Netflix Orders Dark Comedy Series From Tom Segura
Netflix Orders Dark Comedy Series From Tom Segura
EXCLUSIVE: In recent years, comedian Tom Segura has taken to both his podcasts and the press to tease a pilot that he self-financed, produced and sold. And now, he’s revealed Netflix as the destination for the project, a six-episode dark comedy series that he’ll star in and produce.
This is just Segura’s latest deal with the streamer, which has previously put out each of his five chart-topping comedy specials. The untitled series, for which he also serves as narrator, will see him take the viewer through a series of vignettes in each episode. The twisted comedic sensibility of his stand-up is the core DNA of this series, where every story will unfold in a in a hilariously disturbing way only he could imagine.
Segura wrote and fully produced the pilot, with Rami Hachache – the director of his Netflix specials Ball Hog and Mostly Stories – serving as its director. Jeremy Konner, whose credits include Drunk History, Another Period and Waffles & Mochi, will serve as head writer, with Segura and Ryan Hall to produce through YMH Studios. Production kicks off later this year, with the show to premiere in 2025.
Currently on his “Come Together” world tour, Segura most recently entered talks to star as Bob Zmuda and Tony Clifton, the longtime collaborator and comedic persona of avant-garde comic Andy Kaufman, in Dirty Rotten Bastard, a new film to be directed by Ryan McNeely and Josh Martin, aka The Director Brothers. Seeing his most recent special, Sledgehammer, debut at #1 on Netflix last summer, the comic has also previously been seen in films like STX’s horror thriller Countdown, Instant Family opposite Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, indie comedy The Opening Act and the crime drama Flinch, and on shows like Workaholics and Happy Endings.
Additionally, Segura is well known for hit podcasts like Your Mom’s House and 2 Bears 1 Cave, put out through his and wife Christina Pazsitzky’s Your Mom’s House Studios. He is represented by Mosaic, WME, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
Konner is repped by WME, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Hachache by WME.
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