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He’s Friends With Joe Rogan and Was Friendly to Andrew Tate. Now He’s Atop the Netflix Charts.

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Tom Segura’s new Netflix sketch comedy series Bad Thoughts is designed to shock, first and foremost, and only incidentally to entertain.

In one sketch, a straight guy at a work retreat repeatedly blurts out that he “slept like a homo” In another, a Larry Davidesque setup about a barista botching a coffee order ends with Segura brutally murdering three people in gratuitous revenge.

Bad Thoughts is Tom Segura's first official foray into sketch comedy.

The show isn’t exactly cut-off-your-own-dick terrible, but the overarching conceptual joke is that literally every single sketch is in bad taste.

After only one day in release, the series has already risen to No. 2 in Netflix ’s Top 10 .

The problem with Bad Thoughts is that it's basically the same unusual thing every single time: Something rude is said or something gross happens.

There’s no real variety to the material, which means that the material soon gets boring.

The series’ best sketch is one that leans fully into this sort of self-awareness.

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