March 25, 2022
TAYLOR TOMLINSON
Twenty-something comedian brings her old-soul humor to Louisville
Taylor Tomlinson’s perspective possesses a degree of wisdom that’s typically earned with age. Named to Forbes’ 2021 class of 30 Under 30, fans got a healthy dose of that wisdom when her firstever, hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix last March just as the world entered into a once-ina-century pandemic. The special went on to earn unanimous critical praise with the Washington Post calling her “your favorite quarantine-watch” and 22
Newsweek opining she is “undeniably hilarious” and “wise beyond her years.” Focusing exclusively on Tomlinson’s old-soul clarity is tempting, but what
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makes the woman Mashable calls "whip-smart and spectacularly cynical," stand out isn’t just that she seems too young to understand youth so well. It’s that she combines that vision with on-the-nose immediacy that can only come with still living in the moments being lampooned. “I think that’s what comedians do: We’re funny in the moment,” she says. “We’re just so self-reflective and narcissistic.”
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