Taylor Tomlinson

“I wish I were better at observational or political or social commentary, and I'm just not.”

“Especially with the Internet now, there is no such thing as being unrelatable.”

“I have friends who have bipolar. And you never judge your friends. You never felt like that was a big deal. But then when it's you, you somehow realize you have all this deeper stuff from when you were a kid.”

“There were churches that would not let me tell jokes about being abstinent. I'm like, 'I'm promoting the thing you like!' But they wouldn't want you to even refer to anything like that.”

“Nobody is a professional comedian for the first five, six years they're doing it.”

“Everyone on the Internet is a celebrity to someone at this point. There are people on TikTok who have never put out anything besides like daily vlogs, and if I saw them in a coffee shop, I'd be like, 'Oh, my God, it's you!'”

“I thought 'Girls' was amazing. Did I relate to a lot of it? No. Those were not my experiences.”

“My mom never saw me funny, which is really sad. She was everything I wanted to be. She was gorgeous, magnetic, creative, flirtatious and interesting. I look nothing like her, though my grandma disagrees: 'I see your mom most in your expressions when you're performing.' That makes me very happy.”

“I think that's what comedians do: We're funny in the moment. We're just so self-reflective and narcissistic.”

“I think the Internet has made it so that you have so much control over your own career - which I think is really important and cool.”

“The best comedy advice in the beginning of my career was get onstage every night, as many times as possible. It's the only way to get better.”