Tom Green

Well, I was doing stand-up.

I was doing stand-up, but I never really got to...

really you know a level where I was kind of I was doing it every week I was going down every week for a couple of years and actually the reason I stopped was because the rap group got kind of sort of a record deal basically and I kind of went focused on that for a while and stopped doing stand up but

Yeah, the club in Ottawa, Yuck Yucks in Ottawa, still there.

It's moved, but it's owned by Howard Wagman.

Yuck Yucks is kind of like the improv of Canada.

It's chained all across the country.

Mark Breslin, I'm sure you know Mark.

He started it.

It was wild because, I don't know, it was something about

the 80s, the 90s, before the internet, right?

You'd go down to a comedy club and you'd find out about stuff just through word of mouth, like the rap music and like comedy.

So I would go down to the comedy club and I remember Norm MacDonald would come through and he was probably 25 years old, right?

And I'm 16 in the audience.

And then I got to become this huge fan of Norm.

And he was...

Norm.

But back then, there wasn't a lot of people doing stand-up like Norm.

There wasn't this sort of angle of sort of this absurdity to it, this sort of... It was more of a structured, down-the-middle way of doing stand-up back then.

And so Norm was this sort of...