Mondo Trasho and Desperate Living  Fear of the udder: Green in
Freddy Got Fingered photo: Chris Helcermanas-Benge  The Tom
Green Cancer Special was a genuinely startling piece of
surreality TV, a gallows parody of disease-of-the-week programs
that just happened to be a disease-of-the-week program. It also
exemplified Green's visceral brand of life-as-theater, in which
his own parents were key supporting players—ambushed time and
again as hostages in eviscerating pranks that doubled as
performative family therapy (peaking when he erected a statue of
Mum and Dad boinking doggy-style on their front lawn).  Which is
all to say that Tom Green is more than just a humper of dead
moose, though that's hard to discern from his directing debut,
Freddy Got Fingered. Green nominally plays Gord, a 28-year-old
aspiring animator whose residence in his parents' home is
punctuated by aborted trips to Hollywood and increasingly savage
altercations with his monstrous yet loving father (Rip Torn). In
other words, Green plays hims