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.

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