Taylor Tomlinson Is "Young For A Late Night Host" | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hi my name is Taylor Tomlinson and I. feel thrilled about being Conan O'Brien. sweet that's very nice than so much I'm. trying to think how long we've known. each other we talked about this last. time but we went on tour together mhm. you were very young I mean you're still. really young. especially yeah you are what are you. talking about I'm 30 I feel like it's. over right okay 30 is not like young. anymore is it uh to me it is you are an. embryo you. are you are a frozen egg as far as I'm.

concerned uh I just have to keep. clearing milestones in order for people. to think I'm young they're like you're. young for like a late night host I'm. like okay that's there you go I watched. your first episode this morning on. YouTube that's cuz you were 30 right I. was I had just turned 30 uh same and I. you had the little calendar and it was. September 1993 so 6 weeks before I was. born oh that's so crazy is that crazy. well see I think that puts into context. just how young you are that my career my. show start.

6 months before you were born uh but I. remembered you. having I was really impressed with I. mean obviously you had just amazing. material but you would March out there. and you were at the time 20 21 was a. long time ago I was 24 I think and I. done I had done your show you no you had. done my show but you merched out killed. it walked off stage was really sick and. I was very very impressed just so.

impressed with you and so I said this to. you in the hall and I I said to myself. say that again on mic but I want to. congratulate you for like 15 things. because you've just did your third. Netflix special you have a late night. show uh people have found you you made. this whole thing happen I'm just I'm so. happy for you I want to start on that. like nice note and then we'll devolve. into Petty grievances that's so nice. that's really lovely also you've you're.

you're terrific you're absolutely. fantastic and uh I was just I don't know. I'm just everything that's been. happening for you I just am watching now. from the sidelines and just saying oh my. God yes go Taylor go this just totally. deserved this is the right all the best. things are happening to someone good and. that doesn't always happen oh that's. really nice we're going to cut all this. out rightly uncomfortable we're not. we're not recording complim I don't even. mean any of this I'm.

I'm practicing for someone I really. like we have real stars coming on later. this week this is sort of a warmup app. for me. um this is for one of the weigh-ins. Brothers you know I've just got this. whole thing memorized I don't even know. which one it kind of can go with any W. when when you uh were doing your show. did you ever have episodes where you're. like oh thank God I'm not nervous to. talk to this person at all like however. this goes it's fine yeah yeah yeah uh. well it's it's funny cuz I can talk shop.

with you which I love uh I mean there's. so many things to talk about um I loved. the special that you just did for. Netflix and uh thought there were so. many just it's so many great jokes and. about uh it's very you which is the it's. just a huge compliment like so much of. your comedy comes from just you your. experience the way you put things you. had this uh thing that you said at one. point.

my brother is trans my sister is gay and. I identify as afraid and I thought well. you really watched it yeah no no I was. you know you started you're like it was. great it was so you and I'm like me mind. not don't watch you tell a story in your. special um that and I don't want to I'm. I'm I'm weary sometimes to not give away. stuff but you tell a story that's really. funny about Hugh Jackman and I was. watching it and I was really laughing. because you're talking about how um he's. he's like a surreal ethereal creature.

you know not of this Earth and I have my. own Hugh jackon story which is not part. of a Netflix special I pitched it many. times you'll get there no he'll get. there don't worry they said I think the. quote is no appetite for Conan uh on the. log on the algorithm but um no they uh. they I was I mean I've already given it. away but I was in a gym I was I was in. Atlanta on some job and in a hotel and I. found out they had a gym and I'm like I. go you know I'm trying to take care of.

myself lately I'm going to hit the gym. and I'm always inordinately proud of. myself when I can hit the gym when I'm. on the road or something so I hit the. gym and there's this machine where it. sort of helps lift you up but you're. kind of using your body weight but not. all your body weight you know that one. and you're kind of going up and down and. you're working your lats and I'm like. I'm doing a really and then I in my. peripheral vision in my peripheral. vision became aware that someone was. doing what I was doing but twice as fast. and without the assistance of the little. hydraulic thing like.

and I look over and I swear to God it's. Hugh Jackman and he's doing he's lifting. his own body weight and he's got this. perfect v-shaped torso and he is the. handsomest man you'll ever see and he. turns to me and he recognizes me because. he'd been on the show a couple times. he's just like hey how are you Conan. good to see but didn't even break his. stride and I had a little hydraulic. thing going like I'll help. you I'm picturing him with his Wolverine. CL out as yeah and I I I I just looked.

at his body and looked at mine I think I. called it quits and just I think I tried. to see if they would open the bar at 10: in the. morning but I mean I I I there's so many. things in your special that I could. relate to and I think the thing that I. love so much about your comedy is that. you are so brutally honest but it's. always to a purpose and it always makes. me feel better and feels like I know you. better do you know what I mean that's so.

nice oh my gosh again this will all come. out this was for that's for Damon way um. that's so nice that's really really nice. uh but um yeah there's so much we can I. know it's like hard to know where to. start I mean I also well I mean have a. lot of questions well I would love you. to ask questions because um that's those. are some of my favorite interviews. because it's about me right. um uh and how do I feel about Conan um I. love him he's great I love you don't.

what's oh that's true that's I have a. lot of misgivings about Conan um you are. you are a lovely name drop for me when. people were like yeah I love Conan I'm. like and then I just put on sunglasses. and start swirling wine and I'm like. he's exactly he's exactly what you want. him to. be he's just a great guy and they you. know Conan I'm like n you know on tour. we went on tour together we went on tour. together we had some really good times. we did some uh we did some s on a bus I.

remember us being on a bus rolling into. Chicago um we uh but it was it was just. fantastic like that's my biggest. observation about you that I would say. to anybody who ask me about you I think. like I say think you came on my late. night show when you were 24 I think or. 23 we you went on I went on tour with. you maybe a year or so later and I. thought it just felt to me like you. arrived fully. formed completely like you had it all.

it's not like well I saw you when that. banana is still kind of green it needs a. little more time like no no no you were. just ready to go that's so nice and what. a great transition have it all streaming. on Netflix um had it all have it. all we're probably lose it all um.