Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Leanne Morgan

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Andrew sits down with the lovely Leanne Morgan to talk stand-up, family chaos, stage nerves, and what she’s learned headlining arenas. They dig into writing clean but savage jokes, growing a massive fanbase, and why everyday stories crush on stage. I bet they would have dated. ❤️ 🎥 Leanne's New Netflix special: Unspeakable Things: https://www.netflix.com/title/81733615  ▶️ Also check out her first Netflix hour I’m Every Woman: https://www.netflix.com/title/81636889  In this episode: • How Leanne built a career while raising a family • The shift from clubs to theaters to Netflix • Writing for heart, not shock value • Santino and Leanne trade tour stories, heckler tactics, and notes on confidence Drop a comment with your favorite Leanne bit. New episodes every week. #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #LeanneMorgan #UnspeakableThings #ImEveryWoman #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #PodcastClips ========================================================== Sponsor Whiskey Ginger:  https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/whiskeyginger SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS RIDGE WALLET BLACK FRIDAY SALE GET UP TO 47% OFF! ⁠https://ridge.com HIMS 100% ONLINE TREATMENT ⁠https://hims.com⁠/whiskey ======================================================== Follow Andrew Santino: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino Follow Whiskey Ginger: https://www.instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast https://twitter.com/whiskeygingerpodcast Produced and edited by Joe Faria https://www.instagram.com/itsjoefaria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What up with you, Jeter fans. Welcome back to the show. It's the first time joining the show. Welcome to the show. We got a good one for you today. I am on tour. I'm running around the country. I did a couple of clubs. I'm excited about that. It's been super fun. And now I'm playing a bunch of different casinos. I'm going to the horseshoe in Hammond, November 22nd. I am there. Hammon, Indiana. Come out and see your boy. And then Caesars in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in January, followed by Bethlehem, PA, Hanover, Maryland, outside of Baltimore, January, end of January, and the Borgata and Atlantic City as well.

Atlantic City, haven't been there in a long time. Coming back, Valley Center at the end of January and January 30th, that's by San Diego, then Canyonville, Oregon, and finally Win Casino at the Win in in beautiful Las Vegas. Go to Andrewsantino.com for them. Tickets, Andrewsantino.com. In here, we pour whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. You were that creature in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse Ginges are pugilful

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My guest today is one of my favorite people In Earth, I say that for all my guests But I mean once again today It's Leanne Morgan I mean Leanne Morgan It's like a feather the way your name falls Isn't it?

Oh my darling Leanne Morgan I never thought of it that way Lee Ann Morgan, four syllables, you know, odds are bad luck, evens are good luck. Lee Ann Morgan. Oh. Andrew San, T, no, bad luck. That's how, yeah, he's doing his right now.

McCone, Corcorri, bad luck. You're destined for nothingness. But a beautiful woman with a name like Leanne Morgan. By the way, fans at home, I know all of you already know who she is because she's a brilliant comedian, writer, actor, and an ethereal being. She has a special right now on Netflix called Unspeakable Things. And she has a phenomenal show on Netflix as well. You're just Netflix's new queen called Leanne. It's amazing. Thank you, my darling. Produced by the one and only. Chuck Lori. Chuck Lori. This guy, only home runs. How is it working with him? You like him?

Yeah. He's darling. Yeah. He's brilliant. Brilliant. I don't know. I'd never met. the man but from afar all i see is he's hitting dingers he hits home runs everything he touches is gold i know big bang theory he's the kingmaker yeah two and a half man two and a half man and big bang theory back to back is pretty wild to think about and now and now leanne which will be which i'm so thankful that people liked it people love it they don't like it they love it and that i got renewed i know and congratulations on the renewal thank you i would have been devastated thank you all i would have been devastated if that hadn't. I've sat and wrung my hands. Really? Oh. Where do you go? So a lot of people when they are up for renewal, well back in the old days when you do pilots, you'd usually leave

the city because you were so nervous to stay to get the news, bad or good. Oh, is that what people do you? Well, they used to. I mean, pilot, I don't even know if Hollywood's dead. So I don't know yeah. I don't even think people go out anymore. I think they just make a phone call and then they get back on TikTok. Do you do something to escape? Do you escape? Do you escape? Do you have? I was on the road. I was in San Jose doing a theater and I was working like a meal and that was good for me. I was finishing up. Well, I was doing these tour dates. I just finished it up in Boston. But I was in San Jose, California and doing a California run. And that kept my mind off of it. In Boston, let me guess, the Wang. Yeah. It was a beautiful theater, isn't it? Beautiful. Theater for performing arts too. It's one of those where sometimes I walk into theaters and you're not like me. You are a crisp, clean, intelligent. sweet comic it's a bunch of fart jokes for me so I go I go into a beautiful theater like that I

don't we feel bad we walk into these theaters I'm like we shouldn't be here I was telling her about the Riemann because she's from oh right the Riemann that's right we did the Riemann two years ago now yeah 2023 yeah we did the Riemann and that gave us anxiety because walking into such like a historic venue and they put us up in the the Johnny Cash and June's suite is that what it was their their dressing room yeah and that I really did get nervous for the first time I did too there. Because it's just something about the place that's so meaningful to performing arts that I'm like, are we going to let this room down?

Not the fans. But are the walls going to be like, yuck? Get them out. And all those pews? All the pews. I know. Like we're at church. Yeah.

They call it. Which you just came from church just before you came here. We do know you came from church, correct? You were at church before this, weren't you? No. Leon, you got to play along and just say yes. Oh, okay. You were at church, yes.

We were at a venue in Salt Lake and there were pictures of Orson Wells performing Shakespeare on the same exact stage that Bobby was Pullen Wells, Shakespeare and Bobby getting naked on stage. Same world we're living in pretty wild.

What was that one? That was in Salt Lake City. What was it? What was it? I don't remember the name of the venue. I don't remember exactly. Echoes sounds correct. Yeah. Because I worked that theater. I didn't know he was there.

Yeah. See, now good to know after the fact. I know. All these theaters, though, that we work are so ornate and beautiful and old and they've all got the same story there was porn shown there in the 70s yeah that's true the pigeons lived in it and defecated in it um there was a fire there always was a fire yeah then they started showing old movies right right there was rocky horror oh yes and then they some little darling bunch of women that had a lot of time on their hands got up in

there and saying let's redo this thing let's make this beautiful yeah and let's keep it not making a parking lot god love them that's true every theater i go to and they go oh yes it's the charlie chaplin was here there was porn in the 70s they go through that whole thing very historic but in that wonderful it is cool well i like that they save these theaters because i like um what is it the arlington draft house which is a movie theater i don't know if you ever played that on the come up it was an old movie theater i think they still maybe show movies but you perform on that same stage and it's really beautiful because they sit in you know these like movie theater type chairs and it's nice that there's i like that they save those theaters because it's easy to rip it down and

build a new one because that's what everybody does with everything now that was the aztec in san an astec same thing yeah well was a vaudeville theater you know and i lived in san antonio when my children were little and i got started at cap city comedy club that's where my really i consider that my home club and i would drive back and forth but i also did the river center in san antonio that was in the mole. But I worked the majestic in San Antonio. I never got to work that when y'all are talking about. The Aztec theater.

And I need to go and see that. It's beautiful. But yeah, San Antonio, I will be honest, underrated. It doesn't get, Texas gets this thing where it's like Dallas, Houston, and then Austin get kind of this love. But San Antonio kind of gets not talked about comedy-wise. It's a phenomenal comedy city. L-O-L. It's great. That L-O-L comedy club.

Yeah, that was the first club I played out there was L-O-L. And everyone was so nice. And I thought, man, this never gets kind of high praise. For some reason, Austin, Dallas, and Houston get more praise. But I loved it down there. I love San Antonio. You're talking about a fun place to live. Oh, yeah.

