Surprise is an essential part of comedy. If you expect a joke, even when it's clever or witty, it doesn't hit as hard as when you're surprised, and sometimes even bad jokes can cause much laughter if they truly surprise you.
This is part of why humor that goes against cultural taboos often seems funnier and cleverer than it truly is. Segura's Bad Thoughts leans HARD into that strategy.
When watching this, I laughed out loud quite a bit at first. But when literally every skit is about some sexual taboo or gross-out, it loses it's punch quickly. And this does. By the second episode I was hardly laughing at all, but the gags weren't that different. I did laugh pretty hard at Segura's 'school play' skit in the 3rd episode, but that's because he took aim at a very different taboo and caught me by surprise again.
And of course, some people don't like taboo-breaking comedy at all. If that's you, you'll hate this. Be prepared for wall to wall sex and violence jokes and little else. But even if you're open to it, you'll probably get bored of it quickly because that's all there is.
If Segura gets a second season, and I can't imagine he won't as this was pretty successful, my advice to him is to mix in some funny 'normal' comedy. Don't rely exclusively on blue humor. It will make the blue stuff work better, but it should also even out the quality of the show. That maybe doesn't fit with the premise of 'Bad Thoughts', but surely we can find some bad thoughts that aren't just sex jokes.
