Background and career
Taylor Elyse Tomlinson (born November 4, 1993) is an American stand-up comedian. She has released four Netflix stand-up specials: Quarter-Life Crisis (2020), Look At You (2022), Have It All (2024) and Prodigal Daughter (2026). She hosted the CBS late-night show After Midnight, which ran from January 2024 through June 2025.
Taylor Tomlinson was born on November 4, 1993, in California. Tomlinson and her three younger siblings were raised in a devout Christian family, which features prominently in her comedy routines. Her mother died of cancer in August 2002, when Tomlinson was eight, and her father remarried a year later. She was raised in Temecula, California, where she graduated from Temecula Valley High School.
Tomlinson briefly attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, before transferring to Palomar College, a community college in the San Diego metropolitan area, to be closer to comedy clubs and sustain her career. She then attended California State University San Marcos but eventually dropped out to pursue her budding comedy career full time.
Tomlinson began performing comedy at age 16, after her father signed them both up for a stand-up class. She performed in church basements, school venues, and coffee shops. She was 19 when she decided that comedy would be her career.
Tomlinson became a top-ten finalist on the ninth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2015 and was named one of the 2018 "Top 10 Comics to Watch" by Variety at the Just for Laughs Festival. She has appeared on The Tonight Show, Conan, and various Comedy Central productions. She developed a sitcom for ABC in 2017, in which she would play a character with a religious upbringing living with her two younger sisters. It was not picked up for a pilot. She performed a fifteen-minute set on an episode of the Netflix stand-up series The Comedy Lineup in 2018. Between November and December 2018, she served as one of the opening acts for Conan O'Brien's tour Team Coco Presents Conan & Friends: An Evening of Stand-Up and Investment Tips.
How Taylor Tomlinson makes money
The tour sold 296,000 tickets and generated over $17.5 million in sales.
