‘After Midnight’s Taylor Tomlinson Makes Rare Dive Into Politics, Mocks Trump & Undecided Voters

Peter White
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Unlike many of her late-night peers, Taylor Tomlinson is not known for delving into politics on After Midnight.

But after last night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the comedian weighed in on the topic on the CBS show.

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“It’s difficult to watch debates like these, where one person is spreading alarming lies and all the headlines are like ‘Trump and Harris clash on issues’. If Kamala had said, ‘Let’s give everyone $100’ and then Trump responded, ‘I’m going to fill every American home with locusts’, the headlines would be like ‘Candidates present different visions for the future’,” she joked.

Tomlinson said Trump’s claims that Harris wants to transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison and immigrants eating pets in Ohio were like “some bad conservative Mad Libs”. “I genuinely think he might have been trying to fill out a bingo card. Because if there’s one thing I know about men his age, they love bingo,” she added.

One of the key reasons for both parties to debate was to capture as many undecided voters as possible. Tomlinson said that she felt bad for this group. “How embarrassing for you. When it’s lunchtime, are you like, ‘Hmm, I could eat a sandwich or I could just chew on some broken glass. I’m undecided.’ Let’s hear both sides,” she said.

Trump said that he saw the pet-eating immigrants on television but the stand-up had some further bad news for the former Commander-in-Chief. “Oh, buddy, people on television aren’t real. I hate to be the person to break this to you…. Tony Soprano is not actually working on bettering himself. Ross and Rachel were not on a break because they were not even together, and this is not my real hair,” she said.

Referencing some changes to show in its second season, which launched earlier this month and included a new co-showrunner in J.D. Amato, Tomlinson joked, “Currently here on After Midnight, we’re making lots of changes to the show format. I didn’t know what to say before, but now, when people ask me, ‘Hey, Taylor, why is there a big random couch on the show? Do you have any control? What’s the plan?’ I can just say I have concepts of a plan,” she said.

After Midnight is produced by CBS Studios, Spartina Industries and Funny Or Die. Amato and Jack Martin will executive produce along with Stephen Colbert, Carrie Byalick, Tom Purcell and Evelyn McGee Colbert of Spartina Industries; James Dixon of Dixon Talent, Joe Farrell, Mike Farah, Whitney Hodack and Henry R. Muñoz III of Funny Or Die and Jason U. Nadler of Serious Business. Jo Firestone is co-executive producer and head writer. Alexx Wells also serves as co-executive producer. Sharon Everitt directs.

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