Taylor Tomlinson

Taylor Tomlinson (born Taylor Elyse Tomlinson, 4 November 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.

Tomlinson and her three younger siblings were raised in a devout Christian family in California, which features prominently in her comedy routines. Her mother died of cancer in August 2002, when Tomlinson was eight. She was raised in Temecula, where she graduated from Temecula Valley High School. She began performing comedy at age 16, after her father signed them both up for a stand-up class, performing in church basements, school venues and coffee shops. She 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.

Her first Netflix special, Quarter-Life Crisis, was released in March 2020, and she was placed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in December 2021. Her third special, Have It All, was released on 13 February 2024; among the Top 10 highest-grossing comic tours for 2023, she was the only woman and performed more shows (132) than anyone else on the list, with the tour selling 296,000 tickets and generating over $17.5 million in sales. She hosted After Midnight, a CBS revival of @midnight, which premiered on 17 January 2024, and later left the show to focus on her stand-up career. Her fourth special, Prodigal Daughter, was released on Netflix on 24 February 2026.