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Taylor Tomlinson’s Always Armed With the Unexpected
Her 2022 Tonight Show set proves that even the most well-trodden topic can feel fresh in the right hands.
While reenacting her end of the conversation, she breaks eye contact with the audience, looks down at the stage, allows a slight quiver into her voice, and morphs into a frightened young girl — a world away from the woman who is currently killing on her third Fallon set — as she pleads to her father, “I don’t know what to do when I feel like this.” But it’s an overwhelming job, she says, because “I feel like I got pregnant with me in high school, and I was not ready for this responsibility.” She plays out an exasperated moment of her trying to control her toddlerlike inner child: “If I let you watch TikTok on my phone for 40 minutes, will you please stop crying?” A five-second eruption of laughter follows before she launches into a bit about mismatched couples, comparing them to the uneven pairing of chocolate and raisins. As Tomlinson asks Chocolate about their dating decisions at 4:14, the audience seems delighted to leave the heavy topics of mental illness and fatherly failure and follow her on a Gary Gulman –esque digression into fantasyland.
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