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.

This special had me reeling. From cringe first parental 'sex talk' memories to crazy religious upbringing stories, these jokes hit way too close to home. Her crowd work was excellent as well, flowed right thru the jokes and just kept going. Like honestly some of the best crowd work jokes I've ever seen. You can tell she's been perfecting her craft. That's it - killer special, will definitely watch again, and now I want to go back and rewatch her old specials. Taylor killed it and made my boring Tuesday night a laugh riot! Check it out, she is awesome! Thirty six more words required blah blah blah.

I enjoyed Taylor Tomlinson's two previous Netflix comedy specials, 'Quarter-Life Crisis' and 'Look at you'. The content is very personal, relatable and funny and her delivery is great. The only negatives were an occasional clumsiness, especially when ad libbing, and a degree of repetitiveness.

Based on these two specials I was looking forward to this one. It's okay, for the most part, but feels like a retread of the previous two, like essentially the same perspectives and material rehashed. The same old things come up - boyfriends, married friends, her parents - none with a new slant.

The clumsiness in the ad lib parts is magnified here as she has an audience participation segment and her responses to their suggestions do feel forced and are more about insulting the suggestee than being funny.

Her delivery is still great and its this timing and animation that sustain the show.

Overall, funny enough but disappointing in that it feels like nothing new.

Had really high expectations coming into this, as I'd watched her first two specials loadsss of times and quickly established that she was my favourite comedian. The fact that I wasn't disappointed is no mean feat, and I genuinely did laugh out loud several times. 9 as opposed to 10 just because I still think she's got more potential, but thoroughly enjoyed it. She says this one is more like Quarter Life Crisis, but I disagree, and feel like it's pretty balanced in terms of the influences of it's predecessors. Definitely adding this to the roster of specials to watch again, and so yep, if you liked her first two, I'd recommend this one :))