Name: Tom Segura was America's Most Wanted - Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast Clip
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Segura was America's Most Wanted - Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast Clip' from Are You Garbage Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-21. Transcript available.

are you garbage so I leave there and I go work for America's Most Wanted in I
have heard this yes in DC what tracking down cases what are you doing yes no
you're not well I'm the I'm the research of one of the lead research
people so what happens is did you meet John Walsh yeah that's how I got the job
what yeah I ran into John Walsh when I was in college his daughter was taking a
tour of the school I was at and I went up to him and I was like I'm from the
same area and all this and he was like you got you know I was like I do
communications he was like if you want an internship call this number damn and
so
I called and I got the internship and that was while I was in college when I
graduated they were like you can come work now for the actual show I was
working
for a side show called Final Justice and I was producing episodes I was
producing the show in college and for free so they're like this kid hustles so
when I go back they're like they basically they need stories to pursue so
I'm like look this guy he fucking raped a bunch of people he's on the run like
let's go get him you're making shit up yeah I'm just like and I'm reading dude
I'm
reading it like the most disturbing just fucking warping your brain it's fucked
I
mean like I like crime shows and like all those biography shows about but it's
fucked up at one point I think this is in the book that I that that is coming
out
that um they gave me you know they give you like different case profiles right
and
and then you dig deeper and then if your one is really good then I'll call the
FBI
and be like you know what do you what do you have about him
holy shit fuck and they sent me a diary of a pedophile so it's his personal
diary of what
he's doing and you just like at the end of the day it's like hey I'm just
trying to book
him on the show I don't want to play a story yeah and then I go to the story
editor and I
go you know I lay out basically here's the crime here's the guy here's what he
did here's
why he's you know he's a fugitive because they want to pursue people and then
they were like
yeah we you know they accepted it and they go I go he escaped a lot of the guys
especially like
sex criminals they'll go to certain countries where you can basically it's
easier to perform
sex crimes but also to skip out on on the justice system so he had escaped or bribed
somebody in like
costa rica so that I was like that's right and then they sent me down there
what yeah so I do
I go do the episode I'm on an episode uh you see me like you know they give you
any heat to go down
there they gave me no they gave me I'm just an intern yeah give me a clipboard
gave me a guide
and a producer and a cameraman and you want to be on tv here's how fucking bad
I was at it though
like I mean like how I'm you know they didn't send you down to the find the
guide did they no but
to do the story all right so they sent me with a producer I'm one of the like
associate producer
plus I speak Spanish so I'm like translating boots on the ground yeah there you
go and we're sitting
there and they're like um you know I meet this person and then I meet a girl
who was like who had
been abused and I'm sitting here interviewing her for the show camera's over
here I'm translating
and dude as she's telling me her story I start crying but like she's not crying
right she's like
it happened to me motherfucker and I'm like I'm like and I and I'm like trying
to stop and then I just
look at her I'm like yeah I can't stop like I just keep crying and then like
one of the camera guys
is like this is probably not your gig yeah I don't think I don't think go back
to fucking being a
realtor he's like I'm like so I do that job for a few months and I get I'm you
know my first day on that
job by the way my first day on the America's most wanted as a as a full
employee is September 10th
2001 in DC so I'm like my next my second day of going to work is 9 11 right and
like and and so
then our whole my whole show becomes like profiling we we just profile bin laden
everything yeah
still looking for him yeah and I'm like at the white house you know what
because we're doing
pressers from like you know whatever they talk all they would talk about is
terrorism so then they
would send our crew to the white house so I would just be sitting on the lawn
you know that west
wing lawn out there calling friends like I'm at the fucking white house yeah
and then flexing on
people people will be like you know they can hear you right I was like oh yeah
like I'm just like
yeah dude this place is fucking awesome where you guys drinking at this guy's a
cop I don't trust
him did boomer ever get that weed what's the deal gang by the way the book is
called I'd like to play
alone please you have to fucking check it out fantastic please do you can get
an audio book if you
like to let you know listen to them ebook hard book whatever um but I do that
for a few months and I
have the same feeling as like the real estate thing where I'm like you know I
don't want to do this
right and it's like immediately that's what September 10th first day and they
gave me a three-month
contract they offer me a re-up they're like you want to do like a year contract
and I'm like no
and I just I load up a truck and I drive to LA then I joined the CIA comedy
yeah you were like
already dead set had you done it yet not no I'd never done stay I'd hosted a
couple things where
I'm like it feels like you're doing stand-up I hosted a talent show I'd done
like improv you know
like high school yeah and then communications like in college they would do the
fucking lamest videos
right because you had to shoot and edit in your videos well I would always do
comedy videos right
like I was trying to make comedy videos and you know my professor was like what
the fuck is this right
because people are doing like shit that like you'd find like a local a videographer
for like a wedding
would do sure and I was just like what if you froze your diarrhea so here's a
compilation of car crashes
he's like the fuck is this I was like it's funny right he was like no I got
this guy in Costa Rica
you gotta have him on you're gonna love him so I moved there uh January 2nd of
2002 I moved to LA
and then I few months later I signed up for the groundlings which is like the
improv and I because
I thought I was going to do that I thought I was going to be like a comedy
actor and then there's
stand-ups in my class Sam Tripoli was in that class with me Nick Wegener a
writer now and they
were both doing stand-up at the time and they were like you gotta try stand-up
yeah damn that's kind of
what'd you do on 9-11 they give you a half day they send you home what happened
pizza party it was the
longest it was the longest fucking day because I remember I was putting my I
was tying my shoes I
was I had I had rented a room at a house in College Park Maryland okay right
which is like outside like
30 minutes outside yeah DC and I'm tying my shoe I still remember and they had
they happen to have
like Good Morning America or what one of those locals on and it showed uh the
guy like the smoke coming
out I still remember it was like Bryant Gumbel or someone being like they still
thought it was like a
Cessna they're like oh a Cessna hit the thing and as I'm putting on the other
shoe the uh second
plane and I get in the yeah I get in the my my truck and I'm driving into DC
and all the radio stations
are like we're under attack and I'm like there's no we're not under what the
fuck is he even talking
about and then they're like the Pentagon I'm like I'm in and then we go in
there and like uh it was
and here's the thing I worked at Fox Studios local Fox affiliate on Wisconsin
Ave in DC so when you're
in a new state like if you think if you're home watching TV that day that's a
lot there are 100
TVs that have all the feeds so all you hear is every feed and every screen and
we stayed there until like
11 o'clock at night so at the end of the day everybody was just like jeez it
was yeah that's a
lot to take in it was a lot especially being there like in DC it was a lot damn
damn that's fucking
a while it was a wild day yeah man from that to the groundlings yeah I was like
I think about
a 180 I was like let's yuck it up guys yeah holy shit that's fucking crazy
a brother you