The Bobby Bones Show - BOBBYCAST - Comedian Leanne Morgan on Jerry Seinfeld’s Advice, Beating Lainey Wilson on Family Feud & Selling Out Arenas

Episode Date: August 27, 2026

Comedian Leanne Morgan sits down with Bobby to talk about the long road from small comedy gigs to selling out arenas and landing her own Netflix series. She shares the advice Jerry Seinfeld gave her about success, what it was like beating Lainey Wilson on Family Feud, and the moment she realized her career had reached a completely different level. Leanne also opens up about 34 years of marriage, raising a family while chasing comedy, going viral later in life, and getting renewed for a second season of her Netflix show. Plus, she reveals her five favorite comedians of all time and reflects on the people who helped shape her sense of humor along the way. Watch The BobbyCast on Netflix! Follow on Instagram: @TheBobbyCast Follow on TikTok: @TheBobbyCastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for you. possibility. Listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I remember telling, which is so arrogant, but I remember saying a group of women, you can book a party with me now or you can see me in Las Vegas later. I believed it in my heart. I just thought, I don't know when it's going to happen, but this is what I'm going to be doing. My next guest is very funny. Also, I'm recording this intro after the interview is already over, just a little time machine here.

But after we finish this interview, she stayed for 20 minutes. And we just talked and she met my baby and my wife. She is exactly what she seems. And so it's Leanne Morgan. And Leanne Season 2 is on Netflix now. And you can watch it. If you're watching on Netflix, just go over.

Also, the time of our lives tour is happening now. And these are massive shows. And we talk about that. And we talk about comedy and life. And growing up in Tennessee, here she is the very warm. equally lovely Leanne Morgan.

Leanne, it's great to meet you. Seriously. That's not great to me. Bobby? I'm jaded. I know you're jaded because you've met everybody in the United States of America. It's so great.

It's so great to meet you. Thank you, my darling. I'm thrilled to be here. I'm thrilled. I feel like you're like my family. Well, Bobby, I'm shocked that it's taking this long. We also might be related just because of generally the proximity

and being from the South. and if we did a 23 and me, I bet you there'd be a couple threads that'd be you're that cousin. Maybe, honey. Did your people cut up meat? Hmm, that's an interesting question. By cut up meat, do you mean...

Meat processes. Oh, no, no. And farming. Were your people farming, people in Arkansas? No, we mostly were like stealing catalytic converters, trailer park. Oh, criminals. Yeah, yeah.

Oh. Yeah. So I didn't know if that was like a euphemism for some sort of criminal activity. when you say cutting meat. Oh, no, I mean literally cutting meat. Yeah, no, we were killing meat like deer, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, my people were wrapping it, processing it and wrapping deer.

Your family, really, like your family were meat processing? Yeah, I was raised 35 miles from here north of Nashville on the Kentucky, Tennessee border near Clarksville, in the little farming community. Okay, you're going to have to help me with the meat processing. Were you also butchers? Yeah, my little, my little daddy, who's still living, was the, the butcher and my grandfather's two cut up meat and all my aunts and uncles and everybody worked in it a meat process and plant so we did everybody's beef hogs deer season all that in middle Tennessee so let's say someone killed a deer and they didn't tag it could they sneak it to you guys

and you process it quietly i think they did yeah because on the other side of that that's what we did that that's the criminal part of it oh yeah we would do a lot of that Are you like a meat connoisseur or like an aficionado now? I think because I was racing and it was gross. You know, I was the sixth grade when they opened it and my sister would lock me in a freezer as a joke with a bunch of, you know, animals that had been skinned. That I didn't, I was kind of a vegetarian

until I left and went the University of Tennessee and then I started eating hamburgers again in pepperoni pizza. But until then, I mean, like I was so turned off from it because I smelled it all the time. and, you know, everything in our clothes and all that. Yeah. Was it like summer job then for you or all jobs? Yeah, I had to wrap meat.

I wasn't good help. Well, I'm 60s. So imagine me in my 80s with big hair, hot rolled hair, thinking that I was Miss Tennessee and I didn't have time to wrap meat. So I wasn't good help. But yeah, I worked in it. When you went to college, you tried to find a job at a meat plant?

No. Oh, okay. No. I wanted to wait tables and smoke cigarettes. Waiting tables for me, because I did it for a long time, not the smoking cigarettes part, but waited a lot of tables. I think it's the greatest lesson that I've ever had in life on just people and how awesome, how awful at the same time they are,

and how you have to be completely consistent all the time because you're depending on them. Yes, I think it's a wonderful, I think you're right. And, you know, I didn't want my children to do it because I remember the, there's a C.E. side, a dark side to the restaurant business. Bobby, you probably didn't participate in all that. But, you know, when people are in college and they're taking their cash money and

drinking at night and doing all that, I didn't want my babies to go, to get in that. But I do think it's a wonderful training. Well, me, managers would flirt with, you know, I don't know. It was like people dated each other, and it was, well, that's where I met their daddy. but that was wholesome. But, yeah, like management, you know, I didn't mean to go down this dark hole. No, it's not dark.

We're going down a dark hole. Here's my CD at the restaurant. We had a manager that made us take food off the plate that didn't look touched and put it back in. They made us. That's a health code violation. So if a roll had it been touched, it got put back into the roll machine.

If a part of the meat had been touched, it was cut off. and this was a very nice restaurant and they had a, like that to me was the seedy part of our business. Oh. But also I was going to school full time, as were you. So I had to like study,

but I participated in it. I'm not proud of it. But that was my CD. Oh, well, it's not as bad as. What, you guys were doing? Well, I mean, there was. Make it sound like you're, there was just a lot of, I think people

maybe did a little dope. Not me, but not their daddy. I'm glad you did this. But a little dope. I think it was. like it was wild. It was everybody made a lot of money. It was the most successful restaurant in Knoxville.

Everybody wanted to work there. They stayed on to wait all day long. It was just, you know, people partied. People dropped out of school because they were making so much money. Those were the cash days too. Yeah. Now so much of it is on a credit card almost never do I pay with cash at a restaurant.

It was almost all cash back in the day. Uh-huh. But I reported it at all. I reported mine. every bit of it. But there were people that didn't because it was very easy not to. Don't wink at me.

I'm not part of it. I have nothing to do with the wink. We had a lot of line cooks that would go to jail and then come back and work and that was fun because I'd never been to jail and I wanted to hear what they said

so I would smoke cigarettes behind a dumpster with them and to find out what jail was like. That was fun. What was jail like? Rough. They wouldn't have to stay long. They weren't those kind of boys.

I have the same stories but with my family. I have a, so first cousin, I have a bunch of these. First cousin, true story, probably seven years or so ago, I'm on the air doing my morning radio show. And I think we kept a television on Good Morning America. And they start covering my cousins escape from prison. And so there's like a small, like a desk with like a hole and a gate.

