October 19, 2023 • 12 mins
In this uproarious episode, Lunell returns to share her insights on the changing landscape of comedy, offering an exclusive glimpse into her Las Vegas residency's laughter-packed world. Plus, she and Tanya engage in a candid discussion about the unique challenges of dating in the comedy realm and the importance of integrating men into comedy shows. Don't miss this hilarious and insightful conversation with the comedy legend herself!Host
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Always include men in your comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you are a female, you know because you are
performing for both genders, not just one, Like, don't be
on stage saying girl, girl, girl, because what do you do?
What about the men?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And then also, I believe that you only get paid
if you are consistent. If you have good days on
stage and bad days on stage, nobody wants to pay
you for your bad day. You have to slay consistently
every time, all the time. They have to be able
to put their money down and say, if she don't
(00:36):
make you laugh, I give your money back. You have
to be able to be so funny that people can
just like get on you consistently all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You're listening to Money News powered by Greenwood, a finance
podcast dedicated to dropping all the knowledge and gems from
the world's leading celebrities, entrepreneurs and experts, and tech, business
and more. I'm your host, angel investor, technology enthusiast, and
media personality Tanya Sam. Each week, we talk with guests
who are making significant strides in their fields and learn
(01:07):
how they are making their money moot. If you're someone
who's looking to make your money move, you're in the
right place. So open up your notes app and lock
us in because this podcast will give you the keys
to the kingdom of financial stability, wealth and abundance you
so rightly deserve. Before we start the episode, I'd like
to remind you to check us out at gogreenwood dot
com and follow us on social media at Greenwood and
(01:31):
me on all things social at It's Tanya time to
stay locked in to new episode.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Okay, so let's bring it back.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You have your packing.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Out audiences, you're starting to make some money. You're in
feature films across the country, and that's like a really.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Big feat, not just the country, it's sort.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Of the world because you have Europeans who loved you
from films like Bora. How do you now, as you've
built out a team and you're building success, how do
you now make sure that you're managing money? Is it
you've got a team that does it for you or
how do you sort of do everything? Be funny, be
on stage, be in Vegas, be a mom, be a wife, Like,
(02:10):
how do you manage the money piece of this?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I do have a bookkeeper, accountant person because as I traveled,
I did not have time to sit and write out
all my bills right out and take for all my bills.
So I needed some help. It basically came from needing help.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
First I needed help with taking care of my bills
in a timely fashion. I needed somebody to help me
with that. So I found a nice young lady Latina,
and she had been doing that for me. And then
as the money grew, you know, she we I had
(02:56):
somebody to talk to you you already had somebody in place.
What she helps me do is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Not spend all my money on documents. Yes, let me see.
Let me see that. It helps me.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's that presidential Rolex honey, see it. She helps me
not do that, and to make sure that my taxes
are paid and estimated tax and all that which I hate.
And that's why I've just recently moved to Las Vegas
(03:32):
for the task break. I'm talking to you from my
house in Las Vegas right now. I still have my
home in Los Angeles and a studio apartment and a
recording studio in La but my primary residence is now
here in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I said, do you hear that, mister taxman, her primary residences?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I'm in the process of doing all all that registration,
car insurance ID change over to Nevada before the end
of the year, so I can you know, Nevada don't
have no taxes like.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That, so that was a good move.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And I needed to do a purchase because I wasn't
making money and you know, I didn't have enough write off.
So you know, you just have to learn about that
type of stuff. It's better if you learn it sooner later. Also,
you do have to keep your eye on your your
bookkeeper too, because they have access to your stuff and
(04:38):
they can embezzle it any time, and if you're busy,
you just won't notice it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But I have somebody watching everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know it's funny because I want to ask you too,
if you have any advice for you know, emerging comedians
because the game is so different. Right now we're going
to talk about your next special. We want to talk
about only fans as well. But you know, the game
of comedy is changed with social media, and you've been
very vocal about you know, people who assume they're funny
and a social media influencer and also calling themselves comedians.
(05:12):
So what advice would you have for up and coming.
