When I was a television broadcasting student in 1993 up in Ottawa, Canada, and my friends and I started making a show, I consciously set out to apply comedy to technology. I started tomgreen.com back in 1994, and we weren't able to put video on there yet, but we were aware that that was coming.

Tom Green

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Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid by Tom Green

Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid

senior citizens stupid

It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.

rocks independent people

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club woul... by Tom Green

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

comedian clubs pay

I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.

fun world thinking

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

comedy important dark

If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell you what might happen. To put it bluntly - the mountains could come down upon them. I think they are going to get shook up. I think we are in store for a lot of things if we don't reprent and return to the way of God.

utah hate thinking

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the... by Tom Green

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

people way thinking

Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.

cameras different people

I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.

doing-you bunch writing

Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my... by Tom Green

Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

my-time focus energy

I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

passion real kids

I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.

writing talking ideas

It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.

independent together way

I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

actors real trying

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

energy school thinking

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.

groups college beer

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.

polygamy example ifs

How can we be free when we are prisoners to social media, in a world without privacy? How can we be free when our every movement is tracked and every conversation is recorded and can easily be held against us? How exactly are we free if we are tethered to our cell phones?

social-media media conversation world

The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.

nobody better internet time

Before the cell phone and the Internet, you felt a more pure sense of liberty than we do today. Whenever you left the house, and the phone, in your kitchen attached to the wall, nobody was able to get a hold of you.

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