Taylor Tomlinson Got ‘Canceled’ by Church
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Tomlinson started performing stand-up at church shows when she was just 16 years old. Now, at 27, she is one of the fastest rising stars in the comedy scene, with a popular hour-long special on Netflix called ‘Quarter-Life Crisis’ and a new nationwide theater tour this fall. As Tomlinson breaks down in this episode, she had to make a hard break from her religious upbringing to be accepted into the mainstream comedy world, trading in her “clean” material for jokes with a “darker” edge.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest on today's show is one of the hottest new comedians on the stand-up scene. |
| 0:06.6 | And I hope this doesn't make you feel super old, but she's still three years away from turning 30. |
| 0:13.3 | I am halfway through my 20s, and I am done with this shit. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh, my God, I'm sick of my 20s. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm so sick of people telling me to enjoy them. They're not fun. They are 10 years of asking yourself, will I outgrow this or is it a problem? Like, is this a phase or a demon? I just need to know. Like, am I fun or should I go to a meeting? Someone help me. |
| 0:46.5 | This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Taylor Tomlinson from her seriously funny stand-up special, Quarter Life Crisis. Taylor's debut hour |
| 0:53.1 | premiered on Netflix on March 3, 2020, about a week before |
| 0:58.0 | most of the country was stuck inside looking for stuff to watch. But for a while, she wasn't |
| 1:03.8 | sure she'd ever have the chance to build on her sudden success. A year and a half later, Taylor |
| 1:09.8 | is finally out touring her next hour, which is |
| 1:13.0 | expected to hit Netflix sometime next year. And as she tells me on today's show, she can't |
| 1:18.5 | quite believe that she has achieved her wildest dream of performing comedy for actual fans |
| 1:24.0 | of her work. Let's just say she has come a long way from her inauspicious start as a teenage |
| 1:30.7 | church comedian. Okay, let's get into it. Here's me with Taylor Tomlinson. Boom. On the record, |
| 1:38.9 | officially. So are you back in New York now after, I know you've been on the road? are you getting some, a few days off or where are you in the whole scheme of things now? |
| 1:48.6 | I am. I'm back in New York. We had the first weekend, um, of the theater tour this past weekend. Uh, so I was in Minneapolis for three shows. And then I went to St. Louis for a couple shows on Saturday. And I got back to New York |
| 2:04.2 | last night. So I'm still kind of like, I'm in a different time zone like every two days because I go |
| 2:11.2 | between L.A. and New York. And then on the weekends, I'm in one to two different cities. So it's, |
| 2:17.0 | it's been a lot. |
| 2:17.9 | I think the pandemic made me go like, I'll never complain about traveling again. |
| 2:22.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:22.9 | And I still feel that way, but it is a lot. |
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