Long before Borat ever walked the street, Tom Green made his living on MTV shocking strangers, his parents, and television audiences with his brand of feigned naïveté. You may remember the Canadian comic giving his parents’ car a “Slutmobile” paintjob that he thinks they’ll love, or making an embarrassing fuss about buying condoms. Following a bout with testicular cancer, Green went on to make several movies, marry and divorce Drew Barrymore, work with Letterman and Leno and get fired by Donald Trump. He now plies his trade by producing his own show on a self-dedicated Internet channel.

Green is in the midst of a worldwide stand-up tour that will bring the comedian to Washington, D.C. for six shows at DC Improv this weekend. (He’s off shortly thereafter to perform in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois at the Gathering of the Juggalos!) We sat down with Green to talk about his act and find out how the Tom we know from TV compares to the real person.