Oh, darling. I just like that you can fall into that river so easily. They make it. It's a bunch of drunk people walking that river walk at night. I'm like, this is a hazard. It is a hazard. Because the walkway is about, you know, a foot and a half. wide and you're kind of squiggling past people and every time I went down there I thought

one drunk fool is going to stumble out of one of those bars and face plant in front of a group of doors. I bet there have been people. Oh, for sure. Well, some of the restaurants, the tables and chairs are right on the river. On the water. So you're, was it, you moved there because the father of your children was from there? No. He went to work for a big company. He had his own little business, sold it, and went to work for a big company manufactured homes and they put him over south texas so he got a big promotion and we moved down there and my children were three five and seven and i'd started doing comedy but you know not real i was in the foothills of the appalachian mountains there wasn't anywhere to do comedy i'd done zanies

in nashville but um that would have been like 2000 1990 no like 2002 something like that The foothills of the Appalachians is the beginning. My stepdad, who raised me is from a small town in North Carolina, called Valdez. You don't know Valdez. I don't know Valdives. Hickory, you may. Hickory, you know. Oh, Hickory, yes.

Everybody knows Hickory. Hickory is the one that people know because of furniture, and that's the closest to Valdives. It's like Hickory is right next door to there. Oh, pretty. I'm sure beautiful. Yeah, I grew up going out there, you know, we'd go visit my nanny and Pau. We'd go see Nanny and Pau, and Paul would sit. Could they have eaten your lips on?

Did they think you were yummy? Well, yeah, they did. Yeah, they did. Do you know I've got a red-hitty grandbaby? Well, I think you told me that. He's two and a half, honey, and he is beautiful. Yeah, my nanny loved me. My paw was much more of a reserved old school.

You know, kids would come in and he'd be like, y'all, be careful. That was kind of it. I don't think we got much. I don't think I said more than like 30 words to paw every time I saw him. He's a very quiet man and didn't like nonsense in the house. Oh, that's Chuck Morgan. That's my husband. That's your husband's my grandfather.

Take it outside. Yeah, take it outside. Take it outside. There's a basketball goal out there. Go ahead and shoot on that and go ahead and get dirty down there. Don't bring that inside. Y'all are doing to take off all them clothes before y'all come inside. I'd hear that all the time.

Are those shoes supposed to be on inside? I'm like, no. But we're a little Chicago city trash, so we didn't know any. I didn't know that the country world was different. They were like, you better come in here running around, making the men. I was like, okay, you got it. Yeah, they were the sweetest people, and they had, when I was a kid, he used to have a bunch of land. I mean, they, obviously, when they passed, they sold that property, but they had cows, and he was a beekeeper.

I was fascinated with him. Yeah, he was a great dude. Oh, my darling. Yeah, a great man. And I loved going out there because it was different than anything I'd ever seen. Dairy Queen was like, the big hang. Y'all going to go down to Dairy Queen, get dropped off, go run around down there, go see some people in town. That's what it was.

That was like town meeting. It was either church or dairy queen is where you could meet people. Otherwise, you're at home. You're right. Yeah. That was kind of where they would go. Oh, my gosh. It was small, tiny, tiny town.

Yeah. But now you're a big city girl. You're in Nashville, right? I live in Knoxville. Oh, you do? But I was raised outside of Nashville in a very small farming community of 500 people. Well, now they tell me they're 624. Well, people had kids.

Yeah. Yeah, somebody had to have a couple of kids to keep it going. Some people have moved in and out of it that we don't know. There's a dollar general now. So when I go, I see some people. I'm like, I don't know your people. But, yeah, I live in Knoxville where I've raised my children. Big UT fans or no?

Uh-huh, yes, honey. I just went to the game. Good win last week. Yeah. And I met Peyton Manning for the first time. I don't know. Cook Cooper, his other, the brother besides Eli, the one that's got Archman. that plays for Tennessee. That's exactly right. His daddy. All right. So I met Peyton who, and I'd done a

movie that Peyton was in, but I didn't get to meet him. He wasn't there the same time I won't. And then little Tony Vitello, who was our baseball, who just went with San Francisco Giants and we've all grieved, but we're happy for him. We just talked about him literally yesterday. He is the new manager of the Giants. Bad mamma, Jama, honey. Good dude. Yeah, darling. Well, he deserves the promotion. You got to go to the big show at some point. Yeah. And we all are happy for him. Right. But he built our program, and it was wonderful. Well, and now the rains get past to somebody else. Yeah.

We have more in common than you think then. My father went to university. My stepdad went to Tennessee, and my sister went to Tennessee. I am the red sheep. I should have gone. I didn't go. I know. You would have had a ball, and girls would have done horrible things to you.

You know, unspeakable things? Unspeakable. See how I do that? Shoehorned in, baby. No, I went to Arizona State because I'm not a bright. I'm not that bright of a guy. Oh, but that's fun. It was more fun than school.

Yeah, it was fun over. It was fun than school. Tennessee would have been fun and school pretty paralleled. But I don't think I could have gotten into Tennessee. They wouldn't have wanted me. Well, when I got in, I mean, they let anybody. Did they? Oh, my ACT score was pitiful.

See, we did, we did only ACT. We never did SAT. My people didn't do SAT. Yeah, we didn't do that. You didn't do that in Minnesota either. We did ACT. You did ACTs, yeah. Do you remember your ACT number?

Yes, and you'll never know it. You're too cute for me to, my children have asked me when I've got the flu, hoping that I'll be hallucinating and tell them, but I'm not ever going to tell anybody. It was pitiful. But I only took it one time. And, okay, I was in my little town, my little bitty high school that was sweet, and not college prep, but sweet. We didn't know what dope was. Okay. And then my sister was at Austin P. Have you ever heard of Austin P and Clarksville in the OVC? No. Okay, well, she went to school there and had a... ball was in a sorty and thrived in Homecoming Queen. And I drove down to Austin P and spent the night with her to take the ACT and I, we didn't

have cable yet where I was from and she had cable in her dorm room and I set up all night and watched cable and Benny Hill. Oh wow. And then so I was kind of out of it when I went to take my ACT. Then I went to McDonald's got hot coffee

burn my tongue on it and then I just gas I just gassed. I was tired. Nobody ever, but I'm, I hate to even tell this in front of you because I would have wanted to date you. I just turned 60. Wow. Yeah, but you are, you're not 60. That's a number, but you're not actually 60. Thank you. I don't feel like I am. You should. I mean, you're married, I'm married. We could still date, but we have to wait. We really got to wait. We've got to take some time. Yeah. But 60, oh my God. I just turned 60 October the 3rd. You got any secrets? What's the secret?

why do you look why do you look so good oh you angel i feel like i don't i feel like i've eaten a lot of white flour and stuff when i saw myself on tv in that television series i thought oh no wonder all these little hollywood people don't eat it's terrible my big butt no no big butts are in they're back we love big bucks well they were in for a while with the cardassian girls but then somebody just told me that all those little girls that got their butt implants or they're getting them out Well, that's probably because they're on, it's probably toxic. Well, they were doing it for the wrong reasons. Right, they were, right.

Yours is natural. You're all natural. It was natural. Those inserts are the, the BBL thing. That has to be toxic and can't be good for you. What is it made of? What's a butt made out of? That's why he's my little research king.

He'll find out very fast. I believe it's made out of stomach fat, but let's figure out. No, no, no, no. That is, that is a Brazilian vote. Yeah, BBLs. Yeah, patients own fat. Your own fat. But what if you didn't have any fat?

I didn't know you could do that. I mean, maybe you could get it donated, but, I believe it has to be. I think it's like because also cells are better when it's from your own body. It's like pulling the hair from the back of your neck and your head. It's better for you. You can't use foreign. You don't want foreign cells. Your body will reject it. That's right.