And he finds a way to run through. And he's on the run through multiple states. And every day it's a different new story to where they're calling me. I haven't talked to him in years, and he was rumored to be in, he's a pimp and some money issue, you know, all of that. Because where I'm from, you just hustle it anyway you can. But it was a massive news story for about a week where they could not catch my cousin with the same last name,

first cousin running from the police. But it was from him, I learned how they got, he was just FaceTime from jail because they'd put phones in their butts and they'd get them in. Okay. Were you, was this rural Arkansas or was this more urban Arkansas or what are we talking or like small town, but? What do I, do I look urban? No, but you look like you're not rural.

Yeah, I know. It's a lot of work. So are you kind of like in a little county? Population 722 is my hometown. So Mountain Pine, Arkansas. So it was very rural. And so we lived in a trailer park for a while, a couple apartments. we moved around, you know,

didn't have the most stable of upbringing, but I knew a lot about the prison system. I think everybody in my family, until my stepdad, I think everybody from my family had spent a little time in prison. Really, Bobby? Look at you rising from that.

You don't know what illegal stuff I'm in, though, now. I look safe. I look very safe. It's probably worth of the card again. Okay, so you're waiting tables in Knoxville. Are you doing comedy at all yet? No. And which is insane to me when I look back on it because there was a comedy club and Henry Cho was doing big things

who's an Oxfell kid and Steve Harvey would come through there, George Wallace, all these unbelievable comics and I never even went to that comedy club. Were you funny though? Was Leanne the funny waitress? Yeah. And I was, you know, people would tell me I was funny growing up and I had it in my head. From the time I was nine or ten years old, I'm going to Hollywood. But I guess I saw myself more as like a comedic actress,

even though I didn't. I was in one playing high school, and I didn't have a line. I played sports. I love sports more, and I really didn't want to. I wanted to go to college, but then I, I mean, I just went, because everybody else was going. I wanted to go to Hollywood, but I didn't know how to get there. Honey, I didn't even, it didn't dawn on me to get in the car at 18,

like people do and go try to make it. That was fictional. Yeah, I just didn't. The same to me. There wasn't a real thing people did. It was only on television where Los Angeles and New York. Did they even exist? I mean, the first time I went to New York, I was blown away.

They had that many big buildings in a row. That's what I thought. It seemed like Second City in Chicago, it never, I mean, I loved S&A and grew up watching it. It never, I didn't even know such a thing that people were actually driving to Chicago and trying to do that. So what were you doing in college then? Flailing around, smoking cigarettes. And thinking, like, what am I even doing?

And I dropped out. I dropped out. What were you studying? The first time it was fashion merchandise, honey, because I could put an outfit together. And it didn't require Spanish math, signs. That's a true.

I'm not kidding. I remember looking in a catalog. and going, what can I take? Because I went to a school, I graduated 42 people, a big farming community, a lot of boys, future farmers of America.

We took home at a... You grew up in a town like I grew up. That was like my senior year. Yeah, and everybody got out and they were going to farm. And I really thought I would marry my high school boyfriend, but he was so much smarter than me

and a two years older, and he went to UT, so I've fallen to him. That's why I went. And I think, I'm not staying in this. All the time thinking, I want to be a mom, and have a bunch of babies, but I'm going to Hollywood. But I don't know how, but that's what I thought in my mind.

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meaning there had to be a second time. Yeah, I went back. I went back and wanted to finish then. And loved my degree in child and family studies crisis intervention counseling. Thought I wanted to be a therapist if I didn't make it in Hollywood. But my Hollywood was always the first thing. but I wouldn't do anything to even try to get to Hollywood, which is crazy, I know. How much of a gap, though, between when you dropped out the first time and went back to second time?

Probably about two and a half, three years. So I went back like at 23 or 24. What'd you do in that gap time? I was working and I got married and I got divorced in that amount of time. I got married at 21. How country is that? dropped out. It was a bad situation,

got away from that, and went back to school. The husband that you met at the restaurant, though, is that your husband you're with now? Uh-huh. That's Chuck Morgan. How's Chuck doing? Good.

Yeah. I think I've made him into a folk hero. You know, I talk a lot about him on my Netflix specials, and now everybody, everywhere I go, people go, is Chuck here? Can Chuck come on the podcast? Can Chuck come on the Today show?

I've made him honest to good. is famous. Do you ever tell Chuck what? Do you ever run jokes by him? Mm-hmm. Do you value his critique of your jokes? No. Now, I do, he'll say something that's crazy,

and he'll say you need to put that in your act. And he's given me a lot of material. He's a lot of material for me and my baby child. All of them are. But Chuck's peculiar. So I get a lot of material from him, But he has said things like, oh, you need to put that in your act

and told me things that I've used. If he says something isn't that funny, do you believe him? If I want. Like if you have a joke that isn't that funny. And he says, I don't think the joke's that good. Do you allow that? No.

Oh, you don't. He's got more of a drive. He's more of a Monty Python kind of guy. I'm an S&L person. That's my more sense of humor. How long have you guys been married? Oh gosh, honey, 34 years. How?

A lot of praying in the bathtub, Bobby. It's hard. We just hit five years. Five years. I didn't get married until later. Yeah. And so I'm always curious as to what people's stories are as to what made their relationship and what is making their relationship successful.

We have the same value system. I can tell you that. Do we have good communication? No. I know what helps. I've said I've got to be either the weakest woman on this earth of the strongest to be married to Chuck Morgan. He's very anal retentive type A overachiever. Everything's, you know, but see I'm the opposite. I'm like, you know, so opposites attract. But it's, you know, we have some conflict and we don't really. resolve it. Bobby, with this new wife of yours, always resolve that conflict. I'm not good at that. I know. I tend to, and we go to therapy every week, every two weeks we go. So we've been going to therapy for years. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah, since before we got married, I'm big therapy guy. I go for myself and then we go to a different therapist for us. And I think I have learned that I don't have to win every fight, even if I'm right. I also don't have to have to.

have to say that second part. I can just say I don't have to win every fight, but then I have to say even if I'm right. So I've learned that that is not, it's not important to always win, even if I should. Yeah. That's a good thing. You learn that. Chuck never has. But yeah, you need to let a woman, I mean, just keep the peace, you know. Don't fight the big, I mean, the little battles every day. You know, let things roll off your back. I think my wife does a great job at that and not, at letting me not irritate her on the small, on the small stuff. I think I did a lot in the beginning.

I didn't know how to be in a relationship. I had never been in a relationship. I never told anybody I loved him until my wife ever. Really, Bob? Uh-uh, no, never. There are parts of my life. I feel like I'm 100 years old. I've been through it.

