Sam Tallent

Tallent was raised in Elizabeth, Colorado. He was selected to the all-state football team as an offensive linemen in high school, graduating in 2005.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} He then played in a band called REDvsBLACK as a drummer and lived in an anarchist compound in Ithaca, New York in 2007 and 2008.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Tallent’s first comedy special, Waiting For Death to Claim Us, was released on Amazon Prime. In December 2023, Tallent performed a new special, The Toad's Morale.{{Cite web|url=https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/toads-morale-sam-tallent-stand-up-comedy/|title=The Toad's Morale puts Sam Tallent's filthy genius on display|date=December 28, 2023|website=The Spectator|access-date=January 27, 2024|archive-date=January 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101081245/https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/toads-morale-sam-tallent-stand-up-comedy/|url-status=live}} He is the host of the Chubby Behemoth Podcast alongside his best friend and co-host Nathan Lund.{{Cite web|last1=Ferryman|first1=Carter|url=https://boulderweekly.com/entertainment/comedy/chubby-behemoth/|title='Chubby Behemoth'|date=November 15, 2023|website=Boulder Weekly|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122195754/https://boulderweekly.com/entertainment/comedy/chubby-behemoth/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/22/high-plains-comedy-standup-crowdwork-audience-viral/|title=Is TikTok-focused crowd work ruining stand-up comedy?|date=September 22, 2023|website=|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122202611/https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/22/high-plains-comedy-standup-crowdwork-audience-viral/|url-status=live}} Since 2010, Tallent has toured across North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

In May 2020, Tallent published Running the Light{{Cite web|last1=Kidwell|first1=John|url=https://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-jester|title=The Loneliness of the Long Distance Jester|date=June 23, 2023|website=Splice Today|access-date=January 27, 2024|archive-date=January 27, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127032631/https://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-jester|url-status=live}} via his publishing house, Too Big To Fail Press - the audio book rights sold at auction in 2021 and Garth Ennis wrote the screenplay based on his book. His novella, Attaboy, was published as an Audible Original in 2022. In 2024 Tallent announced that he had signed a deal with Random House to publish Running the Light as well as further literary works. https://www.cltampa.com/arts/ahead-of-tampa-shows-sam-tallent-talks-breaking-into-book-clubs-empathy-in-comedy-and-more-18984375 As of June 18, 2025, the book Running the Light was available in Spanish under the title Sin Supervivientes.{{Cite web |title=The book is now available in Spanish |url=https://x.com/TallentSam/status/1935364660636586293 |website=X |date=June 18, 2025 |access-date=June 21, 2025}}

Tallent has performed at Skankfest Comedy Festival{{cite web | url=https://skankfest.com/comics/sam-tallent/ | title=Sam Tallent }} Comedy Central, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/just-for-laughs-new-faces-2019.html|title=Just for Laughs Announces Its 2019 New Faces|date=July 22, 2019|website=|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=October 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012090822/https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/just-for-laughs-new-faces-2019.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2011/08/24/4-day-funstival-wears-inner-kid-on-the-outside/|title=4-day "Funstival" wears inner kid on the outside|date=August 24, 2011|website=|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122205640/https://www.denverpost.com/2011/08/24/4-day-funstival-wears-inner-kid-on-the-outside/|url-status=live}} Black Hills Comedy Festival{{cite web | url=https://www.blackhillscomedyfestival.com/shows | title=Shows }} and SXSW Comedy Festival. He was also seen on The Chris Gethard Show and Viceland's Flophouse.

As of February 2024 Tallent has produced a comedic travel documentary titled: Sam Tallent's Wide World{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byVWrUQx9_o&t=910s | title=Sam Tallent's Wide World: Tokyo Riffs - Episode I | website=YouTube | date=21 February 2024 }} in which he writes, directs, narrates and co-hosts. The episodic format features Tallent alongside life-long friends Nathan Lund, Patrick Richardson, David Gborie and Jacob Becker, traveling the globe while offering humorous and satirical insight on local cuisine, culture, people, architecture, religion and attractions. Episodes feature numerous short segments broken up by sporadic and often surreal transitions, graphics, cutaways and non-sequitur voice-overs. Locations visited include Tokyo, Yokohama, Paris, Eastern Colorado, Rome, Key West and New Zealand. Upon release, episodes are published to Tallent's YouTube channel.{{cite web | url=http://www.youtube.com/@samtallent/ | title=Sam Tallent | website=YouTube }}

