Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’ Season 2 Premieres. Seinfeld Claims ‘Friends’ Owes Him

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Featured: Tom Segura, Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Kudrow, Shane Gillis, Mike Ward, Leanne Morgan, Nate Jackson, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Hasan Minhaj, Ronny Chieng, Tony Hinchcliffe, Adam Ray

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts Season 2 premiere on Netflix
• Jerry Seinfeld claims Friends owes its existence to Seinfeld
• LA Times reviews Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Festival highlights
• Shane Gillis headlines Hollywood Bowl with veteran comic lineup
• Dave Chappelle three-show residency media blackout at Netflix Is A Joke
• Hasan Minhaj vs Ronny Chieng debate show at Dolby Theater
• Kill Tony at Netflix Is A Joke featuring Adam Ray as Tony Hinchcliffe

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media may the I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Are you people really sitting home Memorial Day weekend and watching television? Netflix seems to think so. Tonight is the premiere of season two of Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts six episodes I loved season one. Bad Thoughts follows Tom Sagora as he navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies within a cinematic world.

I laughed out loud at season one. Netflix describes the series as a collection of hilariously disturbing stories that push boundaries of decency in ways only Tom Sagora could imagine. Tom Sagora said, it was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and harrifi audiences with our very own bad Thoughts on Netflix. We’re all so excited to push things further. Bad Thoughts on Netflix tonight.

Jerry Seinfeld has made the claim that without Seinfeld the show, there would be no Friends. Jerry said this during the New Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival. But there was this roast of Kevin Hart and Stephen Colbreer week and sometimes stories get to sleep for a holiday Weekend. You know what I’m saying, Jerry said. I think NBC was watching my show and they said, hey, this is working pretty well.

Why don’t we try the same thing with good looking people. Apparently Jerry has had this chip on his shoulder for years. In twenty twenty two, Lisa Kudro told The Daily Beast she ran it to Jerry Seinfeld, who told her you’re welcome. Kudro said, thank you, what and he said, you’re on after us in the summer. You’re welcome.

In twenty twenty four, when promoting the movie Unfrosted, Jerry joked about when people steal your ideas and do whatever they want with them. Seinfeld said, you mean like Friends. I don’t know about that, Jerry. I don’t know about any of that now, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Sure, Friends was on after Seinfeld? When was Seinfeld on between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three?

It was on nine thirty on Thursdays? What was on at nine o’clock? Cheers? So Jerry, next time we run into Ted Danson, say thanks Jay times as a very good boy boyd look at John take a shot at Jerry Seinfeld, But come on, man, lead In’s work. That’s why we do them.

Nobody was watching Seinfeld at first, except crazy people like me who knew Jerry Seinfeld as a recurring comedian on the Wonderful Late Night with David Letterman show. There were two guys that we couldn’t get enough of, Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno. So when I heard Jerry Seinfeld was getting a sitcom, I watched it from episode one, but nobody else did. Show almost got canceled. So yeah, I went on after Cheers.

That’s how you build a network.

And then they moved Seinfeld up to nine and they threw on a show they believe…

Not once. Sorry, I don’t know why I’m riled up about this. I don’t even like Friends. I don’t care. The La Times has a very robust comedy section.

They wrote an article we watched everything we could at Netflix’s joke. This is what stood out. I thought this would be very interesting to take a look at, they wrote. Considering the amount of comedy that was dropped on La the idea that anyone could see it all is laughable. Yet, of course, like fools, once again, we tried try and fly through this Shane Gillis show at the Hollywood Bowl, Commanding a solid roster veteran comics including James McCann, Sam Jay Ron White, Dan Soder and Jim Jefferies as a pretty good lineup, Gillis took on the role of a grizzled and playfully perverse football coach, hosting the night and telling funny stories about his days as a very average high school football player on crappy all white teams before he blew up.