But there are parts where I felt like I'm nine because like my, my growth as an actual human being with real feelings and emotions, like I'm just now understanding. sometimes my wife will say to me, and she doesn't mean it in a bad way, but she's like, I don't think you understand the emotion you're feeling. Like you would say to a seven-year-old who doesn't know how to understand an emotion. And she's right most of the time because I don't know that. Because you were grinding so hard all those years. I think it was before that.

I don't have any parents. I grew up. So I think not having that allowed, stunted me in some ways, but then also push me in different ways, which is why, like, I'm just so curious about why you started grinding so hard. It feels like you come from a pretty stable background. Yeah. Yeah, I've got a sweet mom and daddy.

And you're funny. You shouldn't be funny. I'm funny from trauma. I mean, I had some trauma. Okay. But, yeah, I had, you know, some stuff. But I just, I was surrounded by a lot of funny people. My mama is so funny.

And she's 83. My dad's 86 and he's a wonderful storyteller. They're still alive? Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm going to go see him after I get to talk to you. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. And so I had all my, because we're farming people, all my grandparents, aunts, uncles,

all my extended family was raised around me or were around me and I got to see them almost every day. And everybody, I got to say, was pretty funny. And we had a good time. And I just, I don't know, there was something in me. I just thought, I'm going to be on TV. When did you start pursuing that, though? What age?

I would say really, like, 27. I had my first baby, Charlie, and Chuck Morgan had moved me to Bean Station, Tennessee, which is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. That's a real town. Yeah, Bean Station, Tennessee. It's in Granger County. And he was raised in Hamlin County in a country club.

He tells people who grew up hard, but he didn't. He played tennis and golf. He knew what that was. I didn't even know what that was, y'all. And he moved me up there because he bought a used mobile home business after he graduated from MBA school at UT. And so I had my first baby, and I want to stay home and breastfeed him, Bobby. And, but Chuck Morgan had his own business at 27.

That was, or 26. He's a little bit younger than me. and I needed money, but not, you know, I didn't have to go to work full time. I want to stay home in breastfeed. So I started selling jewelry like women sell Mary Kay in people's houses and had these home parties. And I always thought I could be funny. Before Chuck Morgan and I married, he took me to see my sister in Huntington Beach, California. And he said, what do you want to do while you're in L.A.?

And I said, I want to go on the Hearst tour, where you're riding around a hearse and see where people have been murdered in L.A. Of course. And it was fascinating. And then I said, I want to go to the comedy store, the famous comedy store, and I watched stand up for the first time in a comedy club, and my heart beat out of my body, and I thought, this is it. This is what I'm supposed to be doing.

I know I can do it. I know I can do it. And so then, fast forward, he moves me up there. He has his used mobile home business where they refurbish them. They repole them from banks, refurbish them, and then sell them. So I started selling jewelry to meet friends because I was by myself isolated in the footills of the Appalach Mountains and just to make a little money for, you know, buy my baby an outfit, get my hair highlighted. I would get up in front of, I swear it's a God thing. I would get up in front of women in their living rooms and nobody wants to go to those parties.

Everybody's like, oh, Susie, you know, that's teaching fifth grade at the Elmary School's having a party. We've all got to go and buy something, darn it. okay, I would, I would, I wouldn't talking about jewelry. I was talking about breastfeeding and hemorrhoids. And, you know, it kind of started some material. And women thought I was funny. And I knew it in those living rooms. I thought I can make these women laugh.

I've got it. And I remember saying, I was booking so far in advance, like a year in advance the company noticed and asked me to start speaking that there are big things at Opera Land Hotel. but I remember telling, which is so arrogant, but I remember saying a group of women, you can book a party with me now or you can see me in Las Vegas later.

And I didn't have any, you know. Did you believe that in your heart, though? I believed it in my heart. I just thought, I don't know when it's going to happen, but I'm going to, this is what I'm going to be doing. Do you find that most successful people are a bit irrational? Yeah, probably.

I think we're dreamers. Yeah. And, you know, you know, I think to have that dream is crazy. I think to have that dream is crazy. I think to have a dream like I had is crazy. Where we come from, nobody does this. So it's not like we're modeled this.

So why do we think we can do it? I think it's wildly irrational to go, yeah, I'm going to go and be a big star. But I think the most successful people are often the most irrational people. And that's what you had. And you believed it. And I heard Steve Harvey say this one time that his teacher in first, grade said, everybody get up in the class and say what you want to be. And he said, I'm going to be on TV. And she made fun of him and said, no, you're not. You need to find something else. And he said,

and I felt sorry for her because I knew in my heart, yes, I am. And he said, I feel like God put that in my imagination because I was a child. And I feel that too. Like, how would I've known that? Now, living outside of Nashville, we would go to Rivergate Mall and I would see country music stars. So I did see famous people and that were performers. And I you know, I would think, am I crazy? But I feel like I'm going to be

like them as a child. I just felt it. The Steve Harvey story ends pretty funny because then he sent that teacher a TV every year. Did he? I didn't hear that part. For her whole life until she died. Every year he sent her a TV. A little petty but hilarious.

Like he sent her a new television every year, that same teacher. Oh my gosh, I didn't hear that part. I got to be on Family Feud and compete against Lillaney Wilson and her family. And we beat them and she's never gotten over it. I got to be on Family Feud and we lost and it sucked. Who did you play? They even said bring whomever you want to play against. So I brought my friend Andy Rodick who was a professional tennis player in Brooklyn Decker.

They're like my dearest friends. And so I said, hey, they think I'm famous. So they're letting me be on Celebrity Family Feud. Do you guys want to come play against me? And they said yes. And they beat the pants off of us. Did you do the buzzard quick? Yeah, I suck.

And I'm good. You don't need to do the buzzard quick. I was trying to read his card. I was trying to, I come from criminals. I was trying to cheat a little bit, and I hit the buzzer way too early. Because I thought I could see the question, and I missed it big time. And then y'all run out of answers, and then we're over here, we can all huddle. See, Laney and them were so much faster than us.

But then we had time to think. and my kids said I was so nervous that was one of the most nerve-wracking things I've ever done and they said you and dad keep your mouth shut just let us do it like y'all are idiots

and then we ended up it was me and Chuck that won that thing but they said that we mammas know the questions because we ran a household and stuff and that makes sense to me and my kids went blank and couldn't thank and do

and Chuck Morgan and I won that fast round and honey it's just like we had the same brain. You did the fast money at the end? Yeah. How'd that go for you? Great.

We won and we beat the Lainey's family and I don't even know what we made for East Tennessee Children's Hospital. A lot of money. I know we lost and we were only able to give St. Jude like $10,000 since we were the losers. But that's sweet, Bobby. I'm so competitive.

