Taylor Tomlinson Returns: ‘After Midnight,’ Save Me Tour and More

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In the handful of years since she broke through in a big way with her ‘Quarter-Life Crisis’ special on Netflix—and first appeared on this podcast—Taylor Tomlinson has become a bona fide comedy star. The 30-year-old comedian put out two more hours on Netflix, became the host of her own late-night show with CBS’ ‘After Midnight,’ and is currently touring her newest hour nationwide. In her second sit-down with The Last Laugh podcast, Tomlinson opens up about how fame has impacted her material, why she’s focusing on religion for her Save Me tour, and how ‘After Midnight’ is starting to look more like a traditional late-night talk show—even though that’s not what she signed up for.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I am so excited
0:11.4	to welcome back on the podcast, someone who not only appeared on one of our most listened to episodes
0:17.3	ever, but is also one of my absolute favorite stand-up comedians, Taylor Tomlinson.
0:24.4	Since Taylor first came on this podcast in the fall of 2021, hot off her breakthrough Netflix
0:30.0	special Quarter Life Crisis, she's had two more equally impressive hours on Netflix,
0:35.9	and became host of her very own late night show after
0:39.6	midnight, which airs after the late show with Stephen Colbert on CBS.
0:44.7	It has been a very big three years for Taylor, and we had a ton to catch up on in this
0:50.0	conversation, so I don't want to waste too much more time before we get into it. But first,
0:55.4	let's listen to one of the many perfectly crafted bits from her most recent Netflix special,
1:01.2	Have It All. But I've been single for the last year now, and it has been the most
1:06.5	relaxing year of my entire life. It has been lovely, waking up every day going,
1:13.6	oh, no one's going to make me cry today but me.
1:17.6	The peace, it's lovely.
1:19.6	Here's the thing.
1:20.6	Being single is not what sucks.
1:22.6	Dating is what sucks, and you can opt out of that.
1:25.6	Dating is what's shitty, the constant push and pull of hope and disappointment. Dating is what sucks. And you can opt out of that. Dating is what's shitty,
1:28.0	the constant push and pull of hope and disappointment.
1:30.8	Dating feels like being a stuffed animal
1:32.9	and a claw machine.
1:34.1	Like, oh my God, it's happening.
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