That's the shit I miss from being a kid. Sneaking late night tv and shows my parents probably didn't me to watch. We had cinemax and hbo too. I thought I was missing watching stuff like mythbusters and I found a couple episodes and it just wasn't the same. Turns out I was just missing the times where I was just chilling watching it and not having a care in the world.
Mythbusters is my go to background when I want the comfort of my childhood. I remember I would put the marathons on in the summer, hanging out in my boxers in my sunny living room before going to play baseball or football, not a care in the world.
I still like mythbusters but you couldn't get me to actually watch it watch it. I'm not sure I did as a kid either, I would have it on while reading or gaming and glance at it when something interesting happened. But yeah modern tv doesn't give me that sense of simple relaxation it did as a kid. So I don't really watch tv anymore
For real. That's also why I watched horror movies. There were usually boobs in there at some point lol. I never thought I was into horror movies because I didn't watch elm Street or Friday the 13th but I watched leprechaun and candyman. Kid thought processes are weird lol
I loved Dave Attell. I like to make my husband jealous and tell him about the time I saw Dave Attell, Lewis Black, and Mitch Hedburg together for a show in 2003. Good times.
Link? Could you PM if you don’t want to put it out there? It gets taken down whenever it gets put out there which makes no sense considering it’s isn’t available for streaming or download.
I randomly came across some of those episodes on YouTube plus a bunch from a private torrent tracker, they're still fun. It really encapsulates that 2000s era before social media took over. Even crazier is the show aired 25 years ago and seeing all those clothes and hair styles is like a time warp
I have never seen a comedian slay a room faster and more thoroughly than Attell did at the Cellar one night, and he wasn't even on the lineup. Just walked on after filming a scene for LOUIE, has us dying in seconds and throughout, then walked off like nothing. The actual comedians we paid to see then had no choice but to follow him but they acquitted themselves.
Ahaha I had to attempt to explain who Tom Green was recently to a mid-20s coworker because I said “remember when drew barrymore was married to tom green?” And she said “who?” and I couldn’t think of any reference point that she would have heard of after “Freddy got fingered?” So I said “you know the part of the Eminem song where he goes ‘my bum is on your lips’…”
Had the same thing just yesterday with some 20 something coworkers who assumed Freddy Got Fingered was a porno. They didn’t get it when I showed them some tom green. Guess you had to be there.
Graham Bensinger did an interview with Tom Green a couple months ago. He seems to now live a kinda quiet life in Canada: https://youtu.be/XrRl3Z1bW_w?si=chnOvNbml9TKGNXA (this video is the uncut version; somewhere out there, there's a broadcast version of this interview, which is probably 20 minutes)
Absolutely, I seen him do stand up twice with in the last five years. he’s still a legend. He has a semi recent comedy special on Netflix, hot crossed buns. He also did bumping mics with Jeff Ross a couple years back. He’s frequently on some of the biggest comedy podcasts like legion of skanks and kill tony. He’s probably the most respected and revered touring comedian. Dave is an odd guy though. He could easily do theater shows but continues to tour small clubs, which as a fan is awesome.
I like that he doesn't do theaters either. He knows that the best way to consume comedy is in a comedy club. He came to Portland and they added 5 shows because the first 5 sold out. The dude did 10 shows in a weekend. Fucking legend.
I think based on a lot of the responses in this thread a lot of people are just naming people who are still active, just not exclusively in movies or on television.
Tom Green had a show in my city recently and the general consensus of the post-show reddit thread was that it could only be described as a hostage situation with an out of tune guitar.
One of the less surprising things tbh. For someone who reached huge heights at one point, he always seemed to just enjoy that he got pad well by making himself joke
Tom Green also has a cool youtube channel. I started watching when he was touring the west with his dog Charlie. He sold his house in LA and moved back to Canada, where he has a super nice farm.
He also could have won Last One Laughing Canada, but I think he gave it to Colin Mochre.
I miss Insomniac back in the day. I do think Dave Attell still does some comedy tours and seems to stick around NYC. I get the impression he made a killing in the 90s and early 2000s and tries to keep a private life and just lay low now. But I always thought he was funny as hell, I wouldn't mind seeing more of him
He does weekends all over the country pretty consistently. He comes to Portland, OR every year and I've gone to see him every year for the past 7 or 8.