Like I wanted to bite a finger off when I finished. But that was really fun to do family feud. Like I watched so much family feud growing up, that that was really one of the fun, like when I look back at some of the really cool stuff I get to do, like that's one of the most fun things you get to do, like stuff from when you were a kid that you saw on TV that you get to do. And my fans love that more than anything, I think. And I, and I love being with Steve Harvey

because I'm a huge Steve Harvey fan. And I remember saying to Outbay concerts, who are my concert promoters out of Nashville, they said to me, Mike Smartak asked me 20 years ago, what do you want to do, Lynn? And I go, I want to be Steve Harvey. I want to be the female Steve Harvey. back then, I mean, he had a talk show, you know, jewelry and stand up. Yes. He's done everything, radio. So you're selling jewelry. Actually, you're doing a wonderful sales job is what it sounds like you were doing, right?

Your comedy was, yeah. So when do you start to actually go? Do you do open mics? Are there open mics in Bean Currie? No, there is not. Now, I was in my, I loved my Sunday school class, and it was a big Sunday school class with a bunch of friends in it. and one of the guys, I guess, thought I was a cut up and said,

Lynn, I'm in the Kiwanis Club, and we're having the Kiwanis capers. Would you like to get up and emce the Kwanis, like this little, you know, like the Rotary Club at the West High School Gymnasium? So I did. I was thrilled, put on a dress and a girdle. Okay, there was a guy in the audience who had a sandwich shop in Maristown, downtown Mars town and they sold beer and sandwiches and he came up to me afterwards and said do you want to do stand up at my club i get bands to come in here i'll give you the door money i'll

make the money off the beer and sandwiches and i went okay i went and did an hour and never done stand-up before took by then charlie my oldest was you know three or something i had his little kindergarten tablet where you you know practice writing and i I had written down stories, just bullet points, and I got up and did an hour. Your first time you went up. Yes, and somebody, I think, filmed it, and it makes me feel like I wake up every once in a while at 3 o'clock in morning going, where's that man and where's that film? And I'll tell you this, I was so scared that I couldn't move my neck that day.

I went and got my hair blown out at the mall, big mistake. They didn't know what they were doing. I hated my hair, and I was so nervous and thought, why did I say I would do this? and I ended up, somebody got me in with an ear, nose and throat man in Morristown that looked like Tim McGrawl. And he said, I don't see anything wrong with you. I go, do I have a tumor? He goes, I don't see anything wrong with you. He goes, I, and I said, this is what I'm doing tonight.

And he goes, I think you are like scared stuff. I mean, when people say scared stuff. And then that night, by then I'd had, Lord, I might have even had my third baby, this baby that's in here with us. Chuck Morgan would ride back. It was a big window behind me in this sandwich shop. And I could see that minivan. He would ride with the kids checking on me while I was doing that hour. How many people were there?

Probably about 50 because there's nothing going on in Marstown, so I sold out. And then he said, do you want to do this? Like once a month? I went, okay. So then I started doing, like, I feel like it was more like a one-woman show. But I would do that every month. And meanwhile, selling jewelry and the jewelry company would get me to speak at their things. And that's when people would say to me, you could be a stand-up, you could be a stand-up.

So all that was happening in all that same amount of time. And then Chuck sold that business and went to work for a large mobile home manufacturing company. And they moved us to San Antonio, and that's when I had a comedy club. And Austin, Texas had one of the best comedy clubs in the United States, kept City Comedy Club. Comedy Central was coming through there, Montreal, Aspen. But the first time I ever got up, I called Brian Dorfman at Zanis. I just cold called. And I said, hey, can I come? I'm from Morristown, Tennessee. I've got three babies, but I'd like to come. And I didn't even know what it was called like opening or whatever. And he goes, okay, I'm going to let you come.

and I opened for Billy Gardell, who's now in this season of my sitcom, and is going to do shows with me on this tour than I'm on. So that was the first time, and he let me up, little Brian Dorfman, who is one of my best friends, and is my concert promoter to this day. And he got me back in the office,

and he said, I think you've got something, Lee, and I really do. But you've got three babies. Like, you can't do the tradition. stand-up, you know, working back then, it would be Wednesday through Sunday night. He goes, you can't raise your own children. And I remember it made me mad, but he was right. And I just thought, I'll find a way.

I'll find another way. What was the way? And then we moved to San Antonio. So what was the way? So I would work clubs when I could. Austin believed in me at Camp City Comedy Club and would let me up all the time. And they moved me for the first time in their history from opener to headliner. So I started headlining that club.

And then a guy in Chattanooga, Michael Alfonso, would let me work there. There was a few clubs that would let me work like twice a year. So that would be, you know, five, six weeks out of the year. And then I got, this was another God thing. And we moved back to Knoxville. And the blue collar, you remember the blue collar thing had blown up? Foxworthy and Larry Cable guy, yeah.

And they were, this agent said, I want to do one that's female and put me together with Karen Mills and Edomay, and it was very, you know, it was not like blue color, but we worked theaters all over the South on the weekends, and we had this

old agent that there was a crusty old man that didn't take no for an answer. And he booked us in every nook and cranny in the South from theaters like 300 seats to 1,500 seats. And I was kind of the opener. I was not as seasoned as them, but that gave me stage time.

with them in beautiful theaters. Did you take your kids with you? No, they would be home with Chuck on the weekends. But I got to take them to school every day. I got to be their mama. And that was that tour. I toured with them about two or three years. And then, you know, then television deals started coming.

I didn't, they didn't make it. But I got my first deal with ABC and Warner Brothers for a sitcom with Tom Warner that did Roseanne and all those shows. but the writer's strike hit and that didn't make it. But after that, I thought, okay, I've got something, or Hollywood wouldn't keep coming after me. And even though I wasn't working all the time, like I could go a month or two without a booking,

I still thought, I know I'm supposed to be doing this. And I would do anything anybody would let me get up and do, any kind of stage time. So I did breast cancer fundraisers, you know, the rotary. I'd, you know, drop a kid off at preschool and then go do something, a little lunch program for the rotary. I did that kind of stuff.

Anything for years, anything anybody would let me do. I was never not working. I just wasn't your traditional comedy club comic. In your mind, were you still thinking, I got to get to Hollywood? Yeah, I thought I wanted a sitcom. That was a dream.

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That happened to me so many times. Where I left, I'm like, I'm about to have 10 shows at once. And then none of them would ever work. Did they ever feel like that with you? Yeah, I thought that they were fascinated by me. Like in a room, they'd be going, but they wouldn't know what to do with me. Or they, and the sitcom deals that I did have,

I mean, I had wonderful people showrunners like Matt Williams that created Roseanne and Home Improvement. He was my second deal. And, but yeah, there were some where we would pitch things. And you could see they thought there's something, but I don't know what. And I also think the South, I think a lot of people just didn't know what to do with me

and Southern, and at the time it wasn't a hip thing to be, you know. Did you see shows like Roseanne and Grace Under Fire because I would watch those shows and go, oh, those shows are like us and go, oh man, that gets to exist in Hollywood. Maybe I can do that.

