Taylor Tomlinson Background

Taylor Tomlinson is one of comedy's rising stars. Born in 1993 and raised in a religious family in Temecula, California, she first caught the humor bug after taking a stand-up class with her dad in a church basement. At 16, Tomlinson then started opening gigs headlined by the teacher of that class, a Christian comedian, at churches and other venues.

At that point, her approach to humor was decidedly clean-cut. However, Tomlinson quickly found her footing in the comedy world by performing at colleges while loosening up her repertoire to include things such as dating and relationships. Tomlinson herself left college at age 20 to do comedy full-time, which led to her career taking off: She finished in the Top 10 of Season 9 of NBC's Last Comic Standing and appeared on The Tonight Show, Conan, MTV's Safe Word, and Adam Devine's House Party.

She appeared on the stand-up-geared Fox show Laughs, where she moved from being a contestant to a guest host and the sole host for the third season. In 2018, she did a 15-minute set on Netflix's The Comedy Lineup and was named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch that same year. In March 2020, Tomlinson's star rose even more, as she starred in her own hour-long Netflix special, Quarter-Life Crisis.