Name: Theo Von on Tom Segura's Louisiana Wall
Uploaded: 2018-02-10T18:30:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von on Tom Segura's Louisiana Wall' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-02-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von on Tom Segura's Louisiana Wall' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-02-10. Transcript available.

There's been a lot of talk recently, you know, a lot of people asking me on
social media about Tom Segura, and he is a fellow comedian, and he's a very
unique man, and he has a great podcast called Your Mom's House, and he made fun
of Louisiana.
He was making fun of Louisiana in one of his comedic sets, and he was talking
about Louisiana and build a wall around it, and he used the word retarded, and
there's just been an uproar about it, and a lot of people asking me how I feel,
and you know what's funny is before I even knew that this was on television
where people could watch it or on Netflix where people could watch it, I heard
Tom do that bit.
I heard Tom do that set at the Comedy Store a couple of months ago, and I'm
sitting in the back, and dude, my first feeling was that I was offended.
I'm like, man, what the fuck, dude?
You're going to make fun of Louisiana?
You know, why don't you make fun of one of these show-offs, one of these know-it-all
places?
You know, why don't you make fun of a Los Angeles or a New York or a California
or New York?
Make fun of a know-it-all kind of place.
I'm like, you're picking the lowest-hanging fruit there, Tom, Tom Cat.
And then I'm watching, and I'm like, you know, and then I realized I have a
part in my Netflix special.
There's a bit where I make fun of Mississippi, which is an even easier place to
make fun of.
So that's when I realized, you know what, like, this is just jokes.
Even though it might first hit me a little bit uncomfortable, because that's my
home state, you know, that these are just jokes.
I mean, I could go, you know, I could raise rebuttal up forever.
Louisiana Purchase, one of the greatest deals ever in the universe.
We did that.
You're welcome.
Okay?
I could say that, you know, I could say that, you know, one of the pseudo-birthplaces
of jazz.
You know, I could say that we've had, you know, a lot of amazing people come
out of Louisiana.
You know, I could say, you know, some of the greatest recipes.
Dude, come on.
They got some trout.
They have some trout down there that if you eat it, that one of your deceased
grandparents could probably get that taste in their mouth.
Even in their skeleton, wherever they're laying.
They could get that taste in their mouth.
And so that's when I realized, you know what, sure, I could rebuttal.
But the thing is, is that it's jokes.
And that's Tom's take on it.
And he said, build a wall around Louisiana.
And so that's his take.
And that's it.
And I just have to, you know, I got to realize some things are just jokes.
Especially because if I start to question, you know, what, you know, I can say
if I think it's funny or not.
But if I start to question what he should be able to joke about, it's like,
come on.
And especially in the South, we should be able to take a joke.
You know, there's a lot of places that cannot take jokes.
But I don't think that the South is one of them.
And, you know, and Tom has to go down there and perform.
And I'm not going to, people are asking if I'm going to be a security guard
down there, if I'm going to be down there opening up.
Not that I know of.
You know, but good.
And I wish Tom the best down there.
I wish him the best.
You know, a lot of famous people have been killed.
And even if, you know, if somebody shoots him up, a lot of famous people have
been killed in Louisiana.
A lot, man.
Huey P. Long.
Pistol Pete Maravich.
Steven Seagal.
Jim Croce.
Or Crotchy.
Larry Sweeney.
There you go.
So, you know, it's anybody's ball game down there, Tomcat.
Good luck.
You know, good luck.
But I'm not, I can't be offended.
So I have to, I have to, I think we're almost getting, in living out in Los
Angeles and even just being in this world today, it's that offensive, that it's
becoming that culture.
It even infects me.
Because I wouldn't usually get offended.
But my first thought was to be offended.
And I think my reasoning was I just feel like that the South and that the
Midwest, these places have been picked on enough.
You know.
But then when I look at my own work, even though I'm from one of these places,
here I am picking on it.
So, it just, you know, at that point I just got to realize that Tom's just
telling jokes.
And then it made me think, well, maybe I should find a, you know, a braver
place to make fun of.
I mean, at least you picked Louisiana.
I picked Mississippi.
Which is even, you know, which is a, which, you know, usually it's like you go
down, like every state makes fun of another state.
Like, oh, yeah.
Well, you know, North Carolina's like, oh, well, you think we're shitty?
What about South Carolina?
And South Carolina's like, oh, well, you think we're shitty?
What about Kentucky?
And Kentucky's like, oh, well, you think we're shitty?
What about Alabama?
And it keeps going.
But then you get to Mississippi and Mississippi's like, oh, you think we're
shitty?
Well, and they don't know because there's no other states left.
But then also you go to Mississippi, man, and you find some people that are,
you got a lot more weight.
You go to some of these, these, you know, you go to some of these Southern and
Midwestern states.
Man, you have so much more good heartedness.
You have so much more people actually living their lives and getting to know
each other, you know?
I mean, Los Angeles, we sit in traffic.
Everybody acts like it's so diverse out here.
Like, yeah, there's a lot of different types of people.
But it's not like they interact all the time.
Everybody's, for the most part, seems to be in traffic driving to their own
little insular universe.
Like, there's a lot of, like, you know, there's little neighborhoods where
everybody's kind of very similar.
You know, it's just like, then we go into our homes and talk about how, and
people talk about how diverse and how loving they are.
But I've known my neighbors way less when I've lived in Los Angeles than I have
any other place that I've lived in America.
And that's true.
I've known my neighbors more in other places, including New York City, South
Carolina, New Orleans, Arizona.
I knew my neighbors more in those places than I have living here the entire,
and I've been here for probably about 13 or 14 years.
Now, I'm not saying there's not great things about California.
You know, I'm not saying there's not great things about Los Angeles.
But as a place where there's a strong sense of community, anybody who tells you
that there is, I think, is not realistic.
I think that that's, there's very, there's not, it's very me.
Everything is very me out here.
And I don't even know why sometimes.
I don't even know why I feel that way or why it is that way.
You know, I actually met a man on the street earlier, and this was like the
first time I said, I said, hey, man, you know, I live right down the street at
this address.
And if you ever need anything, you know, if you and your wife ever need
anything or whatever, you know, I'm down the street.
And I just realized this was just tonight when I went on this run.
I was like, man, I've never even said that shit to anybody before.
So, I don't know.
I mean, the only time I knew, I had a neighbor at one of my old places, and he,
and he, and he, he, he, he, uh, had husbands or men.
He, you know, preferred the pleasure of men.
And they used to get up there, and sometimes, dude, I'd be laying in bed at
night listening to these men make love kind of in the distance.
And, uh, and damn, sometimes it was, you know, it didn't make me erect or
anything like that.
But it was, it was probably the most I ever even knew my neighbors, really, in
a weird way.
You know, it was probably the closest that I got to knowing any of my neighbors.
Was sometimes listening to this man who used to make soap.
He also made soap.
He was a soap, uh, soapsman, or a sudsman.
I don't even know.
I could look it up on my internet.
It's having trouble.
Um, I would, you know, and I would listen to him, and, and he had a couple of
different partners, I think.
But that's his shit, dude.
That's his life.
You know, and it was, but that's weird that that was kind of the closest thing
I felt to neighborly association.
Was, uh, listening to a couple of fellas moving furniture, if you will.
You know?
A couple of, uh, a couple of lunch hunters.
You know, people hunting.
Just getting into the dark arts out there.