Did you see yourself in those shows at all? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I thought, to me, I thought, I'm like Ray Romano. I mean, I'm like Jerry Seinfeld. I mean, I didn't, I mean, not, you know, their level of success or anything like that, but I just thought, I'm in that group.

I know I am. Did anybody tell you not to be so Southern? No, not really. No, that, boy, I married in college, told me you need diction lessons and everybody thinks you're stupid. And I'm telling you, I believed everything you said, but I didn't believe that.

I thought, no, I don't think people feel that way about me. I think people are, because it's authentic. This accent is authentic, and I do get people go, that can't be real. And I think, why do they think I would fake this? But, no, I never had anybody try to change me. It was more like they would want to do a deal,

but it would be like, okay, because, you know, they were trying to check off boxes. Like, you're married to Hispanic man, and I would be like, I love Hispanic man, and I've made out with them. but there's no Hispanic men selling mobile homes in Appalachia. I can tell you that. You know, there was always like just they didn't know how to,

they don't know what to do with us. Did you ever almost take a role as a second person? If a show wasn't about you, would you have done that? No, because I never had the kind of management at the time that could even get me into an audition to do anything. I really didn't. I don't know what we were doing, but no, I didn't. I wasn't in the game like that.

When I used to go into meetings, I would just show up by myself because I would go out to California and go to all these meetings. And I would just have a backpack and show up by myself. And they thought that was the weirdest thing because most people come. It's so weird, the Nashville culture versus the L.A. culture. In L.A., you got to show up with a big team and you got to act like you're a big deal. Everybody acts like they're a big deal. They got loads and loads of people in management. This is an agent's agent and we're going to.

But I would just show up by myself because that's what you do here. You don't, you know, you're not too too big. And so I would show up and they'd be like, where's everybody else? I'd be like, no, it's just me. I think they looked at me kind of like, how used to they looked at you. Like, that's weird that you just do that. Even when I was like out there doing like dancing with the stars

because I did that show, everybody thought it was so odd that I was often by myself without showing up without having to have a lot of flare or flash about me. Was that odd about you when you would go to California that you were southern and very authentic in a very inauthentic place? Well, I mean, I'd have a manager with me that, you know, but I didn't, yeah, I mean, I never thought about that.

I do know that if me being a Southern woman in the meetings, you know, somebody would say an ugly word or something, and then they would go, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And I'd go, they treated me different, but it was sweet. It really was. but I and I never I didn't feel like better because things weren't happening I really didn't I just thought they just don't know you know they just don't know what to do with me but it'll be okay I'll figure it out did you have a show stand-up wise that you look back at and go man that's when I really arrived it could be a hometown venue a ticket sale amount did you

have one of those shows I would say the first time I did the rhymeing that was a big deal to me. Because... I grew up, you know, going to the Raman, because my family cut up the meat of the people that did the Grando-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-Prey. So we got tickets to the Grando-O-O-O-O-Opri and the Riemann, like, to go, you know,

and so that was a big... I knew the... And my grandmother owned a Roy A-Cuff sofa. She had both at an antique store. So I knew the gravity of all that. And I just remember seeing Elvis' picture in the back, Patsy Klein and all that. That was a big deal to me. I felt like I, and Reese Witherspoon came and Tricia Yearwood.

And, you know, I thought, what in the world? Could you appreciate it in the moment? Yeah. I did. That's really cool. You can do that. And I think because this has been so long, you know, I was doing stand-up for 20-something years for something hit. Everything that happens to me, and I'm not trying to be sappy.

everything that happens to me, I cannot believe it. I still think, what in the world? I feel so lucky and so grateful, but it was so many years of nose. And, you know, I would audition from Montreal, Aspen, Comedy Central didn't want me. I was not edgy enough, all that kind of stuff. And I would, but it wouldn't get me down. You never almost quit. The only time I almost quit, I'd done a dry bar special. Do you know what they are? It's on face. and it's clean comedy, and nobody even knew what in the world it was when I shot a special. My career was so in the toilet. I was doing the Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Dubuque, Iowa.

And they're precious and pretty people. But they didn't even hire me for the nighttime thing. It was the luncheon, and I had to pay my travel out of it. And that wind going into Dubuque, honey, the planes usually have to turn it back around. I thought I was going to die. The plane was doing this. Anyway, I do that. And my manager at the time called me and said,

there's this thing called Dry Bar, and they want you to shoot a special. It's in Salt Lake City. Nobody will ever see it. He couldn't, he didn't understand the internet. He goes, they're going to pay you a little bit of money. When I say a little bit of money, I mean a little bit of money. And he goes, but we'll get more clips for you to get more Chamber of Commerce luncheons.

So I lie down there. And I do a bunch of own materials. I'm rusty. I barely worked in the last few months, so I was so rusty, and I can't even watch it. And that thing, they put that thing online, and it got, I mean, certain clips on it got 50 million views and stuff. Now, I was working that whole year after that. I was getting a lot of work, but it wasn't good work. It wasn't things that I wanted to be doing. And I was watching Nate Burgatsy. He was about a year and a half ahead of me. He was starting to sell out clubs and then go into theater. and I was always a big fan of Jim Gaffigan,

and he's always been in theaters, and I thought, I'm doing these horrible gigs where I'm staying in a motel on the side of the road. I'm a female by myself. I'm riding in an Uber with somebody high on marijuana. What am I doing? I'm 50. You know, I don't want to be doing this. And I got really down, and I said,

I was exhausted, and I'd been working a lot, but it was terrible stuff. and I cried to Chuck Morgan. We went out to eat, and I said, I just don't, I don't think anything's going to happen, and maybe I should give up. And I think I want to open up a hardware store, which could I dazzle in a hardware?

But anyway, and he loves a hardware store, and I thought, and he goes, you're crazy, Liam. And I then went back to my manager, and I had been noticing that Nate and Jim, I thought, what are they doing? What's Nate doing? And I knew they had social media people. and I told my manager, I need social media people.

And he goes, no, you don't. You can't afford that. And trying to talk me out of it. And I found these young guys that got my voice. And it was expensive. And I never spent that kind of money on myself, which was stupid. And I had like two headshots in 25 years. You know, every time I got money for a gig, I'd go buy these children,

uniforms get their hair cut in groceries. So I should have invested more in myself. But anyway, so I thought I'll give these boys three months. That's the money I thought I would spend on it. It was like $2,000 a month. And I thought I'll give them three months. And if something doesn't happen, then I know that's God's way of saying bow out.

