Tom Segura: Sledgehammer

I just discovered this brillant foul-mouthed stand up comedian.

This show convinced me to add the test of his shows on my must watch list.

He is al but afraid to avoid controversy.

His topics are, amongst others, sexuality (straight, gay, whatever), educating children, drugs use and abuse.

Sometimes he walks on a thin line of extreme funny and what for some people may occur offensive.

But for me humour can go further on topics than any other medium. If it's funny or not is a question of taste and opinion. But censorship should never be applied on this kind of shows.

As a European I sometimes don't understand the jokes because he yalks about famous Americans, unknown by me.

But mostly his humour is international and he made me cry several times with his witty observations.

I fully recommend to let him take you on a hilarious trip!!!

And I was nervous for this special to air because my husband and I...feel asleep at the show. I feel like about half way thru I started nodding off and my husband around the same and we only had one drink. I was embarrassed and nervous you would see us sleeping esp because Im a Tom fan; seen all his specials and love his podcast with Cristina...but looking at the other reviews, guess it wasn't so far fetched after all that we thought it wasn't as great as his others and couldnt stay awake. And it was worse live in my opinion sadly :/ I think if he would've engaged more with the audience it would've helped.

The bigger these comedians get, the less funny they become. Segura, theo, bert and even rogan. Not funny at all. Just some weird witty chit chat that bored people are forced to laugh at. Not only are these guys have become unfunny in their "every day life" storytelling but even when they obviously make up stuff that didnt happen, still not funny. Why are these comedians so popular? I dont get it. Segura WAS funny before he became super popular. Rogan WAS funny before he became a super star. These guys always talk about "refining their art and making it better" but there is nothing "better" about their comedy.

Glad the crowd enjoyed it!

I like Tom a lot, I really like Mostly Stories and Disgraceful, and I liked ball hog too. But I think I laughed maybe 3 times in this special. Maybe he got too healthy and too successful to laugh at himself or find real humour in situations like he used to, but this is felt a little bit flat..

Why is comedy so bad now? Are they so scared to get cancelled they won't say anything remotely funny any more? Seems like Dave Chappelle and a few others like Sam Morrill are the only funny people left willing to take a risk. I don't need it to be "edgy", god forbid, right?! But comedy used to be a LITTLE bit edgy.

Pryor, hicks, carlin Chappelle.... Little bit of bite. And I'm not taking about being transphobic or offensive I'm taking about saying funny things that actually make you think, or maybe things that are actually true that you haven't articulated yourself.

This just isn't funny enough.

I'm not gonna like, there are some uncomfortable moments in this one so choose wisely who you watch it with. There were a few times I was ready to turn this one off, but I'm glad I powered through because Tom came through like he always does and the laughs came like I always knew they would. You know what you're getting when you turn on a Tom Segura special and he delivers again with this one. I just could have done without the jokes that make the namesake of the special, but I guess I'm not really the target audience for those. This rating feels right, but I'm about to watch the rest of his specials I can get my hands on and I expect those ratings to be higher.