South Beach Sessions - Tom Segura
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Hello and welcome. This man creates things, creates good things. He's got Teacher. That's on Netflix. That's a stand-up comedy special. He's got a second season of a scripted series, Bad Thoughts. Netflix, this month is where you catch it. He does a podcast with his wife, Christina, Your Mother's House. He does another podcast with his other wife, Bert Kreischer, Two Bears, One Cave. And he's got a bit of a podcast empire, a media impresario. And Secret Latino. Secret, yes. White presenting Latino, yes. White presenting Latino, Tomas Segura. You could check it out. All his tour dates, everything you want. TomSegura.com because he's white presenting. It's not Tomas Segura. Thank you for being with us. I've been interested in just watching your career over the last few years.
You didn't imagine that you would be a content impresario, right? That's not something that was in the game plan. Definitely not. No, no. I mean, I also loathed the idea of sharing life details and stories. Like I never thought I thought I would just do. whatever the work is, you know, stand up or a show and then do things like this, like do press, do media, but never be the person actually, you know, conducting the interviews. And like, I did not embrace it at first at all. Well, let's take me back to the beginning. These are largely biographical or we try to make them, they start out that way. So you're dreaming of what as a kid? Definitely to be funny, but I always thought it would be like in movies, you know, like movies and television shows, like as an actor, but like comedy specifically was what I wanted to do.
And, you know, I was doing, I was getting a communications degree at this small school in North Carolina. And whenever we would have to do videos to hand it in for like the production aspect, I would always do like a comedy spin on it. And I was like, I like doing this. I had done some improv stuff. And then I discovered that, I found like, oh, that SNL track seems like the way to go. How do people do that? And it seemed like a lot of them were going to the Groundlings, which is an improv school, but also a place to go watch a show in LA. And I was like, oh, like Fallon went there. Will Ferrell was there. I'm forgetting, like, I forget if it was, I'll forget her name right now. But from like Will's cast and other actress there, I was like, I'll just go do that.
So I moved to LA and I signed up for the Groundlings. I started doing the school. So I was going through the levels of the school And a couple guys in my class were like, man, you should try stand up. Just like, you know, unprovoked. Were you writing well? What were they seeing? I don't know what they were seeing. I think they just saw that maybe when I was doing like monologues or like the way that I would when I had to get up there and start one of the scenes there, they just kept telling me that you really like stand up. And I was like, I have no idea what to do. So they would take me around LA, show me how they do spots, you know, like go to this place, perform, drive over here. And I was like, okay, I guess I kind of see what you're doing.
And then one of them one time walked me into a, like a club, a small room, like a bar room and introduced me to the Booker as a comedian. They're like, this is Tom, he's a comic. And she was like, oh, you want to do a show? Like April 8th, I have a spot. And I was like, yeah, cool. Rigorous vetting. Like, yeah, just like, okay. And I was so dumb and naive to like how it works that for the very first show I ever did, I told other people like, oh, I'm doing standup at this thing. I didn't tell them it was my first time. So they were like, oh, you do standup? I was like, yeah. They just showed up to watch somebody for their first show ever. How old were you?
What early dreams did Tom Segura have before becoming a comedian?
And this path, you at this point are still thinking, I'm going to be a sketch artist. I'm not going to be writing them. I'm going to be doing them. Performing them. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think I had just turned 23. So yeah, I was 22, 23. So your parents think you're lost?
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–4:17
2
What early dreams did Tom Segura have before becoming a comedian?
4:17–6:14
3
How did Tom Segura transition from acting to stand-up comedy?
6:14–10:03
4
What challenges did Tom face during his early career in comedy?
10:03–13:04
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How did Tom Segura's near-fatal overdose impact his life and career?
13:04–1:09:13
Speakers
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