And I knew I was having a grandbaby. And I'm from the country. We tend our grandbabies, you know, and make pinto beans and wear a house dress. And I thought this will be the thing. And then I'll be okay. whatever happens, I'll be okay. And we were moving my baby child into a dorm,

apartment in New York for her to go to school. And they put out a video that started going viral. And thousands, it was being shared thousands and thousands and thousands of times, and I could feel something happening. And I look back on it, and I promise, I feel like God said, we got this last one tended to, okay? Let's roll in.

That's what I feel like it was. And I'm telling you, I went from months before working comedy clubs and them saying, we love her, she doesn't get drunk fighting the parking lot, but she can't sell tickets. We're not having her back. I would be devastated. In Orlando, West Palm Beach, Tampa at the improvs, they were precious to me, but I couldn't sell tickets. I went from that to after that went viral. I wish I had journaled.

I think it was probably a couple of weeks. Women, people would see that video. then go and look to see what else I had, and then would call their comedy club in their town and go, do you ever have Lynn Morgan? And calls started coming in and trying to book me all over the United States, and I would sell out like that.

From that set of clips. Uh-huh. Wow. I wish I had written it down, but I know one video, one clip of me talking about taking Chuck Morgan to go see Death Leopard and Journey and how everybody looked sick and had planter fasciitis. That was a big one.

And then the second one might have been, talking about how this baby did competition cheer when she was 11 and she had to wear a whore outfit. That may have been the second one. But people started, I didn't have time to cash the checks in my backpack.

Chuck said, you're like a drug dealer. I was so busy. And get a lot of this. Could not get an agent at the time. Nobody wanted me. I was selling out all of the United States and I don't know if they looked at me and thought, well, she's a mom,

and she's going to be a grandmama and this is a fluke. And I don't think people knew that I'd been doing stand-up for 20-something years if they thought that I was like some internet sensation. If you just went viral then, so that's what they thought, possibly. And I don't think anybody want to take a chance on me. We had to beg somebody to take me. And then I got my first, then Brian Dorfman and Mike Smart Act from Nashville that I had known for 20-something years,

Brian said something's going on land. It's big. You're speaking to people. Something has changed. Let's do a tour. And I got my first tour, and that was the big penny tour. And that was announced right before COVID. So it shut down, shut that down.

And I wrung my hands and worried sick and thought, it's finally happening. And then look at this. But I was on my porch just talking to people in my phone like everybody else was doing and taking care of my elderly parents. and I got more and more people following me from just talking and saying, you know, what I'm cooking for my little mama, she'd had a stroke. People would send me recipes.

And it became bigger than comedy. It was like a community. And it was really sweet. And so then when it was time for COVID to open back up, it was on like I was selling out in doing my first big tour. No momentum was lost. No. Do you think it's because you kept the momentum going by connecting through social media,

which also allowed you to connect the first time through those clips? I think that really helped. And I also think that I mean, I had already sold those shows out before COVID hit. And we had to move them two or three times, which was aggravating. But people had already wanted to come. And then that community was built during COVID talking about recipes. And think about it. there's nobody else in comedy in my lane talking to women, my age, or moms or grandmamas

or just normal everyday people out in the middle of the United States. Nobody was on Netflix like me. Nobody was in Hollywood like me. And I just hit a lane by myself. And I didn't even, I mean, you know, I didn't even know that's what was happening. But I've got these precious women that feel like they know me. and I'm speaking to them, and I'm speaking about what they care about.

How big is too big of a room? Because when you do your comedy, it does feel like you're talking to, I'll just say me individually, but you play big rooms now. Like I'm talking about arenas. Everybody's moving around. Is that not distracting?

Mine don't move around, honey. Everybody's got on a sensible shoe and a cross-body purse. Everybody gets their popcorn first and their co-colas. And everybody sits down and they are so polite and so precious. Because when this was all starting happening for me in comedy clubs before COVID, these comedy club owners would say, where have you been?

Because you've got the best people coming in here. And it would be like an 85-year-old woman had never been to a comedy club, her daughter who was 50, and her granddaughter who was 25. And sweet couples and like people that tip well and nobody's, you know, rowdy. And they would go, can you come back? I have wonderful audience. Very rarely. Somebody, you know, might drink too much. There has been somebody vomit. Most of the time, women just yell out. I had a C-section. I mean, nobody is, I don't get rowdy, you know. So when I did, I'm starting to do arenas now, but I did two shows in American Airlines arenas before the last tour ended.

And it scared me to death. They said, this is where the Mavericks play. I was like, well, And then I look up on that ticket thing and they said, do a leapa here in October. And I thought, what in the world? But the way we do it and I want so many rows lit so I can connect with people. You want them lit? You want to see their faces. I want to see at least the first three rows. I got to see people.

What if they're not laughing? And it's not your fault. What if they're just not laughers? There are some men that are like Chuck Morgan that just sit and do this. And then I flirt with them. Okay. How much is, of a relief is it to get renewed for a show? Oh, my darling.

I was in the parking lot of, where do we go and get sandwiches and they have the good club, McAllister's. I was in a parking lot of a McAllister's on the road, on tour, and they said, can you take a meeting? And I did it on my phone in a rental car. and all these people pop up from Netflix and Warner Brothers. It was unbelievable. And they were like, we want a second season,

and you're big in Slovenia. And Tel Aviv. And I was like, what? I mean, yes, because I didn't want to be a failure. And Jerry Seinfeld has been so good to me through this whole thing, and he called me the day it came out, and he said, I want you to listen to me, Lynn. if whatever happens after this, do you realize you've already won?

And he said, you're a Christian woman, right? And I go, yes. And he said, then you know everything happens for a reason. He said, if this does not go a second season or whatever critics say, because he's been through it. And at first, Jerry, Seinfeld wasn't great, you know, and they kind of canceled them, brought it back. He said, no, that you have already won,

because think of how many people have had a sitcom with their name on it. And he named Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball. And, you know, that, Ray, everybody loves Raymond. I mean. Cosby.

And, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, anyway. That I watched and loved back then. Oh, my gosh. I just did a whole thing on it, on how not only would that show still be enjoyed today,

but all those actors were screwed out of residuals because they couldn't show that show anymore. Oh, I didn't even think about that. And I met little, um, uh, Rudy? The one that, no. Ravensmon. I have, yes, I've met her. How many more people are?

Malcolm Jamal Warner. Theo. Yeah. Yeah. He judged me. I know. He judged me and, um, and he was precious to me and Nick at night's funniest mom.

Honey a hundred years ago. Precious. But yeah, and then Raven Simone was at something, women in media thing in L. I met Rudy. I met Rudy once. She was nice. We did a audition together.

Well, we were in an elevator going to an audition together. We didn't actually audition together. So did you want to be an actor? No. I was for a talk show. Got the pilot. We did the pilot. Oh, okay.

