Bad Thoughts

Overview

Bad Thoughts is a Tom Segura screen-comedy project discussed in a Huberman Lab conversation about comedy, creativity, acting, and performance.

Current Profile

Tom Segura describes Bad Thoughts as a collection of short stories that lets him play many roles and realize an early ambition to make movies and shows. In the source, the project matters less as a complete production history than as evidence that a stand-up comic’s observational voice, dark material, character work, and ear for personality can move into scripted screen forms.

Key Characteristics

• Uses a short-story or mini-movie structure rather than one continuous stand-up set.
• Gives Segura room to act across multiple roles and voices.
• Extends his dark comic sensibility into scripted visual storytelling.
• Involves creative fulfillment across writing, production, performance, and editing.

Evidence

• Format - The Science & Art of Comedy & Creativity | Tom Segura has Segura describe the series as a collection of short stories and mini-movies.
• Performance - The Science & Art of Comedy & Creativity | Tom Segura says the format allowed him to play many roles.
• Creative trajectory - The Science & Art of Comedy & Creativity | Tom Segura connects the project to his teenage acting and improv experience and original desire to make movies.

Qualifications

The source is promotional and reflective rather than a complete account of the project’s cast, release, reception, financing, or production history. Huberman’s praise and sleep-laughter anecdote are personal responses, not audience-wide evidence.

What Changed

• Created the page as Segura’s principal screen-work example in the episode.

Relationships

• Tom Segura - creator and performer who describes the project.
• Huberman Lab - interview context in which the project is discussed.
• Stand-up Comedy Iteration - contrasting live-development process behind Segura’s stage work.
• Comedy as Involuntary Judgment - laughter-response frame used in the episode’s discussion of the project.
• Offensive Humor Speech Space / 冒犯性幽默空间 - adjacent boundary for receiving dark or provocative comedy.