-Welcome back!
-Hi. -Here's your tour right there.
Come on. That's a big deal. -Thank you.
Thank you so much. -Taylor, you came on the show
and did stand-up here. It was one of your
first appearances. I was so happy
and lucky to have you. I'm, like,
the biggest fan of yours. -Thank you so much. Yeah, I've done this show
three times. And I have to say,
doing stand-up on the show, your audience is so nice,
and you're so nice to, like, stay and watch
and laugh, and, like, it really does give you so much
confidence as a stand-up, like, a young stand-up, being nervous to do a set
on a show like this. So thank you.
-Oh, please, I love -- Thank you very much.
[ Cheers and applause ] But you're one
of my favorite comedians. Do you get asked to do
things that isn't, like -- like, corporate gigs
or going hosting everything? Like, "Oh, you're a comedian.
You'll be funny." -Well, I did just officiate
my best friend's wedding, if that counts as a gig. -Oh, wow. That's pressure.
-It's so much pressure. It was my best friend
of all time, Courtney. She got married. And they were like, "You do stand-up
for thousands of people. You can do this." And I'm like,
"No, this is so different. I have to see you again. I love you.
This sucks." And it was so hard. Like, I don't know if you've
ever officiated a wedding. It's terrifying. It's the first time I've
ever considered using ChatGPT. I'm like,
"Can I just tell this robot 'Courtney, Nahal, love,
forever,' and it'll write it for me?" So, I think it went pretty well. I did cry
through the entire ceremony, which was not
super-professional. Started weeping the moment she started walking
down the aisle, which, by the way,
we got ready together. I'd seen her --
-It's not a surprise. -It's not a surprise. It wasn't my wedding.
Like, I'd seen her all morning. We came from the same room. I was like,
"See you out there, bud." And I don't know what happened, but she started walking
down the aisle with the flowers, and I'm like... And, so, during their vows, I was trying to stand
strategically behind one of them so I wouldn't ruin the photos, because I didn't want to be in
the background of their photos just like... It's, like,
the best moment of their lives. But I think it went pretty well. Like, I was honestly pretty
proud of myself by the end. And then this
doesn't make me sound great, but, like, not enough people
at the reception told me "Great job." -It's not about you!
-I know! -It's not about you! -I know it's not about me.
I know it's not about me. But I was kind of walking
around, not exactly fishing, but just like,
"That was great, right?" And they were like,
"That was beautiful." I'm like, "Right?" And they're like,
"The vows were amazing." And I'm like, "What did we think
about the part around the vows? Arguably the longer part
of the ceremony." -Arguably.
-Arguably. Like, I'm just saying,
there were three of us up there, and only two of us
get to go on the sex vacation. So maybe give one of us
some encouragement. -Yeah. Your tour starts --
When does it start? First week of October.
-In Buffalo. Yes. -In Buffalo.
Why is it the Save Me Tour? What is that?
-So, I grew up in church. I actually started
doing stand-up in churches. I know, very demure. I started doing
stand-up in churches, and I'm not religious anymore,
but I grew up in church. And I hope nobody thinks,
based on the tour, that I'm, like, making fun of
growing up in church or religion in a negative way, because I think I do
it pretty affectionately. Like, I'm
not one of these people -- I'm not really,
like, an atheist. I just don't know what happens. And - I just don't.
I just -- It's just certainty. I just don't like confidence.
That's really what it is. I don't like anyone who's like,
"I know what happens." -Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't. -But I hate it when, like,
you know, atheists or agnostic people are like, "You're dumb
if you believe in God." I'm like, "No, no, no.
I'm dumb." Like, my religious
family members are like, "God got me through
the hardest years of my life." And I'm like, "That's how I talk
about 'Gilmore Girls.'" Like --
And I capitalize both G's. Like, it's important to me,
that show. But I do have a lot of Christian family members,
and my uncle is a pastor. He just came to a show of mine
in San Francisco. -Really? He's a pastor? He's a pastor.
And he's a very good -- He's, like, a cool, progressive,
really creative sermons. Like, he's so good at his job. And he's really
the only person in my life that I feel like can sort of
relate to my job as a stand-up, because all my other friends
are, like, teachers and doctors and lawyers. And, like,
me and Jim -- I feel like we can talk
shop a little bit because we're
both public speakers, you know? We're both
out there changing lives. -Yeah. -No, his speeches are way
higher stakes. I know that.
-Yeah, yeah. yeah. -I'm up there like,
"Dating is weird," and he's like, "Hell is hot. Just for the record." But he's really good at
what he does. And every time I see him,
I'm like, We're pretty -- Like, we can -- You get it." I'm like, "How was
the early show this weekend?" He's like,
"Do you mean first service?" I'm like, "Well, I just noticed
you had a heckler on that late show, Jim." And he's like,
that was just someone yelling 'Amen'
and 'Hallelujah.'" I'm like, "Yeah,
but they were interrupting, and that's
the worst kind of heckler, because they're
supportive but disruptive." And he's like,
"I guess that's true." And I'm like, "I see you, Jim.