In comedy, they liked Mike Ward at Dynasty, typewriter, record breaker and a master of storytelling in French. Mike Ward did not disappoint with his all English crossover, covering everything from his legendary Supreme Court of Canada case to teenage lust, dating after marriage, attempting generosity and trunk love. Ward mentioned jokes translating from friends to English and how that hit. But he was definitely in his element. That’s great.

They went to see Jerry Seinfeld featuring Leanne Morgan Leanne, I hope you said thanks. The Eli Times wrote, blending the big city humor with hilarious Southern comfort. Might sound like an odd pairing, but somehow the combo of Jerry Seinfeld and LeAnn Morgan just works. Yes, we love a good rant about the terrors of technology from a comedy legend like Seinfeld, but his crotchety comedy On a Whole Night at the Greek Theater was complimented by Morgan’s ability to add warmth and sweetness to her smack talk about being a small town cheer mom and the world of competitive cheerleading, which he described as the Olympics meets honey booboo. That’s great.

They liked. Nate Jackson at the Laugh Factory Hollywood. The La Time says it’s a skill for comedian to be able to sit in the pocket of a crowd’s energy and keep a room full of people laughing and on their toes at the same time. Try doing it for six shows back to back. In Jackson’s case, that meant delivering some third degree burns in the front several rows of the crowd known as the roast zone.

Jackson prefaces every show the same way. Rule number one. If I look at you and you don’t want no smoke, look away. That is the rule in the standard I do not get people unless they lock eyes and give me consent. As a matter of fact, this is called a roast zone.

If anyone is accidentally down there, it’s time to get the f out, because rule number two is if I look at you and you look at me, and I start and you don’t like what I decided to talk about, looking away, will no longer save you. Wanda Sykes at the Adobe Theater, Politics, family, inflation, racism, wait, gain, and greed were among the multiple topics. Kill Tony at the Inn, to a Doom on the Panel, Harlan Williams and Gabriel Iglesias. The Legends bucket made it sway to the Arena in La. The polls were Ron White, Jode de Rosa, and Tony’s number one favorite comic, Tony Hinchcliff played by Adam Ray.

Oh that sounds amazing. Oh, I got to find a clip of that. Let me see if I can find something quick. Maybe somebody grabbed that. I didn’t know that happened.

Makes some noise for Brian redband everybody, and makes some noise for the best goddamn band in the land. Oh my god. On the leave a bald who’s ready for the best and out of their lives. Oh yeah, oh my god, we’re really doing it Red Band every Monday. We’re doing it live.

All right. That was fun. The visual definitely helps, but boy, that’s fuzzee. I like hosting the show, and that’s why I don’t read these things in advance so that I could react like that Tony Hitchcliff played by Adam raygeow the crowd exactly what effortless and absolute merciless veteran comedy looks like Dave Chappelle. Now this is interesting.

The La Times Rights were not allowed to say anything about what went on at the Dave Chappelle three show residency other than the fact it was an evening of music and comedy per usual. They locked up the crowd’s phones to see a show, But why aren’t they allowed to say anything like couldn’t somebody as a civilian go to the show? It’s been very weird. I’ve seen nothing about that Chappelle three Chappelle shows. Nothing, nothing has come out.

Very strange. Hasan Minhajs versus Ronnie Ching at the Dolby Theater. They challenged one another to prove who’s better suited to fix a broken America, Asians or Indians, never mind that Indians or South Asians. The two comedians got plenty of laughs backing up there absurd arguments with flow charts, graphs, curated news clips, an ai Bot called Nieri, and plenty of racist rhetoric that sounds like a fun show. They broke the down the debate in the categories Who’s better at academics, business, in the economy, cuisine.

Ronny Chieng argued that Asians are better at sports. With a list of Olympic gold medal wins over the past three Summer Games. He won’t use all of Asia, he said, just China. The result the country had over one hundred gold medals India had just won. Hasan Minhaj wondered aloud, for people who love gold so much, why is it so hard for us to win one?

Sounds like a good show. Otsgo at Coska. The La Times said her show at the Orphium is the result of a brand new hour she’s been performing on tour and includes plenty of jokes about dinosaurs and her love of Jamaican dancehall choreography. I’ve seen the show. All that is very very funny.

If otsgoes around go see it. It’s a great hour. Before she got on stage, she got blindsided by the appearance of two comedy titans, Margaret Show and Trevor Noah. Wow, that’s a nice bonus. Who came out to deliver punchy, political driven opening sets that got loads of laughter and set the tone, and she announced to her next special will be on Netflix.

In twenty twenty seven, Australian born comedian James McCann at the Hollywood Improv Top the Bill’s Saturday Night high energy was the vibe m looking flawless, poems and tow and dark humor, Dialed two and eleven. He questioned LA’s homeless crisis may have questioned the audience a bit too much and tore through his thoughts on a census overhaul, the insanity of the TV show Survivor, the glory days of drinking, and having visions of finally being successful enough to hire his dream team. The La Times also hit the Two Bears five K They tell us whether you kicked off the Magical day of athleticism and a Downward Dog with Ari Shafir, if he went straight for the starting line with Bert Kreischer, Thoms Agora and jelly roll. They were stretching, pacing, sweating, and rejoicing to be had a bunch of comics on hand. The finish line led runners directly into the Rose Bowl, where there were plenty of poor osos, flowing snacks, interactive games and recovery stations, and a live taping of Two Bears, One Cave.

Sunday, May tenth, Marcelo Hernandez, they didn’t really say too much. You’re gonna think I’m doing a bit here, they wrote on Saturday Night Live, he plays a Latin lover named Tomingo. But at the Hollywood Bowl on Mother’s Day Sunday, headliner Marcello Hernandez riffed on his real life as a mama’s boy growing up in Miami and duly invited out his mom is Isabelle, who has met with the standing ovation. Then they discussed the roast of Kevin Hard. I think we’ve covered that enough, And then at the Greek Theater, Flight of the Concords, looking a bit more like silver foxes than young birds that made the timeless chuckle inducing tunes like robots, The most beautiful girl in the room hurt feelings in business time Land with even more impact as the crowd enjoyed some long awaited nostalgia.

Did they forget a few of the lyrics, miss some solos, mess up in sire songs. Sure, With a dose of Kiwi banter and the ability to laugh at themselves, the mistakes only made the show funnier and a reminder of why they’ve missed them. You can find of that show on YouTube. Don’t tell anybody, and I want it to disappear. I enjoyed it, all right.

It’s a holiday weekend. Let me get you out of here. Let me tell you one more thing from the BBC. Hundreds of comedians have reportedly gone unpaid after the Lesser Comedy Festival. The festival attracted around a hundred th spectators and featured more than five hundred acts, including Stephen Frye, Sarah Pesco and Rosie Holt.

Organizers said performers were expected to be paid after the event, which ran in February, but payments have been delayed because of cash flow problems. Comedian Benjamin Alborough said he was owed just short of two thousand British pounds. It’s very frustrating. I got bills to pay like everybody else. Between festival registration fees and travel and accommodation and production costs AFT to invest several hundred pounds per individual show.

I want the Lester Comedy Festival to succeed because it’s a brilliant thing. But in order to do that, everyone needs to get paid. Artists needs to be paid money. Canadian comedian Zoe Brownstone said she was owed around two hundred and twenty five US dollars. I guess they did a conversion here.

I’ve done a few festivals, this, by a mile was the most prepared. People donated more for tickets. Leaving the festival, I felt great. I never felt so positive. It’s astonishing to me that a big organized festival can’t pay me at the end of the day.

Michael Harris Wakelam, chief executive of the nonprofit organization Big Difference, which runs the festival, said it’s a case of the cash flow problem. But we’re trying to communicate with the artist is this is a case of a small delay rather than you won’t be paid. He said the organization was still waiting on money from sponsorships, third party ticket sales and commissioned shows, and was exploring bridge financing with banks. That is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow,