Commentary: Comedian Tom Segura gets nostalgic for the R-word and mocks Down syndrome for laughs. That's despicable
Tom Segura's stand-up routine is pretty basic insult comedy, lining up targets and pushing them over, one by one. He's all fake rage and listless aggression, like a guy slumped on a couch playing a shooter video game. This sucks. This is stupid. Don't you hate this? Pew, pew, pew.
It's hard to get up the energy to hate his act, with its bits about "midgets" and "cracker-ass inbreds" and other people he finds irritating or amusing. Hard but not impossible, as I learned while watching his latest TV special, "Disgraceful," which I had heard was causing a lot of pain for people with Down syndrome.
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