Taylor Tomlinson @ Wiseguys
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 to my car, Ghost of Christmas Future.' ... What everyone forgets about your 20s is you were garbage.