They didn't pick up the pilot. But it turned into other jobs at ABC, which is how my whole career has happened. But whenever you get renewed, because to get a show is amazing and hard, but to get renewed is almost impossible. And that's why I asked not what was like to get a show, what was it like to get a second season?

Because that's a really big deal. That means they gambled on you and they feel like they were right. And that is the best feeling to prove someone right. I think I used to want to prove everybody wrong. I'd be like, I'll show them. But now my greatest choice proving people right. And I feel like that would be you proving all of them right when they go, we want another season.

Would that be accurate? Yeah, you don't. Now that you say it that way, yes. And it was such a relief because I had 250 crew members that thank me for a job every day. You know, nothing's being filmed in Hollywood. And I'm one of the few things being filmed next to the pet and shrinking and the comeback. And they would say to me every day, thank you, Leanne, for getting to this level where we have this job. And that was a heavy, you know, thing to carry.

And I loved all my writers and I love my cast. And Blake Clark is 80. And, you know, unbelievable, Celia Weston, I mean, they thank me every day. And we just sit and kiss and hug, and everybody loves each other. And we've all, it's like a family. It really is. So I wanted it for them. I wanted it for myself.

Yes, I have ego. It would have torn me up if I hadn't gotten a second season. And you don't know. You have to wait like 30 days with Netflix and the numbers. But Netflix has been good to me. And I've got a deal with them for, I've already given them one, more special, and I've got another one that I owe them. And so they believe in me, they've been good to me.

How's Ryan? We get a third season. How's Ryan Stiles? Darling, goofball. He is what he is. Yes. Funny, brilliant in that part. Brilliant in that part.

But yeah, like a bird. He's an odd bird that is fun. And we love to be in the makeup room and cut up and everything. darling, darling. He's got good stories. Yeah, to me, I've just seen him on TV for so long. Like, I have a version of him that exists. To hear you say that, sounds like the version that I picture of him. Like, he's like that in real life too.

But you're also in real life like you are on screen, which is not always the case. You have a massive personality, even before we started. I just wanted you to be quiet and save your stories, but you were just peeling them off one by one. Because it's like, did the... I'm a told... A wonderfully wholesome, warm tornado.

walks in the room when you come in. That is a compliment. I hope that you take that as a compliment. I do. Yeah. Thank you. Do you have jokes that you feel like you have to do? If I were to compare it to like the Hot Pocket joke,

do you have one or two of those that you feel like that you have to do every time? I don't do them every time because I, you know, people get in your head and they go, nobody wants to hear anything old, but they do. It's like going to see the Beatles or, you know, or the Eagles or something, you want to hear that song. Def Leopard and Journey is a good one. And people love the cheerleader horror story. How could you not?

I know. And you won't believe how many parents have spent $10,000 a year to watch a little child cheer and a horror out fan. It is so, it's a common friend. I love the Bill of the L story. I used to watch Mike and Molly.

That's the show, right, that he was on? Yeah. I loved Mike and Molly. And so to hear, I didn't know you guys came up. I did see him on social media talking about, and his head's on your picture, the big picture. I didn't know you guys had like a history Well, that's the only thing was the, I opened for him that time, and he was precious to me,

and then he came on my set to congratulate me, and we know a lot of the same people. And then they cast him in this second season as a guest, and he was unbelievable. Unbelievable. Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pesto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all?

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Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week we talk to someone in show business, aka the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman. Actually, can you help me shape this? How about we flip it on his head, right? How about we flip this script?

What is the surprise woman? Actually, you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. Adam Scott, this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never expect. I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. If the universe allows for something like that to happen, I'm open to it. I'm always going to accept. You know, Danny McBride, fine.

Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed? Nope, it's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is. You know what I mean? They're so stupid.

Everyone's so dumb. And fake. Right, fake and also not interested. or just like, oh, I've got my life, I don't care about your life. And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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To make it look more defined. They say it works. I don't know. Listen to Skyline Drive, How to Live Forever on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back on the Bobbycast. I don't want you to say anyone's names,

but have you met people that you really thought were awesome? And turns out they weren't. No, not really. Made me one or two. But not really. you know, I've had good luck. I've had good luck. And, you know, I've done two movies now. One hadn't come out yet. But I had Nick Stoller as my director with Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. And they, every day they say, you'll never get another one this good. This is a dream come true. This is like Summer Camp. And I'm thinking, what are y'all going through? What do people do to y'all? And evidently, people are real buttholes, you know. But I, but everybody had a ball. And then the, second movie I did. They hadn't come out yet. A ball. Everybody was darling. I never had a director anybody to, you know, rip me a new one. Who's in that one? Or can you say? Yes, honey, which you're

going to probably be, you're probably in it, the comeback king with Glenn Powell. I'm not in it. I have a lot of friends that are in it, but I'm not in it. I thought you would be in it, honey, because you're in it. These classic good looks don't get used often enough if you ask me. Well, that's going to be a good one for country music and they've got all those people in it and we had a ball. I was only there for five days because my, for my part, because I was shooting my series too, but I'm telling you it is going to be so funny. And Glenn Pell is darling. Do you like to watch yourself act? No. But I just shot something in New York and they go, do you want to see it? And I go, yeah, let me see it. And it makes me feel like I'm I get the shingles.

But I want to see how my body moves, and I want to see it, because that's better for me to see it. And it's better for me to watch myself do my stand-up, but that's very hard for me. I film every set on tour.

Do you watch every set, though? No. But I watch every few. But if something, if I said something in a town that I could clip out, I'll watch it. But I should watch it. But I get too willied.

Do you have a part of your set where you just do crowdwork hoping you get something to clip? When I'm working in clubs before I go into theaters, I do. A little bit, yeah. But I don't do them in theaters or arenas because I feel like people in the back don't know what we're even talking about. You know, I feel like it's weird. I don't like that for me. So I do it in comedy clubs. Comedy clubs are wonderful to do that in.

Do you ever get the itch to just go out with nothing prepared and just see where the, night takes you? Yeah. How does that turn out? Okay. Yeah. I'm at a point now, though, that people are so good to me that it almost, it's, they make it too easy on me.

You know, they're like, girl, you know, I can go out there and go, and they go, you know, because they just feel seen, I think, by me, and they feel like we're friends. And when I'm in an airport, I mean, they go, girl, hey, Leanne. And I think, did I go to high school with her? Who is they? Because they're coming up to me like they know me. And but it's sad everywhere I go and they're precious.

Like, oh, honey, I'm married to Chuck Morgan. You know, my boys like yours, my baby child, all that. It's funny you say that. I just finished an interview where I was being interviewed where the person said, I noticed people will just call you Bobby. And I said, that's why I never say nice to meet you because I don't know if it's somebody who feels like they know me because they've watched me

or if they really do. So I never say nice to meet you. I only say great to see you because I'm confused if I know the people or not because they'll come up and just be like hey Bobby and just start talking to me and me not knowing if I know them or not.

