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Really now,

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really.

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Really now

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really hello, and welcome to really know really but

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Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden two old

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guys who respectfully ask you to subscribe

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to the show so they can make it big.

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And that, by the way, is something that rarely happens

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in the entertainment business.

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Notoriety and success, if it comes,

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often occurs early in a performer's life.

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It also often leads young stars to

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crushing downfalls, addiction, financial

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ruin, and other personal tragedies.

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That's why our guest today says it's better

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to become famous later in life when you have

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the wisdom and experience to handle it

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all. For Tennessee, housewife Leanne

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Morgan's success came in her late fifties,

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but her incredible talent, wit, and

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perseverance enabled her to segue

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from selling jewelry at in home parties

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to finding success as one of the hottest

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stand up comics in the country.

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She's gone from comedy clubs to big

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arenas, to having her own Netflix's

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comedy special, and now she'll star in an

1:02

upcoming movie with Will Ferrell and Reese

1:04

Witherspoon.

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It all skyrocketed when her first.

1:07

YouTube comedy special reached an audience

1:09

with over fifty million views.

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Really, no, really, Today we'll talk

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about her brand of Southern inspired comedy

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and whether it's truly better hitting.

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It big later in life. So get ready

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to laugh.

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Here's Jason and Peter to introduce their new

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comedy Crush miss Lee and Morgan.

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Yes, look at us, we're hearing you. Where

1:30

would we be? Yeah, you're right? What

1:32

are we doing? You like doing this though? Right? I

1:35

do enjoy this, you do. I am fascinating

1:37

people because of you and people.

1:39

And not only have I met fascinating people, You've gone

1:41

out of your way to introduce me via

1:44

this podcast to people I have been really

1:46

excited to meet, and today

1:48

we get to do that for you because

1:51

you've been talking about our guest. This

1:53

is someone who sort of jumped

1:56

off the screen for you and really

1:58

caught your attention. And I see why I've

2:00

now you know what generally does. This

2:03

is a really special comedian

2:05

and you are, oh my god,

2:07

people that can spend.

2:08

And having been around comedians and we've talked about a new

2:10

Carl and John Rivers of course. Yeah.

2:13

LeAnn Morgan. I watched her comedy

2:15

special and she's Southern and when the specialist

2:18

time I go, she's brilliant and you don't realize

2:20

it brilliant because it doesn't look like she's working down

2:22

for its. It's effortless. So

2:25

I dying to have her on. And

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the really you know really here is she didn't

2:29

really pop and make it, and

2:32

so she was in her fifties and really

2:34

fifty seven.

2:35

Yes, it's so it's a late blooming career.

2:37

I'm not saying a late blooming talent, but a late blooming

2:40

yah.

2:40

And she had opportunities. She'll tell you about that. Because what

2:42

what the really know really for me is and I know we

2:44

discussed this is all those people

2:46

that you run across to go. You know, I'm so glad that I became

2:49

big later in life, because early I wouldn't

2:51

be knowing to have the wisdom later in life to handle it.

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Because all right, Leanne, welcome

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to our show. First of all, thank

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you, and we are so happy to have

3:00

you here. And I am no

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less enamored of you than my friend Peter. However,

3:05

I will tell you what it is specifically

3:07

about you that gets to him.

3:08

And then because he'll tear up if he does.

3:11

Peter considered his relationship

3:14

with the late great Joan Rivers.

3:16

She was like another mother to him.

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She has meant so much to him, and

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what he sees when he watches you perform

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is a very similar not in what

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you talk about or the style, but he

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sees a woman whose success

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has come at a really

3:35

interesting time, with a similar

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work ethic, with an ease with people,

3:40

who is just talking about real

3:42

things in a real way and

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enjoying her audience, and.

3:48

All of the way you do.

3:50

What you do evokes

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for him such a strong connection and

3:55

memory of Joan that he feels

3:57

so warmly and so loving

4:00

toward you, having never met you, that

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he's never been this silent in

4:04

the history of our relationship.

4:07

Because it talked from the heart. And

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we're out of time, by the way, thanks for being with us, Me

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and Morgan. We're actually got a book. She's appearing

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at the tribal for tell

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Everybody, just in case somebody tuned in

4:18

and lean Organ. She has the

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top comedy specials on Netflix. She's got

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tons of a billion views

4:25

YouTube sensation that happened

4:27

later in life, a book coming out, any book

4:29

coming out. She's on and she's getting ready

4:31

for yet another tour and she's as

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big as you can be and as good as you can

4:35

be. And I'm watching you and I'm going son

4:37

of a big it's so good that

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I just wanted to be a little an

4:43

hour out of time. So why you tell

4:45

everybody else how you start? How you start?

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Did you get you the story? Yeah? I know, Peter.

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Thank you for all of your angel

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thank you, thanks a lot to make, and thank you all for

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heaving me.

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We're thrilled. Oh don't be

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Oh, my.

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Husband's not here.

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I thought about that because he would

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be weird, and that weird, and I don't

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lean that. I'm in a hotel room

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in Kansas City, Missouri.

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I've got a show tonight and one tomorrow night,

5:12

and then I can go to Minnesota.

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And I wanted to have.

5:14

One a cute talk, stylish,

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stylish.

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I do have someone now.

5:20

I do have someone now because

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I made a lot of missteps.

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I was on a budget, raising

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a bunch of kids with a tight husband,

5:30

Chuck Morgan was so tight. But

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now I'm not making big purchases, Peter,

5:35

I'm not. I'm not made the biggest

5:38

purchase I've made since this happened to me. And they

5:40

asked me on the Wall Street Journal. And

5:42

it's a playground for my grand babies.

5:44

I bought and.

5:45

It's not that big a deal. It's just one of those things where

5:48

it won't flanter.

5:49

You know. It's got for little children. It won't

5:52

hurt them.

