede here, but I just got married three and a half weeks ago and I'm very happy about it and things are going well. I'm very happy right now. I'm happy and happy to be back in Canada, happy to get married, happy to tour this amazing country. This is a good time to be proud to be Canadian. I do stand-up comedy on my tour, but I also play music and perform a lot of my favorite Canadian songs, as well as some of my own music recorded at the Tragically Hip, Bathouse Studio in Bath, Ontario.

Why do you live where you do?

Well, I moved back to Ontario about four and a half years ago. I lived in Los Angeles for 21 years, but I came back and am now farming. I live on a farm near where I grew up, close to my family, and I wanted to be in Canada, and I wanted to be close to nature, and I also wanted to be able to spend time with my parents and brother.

Which Canadian musician should be more famous?

This is a tough question because you could potentially offend them for saying they're not as famous as they should be, right? It could be offensive, right? I mean, I think everyone could be more famous. I just had an amazing country singer on my show. His name is Jason Blaine, he is very famous, but I think he should be even more famous. I think he should be like Morgan Wallen with celebrity status. Not that he's not amazing and very famous, but he's on my new show. An incredible Canadian country singer and artist from my hometown of Pembroke, Ontario.

What do you think of when you think of Canada?

I think this is my home and this is where I grew up. I'm thinking about hockey. I'm thinking maple syrup. I'm thinking about ketchup chips. I think about Putin. Canada is the greatest country in the world. This is what I think of when I think of Canada and a Swiss chalet! This is interesting. You think about Canada, you think about sauce from a Swiss style chicken restaurant, it's weird.

What was your weirdest celebrity encounter?

They're always pretty weird. I never know what to say to these people, because first of all, you don't know [if] do they want to talk to you? You want to tell them something, but everyone probably wants to tell them something, right? So it's always weird. I think they're all weird. This is negative. I don't want to be negative.

All people are strange.

Yes, all people are strange. However, I think it's weird to see someone you recognize from TV and then want to go up and say hi to them and stuff, and know that they might not want to talk to you. Because they should want to talk to you, right? I always like to talk to people when they talk to me. Anyone, I always have! I'm not saying I'm a celebrity. Some people recognize me when I'm walking around and stuff. I love it, especially in Canada. This is always good because I never know what someone wants to ask me. [It] maybe it's about my rap group when I was a teenager.

What was the greatest moment of your career?

I need to receive guests Saturday Night Live. It was pretty exciting for a kid who grew up loving comedy and being a huge comedy fan. Saturday Night Live. It was an incredible, unexpected honor. And I also got to host David Letterman's show. Those were two pretty exciting things because I was a big fan of David Letterman's talk show and he asked me to host his show. I was mentioned in an Eminem song”[The Real] Slim Shady”: “I just wanna go on TV and let loose / But I can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to fuck a dead moose / My ass on your lips, my ass on your lips.”

What was the worst moment in your career?

Guys, I need to think a little. There are so many of them! [Laughs.] I don't look at it in those terms anymore. I think that everything that goes wrong is sometimes a blessing. You learn from mistakes, awkward situations and the like. So I don't really try to dwell on things or evaluate the worst thing that ever happened.

I made this movie called Freddie gets fingeredand it came out, got some bad reviews, some people didn't like it, and I thought it was the worst thing that could have happened at the time. But 25 years later, people liked the film! People come up to me all the time. They say: “Dad, do you want some sausage?” They say this all the time. And I think, “Okay, yeah, maybe I shouldn't have been so upset when Roger Ebert gave it a bad review.”

How do you spoil yourself?

Now I live on a farm, and I have a mule, and her name is Fanny. [I also have] a donkey, as well as two horses, and I love to treat myself by taking my mule Fanny on a nice, long ride through the Ontario countryside, eh? And for me, it's a really peaceful and cathartic activity to just get out into nature and ride a mule.

Did the mule come from your donkey and your horse?

No, that's a good question because the mule is a hybrid animal. Many people don't realize that mules are half horse and half donkey. I didn't know that a mule was half horse and half donkey until I got a mule about three years ago. But she's amazing. She is a very big mule. Her mother was a Percheron horse – a big, huge workhorse. And her father was an ass, but not my ass.

What makes you angry?

I think all the unnecessary divisions in our society now are based on social media and negative information spread online. I think we've all gone crazy. The whole world going to hell has taken some of the fun away from us. So this makes me angry. I think it's disappointing to see how quickly things have gotten out of hand because everyone feels like they have to voice their opinions from the front seat of their Honda Civic on TikTok. But there are some things I like about the Internet. I love watching Karens get arrested and tasered. So this is a positive thing.

There's a subreddit called r/publicfreakout and it's very good for Karen's videos.

I was one of the first people to start photographing and filming public riots because as a child I would go and do it and include it in my show. So it's fun to see that it's at least filmed.

Fuck, marry, kill: Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia?

See, this is what I'm talking about. The Internet always carries negative, divisive information. You are trying to create division here in Canada, not anywhere else. I returned to Canada to escape the divided political environment in the United States. And I come back here, and you throw it out there. It's just, you know, it's the media. These days, the media is just trying to heat things up for clicks. You should be ashamed of yourself! You should be ashamed! [Laughs.] I'm kidding, we planned this. But I like all the provinces!