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Tom Green is 'relieved' he made the choice to move from Los Angeles to a farm in Canada

The Canadian comedy legend has three new projects being released on Prime Video this month

Tom Green made his mark in the U.S. as an exceptional comedy talent, starring in movies like Road Trip, and hosting The Tom Green Show. But the Canadian star from just outside of Ottawa has made the big move back to Ontario to live the farm life after his time in Los Angeles.

"I'm very relieved that somehow I ended up making the choice to come back to Canada," Green told Yahoo Canada. "I thought about it for years and when COVID happened, lives were turned upside down, I had the time to make the move. I was not touring anymore, doing my stand-up, and I had a chance to make this choice."

"It's been a big process, uprooting my life of 20 years and selling my house, and moving here and getting a farm, and now I have all these incredible farm animals."

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Green documented his transition from Hollywood to farmland in the Prime Video series Tom Green Country (premiering Jan. 31), with his 1,500-pound mule, a donkey and chickens.

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Of course, there are also lots of visits from his parents, who he would famously prank on The Tom Green Show. We'll never forget him painting their home plaid, and they might have a bit of revenge up their sleeves on Green's upcoming show.

In addition to the unscripted series, Green will also release a stand-up comedy special, filmed in Ottawa's National Arts Centre, Tom Green: I Got A Mule!, which will also be available on Prime Video, on Jan. 28.

While the stand-up comedy special was filmed in front of a Canadian audience, its Prime Video distribution puts this specific show on a global stage. Green explained that he tried to paint a picture of living in Canada for people around the world.

"I'm sometimes surprised when I'll go perform in Buffalo and it's almost like I'm performing for a Canadian audience, ... or in Syracuse or places up in the northern states," Green said. "We're much more similar than people I think realize, especially the Americans, I don't think they realize how similar we are to them."

Tom Green's personal story explored in documentary

But to start off a trilogy of newly released projects from Green, there's also a documentary currently on Prime Video titled This Is The Tom Green Documentary, diving into the comedy icon's rise to fame.

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"I've always thought I might do a documentary about it all someday," Green said. "I've kept all my footage in a storage space in Los Angeles, and [we're talking] many thousands of hours of footage from the shows and everything over the years."

"So going through it all and telling the story was important to me. ... There's a lot of really hilarious stuff that happened on the show over the years and it was impossible to show it all. So I wanted to kind of tell a story with it by choosing certain moments and pieces of the comedy, and then also taking people through some of the more personal aspects of my life."

With Green including his parents and friends from Ottawa in the documentary, we look at how his regular visits to the local Yuk Yuk's comedy club helped Green get his own radio show on the University of Ottawa radio station, start a rap group and eventually film his own show.

That of course leads to his high-profile projects, with The Tom Green Show being picked up by MTV, leading to movies like Road Trip and his own film Freddy Got Fingered. And of course, his marriage to Drew Barrymore, with the documentary including clips from Green's appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, reuniting after not seeing each other for 20 years.

Another core aspect of the documentary is Green reflecting on his battle with testicular cancer, something he admits he dealt with through jokes and humour, but has also been credited for bringing awareness of the disease.

This is the Tom Green Documentary (Amazon MGM studios)
This is the Tom Green Documentary (Amazon MGM studios)

What the documentary really highlights, in a world where content creators are taking to social media platforms and YouTube to create virals videos, Green was very much ahead of his time. Green was an early adopter of technology to create and distribute his comedy like no one had done previously, also setting the stage for a show like Jackass to thrive.

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"A lot of people today are kind of pursuing these creative pursuits, way more today than ever before," Green said. "People have so much access to technology, ... my show was kind of one of the early adapters to that. When video cameras were new, we went out, we grabbed video cameras, we just started making a show without the professional guidance of a television network, of a professional, corporate network."

"It became a very unique show and it was different than anything that anybody had ever seen at the time, and sort of a precursor to what's going on now with YouTube and TikTok and podcasting, and all of this."

But Green will always be known as one of the most innovative talk shows hosts in history, bringing his own personality to the talk show space, while also studying the greats like David Letterman. In This Is The Tom Green Documentary, we even see Green get emotional when he gets a phone call that he's been invited to guest host Letterman's show.

"I grew up as a huge fan of David Letterman and that was where I really decided that, oh this is what I want to do. I want to be a talk show host," Green said. "What a strange thing for a kid from the suburbs of Ottawa to decide he wants to become a talk show host, but I just love the silliness and the outrageousness and the creativity that I saw on Late Night with David Letterman."

"Back before there was internet and before we had social media, you would have to sneak down to the TV at 12:30 a.m. to watch watch David Letterman, and that was very exciting to me."

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Watch "This Is The Tom Green Documentary," "Tom Green: I Got A Mule!" (Jan. 28) and "Tom Green Country" (Jan. 31) on Prime Video with a 30-day free trial, then $9.99.month

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Green identified that while he really enjoyed being a talk show host, he's happy to have some distance from that part of his career.

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"I did really love hosting the talk show and I still have a podcast, ... I may do some more podcasting this year, but in some ways I kind of also don't miss doing it. To be honest with you," Green said.

"There is a day-to-day grind of having to get up every day and be on camera, and also I think throughout the course of what I've done over the years, I've really become passionate about filmmaking and producing and writing, and that kind of process is a lot different."

From creating movies to hosting a talk show, stand-up comedy and podcasting, venturing into an unscripted show and a documentary, there's no limit for what Green will do next, but we can always count on the Canadian funny man to keep innovating and making us laugh.