5:53

It's the night's time that they bring in their

5:55

build in your yard.

5:57

I will just warn you if it's made at the plast

6:00

stick stuff with the metal stuff, it's going to heat up

6:02

like an inferno.

6:03

I've burned many a child on those things.

6:05

So and by

6:07

the way, in the South,

6:09

you have stuff in your backyard that's intended to

6:11

kill kids. You got trampoline, you got all

6:13

kinds of stuff. You can go. Oh, nothing happens

6:17

over opens unfed federal dogs.

6:19

I know it's it's the nervous. So

6:21

could you tell everybody just to get people

6:23

listening up to speed, please, Okay.

6:27

I met Chuck Morgan at the University of Tennessee

6:30

and we married and he made a bean

6:32

station Tennessee in the foothills

6:34

of Avalanche mount All the time

6:37

though from the time I was a child, I wanted to

6:39

be in show business, you know,

6:41

but like kitchen, the teeth and you think

6:44

maybe I'm crazy, you.

6:45

Know, I shouldn't think that or whatever. But I

6:47

always had to bake. So we go to

6:49

Think Station.

6:50

I get pregnant with my first baby, Charlie,

6:52

who's now thirty, and I

6:55

wanted to stay home with him a nurse and

6:59

and that like.

7:00

Just spend money and that's not a stick. I'm not kidding,

7:02

Chuck. I wanted to get my hair halighted. I

7:04

wanted to buy Charlie an outfence.

7:06

So one

7:08

of my girlfriends was selling jewelry in the Ashual,

7:10

Tennessee, and she goes, it's like Mary Kay or tuber

7:13

Land, and you'll make a little money and

7:15

you can stay home with Charlie. And I started

7:17

selling jewelry and

7:20

women's houses. At night, we put

7:22

they put a dip out or in a pan of

7:24

brownie.

7:25

We beat deep.

7:26

And then I started like

7:28

I developed an act. And I look

7:30

back on it now and I think,

7:32

oh my gosh. There were no comedy clubs for

7:34

I heard, but I thought I had

7:36

my own little comedy club every night,

7:39

and these women thought I was funny.

7:41

Carmen Peede on a count.

7:42

She now works for my eye doctor at

7:45

her We hold each other every time.

7:47

I see her, I told her, I go, you don't

7:49

understand, Carmen. It was a god thing

7:51

you peed on that count. It gave me the courage

7:53

to go. I think I can make it anyway.

7:57

Woman thought I was funny. They started

7:59

booking my.

8:00

Parties like a year in advance, and

8:02

then the company noticed and asked me to start speaking

8:05

at their big things, and so I would

8:07

do. I was supposed to be talking about booking parties, and

8:09

I talked about breastfeed and hemorrhoids and all that,

8:12

and women would come up.

8:13

To me and say, you need to be a stand up. So

8:15

that gave me the courage.

8:17

And then I went to my first

8:19

comedy club in Nashville to saying open for

8:21

Billy Gardelle. And that was probably

8:23

my baby was eighteen months old.

8:26

She's twenty six.

8:29

So a lot of years of comedy.

8:30

Books, a lot of years, honey.

8:32

And I remember Brian Dortan saying

8:35

to me at Zane's, who is now one of my concert

8:37

promoters, and I love him.

8:39

And he said, Lenn, you cannot You

8:42

cannot do this.

8:43

In clumbs and be a like

8:45

a stand up, like the regular path and

8:48

raise these three children.

8:49

And he was right. I remember it made me mad,

8:52

but he was right. So I just

8:54

had to do when.

8:55

I could and do just a different

8:57

I had to do a different path.

8:58

Yeah, jumping a bit of head social media

9:00

wise, which is still the thing. I explained

9:03

it to Jason, and I laughed as I start to talk

9:05

about it. Is you talking about

9:07

going to the Journey concert.

9:10

And if you forget any bits of the route and Peter

9:12

can fill it in for you, well.

9:15

And that that's what turned everything

9:17

around.

9:18

I'm not kidding.

9:18

I was about to quit.

9:19

I thought I'm gonna go to work at Target. And

9:22

I knew I was having a grand baby, and I said,

9:24

and I thought, if this doesn't

9:26

hit, I paid these two little boys, I say

9:28

little boys, they were in their twenties to

9:30

do my social media.

9:32

I've been putting up pictures of docs.

9:33

And then I

9:35

gave them a little bit of money, well

9:37

a lot of money to me, a lot of money. And

9:40

I thought, I'm gonna give it three months and he put out

9:42

first clent was made taking Chuck Morgan

9:44

to go see Death Leparding Journey. Okay, so what

9:46

I say had one in

9:49

the eighties when I went to the University of Tennessee

9:51

where we went to see Death Leopard and Journey.

9:53

I was, this was the eighties.

9:55

I saw Tina Turner, Brod Stewart,

9:58

John Cougar, Mellen Kane, Felton John,

10:01

and I was so cute and

10:03

tiny in my breeches, you know,

10:05

I was. I had had a metabolism

10:08

and my thyroid was functioning, and I

10:10

didn't care about food.

10:12

You know. I eat a half a can of tuna and

10:14

go, I'm full.

10:17

Well, the man

10:19

Chuck Morgan go to

10:21

Deth Liberty Journey. First of

10:23

all, I thought we were gonna have a date night, and he goes, i' don't

10:26

have time for that.

10:26

Land It was a it was a week night.

10:28

So he stopped at the gas station and got

10:30

a tall Boy and an egg Sally sandwich

10:33

and ate that on the way and

10:35

then he burnt.

10:37

I had to smell that all night.

10:38

But anyway, we get to

10:40

the Thomson Bowling Arena and everybody

10:43

there was fifty and older, and

10:45

everybody was at the snack bar. Journey

10:48

was already on state. Nobody cares, nobody

10:51

cared.