Oh. No, but I know I understand this anxiety of seeing yourself on TV. So I don't, I won't, uh, I pretty vehemently refuse to watch something that I do. Do you see? I don't like to watch it. Oof. Like editing is special too. Like when you edit this special. Oh. And the poor

editors is like is this okay and you're like well you could always you could dump all of it if I'm being honest I don't like almost any of that but it is hard to watch yourself because you get overly critical you're like why did I look why did I what was that face or what's that movement and then I see other people it looks like it you know out of side out of mind looks like they're just flowing through it but when you first saw yourself on the Netflix show it yeah you hated it didn't excruciating yeah I know and then Kristen Johnson who plays my sister in third rock from the sun and all that pro she goes lean it's about being funny it's not about beauty but That's hard for me because being in the South in my age, it was all about beauty.

It's all about beauty, yeah. Were you a pageant girl when you were a young girl? I was in one. I was in one and I thought it was stupid. But I don't care if anyone else does them. It was not for me. There was no, I didn't do any kind of talent. It wasn't that kind.

It was like in the Robertson County Fair. So it was pretty pitiful. Did you place? I got in the top ten. But what I did, I took a wrong turn. And I know what the turn was, and I don't know why in my mind. I thought I am not doing that and I went the wrong way and so I didn't make it to the top five or whatever

but it was okay things turned out for me. You took a wrong turn literally yeah literally took a little yeah and I knew what I was supposed to do I don't know if subconsciously I was like this is stupid I'm not gonna do it right but my sister was in Miss Tennessee and she got Miss Photogenic but and I had to go help her and I thought all that was stupid but not for I mean for me I don't mind if anybody else was stupid but I thought what are we doing i mean it was just a lot of for nothing have but i liked i wanted to be funny you know yeah but pretty pretty and funny pretty and funny yeah but you got both by the way

we lost half of the south audience is livid with us right now it is such a point of pride for so it's i'm fascinated by it because it they put so much into it and they spend i imagine now hundreds of thousands of dollars it's mind-blowing to me when my sister was in it and we were just little country girls I remember there were girls there that had a tan my sister was white as a sheet it was before there was spray tan

and all that and she had to do a bathing suit and she was beautiful in a bathing suit but these girls, their daddies that had money flew them to like the Bahamas to get a tan yeah you couldn't do that

and yeah and their mamas and everybody was fussing over everybody and freaked out I just thought it wasn't fun I like fun yeah yeah what do you do for fun

What's, what's Leanne Morgan's fun now? What is it now? Well, now it's kissing on grandbabies and buying like toys. Yeah. You know. How many grandbabies you have? Two, two boys. Which one do you like more?

Honey, I love them both so much I could eat their teeth out. But that new one, the red hand, doesn't know me as much as, I mean, he'll go to me and loves on me and kisses me goodbye and all that, but he doesn't run to me because I've been working so much. And they run to Chuck Morgan. But the white-headed one, the oldest one, is like grandmama, grandmama, grandmama, because I buy him stuff and I'll let him do whatever he wants to time. What do you prefer to be called? This was a big thing of the nanny and pa was kind of a driven in by the older cousins was nanny and pa. What do you want to be called?

I wanted grandmama. You like grandma? I like grandma. Yeah, I don't have to be like me, me, g-g, all that. I wanted mama in there. Yeah. Motherly. And I've got a wonderful daughter.

in-law who's being is a wonderful mother but and it's not that i think they're my babies but you do a little but i do yeah i do a little bit well it's by by by by way of your blood so it is it's yours they're mine yeah and and by the way if they need you could take care of them and you would yeah so it is kind of yours yeah and i've got everything set up in my house for them you do do you have like a dedicated area just for the i saw that shift of like uh my wife's nieces um you know there's a dedicated room in the basement just for the girls and it is it used to be her parents like a extracurricular room like it had exercise equipment and it was a dance room for my wife at one time when she was a little girl and now it was just for the girls but they're getting older and they moved but

they're getting older and I watched it change back into an exercise room which that was a little sad because you watch it go from the kids toys to like no the all the clothes are finally off of the treadmill again now it's back to another thing you won't use like we have stuff in the house we got one of these row machines sent to us and I used it a bunch when I first got it and like everything you're like I'm not going I don't want to that's going to sit there yeah it just it's like I did I used to row you did and I did cross fit I loved it yeah and my boy rose he was you were a crossfit queen yeah kind of and you give it up in my mid 40s don't say it like that it was I was going I didn't

say this in front of you and I know we're not dating we are a little but I okay yeah I was going through I'm starting perimenopone I hate to even say that in front of you boys. And it was just too hard on my cortisol levels. I'll just say that. I need to get back to it because I really liked it. And I'm athletic and I like to be athletic. And if somebody says you're going to win like three free months of training or something that motivates me.

When you were a young little girl, did you like you played a sport? Did you do team sports? Yeah, I loved basketball and volleyball. They made me play softball because I was tall and my high school made me play. everything, but I did not care for softball. I was a catcher. I just did not dig it. I don't think you would be big enough to be a catcher. Don't they have to be pretty stout? Yeah, and then squatting and doing all that. I should have been the shortstop or something. That was more glamorous. That is way more glamorous. But I love basketball and volleyball.

Loved it. Were you better at one and the other? Probably better at volleyball. Yeah, you could jump. Well, and yeah, and I didn't, after I got a little older and I cared about boys and I didn't want to box out on somebody in public, you know. You don't want to see a crush. You don't want a crush to see you boxing out. Yeah. Yeah, you don't want to see it.

No, and I remember my freshman year, my coach, who I loved, tell me, said, we're going to put, you need, put 25 pounds on you over the summer. 25 pounds? He said, let's get you to gain 25 pounds because I was playing forward at the time. I don't you know what they call them. Now don't they call them something different? No, they're false. Yeah.

No, the post is the post is the five, six. but everything shifts now but yes you can be well okay sometimes i was center the play center and i had this in an old bet if mary down had to take her baby to the health department there was a girl they had two babies while we were in high school and if they had to get their shots then coach savage would say to me you're going to have to play mary's you're going to have to be center but i was normally a forward but i was thin very thin not nail but i was very thin you know like 120 pounds and 5-8 and he would say you're going to have to put on weight so you can box out under the you know yeah and be a big old girl and i remember going home and telling my daddy and he

was like no you're not going to do that no that's so great that 20 by the by coach savage 25 is a little that's a little much 25 is that is a big difference 25 pounds what did you want you to eat all of it everything go home raid the cabinets but i was like all in you know when i was a freshman and then then And I discovered boys, and I was like, I don't know. Out on all that. Yeah, I was still playing, but, you know, I hot roll my hair. And it was the 80s, you know. We wore those short shorts and I had big hair and, you know, it was all, I dazzled.

You dazzled. Yeah. You were the fanciest girl. I was thinking the whole time I'm going to Hollywood, you know, and I'm fun. I would sit on the bench and talk too much, like in timeouts, and he was saying, enough land. You know, I'm always disrupted. Yeah, but that's why you do. what you do. Do you always knew you wanted to do stand-up? Like when you were young,

were you like that's... When I was little bitty, and I feel like I'm, I wanted to be in show business like by nine or ten years old, but I didn't know, I would love, I watched stand-ups on TV, but I love Saturday Night Live. Oh, yeah. And I loved, uh, sitcoms. And I just didn't know that you could even do stand-up until I went to, I mean, I would watch stand-up like David Letterman and Jay Leno and different people on Carson but Chuck Morgan before we got married

brought me out here my sister was living in Huntington Beach and I went to the comedy store and that was the first time that I thought my heart was beating out of my body and I thought I could do this this is what it is

this is what it is that's pretty beautiful but I never but there was a club in Knoxville at the University of Tennessee I never even it didn't dawn on me to go to a club and Steve Hart

Harvey had come through there. It was like a lot of people had come through there. And it was a good club. Yeah. And I just, I don't know. I just, you know, I was at UT and I was kind of flailing and didn't know and thinking, why I'm even here? Because I wanted to go into show business. It was just all stupid.

