Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All

Taylor is very talented, quick witted comedian (commedienne?) and she have proven this already in her last two Netflix specials where she briliantly crafted her stories with impecable delivery.

This one, not so much. Recycled, reused jokes, repackaged to assemble the special at any cost, shows forced performance from the very begining. It was a compilation of her previous jokes with few new/old ones and that's about it.

It looks like new comedians cannot last more than two specials, (Iliza Shlesinger, taking about you).

So what now? Taylor will be used and abused for that abomination of After Midnight, until she crashes and hopefuly comes back to stand up with new and fresh material. Or, maybe not. We'll see.

Huge talent and natural comedy genius is going to waste in real time. At least it was good while it lasted.

The last special was to 80% great. When Taylor was talking psychology, pharmaceuticals, dead parents etc. It was fun, insightful and very good comedy at the same time. The other 20% was typical mainstream girl stand-up i.e. Relationship, male organs and dating and I found it very boring.

So I said in my review on that special just that, but did she listen? No. Instead she here does the complete opposite; takes the 20% that did not really work and is boring run of the mill girl stand-up and do a full hour of it. Why Taylor? Why?

Taylor Tomlinson is a comedic genius and is so funny, so insightful and can make a sponge laugh but for some reason she is dragging herself into the same corner as all other female comedians end up in. A lot of sex, a lot of phalluses, dating and all the rest. It is like female comedians think they cannot get the audience to listen unless they talk about orgasms. Why?

Talk politics, talk world affairs, make fun of dwarfs, or do anything but this. Taylor can do it for sure, and probably better than anyone else, sad that she does not.

With that said, and me pretending she will read this and listen to my insane ramblings, this is still good. Although she is overusing the tropes and cliches she does it very well and she is still funny, but not as great as this could have been.

Worth a watch, but 5/10 is all I am giving it.

A final advice from me to Taylor: take a break. Travel the world, come to Europe and visit Spain and I will buy you a few beers. Just get out of the comedy business for a while and start writing the insightful hilarious jokes about things that are more fun to listen to. You are on your way to becoming one of the biggest stars of all time, don't get stuck in the female cliches and instead do what you do best.

Taylor Tomlinson's previous specials were comedic genius, were Taylor used her history of anxiety, depression and her growing up ever so brilliantly to create a show that wasn't only relatable as she touched many aspects of every-day life, but was also hilarious and comedy gold.

But unfortunately, this third special doesn't even come close to their predecessors. Taylor uses old jokes and repeats them endlessly, and it doesn't take long before you realize that her entire special is about one thing only: dating. And the dating jokes are not even good ones as she rehashes old material. There are very few new jokes thrown in there, but they're not really good.

Interaction with audience was also awkward and weird. I've seen her interact with audiences in many YouTube videos of shows she's done in clubs, and she's actually very good. She wasn't trying too hard and was real, genuine and funny. But in "Have it All" it's scripted and it's painfully shows. There's nothing natural about the interactions, and for some reason Taylor resorts to "insulting" the ones she interacts with, and not in a smart and funny way.

For someone who films their third special, she also seemed very uncomfortable and nervous. She was talking way too fast like she was hurrying or trying to do as much jokes as she can, which also hurt her delivery- which is usually very good.

If there'll be a fourth special, I'd probably watch. I still believe Taylor is very talented and very funny, but she needs to come with new material and be more herself. That's what made her previous shows so good. Here it felt like she's trying too hard, and the end result has left a lot to be desired.

I guess we truly can't have it all sometimes.

Well, I did enjoy the previous shows from Taylor Tomlinson, so when I stumbled upon this 2024 comedy special on Netflix, while browsing through the contents, of course I had to watch it. I didn't know that she had a new show out, but then again I don't really keep up with what she is doing.

Now, the good news is that if you enjoyed the previous two shows from Taylor Tomlinson, then you will definitely also enjoy this 2024 show. You know what you are getting and she does deliver. And yeah, I definitely was adequately entertained by this 66 minute long comedy special, no doubt about that. The bad news is that as a comedian, she isn't really progressing or evolving, it feels very much like the shows that came before this.

Again, as with the previous shows, Taylor Tomlinson feels naturally at home on the scene and she has a good charisma and carries the show with grace. And her interaction with the audience is good.

Something that I didn't like about this 2024 show was how much she talked about her career and her Netflix specials, it felt a bit pompous and as if she was rather full of herself. You're on Netflix, yeah, we get it. We are watching you there already...

I was genuinely entertained by "Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All" and it is well-worth sitting down to watch and enjoy, whether or not you have seen the previous shows.

My rating of "Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All" lands on a six out of ten stars.

We had a really hard time watching the special even just halfway through. The constant gloating and mentioning that she has a Netflix specials and that she's so important really got old. She seems to have a really negative view of people who are married and continues to talk about how boring and sad they are. Since she has no idea what it actually means to be married it was kind of embarrassing to watch her trying to describe it.

Unfortunately, we found the jokes to be stale and it was hard to watch in a "I feel bad for her" way. We turned it off, and then tried to watch it again the next night in hopes that things would turn out better, but it almost seem like there was a sense of insecurity about her in incessant gloating and bragging about having Netflix specials that was just a huge turn off.

Her other specials were so good and came from such a humble place but this one just missed the mark unfortunately.