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I had the priviledge to meet Tom Green tonight. He was in town to promote his new book 'Hollywood Causes Cancer'... I was completely surprised to see under 20 people in line for the signing (underground?) and amazed at how nice of a guy he is. He pulled a few stunts and appologized to this cute little girl for swearing. He asked her if she had 'ever heard mommy say those words?' then appologized to the police officer standing behind him. It's so crazy how much the media takes over, like they have some sort of super pass that allows them to do anything. You could tell who the hardcore fans were... I brought my Tonsil Hockey tape and yelled out a couple comments like: "THE GONK, ROGERS CABLE 22 and OTTAWA!!!"

Okay... shhhh shhhh...I recorded the whole thing and was playing it in the background as I'm writing this and I'm next in line to talk to him... our convo went like this: (I know. It's nerdy)

*Handing my camera to the camera lady...

ME- Hey Tom, pleasure to meet you!

TOM- Hey Renée, Renée?

ME- Yeah...

TOM- Haha, the GONK!

ME- Haha, yeah...represent! Um I just had a question for you.. I'm in comedy school here in Toronto and you're such a huge inspiration to me and many of my...

TOM- Cool! They have a comedy school here in Toronto?

ME- Yeah, it's with Humber College actually...

TOM- Oh, okay...cool!

ME- I was just wondering if you had any words of wisdom to someone whose trying out much like you did, way back in the day...

TOM- Oh,um, geeze, I don't know, just you know keep at it, you know?

ME- Okay.

TOM- Don't quit!

ME- Haha,no.

TOM- Even if you want to quit...

ME- Okay, thank you. Are you ever going to go back to doing some stand up?

TOM- Um, maybe....I mean I kinda just want to do stuff on television right now, I'm better at writing jokes for that...

ME- Yeah, so you. Well if you do decide to go back to it, I'd definetly would like to check it out.

TOM- Well thanks.


CAMERA LADY- Okay... and smile!
Tom and I did an awkward face (best picture ever!)


TOM- Cool, thanks... you want me to write on that? (Tonsil Hockey tape)

ME- Yeah, that'd be awesome. You're so great, keep it up Tom, thank you.

TOM- Keep at it yourself...

ME- Thanks dude.

TOM- I hope it'll all work out for you...

ME- Thanks Take care...

TOM- See ya Renée.



And that was that! It always feels like one small step closer for some reason. Look at what he has accomplished- he's a household name! From Ottawa! So great.. yet another Canadian artist who doesn't forget his roots. Got to love it.

Time to indulge in the book.