10:51

Everybody was at the snack bar, and

10:55

I was too.

10:55

I was so hungry and I was getting a big thing a

10:57

popcorn, like a big bucket, a popcorn and a

11:00

everybody had a big old dik coke, and I love a dyk

11:02

coat. I'm gonna get all but one. We

11:04

were all sucking on those big dank coats.

11:07

Finally get to the sea, and you

11:09

know, Steve Perry's.

11:10

Not with Journey anymore, which I love. I

11:12

loved him, yes.

11:14

But they something's happened, something's gone down.

11:16

They've had a fallen down. They've hired some little

11:19

man who is tiny from another

11:21

country, who sings just like Stave

11:24

Harry.

11:25

It's crazy. I mean, you shut your eyes

11:27

with no one and you could tell that

11:29

little thing is in good shape.

11:30

And you could tell he hasn't been

11:33

eating white Farne sugar.

11:35

And he hasn't been doing dough.

11:38

You know, we hadn't been taken dough and

11:40

sleeping with nasty women like all

11:43

the old boys in Churny, can you

11:45

know?

11:46

They all so

11:48

that little fella is just going

11:51

up and down that big stage and flipping

11:54

and churning and squatting and don and

11:56

then all those old boys in

11:59

the back looks sick, and.

12:04

There in the back.

12:05

Just barely strumming

12:07

a good tar.

12:10

And then but they

12:12

were wonderful. Okay.

12:13

Then death Lepert comes out, that little man from Death

12:16

Leppert, And

12:18

I asked people in my bed, like, when's the last

12:20

time y'all saw that man? But he comes

12:22

out with legs that they're that

12:25

big, tiny, little frail legs.

12:27

I've never seen legs. It's tiny on a man in

12:30

my life.

12:30

And every once while he prop it up on the little stow,

12:33

you know, it would just barely go.

12:35

And then he had hair down

12:38

to here and it was singing. You

12:40

could see through it, and

12:43

I thought THYROI and I

12:45

thyroid because.

12:48

I've had thyroid issue.

12:50

And then he starts singing,

12:52

put some sugar on it, and that is Chuck

12:54

Morgan's favorite song.

12:56

And my husband is very introverted and does not

12:58

tall.

12:59

I've seen his teeth three times in

13:02

thirty years.

13:05

And he fits up.

13:09

And it starts dancing, and then it's

13:12

back day because his knees hurt.

13:14

You know, and joint

13:16

pain.

13:18

And then the whole time that little man is

13:20

singing put some sugar on it, I'm

13:22

studying his little body, and

13:25

I thought he's got a hunt right

13:27

here up thunder here.

13:29

I thought, what is that hunt?

13:30

Now?

13:31

Old hernia.

13:32

He's got a herd in, because

13:34

I know because I've had a hernia boys the same

13:36

place right here. I was in

13:38

my local dancing with the stores. I hain't to can

13:40

tell you all that, because y'all are big time. I

13:43

was in my local dancing with the stores, got

13:45

a hernia popped out.

13:46

I had to have emergency surgery. Anyway, they

13:49

did.

13:49

Put a mission mine, and

13:51

I often I felt worried about that little man,

13:53

the little deflivery man, and I often thought, I

13:55

hope dury Covid that little

13:58

thing had time to get a mash put in.

14:00

But anyway, they were

14:02

wonderful.

14:03

We had a ball, and then all these

14:05

fifteen older people start walking

14:07

out of Thompson Bowling and everybody's

14:09

just barely going because we've

14:12

all got planter.

14:12

Facehin in our.

14:14

Feet, you know.

14:17

And the whole time I'm thinking, we got to get

14:19

home. It's ten o'clock.

14:21

What are we doing when let's get the car.

14:24

So that's it. That's the ban.

14:25

It's brilliant.

14:27

When you were talking about,

14:29

you know, you were a kid going I

14:32

want to be in show business.

14:32

I want to be in show business.

14:34

Was this the dream

14:36

or did you think Oh, I'd love to be an actress.

14:38

I'd love to be in Hollywood, or I'd love to what

14:41

were you hoping it would be? Versus

14:43

what you are? The road

14:47

you've taken.

14:49

I thought in my mind, probably

14:51

at nine or ten years old, I want to be a movie star.

14:54

I thought movie stars.

14:55

But I was from a town of five

14:58

hundred people, a little farming community.

15:00

My people farm, and I think rural

15:03

kids.

15:03

Think of show businesses all movie

15:05

star, right, But I

15:08

loved sitcoms, and I grew

15:10

up on sitcoms.

15:11

And that was the one.

15:13

By the time I started getting into comedy, and

15:15

probably when I was in college, before I ever tried

15:18

anything, I thought, I

15:20

wish.

15:20

I could be a sitcom star, and

15:23

that became my goal, you know. And I

15:25

and when I got into.

15:27

The business, but people would ask

15:29

me that, you know, mentored me, what do you want to do? And I said,

15:31

I want to go all the way. I want to be a sitcom star. And

15:34

then but I didn't. I mean, I

15:36

don't even know why I even said that, because

15:38

lord, I only took one improv class

15:41

when I was in high school. My little country in high

15:43

school, let us do improv, and I loved it,

15:46

and then U t I didn't do anything.

15:48

I tried to take a theater class and this woman

15:51

with the tight bun on set everybody out

15:53

of here. That's not majoring in theater. And I'm a

15:55

crew follower, so I didn't stand there.

15:58

And it's just crazy

16:00

what I thought. But did y'all know that I've

16:02

done my first movie?

16:04

Yes, yes, yes,

16:06

honey and real Ferrell.

16:09

Oh, it blew my mind.

