Taylor Tomlinson Talks Save Me Comedy Tour and Gets Jimmy to Sign a Fever Pitch DVD | Tonight Show

-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!