My Dad Was Probably A Murderer w/ Kirk Fox

Tom Segura (0:00)

Hey, everyone, I have some exciting shows coming up on Saturday, November 29th. I will be in Tacoma, Washington at the Emerald Queen Casino. After that, I'll be in Oakland, California at the Paramount Theater on November 30th. Tickets and all info is at tomsegura.com/tour. Hello and welcome to another episode of 2 Bears 1 Cave. Bert, you look great.

Kirk Fox (0:26)

Thank you, man. I've been trimming up and, you know, I'm happy to be here.

Tom Segura (0:31)

Yeah, man. Such a surprise. I can see that your face is kind of narrowed back in.

Kirk Fox (0:36)

If you stop eating completely and you're drinking, you just find out who you really are.

Tom Segura (0:43)

It's fantastic.

Kirk Fox (0:43)

So this is it.

Tom Segura (0:44)

This is it. For those of you that don't know, I'm sitting here with the great Kirk Fox. He is a very funny comedian and actor. You may have seen him on Parks and Rec. You may have seen him on Jury Duty, Reservation Dogs. So many things. So many things.

Kirk Fox (1:00)

A lot.

Tom Segura (1:00)

A lot of things.

Kirk Fox (1:01)

I try not to think about it.

Tom Segura (1:03)

I was watching. I've seen, I don't know, every time I'm scrolling, I see a clip of you in something else. You're just-

Kirk Fox (1:09)

I don't watch it. I don't even really have a TV.

Tom Segura (1:12)

Yeah.

Kirk Fox (1:13)

So when someone-

Tom Segura (1:13)

Do you feel like you have a lane as an actor?

Kirk Fox (1:16)

A lane?

Tom Segura (1:16)

You know what I mean? Like a certain type of part you get called for.

Kirk Fox (1:20)

Anyone on their way to prison.

Tom Segura (1:21)

Yeah.

Kirk Fox (1:22)

Or about to be caught.

Tom Segura (1:25)

Yeah.

Kirk Fox (1:25)

Always sex offending. There's always somebody that's a target.

Tom Segura (1:30)

Yeah.

Kirk Fox (1:31)

Always a members only jacket.

Tom Segura (1:33)

Do you remember the first part you got?

Kirk Fox (1:37)

Yeah.

Tom Segura (1:37)

What was it?

Kirk Fox (1:38)

It was, well in house four, I got my SAG card.

Tom Segura (1:44)

Okay.

Kirk Fox (1:44)

With Sean Cunningham, who I was teaching tennis to.

Tom Segura (1:48)

Tennis has given you-

Kirk Fox (1:49)

Tennis has been my agent for the whole run. Any job I've ever gotten was because of tennis.

Tom Segura (1:56)

That's so crazy. That is so crazy that like, because I've seen it a little bit, just like being friends with you. You're like, oh, like once I kind of saw how this work, I was like, oh, because tennis is a sport of the elite in a lot of ways.

Kirk Fox (2:14)

I'd like to think so.

Tom Segura (2:15)

Yeah. Like tennis and golf, right? Those are kind of like more-

Kirk Fox (2:18)

That's country club.

Tom Segura (2:19)

Well-to-do sports.

Kirk Fox (2:20)

Anything else doesn't interest me.

Tom Segura (2:23)

But the irony is that the well-to-do like to play them, but the people who usually are really good come from a working class, like people who strive to be good at a sport, don't come from those usual, usually those families, right?

Kirk Fox (2:41)

I mean, I think for me personally, I didn't come from money.

Tom Segura (2:45)

You came from a working class family.

Kirk Fox (2:47)

I didn't see him work much. I just came from a family. My dad found a way. He called himself an inventor, but he'd get up every day at 6.3 and invent ways to not have to go to work.

Tom Segura (3:05)

Okay. That's cool.

Kirk Fox (3:06)

He'd get up every day and he'd get a bamboo stick, and he'd go down to the beach and just trudge along the deep sand.

Tom Segura (3:14)

It's kind of a good life.

Kirk Fox (3:15)

It seemed to be for him. Not much of an income, but he found a good way to not have to work. He was a handy man.

Tom Segura (3:23)

But is that tough then as a young kid wanting to, like, you found a sport you really like. And at least in today's world, it's like, if you really want to pursue tennis, you have to kind of invest some in that, right?

Kirk Fox (3:37)

He would drive me around and he would drive me to the tournaments.

Tom Segura (3:41)

Who introduced you to tennis?

Kirk Fox (3:45)

No one. There was a garage door across the alley.

Tom Segura (3:50)

Yeah.

Kirk Fox (3:50)

And I would just hit tennis balls against it. And hitting the ball against the wall is something I did for most of my life.