You know, women, especially in the game, men in the
game who want to pursue comedian comedy as like a career.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I really don't like to give advice because I find
that when I give advice, I really want you to
take it, and I don't want to waste my breath
of my time talking to somebody who's got their mind
up made up.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You know from being younger yourself that when you're young,
can nobody tell you nothing. Even if they tell you,
you don't. You know, you have to find it out
for yourself. So I'd rather not give advice because they
don't listen no way. You sort of just have to
bump their own head in this game. But I know
(06:02):
that when it comes to being a female to me,
you have to be what I call guy funny, and
that means that you're not just talking to women, you're
talking to men as well.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
In your audience. You don't want to alienate the men.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
They'll sit right there and pull up the football game
in fun of you, the man. You want to be
funny enough to where men will come to you even
without the girl. That is a big big deal because
most men don't come see female comics unless another female
has drugged them there to see one and you know
(06:39):
what the drug is, and they barely get together with
their boys and go like let's go see you know,
blah blah blah. But I think that you should always
include men in your comedy if you are a female,
you know, because you are performing for both genders, not
just one, Like, don't be on stage saying.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Girl, girl, girl, because what do you do? What about
the men? You know?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And then also I believe that you only get paid
if you are consistent. If you have good days on
stage and bad days on stage, nobody wants to pay
you for a bad day. You have to slay consistently
every time, all the time. They have to be able
to put their money down and say, if she don't
(07:28):
make you laugh, I give your money back. You have
to be able to be so funny that people can
just like bet on you consistently all the time. Whether
you're in Iowa or whether you're in Chicago, or whether
you're in Hawaii or you're in Nantucket, or whether you're
in Connecticut or you're in Oakland. You have to be
(07:48):
able to be funny everywhere you go, period. And it
also it's a sacrifice because if you have a sick
kid at home and you have a show, you got
to go do the show because how you're going to
get the money to take care of the kid. So
it's a lot of sacrifice as a female. A lot
of men can't handle it. If you're traveling and you're
(08:11):
not home to you know, hold their dick for them
on their birthday, a cooking meal from a Valentine Day.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Then they feel sometime they neglected.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I'm exhausted by it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So yeah, it's a tricky. It's a tricky type rope
to walk. You know, you do take you know, like
my personal life is taking a hit for sure, because
I don't want to be bothered with long distance relationships
anymore because they just don't serve me well, you know,
(08:46):
looking to date here in Las Vegas because this is
one place where I am consistently. If you want to
see me without having to get on a plane, then
you need to be in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's the way I feel.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh I love that, you know what, But I feel
like that's so true for always. You know, women were
always the sidekicks to the men. We would travel with them.
They're like I work seven days a week. I want
you to be in my bed greeting me when I
come home. That feels like a very fair compromise.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
With question. Well, to us, it feels that way. I
don't know. You know, I'm not a man.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know how they feel, but I know what
they have told me, and you know, it's a it's
a it's not an easy thing for you have to
be a certain kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You have to be a certain kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, you have to be a certain kind of guy
to deal with the woman who's schedule is like mine.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The fact that I'm around men ninety nine percent of
the time, in and out of town, in and out
my room, zipping up my clothes. My assistant is a male.
My sister that's on the road with me is a male.
My assistant at home in LA is a female, but
she doesn't travel with me. He does. So you know,
they have to be they have to be okay with
(10:00):
all of that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And you know, if they have the means and can
travel with you on their own time or with the
miles that you accumulate, because you know, God knows where.
You know, Platinum on every airline because we fly so
much and we have miles and miles, and I can
fly my family or anybody I want a round. But
(10:22):
it's not about me flying them. It's about whether they
have the means and the desire to come meet. And
if I'm in Chicago for New Year's Eve, are you
going to sit home and powder?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Are you going to try to get to Chicago and
be with me for New Years?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So you have to have people who have enough money
to sustain a relationship like this.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And be a man. And here's the thing, and be
a man, because that's the thing. As you get older,
and this is all the relationship piece of it. But
I wonder too, as you get older, right does it be?
I'm you know, like, what does the dating pool look like?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
What what is what is your what is your maximum
age that you would date?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Maximum? Yes, the maximum age? The old the oldest like
sixty okay.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Okay, okay, not sixty five, not sixty five, not sixty eight,
not seventy two, sixty okay.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And the youngest like like thirty five, thirty five.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Thirty five.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I feel that for you for a little fun.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You know, Okay, that's who I would date.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's not who I would sleep with I'll sleep with
somebody younger than that. Okay, well you heard it here.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
This should be a show.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Thanks for listening to today's episode. If we helped you
make your money move, please share it with your community,
Subscribe and leave us a review on iHeartRadio and Apple podcasts.
Follow us on social media at Greenwood and visit us
at Gogreenwood dot com for more financial tips and remember,
money movers. If this were easy, everyone would do it.
So take the lessons you've learned from this episode and
(12:11):
apply it to your life. Money Moves is an iHeartRadio
podcast powered by Greenwood Executive produced by Sunwise Media, Inc.