16:11

And I think little Reese Witherspoon did that for

16:13

me. I met her years ago before Coke,

16:15

before the pandemic, and she and

16:17

I bunded. I could tell, and I

16:19

think that little thing as somebody

16:22

for me to do a table ringing.

16:23

They called me and said, do you want to do a table ring Now? Know

16:26

what's a table ring?

16:27

And I flew out there and I thought I was going to

16:29

die and Will

16:32

was there all their next dole or all these

16:34

people?

16:34

And I did it. And I don't even know how

16:36

in the world, but I got that thing.

16:38

But and I ended up having a ball, and

16:40

I really think that I'd

16:42

like to do it again. By the time I got through

16:45

with that, I thought, Okay, I

16:47

kind of know how things work. It was

16:49

hard for me at first because I really was insecure

16:51

because I I'm used to get to laugh at right,

16:54

you know, And so when everybody's on the set,

16:57

nobody's saying anything that

16:59

really tore me up and mess with me.

17:01

But by the end of it, I thought, Okay, I did it,

17:03

and I know what's funny. I

17:06

might not hit it every time, but I feel like I know

17:08

what's funny.

17:09

And so everybody's saying,

17:11

it's so cute

17:13

and fun and it's gonna do way all day funny

17:16

and I just have a bit part in it. I played Race

17:19

Witherspoon's big sister, which is crazy because

17:21

I outweighed her, weel

17:24

everybody.

17:24

I I felt.

17:26

Like it was like one big breast

17:29

was be size of little Grace Witherspoon's

17:31

little head.

17:32

Leah, you

17:35

are so funny, and I'm thinking

17:37

you and I must might have some similar paths.

17:39

When you were a kid, when you were younger, when you were a

17:41

kid, did you know you were funny?

17:44

Did you think of yourself as being a funny person?

17:47

I did you did?

17:49

See I did you strike me as someone

17:51

who people said, you know you're funny? And

17:53

you went, I am

17:56

I'm surprised, so like, how did you

17:58

know you were funny as a little kid?

17:59

We're were were you the family delight?

18:03

I was?

18:04

I was.

18:04

I was raised around all my grandparents

18:07

and aunts and uncles and

18:09

and they just thought I was so

18:11

kide and fun and they would tell

18:14

me and I was a ham and

18:16

I And let me tell you why, I'm

18:18

embarrassed to even say that, aunt, because I've been

18:20

looking through pictures that I'm going to include in my book.

18:23

In every picture, I'm going duh.

18:26

I mean, I'm a little kid doing it, and

18:30

I'm like, somebody should have slat much everything

18:34

was?

18:35

You know, I was trying to tap and I didn't know how to

18:37

tap because I didn't get to take tamp lessons.

18:39

We were that rural.

18:40

But but yeah,

18:42

I would be funny at school.

18:44

The teachers would say, lamb, will you m see

18:46

this? A aunt? Will you do the announcements?

18:48

I always I found any

18:50

way I could. And I know I

18:53

was cling. I talked too much?

18:55

What's so interesting to me about that? And I don't

18:57

There are two things I'm about to do, and I don't mean

18:59

any of them in the wrong way. I'm going

19:01

to make a comment about there

19:13

are two things I'm about to do, and I don't mean any

19:16

of them in the wrong way. I'm going to make

19:18

a comment about how you look, and I'm going to make

19:20

a general comment about women.

19:21

You are a beautiful woman.

19:23

I think by anybody's definition, you

19:25

are a beautiful, attractive woman. It

19:28

was it's unusual for

19:31

young women of our age, because you're

19:33

just a little younger than me. I

19:36

always found that the really beautiful girls

19:38

were afraid to put out

19:40

a sense of humor, thinking

19:43

that it would expose them in some way

19:45

as being goofy or silly.

19:47

Or somehow crack the attractiveness.

19:50

But it seems like you were either

19:52

unaware of being attractive

19:55

or had nothing on it.

19:59

Well, my

20:01

mama would say, oh, you're the movie star. You're

20:03

gonna be a movie star.

20:04

And I felt pretty too, And

20:07

but I did worry. I did worry

20:09

at times that if I was really funny,

20:11

I wouldn't be as pretty, Like if I made sad

20:14

faces or whatever. I make a lot of faces,

20:16

and I but now, I mean good night.

20:19

Now I'm fifty eight. I ended

20:21

un't bother me at all.

20:22

But I think when I was in clumbs

20:25

in front of an audience that really weren't fans of

20:27

mine.

20:28

They were drunk. It was a lot of men. It

20:30

would make me.

20:31

Feel weird, and it would and I probably

20:33

didn't emote and use

20:36

expression like I would now. I

20:39

think I did kind of dumb it not dumb

20:41

it down. What would it be, you know, just not be

20:43

I mean I wanted to be pretty too.

20:45

Yeah. The other thing that you do that

20:48

that's really something is your clean

20:50

as clean. So when you do Chuck

20:53

Morgan, by the way, I love that you use his full name every

20:55

time you say his name, Chuck, that

20:57

already is a homine. But when you say Chuck would

21:00

do this, I think we're telling me about five love languages.

21:02

And if he did it right, then I would do

21:04

dirty unmentioned both things.

21:05

To unspeakable, unspeakable

21:08

or vulgar or you know, something a stata

21:10

hamm.

21:11

If he buys me something, and then I'm guessing

21:13

I'm forced to do something vulgar to him, and the entire

21:15

audience goes nuts because they insert insert

21:18

what you're thinking there, which is worse than

21:20

anything you can make. I think you said

21:23

in the phrases you use when your kids left

21:25

home, I took to the bed. I

21:27

mean that's far into me. My family never

21:29

talked that way, but I got it. Order Jimmy John

21:32

with your beagles pushing his butt, his butthole

21:34

up to your head. Everybody has it. Everybody

21:36

has that experience. You're finding

21:39

out that he's home, and I think you talked about COVID

21:41

that he was home, and all of a sudden you give you to

21:43

do list and then you get to really know who he is.

