Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2320 - Tom Segura
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2320 - Tom Segura' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-13. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2320 - Tom Segura

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
What's wrong with you?
How?
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 and showed it to them.
Oh my God.
Because I knew.
I knew that if we...
You can't give anybody the script.
No.
The script won't work.
The script won't work.
I mean, that's just...
That's the thing.
It's very funny.
Thanks, man.
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 lot.
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?
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 like the bones of a
show.
Like what if we did a show that was based on short stories, you know,
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 like, we'll make six episodes of this.
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 like on my way in here today.
I was like, sometimes you have to remind yourself like of what your original,
like your dream, like your original dream, you know?
And my dream when I moved to L.A. had nothing to do with stand-up.
I never thought of stand-up.
Not to say that I don't love doing stand-up today.
I have like, I'm in love with stand-up.
But I moved to L.A. because I was like, oh, I want to do movies.
Like that was my whole thing.
I want to do comedy movies.
And I had like my own blueprint for how I would do it.
I was like, I'll go to the Groundlings.
SNL will definitely hire me from there.
Like this is like my 21-year-old brain.
And then I'll do that for a couple years and then I'll do movies.
Like I thought that was a logical game plan to end up in movies.
And it just, you know, I did do the Groundlings for a while, the school, but
when I was supposed
to do Writing Lab, which was like one of their levels, I had started stand-up
and I was just
like, oh, this path is just better for me.
Like I was getting traction, not like my career wasn't moving, but I'm saying
like I could
feel how much I loved it.
And I was starting to get like 50 bucks here and there.
And I was like, oh, it's not doing the Writing Lab thing.
It's staying in the stand-up path, you know, like that's kind of like, but the
dream of
like, of doing something like movies, which is like, this feels like to me,
like they sent
me to film school and they were like, make your fucked up movies.
That's what it felt like.
That's been like, I was, you know, I was working like 16 hour days doing this
thing and I would
come home and Christina would be like, I have never seen you so energized after
working all
goddamn day.
She's like, you've come home in the best mood.
And I was like, yeah, cause I'm having fun.
Like I'm having so much fun doing this, you know.
All that shows you're doing the right thing.
I think so.
I mean, it was like.
That is so uniquely you.
It is, right?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's our fucking text thread.
Pretty much is.
There are some in here that I can't wait for you to see.
Like, there are some in here that I literally cannot wait for you to see.
She, this morning, she goes, why is it called bad thoughts?
It should be called cock thoughts.
She's like, I swear there's dicks in like every other one.
I'm like, yeah.
She's like, dicks in violence.
That's your wheelhouse.
We need more of this in the world.
Yeah.
We really do.
Um, the, you know, that, um, that show, the, um, the religious show on Max.
Why am I not remembering it?
Righteous.
Righteous Gemstones.
Oh yeah.
Fucking A.
Yeah, man.
Dude.
Danny McBride.
Yeah.
He's fucking fantastic.
Yeah.
He's fantastic.
But the whole cast.
The whole cast is, yeah, yeah.
The fucking show is so good.
It's so funny.
Oggins, Adam Devine, John Goodman.
Oh yeah.
Everyone's amazing.
They're all fantastic.
But it's also so ridiculous.
Yeah.
It's like, thank God.
It's like, 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
like so distanced from comedy.
Like it's like comedy is like.
It's too dangerous.
It's very like.
Well, what's weird is you can get away with so much in a drama.
In a drama, you could have violence and theft and car accidents.
You could fucking kill people and rape people and steal all their money.
And that's okay.
Yeah.
For some reason.
But like 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.
Like the comp.
So many studio comedies that are released.
The criticism people are like, why didn't this work?
Because it's not good.
It wasn't funny.
Right.
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.
Right.
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.
Yeah.
Like real.
And now some of them like Tropic Thunder, I think did probably pretty well at
the box office.
But a lot of them would not.
And so it started to be like, hey, you know what?
We can make this.
They start to, that's why you see the explosion of certain genres, right?
Like horror really has had a huge uptick the last decade plus because people
can produce
them for 5 million, but they don't realize that you can produce great comedies
for 5 million
also.
You can, but you have to like prioritize the material first.
It's got to be a great script and they got to be willing to back it.