I get you." -We are the same.
-We're the same. -Yeah. Hey, congrats on
"After Midnight," by the way. -Oh. Thank you.
-It got renewed for Season 2. -It did, yeah.
Thank you so much. -You do a great job.
-Thank you. -It's a fun show. Did anything surprise you
about doing a late-night show? -Oh, my gosh. So much
has surprised me about it. I will say, they gave me --
The show gave me an assistant, and I had never had
an assistant. Like, you need an assistant
on set. And I never had
an assistant before and I was nervous to get one,
because I think it's sort of a slippery slope
to have an assistant, because one day you're like, "Hey, can you grab me a
La Croix?" And the next day,
you're like, "Hey, can I borrow
your phone charger? And then the next day,
you're like, "Hey, can you just hold both
my hands until I fall asleep?" -It's a slippery slope.
-Yeah. It's your job.
It's what you're here for. But she's amazing.
Her name is Molly. She's so cute.
She's so good at her job. She has an adorable
little Disney-princess voice. And I drove onto
set the first day, and they had given me
a parking spot. And there was a bush sort of
growing into my parking spot. Not a big deal,
just sort of overgrowing. And, so,
you know how you sort of, like, have to shimmy
out of your car sometimes when you're parked too close to
some foliage? And all that happened
was I went, "Oh, sorry. Let me just get by it." And I was like,
"Aah! Bee. Sorry." And I was like,
"Hey, I'm Taylor. Nice to meet you, Molly."
And that's all that happened. -Okay. -And then, the next day,
I drove onto set, I parked in my spot,
and the bush was gone. -Wow. -And I said, "Molly, did you
have them cut down this bush?" And she goes, "Yep.
And I sprayed for bees." -Wow! That's a great --
Unbelievable job. -Yeah.
But here's the thing, though. I was like,
"Nobody mess with Molly." -Yeah, yeah. -This is the John Wick
of assistants. I cannot complain about anyone
at work around her. If I'm like, "Greg's
being kind of annoying," I'll come in the next day like,
"Where's Greg? She's like,
"He's with the bees, Taylor." -He's in a farm upstate. It's such a fun show,
"After Midnight." It has a lot of fun with the
Internet and social media. How are you with social media? -You know, it's
kind of like a necessary evil of the job, right? Like, yeah,
you just kind of have to do it. So I'm not, like,
scared of it. I have some friends who are
very scared to have social media,
because they're like, "They're stealing
your information and scanning your face"
or whatever. And, like,
I had a friend tell me recently that they put a cover
over the camera on their laptop because people can hack
into your laptop and, like, take videos. Have you heard about that?
-Yes. -I have a new fear now. I'm not, like, scared
of people leaking my nudes. Like, I look great in those. I'm, like, posed.
It's good lighting. I mean, honestly, I'd have
to convince people they were me. But now I'm scared someone's
going to hack into the camera on my laptop and get
a video of me eating alone. You know how you eat
when you're just, like, watching a "Sex and the City"
rerun with the perfect snack? -Yes. -Like, if I logged on
to Twitter tomorrow and there was a video
making the rounds of just me hunched over a keyboard and a plate of nachos,
like, "Big's going to Paris?!", I -- You'd never see me again. You'd never see me again.
-That's so funny. -Yeah. -Before we go, I heard
that you have a question for me. -I do have a question for you. So, as I said,
I've done stand-up on this show three times. -Thank you.
-You're always so nice. You're always so welcoming. But when I first got the show,
my younger sibling, Brinn -- they were like, "Can you get Jimmy to sign
a copy of 'Fever Pitch' for me?" Because we watched
that movie all the time growing up. It was, like, one of my
favorite movies to watch when I was sick, because it has
that great scene of you taking care of Drew Barrymore
when she's sick. -Yeah.
-It's so nice. Don't watch it. It'll, like -- Your expectations
of men will be too high. But... [ Cymbal crash ]
Yeah, it's dangerous. Don't do that. But my sibling Brinn was like, "Can you get him to sign
this copy of 'Fever Pitch'?" And I was like,
"I'm just doing stand-up. Like, no,
I don't think I can do that." But now I'm on the couch.
I host a show. Do you think maybe you could
sign a DVD of "Fever Pitch"? -Of course I can.
-Really?! -Absolutely, I'll sign it.
-Oh, my gosh! -That is -- Are you kidding?
I'm touched. -Oh, my gosh.
I'm so excited. That's so nice. Can you imagine
if I told this beautiful story, and then you, like,
saw it on eBay later? No. -I'm not even kidding.
I'm not even kidding. I just wrote, "Please don't put
this on eBay." I swear. I swear to God. That's so funny.
Taylor Tomlinson, everybody. For tickets for her tour,
go to taylortomlinsoncomedy.com. More "Tonight's Show"
after the break. I just -- That's so weird!