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In the last six months he's appeared on Letterman, Live! with Regis & Kathie Lee, been the focus of ads in Entertainment Weekly and been hired as the latest spokesperson for Pepsi One during a spring break campaign.
Not bad for a guy who lived in his parents basement just a few short years ago.
And now the latest credit to Green's growing portfolio is a lengthy article (2 pages) in the May 13 issue of the barrier pushing rock magazine, Rolling Stone.
With crude examples such as sucking a cows udder, tricking his grandmother into licking a vibrator and humping a dead moose, Green, dubbed the next generation in the line of bad boy comedians, shares a bit of his softer side for readers.
"I think I have a way of twisting something to make it a little sillier. It's not mean-spirited and blatantly destructive or sexist or sacrilegious. It's more flirting with that, in such a way that it's kind of endearing," Green said in the interview.
And Rolling Stone willingly plays on these "endearing qualities."
Accompanying the article on MTV's latest phenomenon is a shot of the dumbfounded looking Green wearing pin-striped p.j.'s and carrying a stuffed animal.
P.J's and a stuffed animal. I fail to see the connection unless, say for instance, he was pulling the head off the furry creature and stomping on the fluff with his slippers.
That sounds a little more like the Green we know and love.
Stripping away the layers of mischievousness -- such as dead cow's heads, handfuls of doggie-doo and pornographic images -- Green exposes his tender, cuddly side as well as his meagre show biz beginnings.
All of which he says began here in Ottawa at Colonel By High School during a student council campaign, where he broke the school into hysterics with a three-minute stand-up routine.
Most of the info in the article is what fans of the comedian are already familiar with. Facts such as his stint as a member of the rap group Organized Rhyme, his controversial appearance on the Open Mike Show, grossing out host Mike Bullard by displaying a rotting animal carcass and the fact that he uses his parents as guinea pigs more often than not.
Parental guidance
"It's not like I'm trying to piss them off on a genuine level," he said. "I do take it too far with them, but then I fix the car, and you know what I mean."
The comment he is referring to was the hilarious segment, The Slutmobile, which first aired on the Comedy Network, where Green replaced the hood of his dad's car with one painted with a pornographic image.
The article does update us on what Green has been up to since making it in The Big Apple. Spilling the beans that MTV has renewed his contract for more episodes in May, the fact he met actor Kevin Spacey on Broadway Avenue and he's got a new girlfriend.