Stand Up

Tom Segura is a stand up comedian, who tells funny and sometimes controversial jokes. He has a few stand ups on Netflix and his most recent is Tom Segura Disgraceful. This stand up is shot at Denver's Paramount Theater. The theater set up a light and dark blue background, that sets the mood for his stand up, but does not take attention away from Tom when he is talking. Tom dresses very casually for this stand up. He wears all black which contrasts well with the background, which also is not too distracting from his jokes. The camera angles do not change that much, that way it is not distracting. When he is building up a joke, the camera will zoom in. As the joke starts to advance the camera will zoom out. It will continue to zoom in and out for the duration of the joke. When a joke finishes with a big punchline, the camera will pan out to the audience to show how much they are enjoying.

This stand up is incredibly raunchy, and very controversial. He uses a lot of swear words and talks about new controversial issues in our society. He talks about how the use of certain words is no longer accepted in our society. He makes a few funny jokes about them and how it is now unacceptable, if you do not like controversial jokes then this stand up might seem offensive.

Tom also talks about how times have changed, where marijuana is now legal in Colorado. He tells a joke about how kids today will no longer understand how dangerous buying marijuana was for people in our time. He talks about his personal experiences with buying marijuana illegally. He makes jokes about his sketchy experiences with it, and about his conversations with his family on the issue. He says that he has driven around with random people to buy marijuana or met up with people that he does not know. This is relatable for people who have had similar experiences as him.

He tells one joke about how his father made him kill a woodpecker because it was messing up their house. He then says that he was at his girlfriends house later that evening for dinner with her parents and he mentioned it to them. He jokes that he did not know his audience at the time. He says this because her parents were conservationists, and they were upset with him killing that bird. It is funny that he talks about knowing his audience, because when you become a comedian you need to know your audience. If you cannot relate to your audience, you will not become a successful comedian. This was probably a valuable learning experience for him before becoming a stand up artist.

I would say this is one of his funnier stand ups. I enjoy controversial stand ups and his jokes throughout this one had great punchlines. His audience also enjoyed his performance.  I would recommend any person who enjoys stand ups, especially those of the raunchier variety to check this one out.