He’s a stand-up, he’s a podcaster, and now he’s a sketch comedian. (And a really gross one, at that.)
Tom Segura, stand-up comedian? That guys’s a Netflix star. Tom Segura, podcaster? Also doing boffo business whether he’s co-hosting pods with his wife Christina P. or his comic foil, Bert Kresicher. But Tom Segura, actor and sketch comedian? That’s a bit of an unknown quality. Until now. His mother hated the first episode of his new Netflix sketch series. But what does she know?
Opening Shot: After the opening title sequence, we get a drone shot over the U.S. Capitol to set the scene for the first sketch.
The Gist: The opening sketch stars Segura as Agent Six, sent to Havana by a federal officer (played by Shea Whigham!) to carry out an assassination. But everything goes dreadfully wrong. First he accidentally shoots and kills a waitress, going against his agent code of “no women, no children.” He panics immediately. Upon uttering his next code “never loose your cool,” right on cue he soils himself. Loudly. We then watch as he drops trou, removing his pants and his underwear and roaming the streets of Havana, all while pretending on his comms that everything’s OK, then dropping that pretense to offer his boss sexual favors to forget it all happened. Unbeknownest to him, Whigham’s character and several others could see and hear all of it. Agent Six cannot even end his own career or life, it turns out.
We then get a mini-monologue about jobs, where Segura walks past vignettes depicting various jobs, while describing his own this way: “You know that dumb shit you get sent to HR for saying? I get paid for that.” After dressing down his assistant, Segura adds: “I may be a lowly comedian but it’s a job I take very seriously.”
There’s a film parody (denoted as A25 instead of A24) about an Italian janitor in a nursing home who’s lifting everyone’s spirits.