You know, I feel like they just haven't taken those shots yet.
Well, it's kind of a tremendous opportunity, right?
Because of the fact that these big studios and these big stars are not doing
those kind
of films.
Exactly.
Like the door is wide open.
It's open.
Because the demand has never gone away.
No, people want it.
They want to laugh.
Always.
I'm doing one this summer.
Yeah?
I'm doing a movie this summer.
Yeah.
What are you doing?
It's a crazy fucking comedy.
It's insane.
It hasn't been announced yet.
So, you know how they are about that.
But it's a wild R-rated comedy.
Well, tell me about it afterwards then.
Okay.
Yeah.
Ha ha, everybody else.
Yeah.
I would love to talk about it.
But I think we're doing kind of like what you're saying, which is like we're
going to
go all in on trying to make this really funny movie.
And I mean, I couldn't be more excited about it.
And I think it's like, it takes, you realize when you're, you know, you read it
and you
go, this is it.
We kind of do, you know, some punch-ups on the script.
And then you just try to surround yourself with amazing comedic talent, you
know, like
great actors.
And just have fun.
Yeah.
I think that's like.
That's awesome.
Something that's missing.
That's so cool.
I didn't even know that that was your original dream.
I've fucking known you forever.
I know, yeah, it was, I guess I was probably like, I kind of was resigned to
that's not
going to happen too, you know, not like, I mean, the other thing is like, dude,
every
time I'm out on the road, you know, I'd get a call, Hey, they want to see you
for this
part, or you got an offer to shoot this show or this, like, here's the offer.
And I'm like, yeah, I'm, I'm on tour.
Like, I can't move the fucking United Center, you know, like, they don't care.
They don't care.
They just want that piece.
And I'm like, dude, I can't.
Because they don't get a piece of that United Center.
I know.
I'm like, I can't move all that shit.
But that's also, I realized that after years of that, it's like, well, if I'm
always touring,
I'm just never going to be able to do.
Other people's stuff.
Yeah.
And so it also kind of, I got excited about, you know, having the summer off
and I could
do something.
And then my tour, the current tour I'm on, will end in December and I'm leaving
26 wide
open.
Really?
Yeah.
I mean.
Just going to film stuff.
I'm going to, yeah, film some stuff.
And then I'll still do like what I do, which is like go into your club or book
some club
weekends, which are kind of like low, you know, stress kind of things where you
go like,
Hey, I'm just going to go work out.
So I'll try to keep the muscle fresh, but I won't book like a tour.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's good to take breaks.
It is, right?
I'll tell you that.
I took a big sort of a break.
I've just been doing the club.
How's the...
Since I did my live special.
Yeah.
It's very nice.
It's not, it's great having no pressure.
So like I just talk about what I want to talk about and I write about what I
want to
write about instead of going, I got to put an hour together because I have a
tour
in three months.
Right.
Like I have to make sure this hour's tight.
I have to...
You just kind of take your time with it.
And I think there's, there's something to be said for taking breaks with standup
in particular,
because like you don't want to just have tools that you use to do a job.
Right.
You want to actually like, you have to kind of figure out what am I investing
all my time
in these subject matters?
Yeah.
What am I, what am I, what is like, what's interesting to me and how much time
is that going
to take to figure out what the perspective is where I could just say it on
stage?
Yeah.
Because I feel like with a lot of comics, there's a thing happens where you get
kind of like
locked into a set and then you abandon that set and there's just mad scramble
to come up
with a new set.
Yes.
And a lot of times when you're doing that new set, it's not, you're not
invested in
it.
It's just, you know, you can make it effective.
Right.
You know what I mean?
It's kind of feels like filler.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know exactly what you mean.
And the audience feels that too.
I think they definitely do.
Oh, they do.
They do.
Because I feel it as an audience member.
Yeah.
I know when someone's doing that and I go, oh, this is not, I'm not connecting
with this
at all.
Right.
But if it's something that you can tell the person wants to talk about.
Exactly.
It resonates.
It hits different.
It's actually interesting.
That's the thing.
It's like, you know, as I've gotten older, I've thought much more about standup.
And there's a lot of standup is kind of like unspoken.
I think a lot of it is hypn