Unlike many of her late-night peers, Taylor Tomlinson isn’t 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 his CBS show.
“It’s hard to watch a debate like this where one person is spreading horrible lies and all the headlines are ‘Trump and Harris clash over issues.’ If Kamala had said, ‘I’ll give everyone $100,’ and Trump had replied, ‘I’m going to fill every home in America with locusts,’ the headline would have been ‘Candidates offer different visions of the future,'” she joked.
Tomlinson said Trump’s claims that Harris wants sex-change operations for illegal immigrants in prison and immigrants eating pets in Ohio are like “the damn Mad Libs of conservatives.” “I genuinely think he was trying to fill out his bingo card. If there’s one thing I know about men his age, it’s that they love bingo,” she added.
One of the main reasons the two parties held the debate was to reach as many undecided voters as possible, and Tomlinson said she sympathized with that group. “It’s embarrassing. It’s lunchtime and you’re like, ‘Hmm, I’m going to eat a sandwich or I’m going to chew on some broken glass. I still can’t decide.’ Let’s hear both sides,” she said.
Trump said she saw immigrants eating pets on TV, but the stand-up comedian had more bad news for the former president: “Oh, people on TV aren’t real. I hate to say this, but… Tony Soprano doesn’t actually make an effort to better himself. Ross and Rachel didn’t break up because they weren’t even together and this isn’t my real hair,” she said.
Speaking of changes to the show for its second season, which launched earlier this month and brings in JD Amato as its new co-showrunner, Tomlinson joked, “Right now, with After Midnight, we’re making a lot of changes to the format of the show. I didn’t know what to say before, but now when people ask me, ‘Hey Taylor, why is there suddenly a giant couch in the show? Do you have any control over it? What’s the plan?’ I just say we have a concept of a plan,” she said.
After Midnight is produced by CBS Studios, Spartina Industries and Funny or Die. Amato and Jack Martin serve as executive producers, with Spartina Industries’ Stephen Colbert, Carrie Byerick, Tom Purcell and Evelyn McGee Colbert, Dixon Talent’s James Dixon, Funny or Die’s Joe Farrell, Mike Farrar, Whitney Hodak and Henry R. Muñoz III and Serious Business’ Jason U. Nadler serving as executive producers. Joe Firestone serves as co-executive producer and head writer. Alex Wells also serves as co-executive producer. Sharon Everitt will direct.