Garth Brooks Jokes Don’t Land in Tom Segura Comedy Series

You’ve probably noticed all of the “Where are all the bodies Garth?” comments and other weird trolling of anything involving Garth Brooks on the internet over the last few years. Comedian Tom Segura is the originator of all of this trolling via his comedy podcast Your Mom’s House.
Long story short, Tom Segura loves to poke fun of Garth Brooks and what many perceive as Garth’s over-the-top persona. It’s been a favorite topic of Segura going back to 2018. At this point, the whole “Where are the bodies Garth?” thing has been used for so long, it’s grown pretty stale. But Tom Segura decided to take the joke to its ultimate conclusion by portraying a very Garth-like character in the short-run Netflix comedy series called Bad Thoughts that debuted on May 13th.
Through the six episodes, Tom Segura portrays multiple dark characters in “unthinkable situations and fantasies.” One such character is a “global country music superstar” who kidnaps his own fans, and forces them to live with little food in an old Western-like town to help inspire him to write new hit songs. Though the character’s name is Rex Henley, it’s clearly a goof on Garth Brooks.
As a country fan, a comedy fan, and maybe even as a Garth Brooks fan, you were hoping this could result in some fun laughs. But unfortunately, Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts doesn’t deliver. And forget the tie into the country music universe and Garth Brooks, the series of six 20-minute-or-so episodes really just isn’t that funny at all except for in fleeting moments.
It’s only the first few episodes where the Rex Henley character is seen. And despite the insane premise, it might be some of the most tame moments of the series. The rest of the series involves so many scenes with human excrement, buttholes, and bad sex comedy, it just doesn’t hold up or offer any sort of social commentary like the best comedy does.
Bad Thoughts feels like a premise that might have looked good on paper. And with the way comedy and comedians are so hot right now, Netflix and others are just giving the green light to whatever the big comedy stars come up with. But the humor never gets above low bow to outright bad.
Rotten Tomatoes has the series at 54%, which might be going easy on it. Perhaps if you’re a Tom Segura fan and “get” his comedy, it helps. But if you’re a country fan who loves to poke fun at Garth Brooks yourself, just don’t bother. Garth Brooks offers more comedy inadvertently.
May 27, 2025 @ 7:55 pm
I’d rather listen to the new Morgan Wallen album then watch this trash.
May 27, 2025 @ 8:22 pm
Not a surprise since they let his best buddy Bert Kreischer make a full move based on his totally true definitely not made up totally happened and not-at-all fabricated out of thin air “Machine” story.
May 28, 2025 @ 2:59 am
It is comedy, not a news sketch
May 28, 2025 @ 8:22 am
This is why Bert Kreischer and Segura fans are dumb. The entire premise of Bert’s Machine joke rely on it being a true story. I’m in no way a fan of Bert but even I am aware of the joke’s history.
May 28, 2025 @ 12:10 am
Comedy is pretty dead today. Everything ends up either stale & cringe or edgy & ironic. And people being incredibly thin-skinned & easily offended doesn’t help either. And by that, i mean EVERYBODY, and NOT a specific group of people.
May 28, 2025 @ 2:54 am
Completely disagree. Garth is a horrible person because of the sexual abuse allegations against him that are completely true. He deserves to be ridiculed hiliariously and I quite enjoyed it.
May 28, 2025 @ 7:06 am
Seems like you’re conflating two very different things here, but okay.
May 28, 2025 @ 9:20 am
@FG–Sounds like you should be identified as a witness in the plaintiff’s disclosure documents.
May 28, 2025 @ 9:26 am
Also for all the murders
May 28, 2025 @ 7:58 am
Where are the jokes, Tom?
May 28, 2025 @ 8:54 am
Shows like this airing belies any Reddit argument that America is a theocracy. Theocracies have better taste in art.
May 28, 2025 @ 8:56 am
Definitely isn’t a show for mainstream appeal. When given true creative freedom, he went a little darker than even I anticipated.
I thought the Garth sketch was pretty funny, given the backstory.
