Taylor Tomlinson on Netflix, Conan and Stand-Up Stardom

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Tomlinson started performing stand-up at church shows when she was just 16 years old. Still just 28 years old, she is one of the fastest rising stars in the comedy scene, premiering her first hour-long special “Quarter-Life Crisis’ on Netflix in March of 2020 and now dropping her second Netflix hour ‘Look at You’ this week. 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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This episode was originally published on September 28th, 2021.

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0:00.0	This is The Last Laugh.
0:07.0	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week, one of my favorite stand-up comedians, Taylor Tomlinson, has released her second hour-long special, Look at You, on Netflix.
0:19.8	Here's a clip just to give you an idea of how on top of her game she is right now.
0:25.1	A lot of my friends are settling down.
0:26.9	Some of them are just settling, period, end of sentence.
0:30.3	You guys know those couples?
0:32.3	Everyone knows one couple like that.
0:33.9	Or like one person in the couple is way hotter and cooler than the other person in the
0:37.8	couple. I like to call those couples chocolate covered raisins. Because you're like, sure, you
0:44.4	could put those two together if you want. But every time you see them, you're like, chocolate,
0:51.4	what are you doing?
0:55.7	You could have been with anybody.
0:57.8	You could have been with caramel, you could have been with marshmallow,
1:01.4	you could have been with peanut butter who I heard Cures Depression.
1:09.9	And you want to be with raisin forever?
1:12.8	Like, no offense, raisin, you're great. We love you. Nature's candy. That's you. But you belong with like oatmeal. Like, you know that, right? This doesn't feel good, right?
1:21.2	Aren't you scared every day that someone's going to come along and suck chocolate right off of you?
1:27.6	I love this joke.
1:28.7	I like to feel couples in the audience looking at each other,
1:30.6	like, am I chocolate or raisin?
1:34.3	We're both chocolate, right, babe?
1:35.7	We're chocolate-covered chocolate.
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