A close friend and frequent podcast guest of Joe Rogan’s who moved to Austin, Texas, on the heels of Rogan’s own relocation there, Segura sits near the center of a circle of comedians and cultural commentators who portray themselves as the antidote to the suppressive strains of scolding wokeism that have allegedly infected mainstream culture and politics. But the fact that the premise keeps on coming back over and over—that it deliberately overstays its welcome—ends up transforming the premise into a meta-commentary on its own unfunniness, which has the effect of rendering the sketch actually sort of funny: like the Sideshow Bob “rake” scene from The Simpsons, if the rakes had done something much worse than slap Sideshow Bob in the face. The sketch heightens to the point that an emergency forces Segura into the cockpit to try to land the plane—only to find that the air-traffic controller on the other end of the headset also harbors a grudge about Segura’s stand-up material and is more than willing to let Segura’s plane crash in retaliation.
Author: Justin Peters
Published at: 2025-05-14 22:04:36
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