Tom Segura

There's always this thing where you're like a little anxious and you get your first laugh and you kind of settle in.

But you should stay, you know, on your toes a little bit throughout.

And I also think that the best mentality to hit the stage with

You know, backstage before a show, you can feel any range of emotions.

It's like when you walk in here.

Out there, you could have a day where you're like really happy.

You could have a day where you're upset about something.

You could be down about something.

You still have to come in and do a broadcast.

It's the same thing backstage before a show.

You always have different feelings on different days.

But the best...

Like headspace to get into, in my opinion, is silly.

Like when you feel like silliness, like when you're hanging out with friends and you guys are just BSing and like making fun of each other, you have music on and you're doing some dumb, you feel silly.

That energy is the energy that I like to take on stage.

I feel like it always leads to the best shows.

what year would you have imagined theaters something you could fill?

Like when did that become something that was even aspirational?

Because it seems like to me that pre-2015, the only people who are filling theaters are your legends of comedy.

There is no such thing other than the people who have historically been on the Mount Rushmore, right?