It is. And I ended up graduating from the University of Tennessee and they've been so good to me. And I'm so scared somebody's going to announce my GPA. But it all happened for a reason, you know. I do think now that I've seen Hollywood and these young people out here and what they have to go through, I think that was God's protection over me that I didn't even know what to do at 18 to 25. I would be on dope now. I think I would be on dope. I would have been so, I was so insecure. I dated people that I'd say that you wouldn't wipe your feet on. I don't, if I'd

come out here, people could have talked me into anything. Right. I was so nice. naive and stupid. Well, we are. Well, I mean, I still am. I'm here. I live here. I'm naive and stupid, and I'm 42. But I do, but I do get the idea that this place can wrap up young people in a way. It's really wild. It's dark. I mean, and it could be, it doesn't have to be for negative, but it does wrap you up and you kind of get self, you know, you get super selfish because you, all you're thinking about is how can I achieve. It's me, me, me. You know, that, that happens in a bad way. But you became a mama, so that helped separate the mind from, you know, It's all about me. Now it's all about them. Mm-hmm. And now, you know, well, now you're living high on the hog. You're free and super successful.

And I got to have, you know, my children and Reese Witherspoon, the one movie I've done, I was played her big sister. And she would say to me every day, you got to raise your own children laying in. Because a lot of these girls, you know, come out here and they got a hustle. Yeah. You know? And I don't, I think if I had to come out here at 20, 25, I don't know. I just don't think it would have survived it. this is not you would never move to the west coast you mean full time yeah i don't think so yeah

now that i'm old girl 60 i like east tennessee i do and you know i live out here while i feel them i lived out here seven months this past year sure and i got attached to it when i first came here i thought oh my gosh this is kind of scary a lot of even though i tour everywhere just like you do there's homeless people everywhere oh yeah but we got them we got to we got a we got to We got the gold standard here. We're number one. Nobody's got homeless like we do. You think you've seen it all?

We've got more. We keep them coming. It's like Matrushka, like Russian dolls. They just keep, they never stop. It's pretty terrible. Well, the terrible thing about it truly is the not to get into the weeds of it. But it's just like the politics around there is not enough help and there's not enough ways to fix it.

So we're kind of at a standstill. It just kind of exists now. It stinks. East Tennessee, not a lot of homeless. We have some homeless, we do. But you know them by name. Yeah, and they live under a bridge. Right.

And I used to volunteer for them and this thing, and it was sweet. And somehow I can talk to people on crack, you know, or that are mentally ill. Like, my job in that charity was to give women fine bras to fit them. and a fresh pair of panties, you know. Everybody needs them. Everybody needs a fresh pair of panties. And then I love putting together bags where it had like a chapstick. Can you imagine being out in this?

And you don't have sunscreen or chapstick or water? I wasn't built to be home. I would be. He lives under the bridge. Does he ever come out of the bridge? No, he stays under there. I would not move until it gets dark. Yeah, no, it's terrible.

It's terrible. It's awful. And a lot of them truly cannot help it. but I had a way with finding Bernice who made turtle soup from Arkansas who liked to fight I got her a double G bra

and that gave me a lot of hope and and thrill out of that I don't know they they had a good time with me but so I do worry about but when I came out here I saw a homeless and I thought that was scary

and then I got over all that and then the fires happened I was out here during the fire fires, and that was frightening. I've never, we don't have that in East Tennessee. And then, and that made me feel terrible for everybody. That was terrible. And then I got robbed.

What do you mean? Your home got, my home that I was renting got robbed. But I was in Palm Springs doing a casino, so they cased it out. So it, I never, I didn't feel shaken by it, though. Honestly, I mean, I thought it was bizarre. It was like little acrobatic men that were, they had film of it, because we rented from this, I rented from a TV star who had security, you know, everybody out here's got security, and they had it on film, and they said, we don't want you to look at the film because you'll be

freaked out, because they shimmied on each other. They got up on each other's shoulders and went up a stucco wall, like acrobatics. Yeah, circus folk. And good for them. You got to use your talents. Yeah, but they didn't get anything because we didn't have anything. There was nothing to rob. No. That's pretty terrible. So you didn't even, you didn't really get the full burgled experience. No, and it didn't freak me out. It really didn't. And then once I was here for a while, I thought it, and not, you know, trying to get over how to learn how to shoot a sitcom, which terrified me. It is. Then I thought, terrifying. Then I thought, oh my gosh, this is really the most beautiful state. This is a beautiful state. There's a lot of prettiness to the place, yes. A lot of, there's a lot of

ugly things about it, but it is gorgeous. I mean, the mountains and the water and the desert. If you like those things we got them you got them we got them and then i thought i really thought it was a lot of really sweet people yeah it's really sweet people well you attract very sweet people i think you you you wouldn't attract negative uh gremlins you know like this guy he attracts some of the worst i mean he really does surround himself with some of the worst people i've ever know look at you with those glasses uh yeah that's what i mean it's that kind of stuff he is cool he's a he's uh he's a young lad he's in his mid-20s and he's really cruising through life. Oh, good

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When did you come out here? I moved out here in 4th of July, 2006. I moved to Southern California with a bunch of kids from college. who were California kids. And I knew if I was going to go home, I probably wouldn't commit to stand up. Chicago has a great comedy scene historically, but I just thought if I go home, I'm in trouble

because I'll be too close to home. So I knew if I didn't get away, I don't think I would have committed as hard. It was sink or swim for me. So I was like, I need to go out there. I didn't want the safety net of, well, I'll just go back to mom's house if I need to. You know what I mean?

I just wanted to, I wanted the struggle to really try to do it. 2006, I moved to Long Beach, shout out Belmont Shore, one of the greatest places, still beautiful, and got to live with another friend on a couch, and then we got a little spot, and then moved up to L.A. in 07, and started the grind. And I admire that, because I just didn't have the gods. No, you did have the guts. You were just too smart to, well, look, it takes you so long, and you dedicate every waking minute of it to it when you're that young, because you don't know any better. but the unfortunate twist is you don't get to live life as much because you're paying so much attention to the thing, you're so anxious about it, that, you know, you kind of forget to live. That's good and bad, you know, like it's great to dedicate, but I did see a lot of my other friends

have jobs, start families younger because they could do life and work. And out here, when you move here and you're 21, 22, you have horse blind. All you do is go to the club, go to your day job, go to the club, go to your day job, go to the club go to a you know go to an open mic and then drive here and go down to hermosa for 25 dollars you cost you more money to go down than that it was so silly but you got that's what you know i know y'all and i don't know how y'all do it because even when like out here when they'll they'll put me in a bunch of spots yeah you're like where's parking when and then you know somebody hands you 25 dollars and but it's nifty it's nifty to do all that but i'm like i don't

know that i could have taken it that's a lot yeah it was what y'all've done it was it was Well, everyone's journey was different, but also, you know, I do think the times have changed now with the internet, because people now, young comics can make their own career happen a little bit faster and on their own accord, which we didn't have the, it just didn't exist. We had to turn in tapes. Turning in tapes was the hardest thing. And see, I don't, Comedy Central did not want me. What, seriously?

Uh-uh. I was, I started out, really, I called Austin Cep City Comedy Club was my home club. and they had people were always coming through there just for laughs Montreal Aspen I audition for all that Comedy Central was always coming through there and they didn't want me and look at them now

they don't exist who won that war Comedy Central huh you thought you knew you didn't know anything and now Netflix got you and you're like a Netflix darling now so stay in that stay on that track I know that feels pretty good It's amazing.

That was pretty wonderful when Netflix gave me a special. I feel like that's the stamp. It is. Well, that is the stamp. That is kind of like the, of all the people that said no or whatever, them having, them validating you because you're already, you know you're already good, but them also going, oh, yeah, we recognize this good. I mean, it's a great moment. And you deserve it. Now you're going to have to put out more specials, though.

