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I Got A Mule!

Tom Green

Prime Video · 2025 · 58 min

The former MTV shock comic trades Hollywood for farm life.

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It is a guitar-strumming portrait of aging from a man who once defined MTV-era shock comedy. Instead of humping a dead moose or painting his father’s car, a 53-year-old Tom Green takes the stage with an acoustic guitar and a head full of thoughts about country living.

Filmed at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the hour marks a home-state victory lap that dropped alongside a companion documentary and unscripted series on Prime Video in early 2025. This phase of Green’s life began when he abandoned Los Angeles during the pandemic, bought a remote farm in the Ottawa Valley, and took up homesteading with a dog named Charley and a fifteen-hundred-pound mule. The stand-up reflects this massive pivot. He splits his time between standard observational jokes about the pitfalls of modern social media and long, bizarre country music numbers about his rural setup.

For audiences expecting the chaotic public-access energy of his youth, the show might feel jarring. There is a loose, improvisational quality to the pacing, and Green occasionally seems content to play a few chords and let the energy drift. But for those who grew up with his stunts, there is a quiet comfort in watching an older, sobered-up comic find peace in the Canadian countryside.

The set list

4 bits

  1. Moving from Hollywood to a rural Canadian farm

    Observations on leaving the entertainment industry for a simpler lifestyle with his animals

  2. Chicken Sandwich Reset

    Using a repeated catchphrase/verbal reset mechanism when comedic energy flags

  3. War on cellphones and algorithms

    Observational critique of modern technology, smartphones, and social media dynamics

  4. Musical performance on piano and guitar

    Playing original songs on piano and guitar to conclude the set

How it plays

Tone
Nostalgic, absurd, poignant, and observational
On stage
Affable, nostalgic, and absurdist with remnants of manic unpredictability, accompanied on stage throughout the show by his dog Charlie
Pace
Alternates between spastic, playfully dark bursts and a more relaxed, conversational, and reminiscing tempo
About
Transitioning from Hollywood to a rural farm in Canada, Social media pitfalls and algorithms, Aging, nostalgia, and death, Rural lifestyle and pets

What the critics said

Praised by Vanyaland as a triumphant return and portrait of a content artist balancing blunt awkwardness with heart, while audience viewers were divided between enjoying the nostalgic, intimate catch-up and finding the set loose or melancholic

In the room: Intimate and warm theater crowd, receptive to his musical numbers and dog Charlie, though showing some reticence toward heavy reminiscing over classic bits

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: bbfc.co.uk, press.amazonmgmstudios.com, rottentomatoes.com, letterboxd.com, nytimes.com, vanyaland.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, npr.org.

Backstory

Follows Green leaving Los Angeles to live on a rural 150-acre farm in Ontario; released as part of a trio of 2025 Prime Video projects including a documentary and an unscripted series

Details

Released
Taped
Canada's National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Runtime
58 min
Where
Prime Video
Director
Tom Green
Honors
Vanyaland's 10 Favorite Comedy Specials of 2025 (So Far)
Topics
Before
Coming To The Stage - Season 3 (2016)

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