The shockingly earnest anti-comeback of Tom Green
If you grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s as a Generation Xer, you either loved or hated Tom Green. You saw him as either some pioneering prankster and innovator of the cable-news troll or an obnoxious man-child desperate for attention. The truth lies somewhere in the middle, but Green’s influence on internet culture and podcasts such as Joe Rogan’s is undeniable. But then one day it just felt like he went away, much in the same way Dave Chappelle did. And just as online streaming platforms such as Netflix threw a ton of money at Chappelle, Amazon has now done the same with Tom Green. This doesn’t, however, feel like a Tom Green comeback.