You've got to keep pumping them out. The fans want it. Now I've got to come up with a whole new hour and give them one in 2020. 27. But I really want to be with you and Bobby Lane. You do. I do. And I want to play, you know, I've messaged you and said, I want to play golf with you and I don't play golf because I'm from the country. Chuck Morgan plays golf. I'd love to play with Chuck Morgan. And he was raised in country club. Well, why don't you do this? Why don't you get Chuck Morgan to come play golf with me and you can ride in the cart? We'll walk. You and my wife will ride in the cart. And this will

be, we'll be a nice little happy family. Oh, that would be wonderful. But you got to bring your daughters. Apparently your daughters need to come out as well, right? They do. And My baby is my makeup artist, so she lives with me in L.A. when I'm out here. Oh, seriously? Yeah. Oh, that's great. The middle child is in nonprofit and just moved to New York and works for the New York Food Bank. So good people you've raised.

What about the other one? What about the other one? My boy from heaven. Yeah. What is he doing? He works in site construction under my... Chuck Morgan runs a division for that company. It's a Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett Company, and Charlie works under him.

So you're winning all... they're precious yeah yeah that's great and i we always kid and say if they had been raised down here they may not be the people they are now you know if if i've had television deals since they were babies for development for sitcoms but they never made it right and that baby that baby is pretty bougie and she always tells everybody i'd be out here on dope and a pair of pradas she loves a yeah she's bougie how many versions of leanne did you pitch like how many different times was this for before this one is not people don't know that at home I think that's something that we just literally spoke about that with Matt who was just here

about you know Matt and I sold a show together two and a half years ago that is still not off the ground you know but we sold the show and then we try to make it in this way try to make it here and it keeps you know every I think it's it's semantics that people would bore people to death but it is interesting how many times it takes to get something done you know and he said to me I said what are we even doing with that he said well I mean Uh, what did he say, um, what show took almost 10 years, succession, right? Succession, yeah, succession took like eight and a half years to make or some nine years.

Yeah, it was just, I think people had said no to it over the years. It kept changing and shaping and then, then look, they made a brilliant show. I love that show. But that's what happens. Those first couple of times you get it and you're like, is this it? And they're like, no, this isn't it. Like, how about this one? They're like, no, it's not it either.

But they do give you this false hope. So that's what the city does. So if you get away from it, I think it's easier probably to duck in, try, you know, go to the dance and then leave we're still i'm staying i'm staying in the field house we live in the dance it's like a creepy waiting for it to come back around you know i mean it's very strange i mean in hollywood is so shifted now which which is why i think it's so important what like what you're doing is you making a show it's you it's a return to the old days of like you know why seinfeld or why everyone loves raymond or these shows were because it was about

it was a version of them it wasn't there wasn't you know very literal but and then we went through this time when comics or, you know, comedic actors would make shows and they try to fit them in something. They'd go, what if they own a pizza store and it and it seemed to kind of wane away? And I think now with the return of, it's your show, it's you, it's your stories, it's your life. That's what people really want anyway. So it's not a mystery why I got picked up again. Oh, you. I mean, it's, well, that's true. That's just the way it goes now. I mean, it's just a fact if you're making something real like that based on your reality. Because your show is about being divorced after oh that's a phone call pick it up my sister so sorry no no no it's fine

it's fine and and uh and we have that happen on this show sometimes and i got to tell you we log it in and we dock the guests mentally that's it you're on my bad list now no oh lord but yours is after 30 some odd years right your husband leaves you uh-huh 33 years he he leaves me on an email for a younger woman and gets her pregnant. By email is really, that's the toughest. You can't just call me? Oh, and then that, I know, and then that scene, because I have to cry and all that.

I don't know if you've even watched it. Promise me, if you'll watch it, you'll start at like episode six. Because you don't want me to see you cry? No, even though they said I did that well. But no, those first three episodes, I have this horrible look on my face because I am so stressed out and thinking,

I'm going to pack up and leave every day. And I'm going back to Tennessee, and I don't need this. I don't need this stress because it was a lot. It is heavy. But, I mean, did that help the character in the show? I was so upset that you and helped me cry. There you go. So this is Hollywood.

We break you. But I also thought, what if Chuck Morgan really did this to me? What if he really did this to me and these children and these grandbabies? How catastrophic that event would be. And if I was a stay-at-home mom and didn't have any, didn't have a job or didn't have any, you know, You know, it devoted myself to him. Right. And that helped me cry.

That helped you get through it. But if he did do that to you, then the show would have been a murder mystery. It would have been a totally different show. It would have been Leanne kills Chuck Morgan, and how do we catch her? You'd be on the run. The whole show would be you on the run, which is also a good sequel. So listen up Netflix executives. If you're looking for a spinoff of the show, make Chuck Morgan get killed by Leanne,

and we'll pitch it later, right? We'll get it together. We'll pitch it later. but now you're so you've got to drum up a new hour is this anxiety inducing to try to get a new hour to get together on the road or no are you taking it you're taking your time i'm going to have to take my well i am kind of this second one after my first netflix special when i came up with this hour that's you know came out on this special that one is dawning to me i don't know why if i was just naive or i don't know now i feel like oh go you know because this is the really a fourth special because you know Because I did another special that I don't want anybody to watch. Does it exist anymore? It does on Hulu, and I don't get a dime for it. No, Hulu, it's a one-time.

It's not Hulu's fault. It's a one-time. They bought it and probably distributed it, right. They licensed it. It was a dry bar. You remember when all the thing come up? Oh, dry bar, yeah, dry-bar comedy, yeah. I did a dry bar a hundred years ago.

Somehow it ended up on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Because you signed that little contract in there. It said, we will use this in perpetuity, waiting for you to get very famous and then we're going to sell it and they're going to make a lot of money yeah Hollywood baby it's just snakes

just snakes man snakes out here but then so now you're saying this last one was more I did okay with this I mean it's this nail for

2007 that I'm because I've got the television show to shoot and then I'll start working it out right I'm kind of working it out now and I'll do some spots at Zanis over the holidays you like going down there to zanis yeah i do rindorfman outback concerts they're my concert for my we know we love the dorf we know he's the sweetest little laugh on that guy last time i saw him in the parking lot of the comedy story i said you're in town you didn't

call me i'll break your knees next time you come to my town and not call me he's like i'm here for one day i'm going to a concert you know he's a big well he's a big deadhead and all that stuff he loves that grateful day uh-huh yeah um but yeah he i was i did my first he let me host Billy Gardell when my baby child was 18 months old. Really? Uh-huh. And he told me. He said, I think you've got it, Liam, but you've got to raise three babies.

There's no way you can do this in clubs like other. He goes, Roseanne Barr raised hers in a station wagon in a parking lot. And he goes, and it was too hard on those kids. And then I met Roseanne, like three years ago, in a hotel bar. Yeah. And she told me that whole story, and she said, it was a good thing, Langan, that you didn't do it the way that I did. She said, you got to raise your own children. There we go back to that.

Yeah. In Knoxville, Tennessee. Right. I know. Well, that worked out better for you. But I wanted to be one of y'all. I wanted to be one of the cool kids. No, we're not cool at all.

It's unfortunate. We're actually the polar opposite. We're all, we wish we were, but we're not. Even when the facade is up on stage, you know, we're not. None of us are cool. I think you're pretty cool. Well, that's you. That's you.

You're playing golf with those Kelsey boys? Yes, I do. Yes. They are good guys. Okay. Can we talk about them? Sure, whatever you want. Because Donna, that's my claim to fame. Donna comes to my shows.

They're mama. That's Mama Kelsey, yeah. She's been to Grand Rapids for me and Asheville, North Carolina. And you're talking about somebody's got a good sense of humor. She's the best. Yeah. Okay. And I had done a little bit.

I'd just thrown it out there. I just happened to watch quarterbacks. Mm-hmm. On Netflix. and fell in love with Patrick Mahomes and worried sick about that baby because he's got so much on him. He does.

And everybody around him, he has tend to everybody, and he's always playing with a sprain or something. And I just threw it out there that Taylor had started dating that big old Travis. And I said, her uterus is aching.

And, of course, she wants to breathe with that big old boy. Yeah. And have a bunch of kids with him. You do. Well, somebody put that, I mean, my social media people but just put it out when they got engaged.