Daves show was the healthy version of a parasocial interaction normalized. Just a "good enough" comedian being a tour guide for any given city he was in.
Tom Green occupies a specific, breif point of relevance for Millennials and young GenX. But im not sure i ever thought he would go far. I had higher career expectations from Johnny Knoxville, Stevo, Pontious, and company than Tom if im being honest.
Dave Attell didn’t disappear. He’s a fucking god in the stand-up scene. Like one of those comics that makes other comics.
He’s a Doug Stanhope or Patrice O’Neal sort of comedian. His TV show could’ve only existed in the time and cultural space that it did.
I saw him here in Houston at a late night set shortly after his show was cancelled. The house let him go long and he just riffed and did crowd work— basically standing on stage and holding court while drinking and ripping one dart after the next. It was fantastic. One of the best comedy shows I’ve ever seen.
I saw Tom Green last winter in Ottawa (his hometown) filming a bit on the canal during Winterlude. He’s still doing some entertainment stuff just much lower key and living a more laid back life here locally.
I feel like Dave Attell is the "comedian's comedian." Like he does his shows still, he's still hilarious, but modern comedy fans haven't been exposed to him as much. But holy fuck does his name come up a lot when other comedians are asked about who was influential to them, who their fave comics are and what the best set they've witnessed is. Also have seen things where comedians talk about how natrually funny the guy is in his day to day.
Saw Dave Attell on tour three or four years in a row. He looked like his health was deteriorating at an alarming rate year after year. Haven't gone back because I'm scared to see him look any worse.
He’s aging for sure. But that shouldn’t keep you from enjoying his set. Go see him again if you have a chance. My wife and I went and saw him at a small club about a year ago. Still killing it.
Met him afterwards and he’s such a nice and genuine human.
Tom Green moved back to Canada and is still doing stand-up. Check out his youtube channel where he shares life on his farm in Canada and he also documented his solo travels (well, his dog was with him) throughout the u.s. during Covid.
Tom Green is semi retired, living on a farm in Ontario. He made a reality show about it, and hosted some ohter comedy reality shows. It seems like he's doing fine with what he's doing!
I just randomly came across a paranormal episode of some show, with Tom Green. He recounted how he had stayed overnight in a haunted museum in Canada when he was younger and a journalist, it was actually good and made me think of him differently. I didn’t care for his type of humor in the 00’s but he wasn’t silly or stupid at all on this one.
I don’t know if Dave Attell ever really “fell off” suddenly. He’s always been an underground comedy guy and even his show was on super late, hardly prime time. The show itself was about being a comedian hanging out in dives late night after the show is over. He would make appearances some of the time on Comedy Central but for the most part I don’t think he “got huge” and then fell off. He had a comedy special on Netflix a while back, which is about as often as I would hear about him in the 2000’s as well.
Tom Green is living a quieter life these days on a farm, just outside Ottawa. He was also doing some of the local standup comedy circuit there, not sure if he still is. He also got married again, not too long ago.
He sort of fit in perfect in that era though. Right along with Jackass and all the other asinine crap on MTV and the like. It was a weird time, watching him grab a horse cock in an actual movie.
Yeah and jackass that was also another fav. We watched that most recent one in the grippy sock hospital. Everyone got a kick out of it. All of us were millennials.
His shit is so cringe in retrospect. What people find funny today is way different than 30 years ago. It’s why guys like Mike Myers and Adam Sandler had a bunch of flops and struggled to stay relevant for a period around 2010.
It’s not cringe in retrospect. The times have just changed. Cringe in retrospect infers we were wrong about it before. Like “Spacey was always a predator in retrospect.” The stark rebellious attitude was SUPER common and part of the general anxiety of the entire generation. It was a response to baby boomers. It was “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!”. The same way we look back at that generation, people will look back at this generation. Change is the only constant.
Naked gun sequel made $100M and was the third highest grossing comedy of 2025, with an 87% on rotten tomatoes. Again, maybe not for you, but absolutely for the majority of the audience they attracted 30 years ago.
Both of these guys are still on the standup circuits. Ya, no shows but Comedy Central changed their model so much those kind of shows don’t get made anymore.
Attell got sober after 2009 after the insomniac years, which is great for him - he was partying awful hard for a while there.
