Tom Segura is a stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, and author. He co-hosts two podcasts: “Your Mom’s House” with his wife, comedian Christina Pazsitzky, and “Two Bears, One Cave” with Bert Kreischer. He is also the author of “I’d Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays.” Watch his comedy series, “Bad Thoughts,” now streaming on Netflix.www.ymhstudios.com https://www.netflix.com/title/81740857 Don’t miss out on all the action - Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up using dkng.co/rogan or with my promo code ROGAN. GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, (800) 327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), or visit www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD). 21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). 1 per new customer. $5+ first-time bet req. Max. $200 issued as non-withdrawable Bonus Bets that expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 5/18/25 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Tom Segura create his Netflix series 'Bad Thoughts'?
First of all, how did Netflix let you make this show? Well, they wouldn't have let me make it if I just pitched it to them.
What did you do?
I made a few. I made a few and showed it to them.
Oh, my God.
Because I knew. I knew that if we— You can't give anybody the script. No. No. The script won't work. The script won't work. I mean, that's just the thing. It's very funny. Thanks, man. It's so ridiculous. It's pretty ridiculous. You know, it was a few years ago that I made the initial one. I was on that crazy tour, that real crazy tour, where it was like, you know, fucking 10 shows a week.
And I had a break coming up. And so I've always liked movies, like features, right? But it's a huge undertaking to get a feature made, but I liked short films because it feels like you're making a movie, you know, like a mini movie, right? And it feels much more accessible to do. So I had written... all these like short stories, short films.
And I called my friend Rami Hashash and I was like, hey, I have a break coming up on tour. Let's shoot a short film because we'd done other things before. And when I sent him, I sent him like 10 different scripts. He was like, what if we did three of these? I was like, how can we do three of them? He's like, we'll shoot like 11 days in a row. We can do three of these stories.
And even then I wasn't thinking of like having a television series. I was just like, oh, it'll be fun to make these stories, you know? And so after we shot those three, it was clear that we had the bones of a show. What if we did a show that was based on short stories, like short films, basically? And I don't know. There was another few that were in the original.
And when I sent them in to Netflix, they were like, this is fucking insane, but we'll make six episodes of this. Yeah. And yeah, they were just like, this is crazy. But it's been the most fun I've ever had, dude. Really? Yeah, yeah. Because you know what? I was thinking about it on my way in here today. I was like... Sometimes you have to remind yourself of your original dream.
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Chapter 2: What is Tom Segura's original dream before stand-up comedy?
But it's also so ridiculous.
Yeah.
It's like, thank God. It seems like for a while, people were getting scared of making anything offensive.
I know. And it also feels like so many studios, networks, platforms, whatever you want to call it, are so distanced from comedy. It's too dangerous.
Well, what's weird is you can get away with so much in a drama. In a drama, you could have violence and fear. Theft and car accidents, you can fucking kill people and rape people and steal all their money, and that's okay for some reason. But there's something about doing comedy that's offensive or even potentially offensive.
Yeah, the other thing is there's the offensive angle. I also think that they really shit the bed on... literally backing truly funny material. So many studio comedies that are released, the critics, people are like, why didn't this work? Because it's not good. It wasn't funny. It's not a funny comedy.
Don't you think part of that is because they can't take any real chances?
Yeah, I think a studio is always, you know, like if you strip everything down, it's somebody that has to have some risk in their job. They're playing with... millions of dollars and saying like, this will make us money. And so yeah, they start to get more apprehensive about it.
The other thing is that the cost of some of these comedies, when comedies were really thriving last, which was I think like more than 20 years ago, some of these comedies started to cost like 30 million plus to do a comedy. Yeah, because sometimes you had like, huge stars and huge set pieces, and you'd have these enormous budgets.
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Chapter 3: Why is it important for comedians to take breaks from stand-up?
That's crazy. And she won. And she took him to court and won. They're definitely going to appeal that shit.
Of course they're going to appeal. But the thing is, when you have a jury, you have a jury of people so fucking stupid, they don't get out of jury duty.
Yeah, exactly.
And they might be like, yeah, fuck Equinox, man.
Yeah, fuck Equinox. Give it to her.
Fucking fuck the man, man.
Because that guy's just too lazy to go to the gym. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's like, fuck Equinox. Of course. Not just that. It's a corporation. You don't think of it as... as an individual. This is a company that's gonna fuck you over. That's why people don't feel bad stealing from work. You don't feel like you're stealing. If someone was working in your house and they were stealing from you, like they stole your fork, it's like, where's my fucking fork?
This is bullshit. And then you find out a guy who worked for you stole your fork. You're fucking fired. But if an office, if someone takes a fork home, like if you have a kitchen in your office, we use a bunch of forks for the staff, and someone takes that fork, it's no big deal. It's the office's fork. We just need to order more forks, man. These fucking forks keep disappearing.
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