Tom Segura Fans Couldn’t Be More Excited About the Assault Allegations Against Garth Brooks
Earlier this week, a hairstylist and makeup artist who worked for country music star Garth Brooks accused him of sexual assault and battery in a civil lawsuit filed in California. And just like that, Tom Segura is trending.
The details of the anonymous plaintiff’s complaint against Brooks are disturbing and explicit, as the “Jane Roe” accuses Brooks of a pattern of inappropriate, aggressive and non-consensual behavior. She even accuses Brooks of raping her in a Los Angeles hotel room in May, 2019, an allegation that Brooks’ representatives vehemently denied along with the rest of claims in the suit. In a highly unusual move, Brooks’ legal team tried to convince a federal court in Mississippi to declare the plaintiff’s allegations untrue before she had even filed suit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the accusations from being made public.
Brooks’ lawyers clearly understood what was at stake publicly — when Roe filed her suit with a California court on Thursday, Brooks’ alleged misdeeds became front-page entertainment news and the subject of every text message to hit Segura’s phone in the last 24 hours.
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Segura has long and semi-jokingly asserted that, based on his public demeanor and bizarre social media presence, Brooks must be a serial killer responsible for the disappearance of dozens of victims. Though there are no allegations of homicide or cannibalism in the complaint against Brooks, Segura’s fans say that the comedian is one step closer to helping securing closure for the families.
In a thread about the allegations against Brooks from the subreddit devoted to Segura's podcast network Your Mom's House, fans gleefully celebrated the news that Brooks might be a sex criminal with ample in-jokes and poor-taste punchlines. “First subreddit I came to,” one fan wrote.
“*chanting* WHERE. ARE. THE. BODIES,” another demanded.
One more added, “Can’t believe Tom and Tina were onto something.”
The frontpage of r/yourmomshouse is predictably littered with memes about Brooks' crimes and references to Segura's past jokes that downplay the severity of the suit against their favorite punching bag while playing up the horror of what they wish he was being sued for. Of course, that's a predictable reaction from the internet when the longest-running joke of Segura's podcasting career slightly spills over into real life.
Hopefully that's the only Tom Segura joke that sort of leads to a real-life scandal this week — we don't want to hear anything unsettling about his showers from TMZ.