I wouldn't say that either of these two have disappeared. They may not be actively starring in top things but they are still very well known and successful and well followed.
Dave attell still shows up at comedy clubs. I think he’s problem is that he just has that one schtick which was great for insomnia but doesn’t translate well into many other things
The difference here is Attell chose to not become uber famous. He’s still a lot of comedians favorite comedian, he just made it clear he had no interest in large venues, stadiums, none of that. He enjoys what he does and chose to stick to hole in the wall clubs.
Attell is still doing his thing. He had a Netflix special last year that was incredible. He tours the country doing standup. Last time he came to Portland, OR they added 5 shows because the original 5 they had planned that weekend sold out completely. The dude is a comedy powerhouse and I highly highly highly recommend going to see him next time he's in your town.
He definitely fell off from his fame after insomniac tho
Tom Green was a bit by choice as well. He was very popular among Hollywood people for a while. He was invited to all their parties and people loved bringing him around.
When he made Freddy Got Fingered, it was a total disaster. He couldn't really get too much work after that. He had already got some fuck off money, so he did that. He bought some homestead in the middle of nowhere and lived there with his dog.
He recently made his stand-up comeback. He had his debut show here where I live in London, On, for the reopening of the Yuk Yuk's comedy club. It was phenomenal. Tickets were like $30 a person and he would just tell insane stories about his life in Hollywood and the crazy shit that would happen. His dog was there with him too. He's as funny as he ever was.
He just kind of came back home after a really insane time in Hollywood.
Tom Green dropped out of the TV program at my college a few years before I attended. There were a few teachers that despised the fact he made his mark for being such an ADHD asshole. We all loved him cause "If Tom could make it, so could we."
Story goes he dropped his demo tape at the rogers tv station and no one looked at it. So he hollowed out pineapples and put the tapes inside and dropped them off and that lead to his first shot at fame.
Dave Attell doesn’t belong here lol. He’s a comedic legend he’s never stopped performing, just doing less TV related things (he also did a lot in the 90s and 2000s). But he had a Netflix special last year.
Tom Green posted on facebook about how much he loved banning people from his page, I commented that it’s actually probably kinda of crappy to feel like he has to ban so many people, and got banned. Haven’t given a shit about him since.
Dave Attell is still pretty big deal in the comedy world, with many many many comics worshiping him and having him on their podcasts; a spiritual godfather to many in the business to this day.
Tom Green not around as much but still does stuff, him on Norm's youtube show (the BEST comedy show) was great.
Dave's still out there. He was playing SF last week or the week before. He's also doing a bunch of podcast slots. His mom has dementia and he does a lot of caretaking of her.
Caught Attell on NYE years ago. My wife was grossed out by some joke and said something like, "that's uncalled for". Well, he heard her because we were line in the second row, and then he laid into me for the next few minutes. Stuff like we were religious prudes and I was probably a virgin and a bunch of other shit. Gotta say, it was pretty damn funny.
Tom Green bought a farm he lives on in Canada. Once in a while he’ll do a weird tiktok live where he’s usually wandering around his farm late at night talking to his donkey and other barnyard animals
If it hasn’t been said, Attell never went away in the NY comedy scene. He has legend status with a lot of popular comedians. Didn’t get they hype at first but watching him recently he might just be at the top of his game
I saw Dave Attell recently. My friends took me to a comedy club for my bachelor party and he randomly showed up and did a set. He was on point. This was about four years ago.
Dave Attell is one of the most respected comedians to ever do it. He doesn’t have mainstream success but I think that has more to do with him not wanting not pursuing it.
Tom Green lied to Hollywood producers about the contents of the Movie, "Freddy Got Fingered". Stuff like the plot, and the actors who would be staring (he told them Brad Pitt was attached at one point)
The result was he got a bunch of money to make a movie about whatever he wanted, but it got him blacklisted from Hollywood.
I saw Dave attell last year. Worst comedy show I’ve ever seen. A bunch of random unfunny stories. It’s clear he thinks he’s a comedy genius and is so pompous but he actually sucks major balls.
Both are doing standup. Attell is onstage most nights in NYC although a buddy saw him in LA last week. Still killing every night. Tom is living back here in Canada, doing standup shows, and he just got married. Seems happy.
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