Maybe the most accurate physical manifestation of late-1990s to early-2000s MTV, Tom Green was like the Limp Bizkit of comedy -- he was immature, abrasive and teenage dudes loved him; girls tended to not be as into it. (He did it all for the nookie, even marrying Drew Barrymore for a few months.) He starred in movies that were horrible but hilarious (to teenagers) and often just horrible, he put his butt on things, stopped his MTV program while treating his testicular cancer, went to Japan and eventually started a web-only talk show, which is to say, he disappeared. It wasn't very noteworthy and he doesn't come up a lot these days. Except when Vanity Fair gives him a long Q&A feature, including an iPod top five, as if this were 1999.

('’) According to the magazine, "reports of his career’s death have been greatly exaggerated," though the last time I saw him, he was interviewing none other than Fred Durst, of Bizkit fame, on the internet show Tom Green's House Tonight and they were both bloated and unpopular. Oh, and the show's filmed in Green's living room. It's one of the saddest things on the internet:

Now Green's on tour, doing "a more traditional stand-up comedy show," but he's also defending Freddy Got Fingered and getting compared to Sisqó and YouTube cat videos. In fact, for the entire interview, Tom Green is the punchline, even when he says, "People probably don’t realize it, but getting cancer can be really traumatic." Vanity Fair writer Eric Spitznagel does not seem happy at having landed this assignment. (Maybe he's an unpaid intern?)

And NBC, if you're listening: Tom Green is ready to take over The Tonight Show when Leno is actually done. He thinks he'd do a really great job, but probably isn't holding his breath because TMZ doesn't have the death report yet. Don't cry for Green, though; just listen to his playlist, because there's no Limp Bizkit: