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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.
Now, 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.
“I had never sold tickets before,” Tomlinson says of her life before Quarter-Life Crisis premiered on Netflix in March of 2020. As of 2023, she was fronting the seventh-highest-grossing comedy tour of the year—and the only female comedian to crack the top 10. “So to finally be selling tickets to people who are coming to see me on purpose, on top of this comedy-wide surge of popularity and interest from people, was just sort of a perfect storm of luck for me,” she adds. “It’s just insane. I feel very, very lucky.”
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