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COMEDIAN JOHNNY TAYLOR JR.
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but life’s dark sometimes,” Taylor Jr. says.
In a YouTube clip, Taylor Jr. compares his own three
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“I like to get married a lot,” Taylor Jr. quips on YouTube.
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to in the moment, Taylor Jr. tells EW.
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alifornia comedian Johnny Taylor Jr. stops
short of calling his audience an oppo-
nent. He says there is something similar,
though, to how boxers react to adversaries
and comedians sizing-up their audience
when they first come on stage. Taylor Jr.
knows because he boxed as an amateur
and also co-owned a combat sports gym in his twenties.
Host of The Hard Talk podcast on The Hard Times
podcast network, Taylor Jr. brings a new hour of comedy
to Eugene Thursday, July 21 at The Big Dirty. He recently
opened for well-known standup Brian Posehn (Mr. Show
with Bob and David) on a string of dates.
With a wry take on everyday life and an interest in
mocking the orthodoxies of both mainstream and alter-
native cultures, Taylor Jr.’s comedy is autobiographical
and storytelling in nature. “It’s dark a lot of the times,
“To my discredit,” he says. “I wish I adjusted more
for what I see from the audience; sometimes I’ll do a
bit I know the crowd isn’t going to react to well. It’s this
antagonistic nature I have. I want the crowd to go home
and have an existential crisis,” he says.
More than anything, though, Taylor Jr. says audiences
are never a comedian’s enemy because “they’re rooting
for you,” while you’re up there on the stage.
In addition to hosting a podcast on The Hard Times,
Taylor Jr. also writes for the website TheHardTimes.net,
known for underground music scene satire and parodies
of indie, heavy metal and alternative band culture.
Early on in his stand-up career, his material included
some politics. In a YouTube series The Nonfiction with
Johnny Taylor Jr., a project he’s no longer involved with,
he parodied the alt-right conspiracy-theory perspective
that’s common on many online platforms.
These days, though, there’s less politics in Taylor Jr.’s
material. “It’s hard to make fun of some of this atrocious
shit” that’s going on in the headlines, he says. “I just tell
my life story.”
With two comedy albums to his name released on
Stand Up! Records — 2014’s Tangled Up in Plaid and
2018’s Bummin' with the Devil, both of which charted on
Amazon and on iTunes — Taylor Jr. says material from
his show in Eugene will likely end up on his next record.
He’s also been acting more recently, including an
upcoming TV show, Press Pass, about a fledgling basket-
ball organization, shot in the mockumentary style of
The Office.
Acting, Taylor Jr. says, is “definitely a different muscle
to exercise. I never really wanted to be an actor; I always
wanted to be a stand-up.” But these days, unless you’re
doing a bunch of other things like acting and podcasts,
“you can’t do stand-up how you want,” he says. ■
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