But that's a, it's not even a problem. It's a great, it's great to have because people feel like you understand them. I think that's why I get to have this nice pull. I got a pool. I don't know if you saw it. I got someone pull. Yeah.

And growing up, If you had a small pool, you were rich. I never had one until, yeah. Where I was raised, and everybody doesn't believe me, I swear to you, Mama couldn't drive until she was in her 40s. She just didn't want to hear my dad, like, have to teach her out of drive. But she could drive a tractor, like, was raised on a farm, but just didn't get her driver's license.

So every once in while, Thelma, the next door neighbor would take us to the city pool in Clark's fault. But, you know, it would just be, you just bob up and down because it was so crowded. Okay. we would swim in the pond behind my house where cows would walk through, so there was do-do. And then there were snapping turtles, so I would wear my high school old converse top tennis shoes

so that snapping turtles wouldn't get my toes. And we would just go and waller in that manure. But that was the only place to go. That's how rural it was. So when somebody had a swimming pool, I think there was one person in my high school that had a swimming pool. We had one person as well.

And we were like, oh my Lord. Did you have a pool now? Yeah. And I love it. And my grandbabies love it. And I've dreamed of it all my life. I've dreamed of it all my life. I never even get in.

I just look at it. I love to look at it. Just go. And fountains go off in the morning. Chuck's got it on a timer. He's controlling so nobody else gets to do it. Oh, you have different kind of money then. If you have fountains, you have different kind of money.

Well, I mean, it's just this thing that spits up. But he did. And it's at the. crack a dog, and I'm like, maybe we should do that during the day. And he was like, I can draw my up. He just now said that we could turn on the hot tub because he didn't want to spend the money on heating it. So one of the grandbabies said, I love this warm pool, so now he'll let us get in it. And we all sit in it.

It's not the kind that would hurt a baby. I want everybody to know that. But we've gotten to heat it once since I've been in hot. I'm on the road paying for it. But I have gotten to set in it once when it was hot and not just cold bubbles. All right. That was pretty nifty.

Final question. And I'm going to clip this, just so you know. Okay. This is going to be clipped. I want your five favorite, personal favorite comedians of all time. Oh my gosh. Bombing, because I love all of them. I love, I love stand-up since, honey, Phyllis Deller, and Red Skelton,

but okay hold on number one all right number one day Chappelle um nil brinnan um tom papa oh my gosh there's so many i mean it's on any kind of day like i mean i'm sitting here thinking of all these boys and there's women but i'm just saying all right let me think let me think because there's so many jim gaffigan i'd say jim gaffigan you have one spot left sign failed um jerry Have you got to go watch him perform since you guys have become friends? We performed together at the Greek in L.A. He asked me to perform with him. That was nerve-wracking.

I thought, what am I doing? Am I okay? And he was precious. That was an impression of Jerry Seinfeld used inadvertently. What am I doing? Am I okay? He came out after I got off stage and he said, if y'all can tell I'm into

60-year-old grandma was from Tennessee. And I was told this, which, I mean, this is one of those moments in this business where you're like, oh, my gosh, when he's on stage, he does a Q&A at the end, and they'll go, who's your favorite comedian right now, and he'll say me? People have told me they've been to shows, and he says me. And we talk often, and he just wants to talk about,

how'd you come up with that joke, Ian? What are you thinking about this? He just loves stand-up, and he wants to be with stand-ups and just talk comedy. And he's been a joy to me. But that kind of stuff that, because Bobby, I was in Knoxville, Tennessee, raising three precious children. I've never felt like I was one of the cool kids because I couldn't get, nobody would let me go. I got to go to Montreal one time years ago. I've been since, but I didn't get, you know, Comedy Central didn't want me.

All these, I got a lot of nose. to have who I think are the cool kids know who I am and like bits of mine, like John Malini, Andrew Santino, David Letterman. Have you met David? Have you met David? Yes.

That's my hero. I never met him. Darling. I did John Mullaney show with him, and he was precious to me. And I got to meet at the last luncheon for Netflix, Eddie Murphy. Now, he didn't know who I was.

I said, Eddie, I'm a grandmama, and I'm on Netflix. He goes, you're a stand-up. I go, yes. And he said, I'm a grandparent. And I go, is that the best thing that's ever happened to me? He said, it's the best things ever happened to me. And he told me when he's got one do.

And we sat and talked about grandbabies the whole time. Precious. But yeah, I've gotten to meet those kind of people. And that's been a dream come true. I mean, you know, because I wasn't in the out in L.A. or New York. You know, that's not how I came up. And I wanted to be, but that just wasn't my pants. So for them to know who I am

and say nice things to me and, you know, that means a lot to me. And for people to know I've been doing this 27 years, you know, and I'm not a flash in the pain, and that means a lot to me, too. Well, for everybody watching this on Netflix, go over. August 27th is when

August 27th, season 2. What I tell people on, because this podcast is on Netflix, you don't even have to watch it. Just turn it on and hit play and walk away. Just get the stream. Just give me the streams. So, run it while you're back. Leanne, season two, just give it the streams. We hope you watch it, but if you don't have the time, just hit play.

Yes, please complete each episode. Yes, they care about completion. Let it run. Have you done, because I've sat with them and they go, okay, this is how long people are getting through your episodes. Have you done that kind of thing with Netflix? They told me this. At first they said people are not completing it,

and then they realized that people were saving it. Like once a week, like network television. Mori Povich said to me, Land me and Connie Chung watch it We save it for every Saturday night So either people were binging it And now they watched it Four and five times

Or they were saving it So at first they thought People are not completing it And that's a big number Oh you don't mean the episode You mean the whole season Well the episode Or the whole season

Yeah yeah So people were saving it over time And then over as time went on They go Oh yeah they're completing it And they're watching it a second third time but it was because people love that format of, you know, like NBC. Yeah, back in the day.

Yeah. So they were either doing that or bingeing. Watch Leanne season two. Complete it. But if you can't, just hit play and go to work. Because it'll just go to the next one. Yeah, and let your kids go to bed to it at night. I've heard little children like they find it comforting.

Isn't that sweet? Are you making that up? No. And they, I don't, you know, because my voice is not, you know, like a country music stars and a beautiful voice. But I think people tell me that their children find comfort in it and they run it in the background at home

because it's comforting to them. If you work in a daycare, play Leanne, season two, and just let it run. Yes. You are a joy. Thank you for coming here. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Thank you. I feel very special. When this ends, she goes into a British accent. Just so you guys know,

couldn't be more British. before we started couldn't be more British. Thank you, Leanne. Great to see you. Thanks for listening to a Bobbycast production. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook.

Each week, we talk to someone in show business and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicists for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, Ben Stillard,

and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the new podcast Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solitaire. Trading the pity for possibility.

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