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"I threw up for 10 minutes. They had to stop tape for the first time ever," Bullard said yesterday of Green pulling the rotting carcasses of a raccoon and a squirrel out of a sack on Wednesday night's show.
"Oh my God, there were maggots coming out of its nose. I was fine until the squirrel went flying by my head and I looked behind me and saw the intestines hanging out of it," Bullard said.
His previous guest, Riverdale actress Melissa DiMarco, scrambled from her seat. Bullard stepped into the alley outside Open Mike's Masonic Temple studios to be sick while crew members sprayed air freshener and cleared people out of the backstage lounge. The studio audience stayed put.
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When taping resumed, so did the mayhem. After Green repeatedly pushed his face in front of Bullard's as the host tried to introduce the night's final guests, The Rheostatics, Bullard put him in a headlock and wrestled him under his desk.
"At that point, I could have bench-pressed 400 pounds," Bullard said.
When a Green fan in the audience yelled an obscenity at Bullard during a commercial, Bullard ran into the audience, grabbed the man and turned him over to security guards. Earlier, when another audience member held up a sign reading, "Tom rules, Mike is poo," Bullard shot back, on camera, "Actually, sir, if I were poo, Tom would have figured out a way to use me in a segment by now."
Yesterday, while the studio was being professionally fumigated, Open Mike's office was flooded with angry e-mails and phone calls. One of them asked Bullard, "Why didn't you snap his neck?"
"That's what kills me about the animal activists, you know. (They say) Kill a person, but my God, the indignity that poor raccoon went through," Bullard said.
Although he said he's not mad at Green, if he comes on Open Mike again, they'll want some warning about what he's going to do, "to be on the safe side." In a previous appearance, Green sprayed milk around the stage, destroying a $6,000 microphone. Both Open Mike and Green's self-titled comedy show air on The Comedy Network.
Yesterday, Green seemed unchastened. He spent part of the day drinking milk from a (live) cow's udders outside the Eaton's Centre.
"It's not like we always play with dead animals," he said. "It's only happened two or three times at most."
-- With files from Dawn Tam