I think Rinella might have opened you up to the Rogan sphere. Especially if you were consuming this on youtube. The "everything leads back to JRE" jokes about youtube's algorithm have some merit imo
I've also noticed that when you watch reaction clips to JRE or Ben Shapiro types you'll get more right-wing content in your youtube feed. For example, I clicked on the Hasanbi video, and one of the suggested videos was from a PragerU account.
It’s definitely an intentional push. I had no idea who Theo Von was 6 months ago, and if I scroll tiktok for more than 5 minutes I’ll get at least one clip. I think what they do is make a shit ton of spam accounts like @theovonclips or something generic like that which aren’t official accounts but they post 5 clips per day with a million tags so it’s bound to pop up if you’re even slightly interested in comedy.
I believe he OD'd once fwiw. He's talked about doing lots of drugs when he was young, but just the one overdose on GHB... not that one overdose isn't a big deal.
Reddit hit me with a “you might like” something called KillTony and it was a clip of an amateur comedian that was pretty funny. Downloaded the latest episode of the podcast to check it out and the first guy on stage was going off about Fauci for two minutes. Turns out that podcast routinely has Rogan and I think even Alex Jones. Big time yikes on my part. Austin is really turning into chud comedian paradise.
American pop culture really started to slip when we gave any D-list comedian free range to pick apart political issues. Tony Hinchcliffe is just the tip of the iceberg of bad Austin comedians. I do think we're slowly seeing the erosion of the Rogan ecosystem. Many of those dudes aren't seeing the same clicks as they used to 5-7 years ago. The Seguras and Cummings of the comedian podcast world seem out of touch with their audiences and just don't have new material IMO.
i enjoy bert as a personality but his stand up sucks, basically everyone in that circle is bad at standup and why the Normands/our homegrown talent Gillis are seen as budding stars, because they are far better than Segura/Rogan/etc. speaking of new Marc Maron hbo special tonight is getting incredible reviews, fucked up not going to the taping when I was in NY
He’s still a bad comedian. But I think people look at him differently after the whole Bobby Lee deal.
And if we’ve learned anything it should be not to assume being the “child of an immigrant” means you’re automatically good people.
I saw Tom‘s last stand up live and it was miles better than Ball Hog. Could’ve done without the last bit about his son though
I went to high school in his hometown. I’d never heard of him until a few months ago. There’s a zero percent chance he grew up with black people. It’s a milky town
Old school listeners of Jim rome will remember that back in the day (2009, 2010 timeframe) jay mohr used to guest host for Rome and he would bring segura on with him on occasion. He was funny back then. He was unshaven and looked homeless and the listeners would love to send in Tom segura bum smack.
No chance he moved into y’all parish later on? I'm actually trying to think of ways for this to be accurate because the later is so much worse. New Orleans already has one white guy co-opeting culture to make it Barstool Sports (iykyk). I'm highly curious to see what his Road Rules episodes sound and look like.
I’ve heard him described as “if you just went to predictive text”. You literally don’t know what he’s going to say. the hating is weird. Don’t listen if you don’t like. Simple. I don’t care for him enough to make a thread about him
Completely Normal is an incredible special. All of Segura's stuff since then has been meh at best though.
The original poster asked why a relatively unknown comedian was being pushed into his social media feed randomly. It's completely acceptable to review his standup skills on a message board. Literally, this entire forum is people reviewing past experiences .
The only thing I ever like Jay in is when he guest hosted for Rome. He got his own show after that and it wasn’t the same. Fucking guy is engaged to Jeannie Buss now.
I would love if someone from here attended a Shane show and mentioned TMB in a meet and greet or something. I wonder what his reaction would be.
A buddy of mine saw him in Boston about a year ago and I told him to yell “hello at the show” at him to see what happened. Apparently he didn’t react at all but obviously I don’t know if he heard the mating call