21:45

That must have been a shock, right.

21:47

It was a shock, which I've always known he

21:49

was ballsy.

21:52

Yeah, he was at hung during the pandemic and he is

21:54

a real Yeah when I say,

21:57

he really put a kink in things when

22:00

he traveled all of our married life with

22:02

his company and then these kids

22:04

and I.

22:04

Had a ball but

22:07

that's the truth. You know, we ate hot

22:10

dogs and went to Sonic at night.

22:12

So, and how does Ski relate to your too?

22:14

You're doing one hundred You did one hundred dates on

22:16

the Panties Tour.

22:18

Big Panty, so you're gone a lot.

22:20

That must throw the equilibrium of the

22:22

relationship off quite a bit because then he's

22:25

used to being home. Now you're a star,

22:28

all the attention for yet chuck, Yeah, they don't

22:30

want to talk to your Chuck Morgan's me, how does

22:32

that impact the relationship at this point?

22:35

Well, he has been a wonderful rent

22:37

winner. And I

22:40

think also it took him a long time to figure

22:42

out what was happening, because I kept saying, something's

22:45

happening in Chuck, and he'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

22:47

had you closed a brage don't work?

22:49

You know, he didn't even understand what

22:51

was happening.

22:52

And and the Big Panty Tour the

22:54

whole time it's on hundred cities, was very successful,

22:56

and he was like, well it could end more. We

22:59

don't need to be spending money or we don't need to do

23:01

because it could end the mark. Well, then I got my second

23:04

tour.

23:04

I'm on that right now called just getting started

23:06

to her, and and.

23:08

Then I've got a movie, and then I got a booked

23:10

and then you know, and I'm like, Chuck,

23:13

it's happening.

23:14

But but let me.

23:15

I think he's finally caught up, but he's

23:18

at first he was saying we're out of dog food.

23:21

And I remember one day just saying, Chuck, I'm

23:24

sorry, but you're the mom now, like

23:26

you're gonna have you gonna get this done food because

23:30

I can't do all. I did everything. I

23:32

did everything, and I wanted to.

23:34

I loved being a mama and

23:36

then stay at home mom, and I love taking care

23:38

of him.

23:39

I love taking care of our house all there. And

23:42

I just said, Chuck, I can't. I mean, I can't do it.

23:44

I got to be out here to do it.

23:46

But I tell people this because they do worry about

23:48

him, and they go, is Chuck all right with on this? He

23:51

wants me to work like a mule, all

23:55

these children, everybody, all

23:57

of his life, he's a worker. He's type

23:59

A everybody ought to be working and

24:01

suffering. And you know he's fuck an old

24:04

time dad. You know everybody

24:06

ought to be driving old cars. All

24:09

that on Netflix, and I said, is true. I

24:11

drove a two thousand and seven Honda

24:13

Holland I don't

24:15

even know how long I'm until night started playing

24:18

and they were like, you've got to get out and you can't

24:20

drive them. He drives the two thousand

24:22

and seven Tahoe that's

24:25

got tea in the a missing and it just says

24:27

hoe on it.

24:28

And he goes.

24:30

My agent, that's

24:36

so true.

24:37

And my agent said, lin In,

24:39

go over there to that range

24:41

Rover in Knoxville and just get

24:44

something. And I and I'm thinking, oh

24:47

lord, I can't do that. I mean, I got

24:49

an okay car right now, I'm fine, but I

24:51

mean we just don't even live like that. And

24:53

I said to him, I go truck. I think I'm

24:55

not gonna be living this neighborhood. I'm

24:58

living in the house that I raised my ChIL man.

25:01

And there's already been people like come up in

25:03

the yard that know who I am, you know, like some

25:05

Myxander is. And I'm like, I

25:08

think we need the money. He goes, oh my gosh,

25:10

we don't need the money. So he's still he's

25:12

lagging my arm.

25:14

But you know, Len, this is a bit. This is a big

25:16

thing. Now.

25:16

I was lucky enough that my

25:20

success came in stages

25:23

and I was able to more or less a job. I

25:25

mean, Seinfeld was a big jump, and it

25:27

turned my head around for a while too. You

25:29

know, that put me in therapy for a good number of years.

25:32

But but it

25:35

was incremental throughout my teens

25:37

and twenties and thirties and forties. Your

25:40

life has taken a huge shift.

25:43

So it's clear to me you're

25:45

dealing with it beautifully. And you've talked a little bit

25:48

about how Chuck is dealing with it, But how

25:50

do your kids and your friends

25:52

and your extended family, how has life

25:55

and the perception of you changed for them?

25:58

Everybody is still on a lagging behind.

26:01

I mean, I'm in Knoxville, Tennessee, you

26:03

know, with a bunch of darling

26:06

friends who love me no matter what.

26:08

I'm very lucky.

26:09

Rice Witherspoon would say on say it every

26:12

day to our little sister, played, our little

26:14

sister, Meredith Hager.

26:16

You, she said, Blane got to raise her own children.

26:19

You, Meredith, you need to get somewhere and raise

26:21

your children and get out of the

26:23

Hollywood saying you need community.

26:25

And I didn't have community until I moved in off

26:27

to Nashville, is what brief said.

26:29

And it may it dawned on me how what they

26:31

really meant all by that I got to have

26:33

a normal life. I have normal

26:36

friends. They love me no matter what. They

26:38

don't care, they don't. I

26:41

really am lucky about that.

26:43

People have expectations of what fame

26:45

is going to look like and feel like and how they're

26:47

going to be different, and is

26:49

it is it shaping up to be something

26:52

you hoped it would be or is

26:54

it different?

26:55

How does it feel for you?

