Sam Tallent: the comedian moved to Grosse Pointe Park in 2024
GROSSE POINTE PARK. Comedian Sam Tallent lives here now. He and his wife, Dr. Emily Tallent, moved from Colorado in 2024 to be near her family in Dearborn. He grew up in Elizabeth, a small town in Elbert County out on Colorado's eastern plains.
He's the sort who stops a stranger in a bookstore aisle to ask what his wife likes to read, so he can point him at more of it. That's how the Hour Detroit writer met him, at 27th Letter Books in Detroit. The interview came weeks later over coffee in Tallent's backyard, with Tallent pointing out monarch butterflies in the garden.
He says he doesn't have any memory of wanting to be anything else. There's video of him at three, in a tuxedo, sliding through the kitchen curtains with a joke about flying in from Vegas.
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