The “Grandpa’s school play” skit was hilarious though, definitely the best of the season.
The only thing I’ll give him grief over is the all white, green screen cut scenes that he lifted from Penn Jillette – who, I’m sure borrowed it from someone else.
Otherwise, thought it was a solid first attempt in the arena. Sketch comedy is hard. Very few find much success in that avenue.
May 28, 2025 @ 9:16 am
I watched an episode and didn’t hate it… it was plenty darker than i thought it was going to be.
Trigger is right though, streaming companies definitely put out whatever product they think might take, regardless of any artistic or comedic merits it might objectively posses. That’s a nice way of saying there is a lot of total crap out there. Don’t get mad and waste your time on it, just move on.
May 28, 2025 @ 3:20 pm
I found the standup clever in unexpected spots and overall, funny. But probably not if you’re uptight and/or homophobic. I found the gay humour to be funny, and for a STRAIGHT MAN to pull off a gay-ish joke (you usually suck – and not in the good way!) is quite a feat. He did really well on that front.
If you have a great sense of humor and aren’t easily shocked, this will have you laughing. He can also be endearingly “aw shucks” and personally, I wish more straight comedians exhibited this openness.
May 28, 2025 @ 4:41 pm
Im a massive Garth Brooks fan, and was so looking forward to this. But I agree, it felt flat and wasn’t funny. He couldve done so much more with it.
May 30, 2025 @ 8:20 am
Horrible take by an unfunny person who probably still thinks Jeff Foxworthy was the funniest person to live. If you don’t understand or appreciate his comedy then why bother watching the show? This article was clearly written by a GB fan who still gets upset when he hears a gay joke. Total shot in the dark, but have you ever tried not being so sensitive?
May 30, 2025 @ 8:24 am
Don’t find Jeff Foxworthy very funny either, but do find Tom Segura’s stand up quite funny. This line of scripted comedy just didn’t translate though, in my opinion, and apparently the opinion of others looking at online feedback.
It has nothing to do with being too “sensitive” or “uptight.” It’s just low brow toilet humor, literally, with shit this, and shit that. It had the opportunity to find some deeper social commentary, but just could escape its high school sophomore perspective.
May 30, 2025 @ 4:35 pm
I’m not a fan of Garth beyond his debut album and a handful of good tunes thereafter (he’s simply the second Bruce Springsteen; a result of great marketing), but I’m not a fan of pointless humour neither.
As far as I know, Garth never put anyone down in public, never spewed crap about anyone, never showed any deranged behaviour in public. Short; despite being a shameless bought liberal, he doesn’t fit in with the stars of today.
Why the hell this moron and his followers thinks it’s fun to make a serial killer out of Garth says more about these times than I care to bother with.
Shows like this makes me miss Weird Al Jankovich. He’s not laughing at the victims of his parodies; he makes them laugh with him. Madonna once asked him to please make a parody of “Like a Virgin”
So he made “Like a Surgeon”.
I’ll rather spend some minutes with Al.
June 1, 2025 @ 9:28 pm
Springsteen from the get-go was super-cool. Guys wanted to be him and girls loved him. And other musicians all spoke highly of him. And his shows were pretty gimmick-free.
Garth was always seen as something of a dork by cool people and a lot of fellow artists–Waylon, notably–were not enanmored of him.
Garth was no way the second Springsteen. (He was probably more like Billy Joel. The cool people and critics thought Joel was dorky and not a real rocker, etc. But Garth doesn’t have the musical skills of Joel, who actually studied it,)
But both Garth and Bruce–and Joel–sold tons of albums and have been hugely successful concert artists.
Is there success due to “great marketing”? The record labels have given big pushes to many artists. Lots of them have flopped. I’d say that Bruce and Garth and Joel all had great instincts and understood their audiences and worked real hard to satisfy them.
June 1, 2025 @ 8:56 pm
Garth copped much of his act from Kiss (my boy Jamie Logsdon told me this about 15 years back) and became Chris Gaines,so he tried to be a cowboy rather than the great singer he was before the nonsense.