Jerry Seinfeld had an award-winning show about nothing. Comedian Tom Segura has proved that you can have a successful stand-up career doing nothing. He’s all too happy to tell you about it, because then, the joke’s on you.

“I was thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve had a job, and how I absolutely could not get one right now,” he says in the opening bit of “Tom Segura: Mostly Stories,” his chart-topping album. “If I went into a place and gave them my resume, it would be like, ‘Hey, what’s with this 13-year gap on here, man?’”

Actually, there would be a lot on the resume: Netflix specials like “Completely Normal” and the recent “Mostly Stories”; late-night talk show appearances, like one recent bit on “Conan,” where he talked about how he encouraged people to “fat-shame” him into losing weight; numerous Comedy Central appearances; his own podcast, “Your Mom’s House,” which he co-hosts with his wife, comedian Christina Pazsitzky. Not to mention a touring schedule that winds up its season in Hawaii on Friday, but starts up again in Australia in the spring.

In fact, to have a career doing nothing involves doing the exact opposite: always working. He’s constantly on the lookout for new material.

“I make a note of something in my mind, like, ‘Oh, let’s talk about that,’ and then I just go for it. I try it on stage to see what has legs and what doesn’t,” he said in a phone interview from a tour stop in Arizona.

“It’s a very organic process. It’s like, ‘I think that’s funny, I’m going to try it out. If it doesn’t work, I’m going to figure out a new angle, and if works, great, it stays in the act.’ If it doesn’t, you move on.

“You gotta constantly be doing it. It never ends.”

Segura makes it seem all seem so easy that you might actually believe he’s not working.

Comedy came naturally to Segura, who was born in Cincinnati but lived in the Midwest and Florida as a youth. Ever the outsider, it was the perfect preparation for his eventual career.

“I don’t know if (moving around) got me into comedy, but it certainly worked out some of those muscles,” he said. “I was always going to new schools, always the new kid.”

He added: “I’ve always been a kind of lay-low, observing guy, and then making the comment at the end. That’s kind of the way I lived through life, and now in stand-up, you get to make all those observations about people.”

Even though he “was bombing in high school pretty badly,” he got into college at Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina (“It was basically the only school that accepted me, so I guess that’s why I went”), where perhaps his most singular accomplishment was surviving a drug-induced coma his freshman year.

“I went to a party and ended up taking a bunch of drugs and drinking a bunch, and I ended up in a coma,” he explained. “It basically scared me into never trying hardcore drugs again. Good experience, other than almost dying.”

After graduation, he immediately went to Los Angeles to try his hand in entertainment. He doesn’t remember too much about his first try at stand-up, other than the routine had “a lot of dick jokes.”

Segura has been doing comedy long enough now to see a number of trends come and go. He’s avoiding the obvious theme of the day, politics (“I just feel like some people do it so well in stand-up that I don’t need to throw my hat in that well”), and he’s the antithesis of the frantic, physical comedy of a Robin Williams. But somehow his dry, laid-back onstage persona (it’s that way offstage as well) seems to be perfect for the sometimes treacherous minefield of ethnic humor and political correctness where he often treads.

“Society is getting more and more politically correct, which is fine, it’s just the way things move along, but that creates an interesting dynamic with stand-up,” he said. “People are going to be really into your being offensive, or really against it. But either way, comedy has a way of balancing out what’s happening in the culture.

“Stand-up is the last place you really let it rip if you want to speak out against everything that’s happening in the world right now. It’s kind of a special place.”

That means Segura can get away with the occasionally provocative comment, like on “Conan” recently talking about his 2-year-old son.

“He’s super cute, really adorable. He’s not, like, Asian-baby cute, but he’s like right below that,” he said, leaving host Conan O’Brien with a “Did he really say that?” look on his face.

“Personally, I would throw away 20 white babies to have an Asian baby,” Segura went on, “but, good news, the exchange rate is better now, so it’s 6 to 1.”

“Comedy’s shifting all the time,” Segura said. “I feel like right now, the conversational kind of stand-up, which is what I fall into, has become more popular, which is good for me. People want to hear comics’ honest, genuine takes on things.”