26:57

It feels weird, and I think I

27:00

really had a hard time when it hit.

27:03

I really went I probably should have been in therapy.

27:05

I had a lot of imposture syndrome.

27:08

I thought, I don't deserve this, and I can't

27:11

even though I've been doing this forever, and

27:13

I you know, I've had television deals

27:15

that didn't make it, and I've had

27:18

ups and downs.

27:18

Times I couldn't get arrested.

27:20

Times when I was on top of the world, it felt like

27:22

I was getting booked. I was on tours, not

27:24

like I am now, But and then other times

27:26

there nobody cared. And so I

27:28

know, I'm I know I'm supposed

27:30

to be here. I know, I mean,

27:33

I put in work. I know then, but

27:35

I felt like an imposture at first. It really

27:38

messed with my head. And I wish I journaled

27:40

because I I put little

27:42

care and meals who opens for me? Who We've

27:44

we've traveled on and off of two thousand and four

27:47

together and we would help each other get gigs

27:49

through the years, and I put her

27:51

through torment.

27:52

I said and said, I don't know about

27:55

this. What I mean, does that suck?

27:57

I suck?

27:58

Was that?

27:58

I mean this material due? But She's like,

28:00

no, it's not.

28:02

So.

28:02

I went through a law during

28:04

the beginning of it, and now it kind of settled

28:06

into it, and I feel

28:08

like I do get nervous, like Netflix is a joke.

28:11

I'll be in that past that'll probably mess.

28:12

With me because that's Bill Burd, Chris Rock, all

28:14

these people, and I'll think book and

28:17

now all subjectson.

28:18

I'm the only fifty eight year old grandmama

28:22

in this bunch, you know.

28:23

I mean, when you think about the women in comedy,

28:26

Chelsea handle Work, Amy

28:28

Schimer, all those

28:30

kind of Wanda says, I mean, there's nobody

28:34

that's a grandmama at fifty eight

28:37

talking about menopause.

28:38

You know.

28:38

I'm and I think I'm lucky that way

28:40

because they ain't talking about anything.

28:41

It doesn't bother me. You know. I don't feel

28:44

like I need to be a Hollywood.

28:45

Starlet in home, but

28:49

the fame part of it, I think, I

28:51

guess it's good to have the money

28:54

that I know we can give

28:56

to our children and everybody doesn't

28:59

have to worry and all.

29:00

But did I think I mean, I thought it was going to be make

29:03

me happier than this. I guess.

29:05

I think I'm just getting to an age Gary just

29:07

doesn't matter to me. You know, I used to

29:09

when I was forty, I used to dream of having a big

29:11

house with like nine commodes. Now

29:16

I'm thinking I don't need all those codes.

29:19

I don't

29:20

ye So

29:22

that's a toilet has really started. That

29:25

kind of defines it. How many toilets does the star

29:27

have? Is the user? I'm curious

29:29

about the material because when you get bigger, too, the

29:32

what happens is you write material based on what you know.

29:34

When you're doing one hundred city tour and

29:37

then you're doing a movie, and then you're doing a book, you're

29:39

not living a life that you lived when you were

29:41

coming up with all that material and that quiet

29:43

and could be introspective. Are you having

29:45

trouble with new material knowing where to go with

29:48

it or because nothing's talking to you?

29:50

Or are you still are you still? Well?

29:53

Not so far?

29:55

But I think it's because I

29:57

have had this full line with

29:59

a bun of kids. I've got green babies now two

30:01

grandsons. I've

30:04

got Chuck Morgan and Chuck Morgan's peculiar

30:06

and he gives me stuff every day.

30:08

But I also like my kids will go mom.

30:11

You never told the story about the outfit that

30:13

dad brought you to the hospital when I was born.

30:16

And I'm like, oh kih. So they all

30:18

kind of help. And I have lived a full

30:20

life.

30:21

So I can say, you know, go back

30:23

to and pull mine from me because

30:26

I have you know, I am a mom

30:28

and uh and I am going to menopause.

30:30

Did they allow you to talk about them or or do they get

30:32

really upset in their because I think there was a story

30:35

about your son where she said, never talk about me again

30:37

on stage. Were you embarrassed him or something about his hair?

30:40

Well, when he was thirteen and

30:43

I started, I was on the radio innxvill

30:46

Tennessee, and

30:48

the he was, uh, it's cool

30:51

already, and I was talking about him going through puberty

30:53

and and I think I said, he sounds

30:55

like Johnny Cage his voice,

30:58

and he and one hair.

30:59

He's got one hair under this arm and nothing

31:01

under this arm.

31:02

And but durned if some little boy went to school with

31:04

it's had an orthodonis appointment and heard it

31:07

on the whitest school and Charlie

31:09

said, don't ever.

31:11

So middle school they said, did not speak

31:13

my name made mouth, and I didn't.

31:15

I did. I got they got real, you

31:17

know, and I understood that.

31:19

And there was one time Chuck Morgan said, years

31:22

ago, when I first got started.

31:24

I said something about it.

31:25

I wanted to get my breas done because I bradsped

31:27

all these children.

31:28

But it's been a bad mobile home year.

31:31

And he said, because he sells mobile homes

31:33

in the mobile home industry.

31:34

And he goes saying that, you.

31:36

Know that I'm a good finder and I could write a check

31:39

for your breast right.

31:40

Now, you

31:43

know what, You're great. The last question that you can get and

31:46

then we'll let you escape is I've

31:49

heard so often we've heard off from the left. You know, I'm

31:51

so glad that my success happened later in life,

31:53

because when I was young, I would

31:55

not have been able to deal with it.

31:58

And I'm curious, do you have he was at or

32:00

you were saying screw that. Yes, yes,

32:03

one hundred percent.

32:04

Yes, I would have been an idiot.

