I think Sledgehammer is far and away your finest special yet and feels like the culmination of decades of honing your stand-up.

I was going to ask, as I have many comedians, do you feel like Hollywood executives know what to do with you and your talent? And I know he has a lot of land, so that would be such an arduous endeavor if they’re trying to find anything on his property.I’ve been talking to my friends about this, but we got married to this thing of shooting your special and then trying to get your next special out, and we were on this two-year turnaround. Obviously, it didn’t play like, “Hey, this is a real serious thing I’m gonna talk about,” but it was definitely something that sat with me. The fact that they don’t address this has been a huge mistake, and then it’s just gonna grow from here. I mean, I did that bit, like you said, in red markets and blue markets, I did it in Canada, I did it in Australia, and sometimes when you travel, you’re like, “Ah, shit, how’s that going to go tonight? Segura also co-hosts the podcast Two Bears One Cave with best friend and fellow comedian Bert Kreischer.

Pals Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer attend ‘The Machine’ premiere at Regency Village Theatre on May 25, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. Well, yesterday, I picked up my youngest, who’s 4, and we were driving and somebody cut me off and I go, “Idiot! I’ll tell you exactly why I cut it: I look back on older specials, and in my opinion, they’re all too long. Fresh off his latest global tour, Segura hopped on the phone to talk about the new hour, his 4- and 7-year-old sons’ take on their father’s fame, his own Hollywood ambitions and how his Ted Cruz bit landed around the world. about the curious connection between country music legend Garth Brooks’ tour dates and people who have gone missing in those places.Oh, and he recently sold a pilot to a top streaming service and has not one, not two, but three feature films in various stages of development. On episode 568 of Your Mom's House, Segura mentioned he was doing comedy in the evenings for the first few years while holding down other daytime jobs. The Ryan Polito-directed hour, which he filmed before a sold-out crowd at Phoenix’s Celebrity Theater, focuses largely on Segura’s comedian wife, their two young sons, his now widowed mom, who’s been sharing his gummies to hilarious results and…Brad Pitt. It's a collection of stories, which is an extension of what I do as a comedian, which is I tell stories, a lot.

His announcement that he was joining Facebook is, and will forever be, one of the most bizarre, cringey, creepiest videos I’ve ever fuckin’ seen.But I tried doing the joke and attributed it to my current three-year-old, but it worked better saying it this way [about his six-year-old]. Bert floats this idea and we end up talking about it off-mic more extensively; talk about it more with some producers; talk about it more with Etan Cohen, who wrote Tropic Thunder; talk about it some more; and [Cohen] sends in a draft [of a screenplay] I read that is hilarious. And then he’s like, “I didn’t know what this was gonna be like, and then I talked to one of my people and they were like, ‘Think of this as a conversation.