For more podcasts on iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts from. Make sure to
tune in Monday, Wednesday and Friday and subscribe to the
Money Moves podcast powered by Greenwood, so that you too
(12:33):
can have the keys to financial freedom you so rightly deserve.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Until next time,
Always include men in your comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you are a female, you know because you are
performing for both genders, not just one, Like, don't be
on stage saying girl, girl, girl, because what do you do?
What about the men?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And then also, I believe that you only get paid
if you are consistent. If you have good days on
stage and bad days on stage, nobody wants to pay
you for your bad day. You have to slay consistently
every time, all the time. They have to be able
to put their money down and say, if she don't
(00:36):
make you laugh, I give your money back. You have
to be able to be so funny that people can
just like get on you consistently all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You're listening to Money News powered by Greenwood, a finance
podcast dedicated to dropping all the knowledge and gems from
the world's leading celebrities, entrepreneurs and experts, and tech, business
and more. I'm your host, angel investor, technology enthusiast, and
media personality Tanya Sam. Each week, we talk with guests
who are making significant strides in their fields and learn
(01:07):
how they are making their money moot. If you're someone
who's looking to make your money move, you're in the
right place. So open up your notes app and lock
us in because this podcast will give you the keys
to the kingdom of financial stability, wealth and abundance you
so rightly deserve. Before we start the episode, I'd like
to remind you to check us out at gogreenwood dot
com and follow us on social media at Greenwood and
(01:31):
me on all things social at It's Tanya time to
stay locked in to new episode.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Okay, so let's bring it back.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You have your packing.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Out audiences, you're starting to make some money. You're in
feature films across the country, and that's like a really.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Big feat, not just the country, it's sort.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Of the world because you have Europeans who loved you
from films like Bora. How do you now, as you've
built out a team and you're building success, how do
you now make sure that you're managing money? Is it
you've got a team that does it for you or
how do you sort of do everything? Be funny, be
on stage, be in Vegas, be a mom, be a wife, Like,
(02:10):
how do you manage the money piece of this?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I do have a bookkeeper, accountant person because as I traveled,
I did not have time to sit and write out
all my bills right out and take for all my bills.
So I needed some help. It basically came from needing help.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
First I needed help with taking care of my bills
in a timely fashion. I needed somebody to help me
with that. So I found a nice young lady Latina,
and she had been doing that for me. And then
as the money grew, you know, she we I had
(02:56):
somebody to talk to you you already had somebody in place.
What she helps me do is.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Not spend all my money on documents. Yes, let me see.
Let me see that. It helps me.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's that presidential Rolex honey, see it. She helps me
not do that, and to make sure that my taxes
are paid and estimated tax and all that which I hate.
And that's why I've just recently moved to Las Vegas
(03:32):
for the task break. I'm talking to you from my
house in Las Vegas right now. I still have my
home in Los Angeles and a studio apartment and a
recording studio in La but my primary residence is now
here in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I said, do you hear that, mister taxman, her primary residences?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I'm in the process of doing all all that registration,
car insurance ID change over to Nevada before the end
of the year, so I can you know, Nevada don't
have no taxes like.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That, so that was a good move.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And I needed to do a purchase because I wasn't
making money and you know, I didn't have enough write off.
So you know, you just have to learn about that
type of stuff. It's better if you learn it sooner later. Also,
you do have to keep your eye on your your
bookkeeper too, because they have access to your stuff and
(04:38):
they can embezzle it any time, and if you're busy,
you just won't notice it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But I have somebody watching everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know it's funny because I want to ask you too,
if you have any advice for you know, emerging comedians
because the game is so different. Right now we're going
to talk about your next special. We want to talk
about only fans as well. But you know, the game
of comedy is changed with social media, and you've been
very vocal about you know, people who assume they're funny
and a social media influencer and also calling themselves comedians.
(05:12):
So what advice would you have for up and coming.
