The dumbest thing I've ever done in my life.

So embarrassing.

If you're listening to this and you're a young comedian, if you ever make a special,

never come up on a lift like you're a fucking pop star and then walk downstairs like you're going to prom.

The war, so embarrassing.

This is Good One.

I am Jesse David Fox,

Sina writer at Vulture, and author of Comedy Book.

Is the secret to being successful at a young age overcoming trauma?

My guest today to answer this question is Taylor Thomason,

who has put out four Netflix specials in six years and has a book on the way later this year,

all while, until recently, hosting the late night show after midnight.

Taylor, who is 32, has a joke,

Do you think I'd be this successful at my age if I had a live mom?

And on the surface you can see what she means she's been quite successful,

and she seems quite motivated to be so.

But what if, hear me out, her success is actually just because she is generationally talented.

So here is Taylor Tomlinson. I'm here with Taylor Tomlinson. Thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me. I love that we both reset before we started. Our voice is so much more calmer than it was. I know. Like literally 20 seconds. We were so animated. And we both went, okay. Now be adults. I'm not going to ramp it back up. Now we're on the radio. So first question. What is the funniest thing that happened to you this week?

It's not really funny yet. I'm still processing it. But this usually happens to me when I come to New York and stay for an extended period of time. The plumbing and the old buildings here, not as strong as California. So typically, at least one of the nights, and you hope it's during the day, but this was an evening around like midnight.

I did, sorry to be so graphic to start the podcast, I did clog the toilet at my hotel.

And they don't put plungers in hotel rooms for some reason. They never have. I don't know why. And so I had to call down and say, hey, can you guys like leave a plunger outside the door at school? I got it. And they were like, yeah, no, we can't. We actually don't have any plungers in the building. I don't believe them. But that's what they said. They said, we don't have any plungers. We only have a snake, so we have to send maintenance up

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