And Donna shared it, that doll. And then some, I don't know of her social media people, because Taylor Swift's fan starts saying, she's not a breeder, you know, all that. And I got mad. And Donna was so sweet. I called her, oh, it. Sorry, I calls the big ruckus on your social media.

And she goes, Lynn, I don't care. And she said, Taylor thought it was funny. And Travis thought it was funny. Well, of course she wants to have children with that. big old boy, that big old football boy, talented, fun, he's fun, handsome boy. Handsome boy. She's a doll, she's pretty, she's talented. Yeah.

I said to Donna, I know you want to have us grandchildren or ball playing musical little children. Right. Well, because Jason has kids, he's got kids, so she's got all those pretty little girls. That's right. His wife's a doll. Yes, they're good, they're really good people. The whole family is really solid. But I'm sure they're going to have kids.

I mean, if they want to, they probably will. But yes, they do want to make a talented little – that's good stock. She's tall. He's big, strong. You know, they got all the – Those athletes. They got athletes brewing in there somewhere. It's going to happen.

You're an athlete. I was when I was a young man. You know, I'm not – not really – golf is the only athletic sport I do now. I gave up a lot of stuff because I would get injured and I got over it. But when I was young, I was. What did you play? Basketball is my love. I loved basketball so much.

And then I got stuck into playing volleyball because the volleyball coach – I'd seen me, I could jump when I was young, and he said, you should come play volleyball. And I said, I'm really not interested in volleyball, to be honest with you. He said, what about it? I said, I don't really, the guys on the team aren't really like my kind of guys, so to, they weren't my guys. He said, just come try. And then I did try it, and I fell in love with it. I thought it was incredible.

It is fun. Yeah, it was so much fun. And all these children play it out here, don't think, California. This is big beach volleyball. This is out here, out here is either kids are beach volleyball, well, basketball and football out here. the recruiting and all that stuff is California in general. We put it all out out here. You should see these kids down at like Harvard Westlake.

They look like they're 35 and they're 16 years old. I mean, they start training these kids to be pro athletes when they're six. So they got their they're on meal regiments. They're on workout plans. I mean, we went. They're going to end up on dope in a basement if they don't watch it. That's right. I know.

I know. They'll be under the bridge. Because my boy played, what is that called? Pop Warner in Texas, 120 degrees, nine years old, everybody vomiting, because it was, and the quarterback's dad pushed that little thing, and that old quarterback, you could tell he had it. You could tell that thing had, you can see. He had that talent, but they worked that little thing like a mule, and I've always wondered, what happened to that baby?

Is he smoking dope in a basement? Because he didn't get to have a childhood. Yeah, well, that's what happened. I mean, you look at some of the best athletes had some of the most, crazy parents push them into... I mean, Tiger Woods is the best example. His dad was a lunatic. I mean, he's, you know, it turned out to be pretty good.

So it's bad, but it's also pretty good. Yeah. And it also was pretty good. Uh-huh. It worked. But then, if you leave them to their own, and they have that natural talent, and you just help them along,

then you could also get someone like a, like a Kelsey. Uh-huh. Or little Patrick Mahomes. Or little. Not really little. He's a big, he's a big girl. I call everybody little. I don't know why.

You've met them. They're much larger than you. They're massive human beings. I have not met those boys. Oh, okay. But I just got to meet, you know, Peyton Manning. And I didn't realize how tall he was. He's a big boy.

He's a big and funny. Yeah, he's very, very smart, very quick. So funny. He produced, his, Omaha produced my last special that I did on Hulu. Omaha produced it, and I had run into him at, it was receivers, not quarterbacks, it was receivers, the second, the other show that they do. Oh, I've got to watch. watch that. Yeah, great. Yeah. They did. I think that was like the, the second iteration of the

quarterback series. They did receivers now. And so nice. It was such a nice dude. And I made the Tennessee connection with them. I said, you know, I met you. I met you when I was a kid. My dad had friends that were friends with at the time. This man, Dan Brooks, who was offensive line coach or defensive line coach. I can't remember. And we got to go in the locker room. So I told Peyton, I said, I met you and I met Peyton because he was naked. So I got Peyton and his Manning. I said, I met Peyton and his Manning. They were butt-naked in the locker room.

And I was a young boy. I'm like, oh, my God, these are grown men. I got to go in there. And they're all naked doing interviews. And Peyton gave me, I had a wrist band with play calls on it. So I still have that at my house. Oh, my gosh. That's Navy.

It was a big deal. Yeah, that is a big deal. So Payton was a big God in our house because of Tennessee. And we liked him so much. You know, we're from Chicago. But we even started a love, like when he went to, Indianapolis. We rooted for him there. Like we liked Indianapolis a little bit. It was kind of weird. And then they played us in the Super Bowl and then you know what happened there. They won.

So it was hard. It was weird. Who is your Super Bowl team? Well, who's my football team? Yeah. I'm a Chicago Bears fan. But, you know, they've let me down my entire life. So I'm used to the pain. Are you a Nashville fan? Do you like the Titans or no? I do. I like the Titans. We've had a horrible year. But I do love, I go when I can. And yeah, I think that, yeah, I like. They're giving you a new stadium. So that'll be nice. Yeah, that'll be good. Are they building it right? It's the same area, right?

Yeah. Isn't that where it is? I think, right? Yeah. It's nice to walk across that bridge, but they do need to say it's a thing. You got to get me to know and say it looks like a... But Donna's invited me and I just hadn't had time to go. I want to go and see all around.

You've never seen... You've got to see the Chiefs. I know. That's a fun game. They put on a great show. I kind of like the Chiefs. Yeah. That's okay to like them.

I get a lot of hate online for people going, oh, you're a bear's fan. It's like, well, I'm going to support a guy that I know, who's one of the greatest of all time at his position. Sorry. Sorry, I have a buddy that's a Hall of Famer. I'm sorry. Okay, I guess throw arrows at me. I am still a Bears fan. I'm a Chicago fan diehard, but they invite me out, and I love going to watch them sometimes.

They're so much fun to go see. They put on such a good show. And there's someone, it's just, it's fun to watch their fans because they have such love. And the Bears fans were such broken people because my entire life was unbelievable. let down. Like a constant letdown. I've been let down my whole life. What did you want from me? What did you think I was going to do? So I'm a fan, but also, it's hard. So it's fun to go see other teams. You can root for them a little bit. No one's going to get mad at you. Also, you live in Knoxville. There is no pro team there. I know. Yeah, but UT. U.T. is your team.

Little Johnny Knoxville was out on that film the other night. Seriously? Do what, like hyping up the crowd or something? He was. And I said, hey Johnny, I'm Leanne. I know you don't know me i have a netflix show and he went i hope we win that's all that was it yeah i don't think it registered with him i don't think when some people see a you know a grandmother i don't think they think if they don't know me oh she's on netflix she's a stand-up you know no one looks at you and thinks grandmother you know that right do you think that mccone when you see this woman you didn't my darling no not at all i wish you could have seen me in the 80s Well, you know what's so funny is you say that.

You say your age because it's on your mind. But my grandmother had said one time how she actually feels. What age do you feel is different than what you are? What do you think you stopped? I feel pretty good. What number do you think you stopped at in your mind? Sometimes I feel like I'm 19. And then other times I think 40, 35.

