Tom Segura Goes Full Filmmaker With 'Bad Thoughts' And R-Rated Comedy 'El Tigre'

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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. TOM SEGURA GOES FULL FILMMAKER Comedian Talks 'Bad Thoughts,' New R-Rated Comedy 'El Tigre,' Netflix Viewership Insights & More Any fan of Tom Segura's work knows that he loves to push boundaries. And recently, with projects in front of and behind the camera including Bad Thoughts and the just-announced El Tigre, he's moved to do just that with his own career. While fulfilling his desire to explore filmmaking, he's showing how well his brand of sharp, dark, deadpan comedy can translate in the narrative space. Between five Netflix specials and a podcasting empire through his YMH Studios — Your Mom's House being the flagship series — Segura and wife/fellow comic Christina Pazsitzky have cultivated one of today's most diehard comedy fandoms. It's a world unto itself, with its own inside-joke terminology — a world of "horrible or hilarious" segments and "cool guys," of invisalign struggles, and TikTok curations casting a light on the most dark, strange, profane and hilarious corners of the internet. Segura has worked here and there in film and TV for a decade, with roles in the likes of Workaholics and Instant Family. Over time, he's developed a number of his own projects, and experimented with filmmaking via segments taped for YMH Live, a live-streamed, pay‑per‑view version of Your Mom's House, that grew out of the pandemic. In these livestreams, broadcast from the YMH website, he found an opportunity to push the boundaries of taste further than he ever had before with fully uncensored "heavy segments" that are the stuff of nightmares. Premiering on Netflix in May, and quickly securing a Season 2 order, Segura's Netflix dark comedy Bad Thoughts doesn't allow him to take things quite as far, but at the same time fully gets across the kinds of unhinged scenarios that make him laugh. It's a project that's given him his biggest creative canvas to date, and in between seasons, he's secured a greenlight for El Tigre, an R-rated comedy shooting this summer where he'll play both an everyday guy and the cartel boss who's his doppelganger. For today's comedian, it's often difficult to commit to film and television endeavors, given how much more money they could be making on the road in the time it takes to shoot one project. But while Segura is someone who's toured at the highest level — he completed over 300 shows globally, over the course of two years, with his I'm Coming Everywhere Tour — he's so committed to exploring a new dimension to his creativity that he's left 2026 fully open to pursue other projects, after also spending a good chunk of the last couple years on work in television. Ahead of the start of production on El Tigre, Segura joined me to discuss betting on himself with Bad Thoughts — which began with a self-financed pilot — Netflix viewership insights, and what's really required to create something great in comedy for film and television. He also gets into his love of John Hughes, his disdain for "white bummers," his decision to set down roots in Austin, TX after many years in Los Angeles, and why Texas' restrictions on "inappropriate content" when it comes to its film subsidy is "a huge bummer." Check out the pod at the link. The Comedy Means Business podcast will be back next week, as will the CMB newsletter. Rate, review, and subscribe to the pod on Apple, YouTube, and Spotify. Got a tip, pitch, comment, or feature idea? Reach out at mattgrobar@deadline.com.   This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the Preferences Center to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 Deadline Hollywood, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 11355 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA, 90064 View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Your Privacy Rights | Ad Choices | Terms of Use | Unsubscribe