32:06

I was already an idiot. I was

32:08

an idiot in my twenties.

32:10

Y'all would to have h I mean, I

32:13

dated people. Y'all wouldn't want your feet up horrible.

32:19

In the eighties, I was in

32:23

and Chuck Morgan swooped in and saved

32:25

me. I guess, but oh, if I

32:27

had had money and I've been around,

32:30

it's no telling what would happen to me. I did not have

32:32

any sense until I had my

32:34

first baby, and then it was just like okay,

32:37

and then I feel like I woke up.

32:39

But oh no, I couldn't. You know what I see

32:41

these young girls.

32:43

And guys that have got specials that have

32:45

hit on Netflix and their touring. They've got the same

32:47

people I've got, and I think,

32:49

help to think that you've got to sustain

32:52

that, you know, those ticket

32:54

sales, all that kind of stuff for

32:56

forty I mean twenty

32:59

twenty thirty years. I mean, I

33:01

don't think they're strong. They could probably

33:03

do it. I just don't think

33:05

I could do it. I think this is the best thing, best

33:08

timing at

33:10

fifty.

33:12

Well, congratulations you are You've hit

33:14

it huge. You deserve it, and

33:16

you should watch your specially. I'm telling you, guys, I haven't

33:19

seen anything that good. And I've been around. We've been

33:21

around a lot of comtiings, We've worked with a lot of comedians. The

33:23

top meetings and I haven't seen anything that good

33:25

that's funny, and I'm a fan.

33:26

But if anything happens to Chuck Morgan, here's

33:29

your There's I'm

33:31

the Magic.

33:32

Have a wonderful performance tonight and

33:34

a wonderful.

33:35

Tour lifted me up. Thank you.

33:37

The books should be a huge success, you

33:40

darling, Thank you.

33:42

Come by calm all right, bye bye,

33:45

bye bye.

33:56

What's so great about someone

33:58

like that is you see them on stage and go, well, this

34:00

is the persona that she's developed, and she's you

34:02

know, this is how he was thing And maybe she

34:04

pushes the voice a little bit and you go, no, that's

34:06

who she is. She's telling you the truth, and I

34:09

think that's why she scores so hi. As you know she's telling.

34:11

You, you get it and.

34:12

You know what's interesting about her, So you know, she's

34:15

another performer who's sort of hit late

34:17

in life.

34:17

And just you know, to.

34:20

Amuse myself, I started to look at the number

34:22

of people who we think.

34:24

Have always had a career, who

34:27

didn't have it, who started.

34:30

On my Sean Seinfeld Barney Martin, who played

34:32

Jerry's dad, was a wonderful

34:34

film and television. He was a New York

34:36

City cop until

34:38

he was in his late forties, all

34:41

of a sudden made the switch. Melissa McCarthy

34:44

was forty one years old when she did Bridesmaids.

34:47

Wow, Jane Lynch forty

34:51

nine.

34:51

Years old when she did Glee, Leslie

34:54

Jones forty seven years old when she got SNL.

34:57

Christoph Waltz fifty

34:59

three.

34:59

Years years old when he got Glorious Bastards,

35:02

Morgan Freeman fifty when

35:04

he got the movie Street Smart, and that was

35:06

the one that begins but in.

35:08

An eight thousand movies, so they've all been from fifteen

35:10

on.

35:10

And Larry David how old was Larry

35:12

when when we started saying eighty he was

35:14

forty two?

35:17

He had really kind of struggled to that.

35:18

Point, right, he had not he was he

35:20

was he was a stand up but you know he was

35:23

I mean, I don't want to say he wasn't in demand, but you

35:25

know I had heard of.

35:26

Him, but he wasn't the biggest.

35:28

He wasn't doing with Jerry. That was amazing, sir. Jerry

35:30

was already a thing when this happened. Jerry sort

35:32

of hit out of the fact that Jerry knew

35:34

how good Larry was. Yes, well,

35:37

he wasn't that that level, you would think, why

35:39

is he bringing him one? Does he need him? David?

35:44

Was that good for you? Did you enjoy Leanne? I

35:47

did? I did.

35:48

I wasn't familiar here before

35:50

you. You fell in love with her, so

35:52

so yeah, I think we're all learning so much about

35:54

her. And she's just a joy and I love I used

35:56

to spend my summers in Tennessee, so I love that.

35:58

Actually yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a great sound,

36:00

isn't it?

36:01

Just you know, her natural musicality

36:04

is just fun to listen.

36:05

Also, I got sick, so I lie down is not as good

36:07

as I took to.

36:08

The bed, the bed calling

36:11

her husband Chuck Morgan, fantastic,

36:14

Chuck Morren, Check Moore, Look who's here, Chuck Moore?

36:18

So David, what what do we got?

36:20

Leanne of course came out of the gate later

36:22

on in life, having this renaissance

36:25

period in her life, and so I started

36:27

to think about, you know, older people and

36:29

how to age well.

36:30

And I was looking into that and that's really

36:33

really boring. So I

36:37

want to focus.

36:38

On the top ten things

36:40

you shouldn't do if.

36:41

You don't want to look old. Okay,

36:44

here we go.

36:45

Okay, So number ten, if

36:49

your back in the day. Story has

36:51

absolutely no relevance to the conversation

36:53

that's going on.

36:55

Don't tell it, good smart yep.

36:57

Number nine, No one wants your chain,

37:00

and figure out your coupons

37:02

before you get in line.

37:05

My wife, by the way, my wife, which

37:07

drives me crazy, and I love her, so when I talk

37:10

about her, there's no negative. And this is also

37:12

protective protection. Right now, litten me,

37:15

I'm in the line, and I it's like, hold

37:17

on, let me get I have the perfect tank. I go no one,

37:19

don't, don't start, don't care, And now everybody behind

37:22

me is looking like they want to kill me, and she's searching

37:24

for the perfect rank.