Depending on the day. I think 30, my number stuck at 30 in my mind. 30, I felt like this was it. we have another number guessing game this is a throwback to something that we talked about at the beginning of the show guess how many people fall into the san antonio river walk oh he's got he pulled it up how many people fall out of it's not how many over time baby once a year on average once a year just close how many people fall into the san antonio river on average we're not doing prices right you can go over a hundred no i'm gonna i'm gonna say 30 a year 30 to 50 30 to 50 i know my fall into a river stats i mean you can't you can't

by me. I've had enough drinking nights where I see it, and I think good math would probably mean, you know, maybe two a month people are falling in there. It's that, it's dangerous. And by the way, they won't show this step, but I bet you they're out of towners. This isn't locals. It's always out of town. This is always out of town fools to having too much fun, you know. But you, you don't. Have a margarita. Have a couple of margaritas. Well, is that your drink of choice? I do like a margarita and a chip. Oh. A chip and a dip. I got to be honest. There's a Mexican restaurant that we've been to many of times as a family that's not too far from here

that I could direct you to when the show's over. I'll tell you where it is, and they have a great margarita and the best chips. Sometimes that's the meal. Chips dip in a margarita. You don't really need all the other stuff. You don't. No, you get full on chips. You get enchilada, but you can't eat it because you've had all those chips. I don't really need it. Every time I get a meal there,

I'm always like, why do we order? We could have just had a couple of margaritas in a basket of chips. I know, and I like a margarita with salt. I do, and I know L.A. people probably don't want to retain fluid. Yes. No, well, that's also a Southern thing. Like my, my dad eats, my dad's, I say my dad's diet is similar to like a horse, how a horse would snack, where it's like, it's like, I'm like, what did you have for breakfast? He's like, I had popcorn, beef jerky, I had pork rinds and a little bit of driftwood, whatever, whatever. He eats the most absurdist meals,

but he still has a lot of that Southern boy stuff. Like he likes everything, anything. pickled we have jars of everything pickled all over the house oh my god everything pickled you know from like pickled onions he likes oysters in a can which we do make fun of him very often that's that's a him thing i know that's not a southern yeah i i don't you i've seen those but i've never had those he loves it pork rinds is a staple in our home we have a big bucket of pork rinds at all time and i was introduced to country ham from him which i had never had before which is salt heaven that's if you like salt heaven retain and fluid i mean it's unbelievable it's like dried salted dried salted cured good on a biscuit that's what my people have on holidays they're

like we've got to get our country ham you do it is look it is delicious i do feel a little sick after i eat it but it's like eating junk food that's how it feels to me what's what's your what is your thanksgiving looking like it's coming up are you a big i love thanksgiving you do a do a big to do i'm not a Halloween person i do it because he's grandbabies now but i grow my kids growing up i throw something together and we just didn't emphasize it I didn't care for it as a child I'm not against it I just it's not my thing

and then that when you have grandbabies and they're a dinosaur and stuff I mean that you know and I get them little bags and I'm tickled and want to put pumpkins in the trees and all that but I do love Thanksgiving and I do like

I like a big meal and everybody to come to my house so I'm having it at my house and everybody will come from all over and then like my kids friends it may not have anywhere to go they'll come And then I do love Christmas, but I love Thanksgiving and Easter.

You like Thanksgiving more than Christmas. This is common, by the way. They do say people like to get, Thanksgiving has more weight now than Christmas for some reason. Christmas is a lot of work on a mama. Sure, sure. Yeah. It falls on the mama. But I love Christmas, but I like Thanksgiving better.

And what I was shocked in L.A. when I came out of here, because I came out of here in October of last year to start filming. And I did not realize how people love Halloween and demons out here. We do. It's a demon in a yard everywhere you go. I didn't know there's going to be big skeletons and ghost and spiders and webs. It's very reflective of the city itself. We're filled with demons.

This is all, this is hellish. This is hell on earth. It's live. City of Angels. It's the City of Angels. We are the City of Angels. Los Angeles, we're the City of Angels. But angels also have demons.

So we have both. I know, we do, you know, this was the first year I didn't decorate and hand out candy. Usually we dress up and hand out candy to the kids in the neighborhood. And I was sad because I was on, I did a gig. I did a gigging. So it was the first year in a long time. I haven't done it. I was actually really disappointed.

I love Halloween. You do. Well, I'm orange and it does. It's fitting. It is fitting. I am a walking jackalanner. So I just feel like it's my, I like it because I love to see the kids dressed up. That's fun to me.

And that is yummy to see little. I love it. Well, also, because you see some of these costumes, they put a lot of effort into it. And I really, the ones that don't put a lot of effort in, I don't really want to give candy to. I said, go all out. This is, what is it? Also here, I grew up in Chicago, and in Chicago, Halloween, every year was rain, wind, freezing cold.

Terrible. Like, it was, sometimes we had snow, so it was miserable. So you'd get in a costume, then you had your puff jacket over it. Put your coat over. And then you take it off for a couple minutes, and then someone would see you and a mom would be like, put your jacket on now. gonna get sick so I hated it and I hated having to like cover up and I loved the holiday so much so house party Halloween house parties became my favorite so we would have people over have cocktails

get dressed up I do love that I don't know why I like that so much but this year my first year missing it and I'm sorry to the kids I was actually I was very upset because I do love seeing them the funniest thing is when a kid has a costume on so big he keeps falling in it I really love to see that's funny to me getting up the driveway keeps tripping there's just too much going on. That's funny to me. I just, I get laughed out of watching them enjoy the night, you know, and go jump around. But Thanksgiving for me has changed because my grandmother used to host it, and we have a huge Irish Catholic family. And now that she's gone, my aunt hosts it, but everyone is, you know, the kids have kids, have kids have kids now. So it's, the tree is

spreading so big. So Thanksgiving is harder for us now. Yeah. Yeah, it's gotten tougher and tougher. That's why we're coming to your house. I didn't. Oh, I would love to. you to come to my house. I think we're going to come to your house. Yeah. I think we have to. I wouldn't love for you to come to my house. And then we can go to Dollywood if you want to. Have you ever been to Dollywood? Have you ever? We went to dog. We went, we went, that was same, 2023, right? Wasn't that the 23? Yeah. It was right. It was right. It was right. It was right. After the Ryman. Then we went out there. Yeah, we went out there. Yeah. We did. Why did you have a gig in Knoxville? Did you play a theater? No. What did we end up going through. It was on our route. It was on our route. Wherever we were routed to. Asheville, maybe? No. We can. We can. We can. We can. We can. We can. We can. We were. We were. We were. We were. We were. We were. We were leaving Tennessee. We went Louisville, Nashville. Where did we go down south? South Carolina somewhere? We were routing in a way that we got to stop.

Well, we made it a point we wanted to do it, so it might have been a little out of the way, but we had told our tour manager because we were on the bus, we all want to go to Dolly World. Well, I think it was like we can lose a little bit of a day doing it, and I said, who cares? Is that or go sit in a hotel somewhere else? It's a pretty park, isn't it? It was beautiful. I enjoyed it on my own because we had a little fight. The crew got into a little bit of a argument, and then I enjoyed it. and then I enjoyed it on my own.

And then I went and got drunk at Margaritaville and bought a bunch of people drinks and dinner. A newlywed couple, I was a little sauced and I was like, whatever they want, put it on my bill. A lot of people get married there. Yeah, at Dolly? And Gatlinburg and all up in the Smoky Mountains. Right, right.

There's chapels, kind of like Las Vegas, without so much sin. You know, it's less sin. Less sin, a little less sin. But that strip of all those restaurants and bars, we thought there's a lot of tourists and so many bodies we were shocked we tried to get an uber because we didn't have a car and the bus couldn't take us so we said let's all get in an uber and it was one guy and his girlfriend or

partner wife whatever he picked us up and it was the same guy that dropped us off and picked us up i said there's no ubers in pigeon ford well and then he left earlier and didn't tell us where he was going he just left angry i left angry and he didn't pick up any of our phone calls that's right and then the same uber driver picks us up and they're like oh we got your buddy and then one of the people went, I mean, one of our friends went, oh, well, he was our buddy. Yeah, used to be. He was asking about where the nearest airport was. I kept saying, where's the nearest airport to the Uber driver?

I said, I'm going to get out of here tonight. I was going to fly back to Chicago just to teach them a lesson. And then we were all like, oh, he left. They thought I left. Yeah, and I didn't tell anybody. I went to Margaritaville and had myself a night. I had a great, I had a phenomenal time. Margaritaville, that staff got more money than I've ever given anybody in my life.

I was just flooding him. I was like, whatever you are. Every drink, I tipped him 20 bucks per drink. So he was like, get this guy drinking. I'm sure I was way past the cutoff time. But at some point, they were loving it. And also, I walked. It's safe.

