The Cheat Code For Black Comedy w/ Gary Owen | Your Mom's House Ep. 826

Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura

Tom Segura

Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to your mom's house.
0:10.9	Welcome to another episode of your mom's house.
0:13.7	As always, I'm joined by my beautiful co-host, Christina.
0:19.8	And joining us for the first time, long overdue another Cincinnati native.
0:25.2	You can see his special no S available right now on YouTube.
0:29.1	You can get tickets to see him live at Gary Owen.
0:32.5	It's Gary Owen, everybody.
0:35.0	Thank you.
0:35.9	Thank you for coming in, man.
0:37.1	This is awesome. This is cool. We're both Cincinnati guys by birth, and I've heard that probably 100,000 times in the 20 some odd years I've been doing stand-up, and I can't believe I've never met you. That's wild. Everyone's always like, oh, you must be good friends with Gary. I'm like, I mean, I'm a fan. I know who he is, but I've never met him, dude. I've never met him.
0:56.5	That's wild how comedians will just be in circles and you'll, you'll see your name at a club coming a couple weeks later or something, but then you never really run to each other. You're like, I've never met that dude. For 20 years, I've never met that dude. That's wild.
1:08.2	Did you start?
1:09.0	Where did you start doing stand-up?
1:10.2	Dude, I started in L.A., which is like the advice everyone would be like, don't do that.
1:16.8	You move there to be a stand-up?
1:18.3	No, I moved there because I wanted to do movies.
1:22.3	I wanted to do comedy movies.
1:24.5	And I thought, like, in my research, I was i was like oh you know the trajectory that like
1:30.4	makes sense i saw that people would go to the groundlings go to the school they have make it into
1:36.7	the sunday company that performs yeah and then uh i was like oh and then s&L just pulls people from
1:43.5	that and then those people end up there and then they end up in movies i was like i'll, and then S&L just pulls people from that.
1:45.6	And then those people end up there.
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