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For decades, women have struggled to be taken seriously in the world of stand-up comedy. It can be even harder when you re a young woman, and harder still when you have the pixie-ish looks of Taylor Tomlinson. Yet despite becoming a headliner around the country when she was barely 25 and a top ten finalist on the ninth and final season of
Last Comic Standing when she had only just become old enough to drink legally Tomlinson has become a distinctive voice in the stand-up world.
That voice is at the forefront of her 2020 Neflix comedy special
Quarter-Life Crisis, in which the California native takes the subject of her youth head-on. People get upset when I complain about being young, she says. I had a woman come up to me after a show, furious: You should really appreciate this time in your life, because some day you re going to have a family like me, and you re really going to miss it. I m like, Where are your kids buried? I m just trying to get
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Best Comedy of 2020
Comedians like Leslie Jones, Chelsea Handler and Hannibal Buress adjusted to the new abnormal, turning to Zoom, YouTube, rooftops and parks.
The pandemic halted most live performance but comedians adjusted and adapted. Clockwise from bottom left: Leslie Jones, Eddie Pepitone, John Wilson and Ziwe Fumudoh.Credit.Clockwise from bottom left: Rahim Fortune for The New York Times; Troy Conrad; HBO; Chase Hall for The New York Times
Dec. 15, 2020
The comedy boom finally busted. Not only did the pandemic shut down comedy institutions, but New York clubs like Dangerfield’s, which was half a century old, and the stalwart The Creek & the Cave closed for good, as did the city’s branches of the improv powerhouse, the Upright Citizens Brigade. At the same time, comedians adjusted to the new abnormal, transitioning to Zoom and Instagram Live, and to shows in parks and on rooftops. It was a period of experimentation and stagnancy, contraction and accessibility, despair a