I was walking back to the bus. Yeah. It was in between Memphis and Durham. Memphis and Durham. That's exactly right. So we had a few days, three days off. We had a couple days off. So we thought, go to Dolly World and enjoy the night, you know?

Oh, yeah. But this time, I'm going to come to your house. I'm bringing a bunch of friends and family. We'll bring these guys. Bobby Lee will come. Can we crash at your house? So you got enough room? You got plenty of room for us?

Okay. I do. You say that now. John Chris just spent the night with me. I love that kid. I know. Is he not a doll? You know, let me call him real fast.

Hold on just because you're here. Let's just FaceTime him real fast. He and I have talked about you. Oh, you have? And he has said wonderful things about you. Well, I met him at the very beginning. Like, I met him when he was starting out. Out.

Did he tell you the story? No, I don't think so. Okay, I'm going to share the story with you about this guy. For people that, comic John Christ, a great guy that I've known 15 years. There he is. Look who I'm with. Oh, no. Oh, yeah, brother. We're talking bad. We're talking bad. Oh, and look, he's with Dorf. He's there right now. Oh, my gosh.

Must be at Zanis. Hello, my boys. Wait, we're talking bad about you on my podcast. You'll have to listen in. I'm listening, dude. I'm here. All right. I love you. We'll talk to you later. Bye, bud. He was with Dorfman, who we just talked about. How great is that? So when I met him, we were doing a show. I was helping to produce a show, a hidden camera show for the same studio that did punk, because

punked was one of my first gigs. And they hired me to, like, help produce it and write these bits. And he was one of the actors that we hired. And there was a bit, and it was like a, I don't even remember the bit, but it was involving a nun. Whatever was it had like a nun in it. And he came to me, and we had just met, and we got on pretty fast, and he said, I don't think I want to do this bit with the nun thing, because I'm going to be.

religious and I think it's I don't know I don't really want to be a part of it and the nun was an actress it wasn't obviously wasn't a real and I said really you don't want to do it and I said yeah he's I really don't feel comfortable doing it he goes but I'm I don't want to like get fired I don't like lose the job you know and he was very nervous about it and I said no you have to stand your ground like if you don't do the bit don't do the bit you know I mean it was any it was nothing egregious it wasn't discussed but I think he just wasn't feel comfortable because of his religious beliefs and I I said you tell the producers that they'll respect it and if they don't screw them you know and they did obviously no he never got he didn't

get fired and anything but he was very thankful in the years after that that i you know promoted that because i said you got to stick to what you whatever you believe in man i i said i if you're gonna do it tell them how you really feel why you know that's who you really are that's your your instinct was right so don't do it and we've been you know we've been boys ever since and also i said to him one time he came out here and he was trying to get in the comedy store scene and back when it was, I mean, humming, where everyone was moving out to, we're coming out to L.A. for stints at a time

to try to get into the comedy store. And he wasn't enjoying it. And he was like, I just don't know if this is my culture. Like this is my, I just don't feel like I'm fitting in. And I said, well, why are you deviating from what you're good at? I mean, just do what you're good at.

If this is not your audience, if you feel like it's not the people you speak to, typically, why would you change that? And then he would play, he would play churches, and he'd play religious events, and I said, what's the matter with those? And I said, you're making a living.

He said, but this is what I really want. I said, I think it's right in front of you, and you're missing it. It's right under your nose. Stick to the thing you're good at that you love and that is returning and giving you back. And then sure enough, you know, I'm not saying I'm the one,

but it helped him convince himself that he stuck in that path and look what the lane led for him, you know, a ton of success. And so he has, years after that, you know, said, thanks for doing the thing. I said, yeah, man, you got, sometimes you just got to go, hey, I don't know what you're doing looking over there. It's right, it's right there.

So just get out of your own way and stick to the thing, you know. Go to your audience instead of trying to, you know, trying to make these new people get on your page. Just keep doing what you do, which is what you've done your whole career, do what you do, and they come, they find you. They find you. They found you. Yeah, and they found me.

They found. Honey, I didn't know. For years, I thought, how do I find them? Damn. I didn't know what to do. No. They'll find you. You're good enough that they found you. Well, thank you, my angel. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, and for those at home who have not enjoyed this special, please tune in on Netflix. The link is in the description below, but it's not hard to find.

It's on Netflix. You open that thing up and you type in Beautiful Female Comedian. And it's you. Who else is on that tab? Beautiful Female Comedian is her, I think, Patton Oswald, and... No, but you have a career worth watching, and I hope to see it continue. I thank you for coming to do my little show. Oh, my, Andrew. This means the world to me, you don't. I hope so, because I am going to crash at your house for Thanksgiving.

You better. I mean it. I'm on fire. You know, I'm going to be close. I'm going to be in Chicago for Thanksgiving. So that's a kiss away from Tennessee. Yeah, just hop on down there, honey. I'll put in a brisket.

Will you send a private jet for me? You can, right? You can do that. I have not done that yet. Have you been riding those things? No, I'm not, no, I'm not. Because Nate's riding those things. Yes.

When are you going to start? I go, I have a husband named Chuck Morgan who keeps me down. Yeah. When you say bus, see, I've only ridden Nate's bus with him when we co-headlined something. Well, that Nate owns that bus. We have a rented bus. This was very different. Ours was a, I can't believe it made it.

I thought one of the wheels was going to fall off. We'd get locked out constantly. We get locked out of the bus all the time. We had a, we had a discount bus. Bobby got locked in it. Bobby got locked inside the bus. Then set the alarm off. Yeah, it was really, no, yeah, no, we're not private jetting anywhere to do gigs.

Well, I'm going commercial, and then I get in a rental car and a Mitsubishi and drive in between gigs. Yeah. I'm doing it that way. Yeah. But I don't take anybody with me. I mean, it's just my youngest child, who's my makeup artist, and then whoever's opening for me just meets me there. And I have an outback person. They don't travel with you.

But is it the same opener? But do I need an entourage? I may need one. I think you do, yeah. someone as special as you should have one and do you use the same opener all the time or no you switch it up i switch it up i've had gregg warren lately oh great so funny yeah um yeah i and karen meals as a good friend of mine we've gone on and off together touring since 2004 wow and other people yeah you need someone to juice them up a little bit at the beginning set the vibe and then then you do this you know do what you

usually do well i'm thinking about coming a crash at your house for thanksgiving we're going to have to put in the request and see if it works. And I'm going to hold you to it and we'll see what Chuck Morgan says about the whole thing. He'll be so tickled, honey, and y'all can play golf. That I would love. That I would love. All right. Thank you for doing the show.

I love you. Do me one favor. Look in that camera. We end the show the same way with one word or one phrase to end the episode. It used to be a word and then people were like, I don't know, but if you want to part words of wisdom, a phrase, something you've learned, something you want to leave the audience with. Whenever you're ready, look into that camera and give them. just a Leanne Morgan sign off of whatever scale you'd like.

Okay. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Look at me sitting up here, a grandmama. And then I think Andrew would have dated me. I think we would have dated. Yeah, we would have dated. I would have flirt in with you. Yeah, we would have dated.

Yeah, we would have dated. Yeah, we would have dated. We would have dated at Arizona State. Oh, God, yeah. Or at Tennessee, if I went to Tennessee. Yeah. We would have dated. We would have, we would have in love.

We would have been in love, and I would have to move to the South, and we would have had a big, big family, 13 kids, 14 maybe, depending. Yes. Yeah. And then we, but no, I'm thinking if we were in skill together, we wouldn't have gotten anything done, we wouldn't have graduated, because you're so fun. Yeah, but we would have had so much fun that life would have just happened

the way it needed to happen. I guess so. We would have owned that bed and breakfast we always been talking about, and that would have been our future. Yes. In here, we pour whiskey. Whiskey, whisk, whisk, whisk. You were that creature in the ginger beard.

Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Ginger's a fugitive. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Ginger's, oh hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger, I like gingers.