Tallent has been a guest on podcasts including Tony Hinchcliffe's Kill Tony, The Adam Friedland Show, Joe Rogan Experience, Have A Word,{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-weighs-bud-light-controversy-podcast-1794092|title=Joe Rogan Weighs In on Bud Light Controversy|date=April 13, 2023|website=Newsweek|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122202855/https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-weighs-bud-light-controversy-podcast-1794092|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-mma-news-joe-rogan-reacts-to-dalai-lamas-viral-controversial-video-yeah-dont-tell-the-kid-to-suck-your-tongue/|title=Joe Rogan Reacts to Dalai Lama's Viral Controversial Video: "Yeah Don't Tell the Kid to Suck Your Tongue"|date=April 13, 2023|website=|access-date=November 23, 2023|archive-date=November 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123013735/https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-mma-news-joe-rogan-reacts-to-dalai-lamas-viral-controversial-video-yeah-dont-tell-the-kid-to-suck-your-tongue/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://radaronline.com/p/joe-rogan-reacts-bud-light-controversy-dylan-mulvaney/|title=Joe Rogan Still 'Loves' Kid Rock's Video|date=April 12, 2023|website=|access-date=November 23, 2023|archive-date=November 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123013938/https://radaronline.com/p/joe-rogan-reacts-bud-light-controversy-dylan-mulvaney/|url-status=live}} Barstool Sports {{cite web

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}} Dr. Drew After Dark, Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Tim Dillon's podcast, Chris Distefano's podcast, The Danny Brown Show and James Donald Forbes McCann's podcast.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Tallent is married to Emily Oprish Tallent.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vaildaily.com/entertainment/questions-with-comedians-vail-comedy-show-welcomes-sam-tallent-this-week/|title=Questions with comedians: Vail Comedy Show welcomes Sam Tallent this week|date=October 16, 2022|website=|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122204219/https://www.vaildaily.com/entertainment/questions-with-comedians-vail-comedy-show-welcomes-sam-tallent-this-week/|url-status=live}} He currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2022 with a degree in Public Address and Rhetoric.{{Cite web|last1=Phare|first1=Cory|url=https://red.msudenver.edu/2022/from-open-mics-to-world-tours/|title=From open mics to world tours|date=May 10, 2022|website=|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122203602/https://red.msudenver.edu/2022/from-open-mics-to-world-tours/|url-status=live}}

Tallent draws inspiration from rock bands Lightning Bolt and Minutemen, novelists Denis Johnson and Cormac McCarthy, and comedian Norm Macdonald.

• Running the Light (2020){{Cite web|last1=Graham|first1=Byron|url=https://www.westword.com/arts/sam-tallent-on-running-the-light-and-will-smith-11771919|title=Sam Tallent on Running the Light, Will Smith, and Being Too Big to Fail|date=September 3, 2020|website=Westword|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122203155/https://www.westword.com/arts/sam-tallent-on-running-the-light-and-will-smith-11771919|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last1=Samarov|first1=Dmitry|url=https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/the-sad-funny-monster-in-running-the-light/|title=The sad, funny monster in Running the Light|date=January 22, 2021|website=Chicago Reader|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122204028/https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/the-sad-funny-monster-in-running-the-light/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/08/denver-comic-sam-tallents-debut-novel-running-the-light-confronts-stand-up-industrys-demons/|title=Denver comic Sam Tallent's debut novel, "Running the Light," confronts stand-up industry's demons|date=August 8, 2020|website=Denver Post|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122204723/https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/08/denver-comic-sam-tallents-debut-novel-running-the-light-confronts-stand-up-industrys-demons/|url-status=live}}
• Attaboy (2022){{Cite web|last1=Wenzel|first1=John|url=https://www.burlington-record.com/2022/01/24/books-by-colorado-authors-2022-novels/|title=10 books by Colorado authors you should read in 2022|date=January 24, 2022|website=Burlington-record|access-date=November 23, 2023|archive-date=November 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123010142/https://www.burlington-record.com/2022/01/24/books-by-colorado-authors-2022-novels/|url-status=live}}

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