Quotes from Tom Segura

I was about 17 or 18 years old, and Chris Rock's 'Bring the Pain' came out, and I was obsessed. You know, it just hit on everything that was going on at that time and was such an in-the-moment special, and he knocked it out of the park.

When you shoot a special, you have no idea what's going to happen, and the fact that I got to do the first one with Comedy Dynamics was a roll of the dice. It was a game changer for me professionally.

I'm not the nicest guy on stage.

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

I don't like big events and crowded areas. I'm almost a curmudgeonly old man in that aspect. I've been like that forever.

Vancouver just feels comfortable to me.

It's fun when you've opened for someone at a venue, and then years go by, and now you're headlining.

Here's some advice: if something really embarrassing happens to your kid, don't take it on national TV.

You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you've driven, and then you're like, 'Oh, I was doing something for 20 years that I didn't realize I hadn't experienced the real version of.'

Every person learns with time and experience.