 Green started acting at the age of 7.His early comic influences included Monty Python, "Blackadder", "Saturday Night Live", Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, "Porky's" and "Caddyshack".Green's first movie roles were in the 1984 films "Billions for Boris" and "The Hotel New Hampshire"; the second film cast him alongside Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe.