Tom
Segura

Lima to Cincinnati to Everywhere

Thomas Weston Segura was born April 16, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a Peruvian mother - Rosario "Charo" Lazarte - and a French-Canadian father. He spent his summers in Lima. He grew up bilingual. He attended Saint Edward's School in Vero Beach, Florida, then Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina. He graduated. He immediately started doing open mics in the evenings and holding down day jobs in the meantime.

His early industry experience wasn't glamorous: an internship at Kopelson Entertainment, logging reality TV transcripts, watching how the machine worked from the bottom. Then the festival circuit - Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs in Vancouver, the San Francisco regional finals of Last Comic Standing 2. He was building slowly and on purpose.

In 2008, he landed a recurring role on the CBS series Gary Unmarried. That same year, he married Christina Pazsitzky, a fellow comedian who would become his creative partner in the most literal sense possible.

The Podcast That Outlasted Everything

In 2010, Tom and Christina launched Your Mom's House. It started as a casual show between two comedians who happened to be married. It became one of the longest-running and most-listened-to comedy podcasts in the world. Sixteen years later, it's still running. Weekly. Consistent. Somehow still chaotic.

The formula is deceptively simple: two people who genuinely find each other funny, talking about comedy, internet culture, and the specific shared lingo that their audience has absorbed so thoroughly that fans once flooded country star Garth Brooks' Instagram comments with show-specific inside jokes for months - the "Garth Brooks Instagram Takeover" of 2019, arguably the podcast's greatest off-show achievement.

Six Specials, One Consistent Voice

Segura's Netflix run started in 2014 with Completely Normal and has produced a special roughly every two years since. The model is consistent: he does the work on the road, refines it through hundreds of shows, films it, and releases it. His 2023 special Sledgehammer debuted at #1 on Netflix. His 2025 special Teacher arrived Christmas Day, following the sold-out Come Together Tour.

His comedy sits at the intersection of observational and deadpan - stories told with careful pacing, reactions over jokes, silence treated as a tool. He doesn't chase the crowd. As one description of his live performance puts it: he digs his heels in harder if he feels like the audience isn't on board. That's not arrogance. It's precision.

Bad Thoughts: The Next Phase

Bad Thoughts is where Segura departed from the stand-up format entirely. The Netflix anthology series - shot like short films, scored like psychological thrillers - puts Segura into escalating sketch scenarios that blur the line between sketch comedy and something more uncomfortable. Each vignette is lit cinematically. Guests aren't playing cameos; they're playing situations.

Season 1 earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performer in Short Form Comedy. Season 2 arrived in May 2026 with six new episodes and a guest roster that includes Luke Wilson, Maria Bamford, Kevin Nealon, Busy Philipps, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and Tim Baltz. The expansion of the format suggests Segura has found something he's not finished exploring.

The Bestseller He Didn't Call a Memoir

In July 2022, Segura published I'd Like to Play Alone, Please - a collection of essays and stories that hit the New York Times Bestseller list. He was precise about what it was: "This is not a memoir, this is not an autobiography. It's a collection of stories, which is an extension of what I do as a comedian, which is I tell stories, a lot."

Forbes described it as "laugh out loud funny." The distinction matters to Segura - he's made a career of being exactly what he is, not a version of it dressed up for a different audience.

Austin, Rogan, and the Geography of Comedy

Segura is part of the comedy ecosystem that relocated from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas - a circle that includes Joe Rogan, Bert Kreischer, and others. His first Joe Rogan Experience appearance was episode 8, before the show became the cultural juggernaut it is now. He's been part of the Sober October challenges alongside Rogan, Kreischer, and Ari Shaffir for years.

He and Christina live in Austin with their two sons. It's a quieter location for someone with one of comedy's most consistently loud presences, but Segura has always operated at a remove - deadpan, deliberate, watching.

Career in Motion