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Tom Segura’s new comedy sketch show “Bad Thoughts” premiered this week on Netflix, and the comedian brings a lot of friends with him for the darkly humorous show. Keep reading to find out every actor joining the comic in the new series.
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Tom Segura in “Bad Thoughts”.
Tom Segura in “Bad Thoughts”.
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What to Know About Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’ Comedy Special
“Bad Thoughts” is a comedy sketch show whose vignettes all feature Tom Segura playing different characters in darkly comical situations. A sketch might feature the comedian waking up “Walking Dead” style in the middle of the apocalypse, taking hostages to improve his singing career, or trying to get a coffee from the worst barista in the world.
In one example, Segura plays Rex Henley – a country music singer who’s desperate for more song ideas. His solution? He takes a bunch of complete strangers hostage and forces them to tell him the worst things that ever happened to them in the hopes he can makes songs out of their tragedies.
Segura plays a different character in every sketch, and in each vignette he’s joined by different actors and comedians.
Who is in the Cast of Netflix’s ‘Bad Thoughts’?
According to Netflix’s Tudum, here’s the complete list of actors joining Tom Segura in “Bad Thoughts”:
- Robert Iler
- Daniella Pineda
- Shea Whigham
- Dan Stevens
- Jimmy Kimmel
- Rachel Bloom
- Bobby Lee
- Arturo Castro
- Kirk Fox
- Christina Pazsitzky
- Alexis Abrams
- Alexandra Chando
- Malin Barr
- Arnold Chun
- Nic Novicki
- Johnny Pemberton
- Annie Abbott
- Ryan Sickler
- Hannah Bittick
- John Gholson
- Kirsten Kendall
- Alexandra Broussard
- Billie D. Merritt
- Jenn Covington
- Sarah Burns
What Reviews Say About Netflix’s ‘Bad Thoughts’
On one hand, reviews for “Bad Thoughts” are pretty mixed. On Rotten Tomatoes, its critic score is sitting at an unremarkable 60%. On the other hand, you should take that with a grain of salt because that score is based on a total of only five reviews.
Based on that small number of reviews so far, the people who don’t like “Bad Thoughts” characterize the show as a juvenile, tasteless exercise trying to be something more. For example, Archi Sengupta of LeisureByte.com calls the show “a lot of sex jokes… and poop jokes. It’s just oddly immature and unnecessary.”
But that’s only one side of the coin. Collider‘s Nate Richard says that, “While not every sketch will kill, there are more than enough big laughs and moments of sheer, depraved creativity that only Segura is capable of pulling off.” Meanwhile, Pramit Chatterjee of Digital Mafia Talkies calls “Bad Thoughts” the best comedy special he’s seen since Bo Burnham’s pandemic hit “Inside”.
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