You know, women, especially in the game, men in the
game who want to pursue comedian comedy as like a career.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I really don't like to give advice because I find
that when I give advice, I really want you to
take it, and I don't want to waste my breath
of my time talking to somebody who's got their mind
up made up.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You know from being younger yourself that when you're young,
can nobody tell you nothing. Even if they tell you,
you don't. You know, you have to find it out
for yourself. So I'd rather not give advice because they
don't listen no way. You sort of just have to
bump their own head in this game. But I know
(06:02):
that when it comes to being a female to me,
you have to be what I call guy funny, and
that means that you're not just talking to women, you're
talking to men as well.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
In your audience. You don't want to alienate the men.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
They'll sit right there and pull up the football game
in fun of you, the man. You want to be
funny enough to where men will come to you even
without the girl. That is a big big deal because
most men don't come see female comics unless another female
has drugged them there to see one and you know
(06:39):
what the drug is, and they barely get together with
their boys and go like let's go see you know,
blah blah blah. But I think that you should always
include men in your comedy if you are a female,
you know, because you are performing for both genders, not
just one, Like, don't be on stage saying.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Girl, girl, girl, because what do you do? What about
the men? You know?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And then also I believe that you only get paid
if you are consistent. If you have good days on
stage and bad days on stage, nobody wants to pay
you for a bad day. You have to slay consistently
every time, all the time. They have to be able
to put their money down and say, if she don't
(07:28):
make you laugh, I give your money back. You have
to be able to be so funny that people can
just like bet on you consistently all the time. Whether
you're in Iowa or whether you're in Chicago, or whether
you're in Hawaii or you're in Nantucket, or whether you're
in Connecticut or you're in Oakland. You have to be
(07:48):
able to be funny everywhere you go, period. And it
also it's a sacrifice because if you have a sick
kid at home and you have a show, you got
to go do the show because how you're going to
get the money to take care of the kid. So
it's a lot of sacrifice as a female. A lot
of men can't handle it. If you're traveling and you're
(08:11):
not home to you know, hold their dick for them
on their birthday, a cooking meal from a Valentine Day.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Then they feel sometime they neglected.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I'm exhausted by it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
So yeah, it's a tricky. It's a tricky type rope
to walk. You know, you do take you know, like
my personal life is taking a hit for sure, because
I don't want to be bothered with long distance relationships
anymore because they just don't serve me well, you know,
(08:46):
looking to date here in Las Vegas because this is
one place where I am consistently. If you want to
see me without having to get on a plane, then
you need to be in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's the way I feel.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh I love that, you know what, But I feel
like that's so true for always. You know, women were
always the sidekicks to the men. We would travel with them.
They're like I work seven days a week. I want
you to be in my bed greeting me when I
come home. That feels like a very fair compromise.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
With question. Well, to us, it feels that way. I
don't know. You know, I'm not a man.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know how they feel, but I know what
they have told me, and you know, it's a it's
a it's not an easy thing for you have to
be a certain kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You have to be a certain kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, you have to be a certain kind of guy
to deal with the woman who's schedule is like mine.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The fact that I'm around men ninety nine percent of
the time, in and out of town, in and out
my room, zipping up my clothes. My assistant is a male.
My sister that's on the road with me is a male.
My assistant at home in LA is a female, but
she doesn't travel with me. He does. So you know,
they have to be they have to be okay with
(10:00):
all of that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And you know, if they have the means and can
travel with you on their own time or with the
miles that you accumulate, because you know, God knows where.
You know, Platinum on every airline because we fly so
much and we have miles and miles, and I can
fly my family or anybody I want a round. But
(10:22):
it's not about me flying them. It's about whether they
have the means and the desire to come meet. And
if I'm in Chicago for New Year's Eve, are you
going to sit home and powder?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Are you going to try to get to Chicago and
be with me for New Years?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So you have to have people who have enough money
to sustain a relationship like this.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And be a man. And here's the thing, and be
a man, because that's the thing. As you get older,
and this is all the relationship piece of it. But
I wonder too, as you get older, right does it be?
I'm you know, like, what does the dating pool look like?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
What what is what is your what is your maximum
age that you would date?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Maximum? Yes, the maximum age? The old the oldest like
sixty okay.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Okay, okay, not sixty five, not sixty five, not sixty eight,
not seventy two, sixty okay.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And the youngest like like thirty five, thirty five.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Thirty five.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I feel that for you for a little fun.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You know, Okay, that's who I would date.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's not who I would sleep with I'll sleep with
somebody younger than that. Okay, well you heard it here.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
This should be a show.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Thanks for listening to today's episode. If we helped you
make your money move, please share it with your community,
Subscribe and leave us a review on iHeartRadio and Apple podcasts.
Follow us on social media at Greenwood and visit us
at Gogreenwood dot com for more financial tips and remember,
money movers. If this were easy, everyone would do it.
So take the lessons you've learned from this episode and
(12:11):
apply it to your life. Money Moves is an iHeartRadio
podcast powered by Greenwood Executive produced by Sunwise Media, Inc.
For more podcasts on iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts from. Make sure to
tune in Monday, Wednesday and Friday and subscribe to the
Money Moves podcast powered by Greenwood, so that you too
(12:33):
can have the keys to financial freedom you so rightly deserve.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
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