37:25

Well, my mother went to the grave with books full of

37:27

s an age green stand.

37:28

They just want you to okay, yeah,

37:30

it happens, It happens.

37:32

Number eight, you don't have to

37:34

answer the phone, And for God's

37:36

sakes, if you do answer the phone, don't

37:39

give them any money.

37:40

Yes, yes, yes.

37:43

Number seven, nobody wants your personal checks

37:45

either. Number six,

37:47

stop paying for that damn

37:50

landline.

37:52

You know what, you know what? Everybody

37:55

makes fun of my line, except when I pick up

37:57

the cell phone her home and hear every fourth word. Why

37:59

would I get rid of a phone that has quarity

38:01

that the people hear me when my cell phone doesn't work. Well, Now,

38:03

yeah, I don't know what it is. I can't. I can't

38:05

cut that line. I can't do

38:08

it. Yeah, yours is sick. Your's

38:10

is all mansioned minus because you can't hear me. So

38:12

yeah, mine is the sickness. Yeah, okay, you're

38:14

right.

38:16

Number five, Relax with

38:18

the checking the mail thing.

38:20

Every day. Got to check the mail.

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Check the mail. That's another thing I do.

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I have a mask lot, nothing of it.

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No one writes a letter if it's.

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I've got coupas, I've got

38:32

catalogs, I've got flyers.

38:34

That's what I've got. And most of my mail

38:36

says residents. What else?

38:39

Number four, of course, on the mail

38:41

topic, never click on the email.

38:44

You don't click on the email.

38:46

And also, is broom them out a thing

38:49

my wife has I am not getting

38:51

now. She did a big cleanup and

38:53

she has now three hundred and fifty

38:56

six emails in her

38:58

email, and I go, that's that's

39:00

madness. That's madness. If

39:03

I have over twenty, I go.

39:05

I gotta get it out. I gotta

39:07

get out. I'll just get rid of them. Unread

39:10

right every

39:12

time? Yes, true, all

39:14

right.

39:14

On Number three, figure out

39:17

your GPS program before

39:19

you're too old to figure.

39:20

Out yep, yep, very good.

39:22

Yep, you're going to get lost at some point

39:25

to use it. Number two, get

39:27

off the Facebook.

39:28

You don't need to be on the face.

39:30

Touch it, don't

39:32

touch it.

39:33

And number one and I think we're all going to agree

39:35

on this one. Stop leaving voicemails.

39:40

Why what's wrong with voicemail?

39:42

You know what I disagreed. I'll tell you why. In business, don't

39:44

teach you. I know you too. No, no, I'll tell you why.

39:46

I'll tell you why. If you want to learn, David, would you like

39:48

to learn something? I would like to

39:52

first rule of business is if I

39:54

call and have but I

39:56

heard, I trust me. He's going to pay for that.

40:00

That that erminal check. Oh yes, come in a

40:02

little late, a little late this month. So here's

40:04

the deal. When you call somebody, hey,

40:06

Jason, I'm doing this tonight.

40:08

I need your help with this. Leave the message instead of

40:11

HI, call me or it text. Absolutely

40:13

it cuts down. You don't have to try and ab thanks

40:16

soblutely. What's wrong?

40:18

What's wrong with them wrong,

40:21

wrong.

40:22

I will say till till I put two feet

40:24

in the grave.

40:25

Ask the guys in the in the thing, in the booth.

40:27

That's all I'm saying. Come on, guys,

40:30

the booth. Anybody they're everything that there is, thirty

40:32

or under a thing and maybe they're a little over.

40:34

Anybody did the booth? Yes, don't leave voicemail,

40:36

you leave voice mail. Yes, nobody's

40:39

because you

40:41

know what they're looking right.

40:44

Fine, Fine, I don't call you, you

40:46

don't call me. That's your marriage. And

40:49

what we found out was communication. What

40:51

we found out is better to be big,

40:54

big star later in life. They did a big later in life

40:57

based on what I can only pray. And

41:00

I'm waiting. I'm waiting at him, but please come

41:02

click. Thank you, Thank you David,

41:04

Thank you.

41:05

Leanne Morgan.

41:05

Have a great show tonight. We'll see in Itgan.

41:10

Now ran as another episode of Really No

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really comes to a close. I know you're wondering

41:14

who is the most successful female

41:16

comic or comic actress in the world.

41:19

That answer in a moment, but first let's thank our

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guest, Leanne Morgan. You can catch Lianne's

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work on her Netflix special Leanne

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Morgan I'm every Woman, and

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Invited, alongside Will Ferrell

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and Reese Witherspoon. You can also pre order

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her book What in the World, A Southern

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41:41

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42:36

Who is the most successful female comic

42:38

or comic actress ever? Well, if you go buy

42:40

awards for work, the top of the list would

42:43

be Whoopy Goldberg with fifty

42:45

nine wins and a bona fide egot

42:47

winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony

42:50

Award. Tina Fey has fifty six wins,

42:52

as does Julia Luis Dreyfus. Melissa

42:54

McCarthy has thirty nine wins, Amy

42:57

Schumer is twenty two, and Mindy Kaling

42:59

has fourteen. Now, if you measure by net worth,

43:01

it gets a little harder to verify, but several

43:04

websites estimate that Ellen DeGeneres

43:06

would be a topper with nearly five hundred million

43:08

dollars, Julia Louis Dreyfuss with

43:10

an estimated two fifty million net worth,

43:12

Melissa McCarthy comes in at ninety million,

43:15

Tina Fey at seventy, and Whitney Cummings

43:17

at thirty million. Amy Schumer, Kristen

43:19

Wigg and Amy Poehler are each worth about.

43:21

Twenty five million. Congratulations to all

43:24

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