October 16, 2023 • 16 mins
This week we are joined by a true comedy legend, Lunell! Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of comedy with this fearless and sharp-witted icon. Luenell's comedy journey, from her early beginnings to her fantastic Vegas residency, is packed with side-splitting stories and insightful industry insights. If you're an aspiring comedian or simply a fan of hilarious tales, Luenell also imparts valuable advice that's not to be missed. Plus, don't forget to catch her new comedy special, now available on Netflix! Get ready for a laughter-filled episode that showcases the wit and wisdom of a comedy powerhouse!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They sent me and I got to part and that
was my first movie, which was also Mike Maya's first
movie before he started all the Austin Powers franchise.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to Money Moves powered by Greenwood, a finance
podcast dedicated to dropping all the knowledge and gems from
the world's leading celebrities, entrepreneurs, and experts in 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
(00:31):
how they are making their money moose. 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
(00:55):
me on all Things social at It's Tanya. Time to
stay locked in to new episode. Hey, money Movers, We're back.
I'm your hosts Tanya Sam. Get ready today for some
laughs and candid conversations, because today we have a comedy
legend in the house, the original bad girl of comedy.
She's a powerhouse on stage and screen, known for her
(01:15):
unapologetic humor and savage wit. You've seen her in films,
heard her voice across animated series, and watched her steal
the show in stand up comedy routines. She's a true
icon of the world of comedy, bringing her unique style
and no old bard commentary on life's quirks and challenges.
Money Movers, Please welcome the one the Only Lunelle to
(01:36):
the Money Moves Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Hi now I a there.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh my gosh, Well, it is such a pleasure to
have you on the podcast today. I'm super excited to
tell our Moneymover's audience how you got to where you are,
how you built this house that you so rightly wear
the crown in, and learn a little bit more about
how you've been thinking about making your money move over
the past history of such an incredible career.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay, I'll do my best.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well it's alwasy. Let me start from the beginning. I
want to go back and if you could, I want
you to introduce our audience to little Lou Noel tell
us sort of how you grew up, and I want
you to frame it from like how you thought about
money in your household or did you always know that
you would be rich, famous, a star.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I was born in Talland, Arkansas. I'm the eighth of
eight children. I have seven brothers and sisters and seventeen
nieces and nephews and one daughter.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Wow. But I wasn't raised in.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Arkansas through some circumstances in the family. I was raised
away from my brothers and sisters in California, specifically in
the Oakland Bay area.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
My parents.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I lived way better than my siblings because my parents
were professionals. My father was a supervisor of custodians for
Heyward Area Recreation in Park District. My nurse my mother
was a nurse at Holland Hospital in Oakland, and we
always lived well. So I've been around money all my life.
(03:08):
Not so fortunate for my siblings, however, who were raised
in Arkansas with my mother who was single sights, but
they were raised not as populently as myself. Of course,
that you caused a little resument and contention in the
(03:29):
early years, but things have even down now. I know
that I don't want to say that I've always known
that I was going to have money, but I know
it was always a goal of mine to have money,
and I didn't know that doing comedy when I started
(03:49):
was going to be the way that I was going
to make it because at the time when I started,
this was before Comic View, before Deaf Jam, before blackfl
on TV and a regular so we were just in
the clubs doing it, you know, fifty dollars, maybe a
couple of drinks, something to eat maybe, So I didn't
really know that that's.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Where my money would come.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And my whole career has been sort of a fluke,
like there's no blueprint to how I got where I am.
I don't think there's a blueprint for anybody. I think
everybody's journey is different. So film and television actually were
my first introductions to money before it. Stand up was
(04:32):
I went to an audition for a friend who couldn't
go and landed the part.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I love those stories.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, my friend, and this would never happen today, But
back then my friend couldn't go to an audition. They
the agent needed somebody. They said, well can I send
my friend? They sent me, and I got the part,
and that was in my first movie, which was also
Mike Maya's first movie before he started all the Austin
Powers franchise. So I Married an ACTI Murderer? What was
(05:00):
the first movie? The second movie I did, which got
me into the Union, was also filmed in the Bay Area.
That was the rock that would starting Sean Connery and
Nicholas Cage was filmed on Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I also was working.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I got picked to work as a television host on
a local television network called the Sobe Television Network which
was in Open which was all black owned and operated,
training on the job training before b ET came out.
This was years and years ago, so I was already
on TV. Same to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay, this I got a question now, because you're right,
this is the nineties, and I remember Mike Myers, I
remember So I Married an AX Murderer. Those were huge,
major motion pictures at the time. Like, even though this
is before like I grew up, it was hilarious. It
was so funny. What about the girl that you stole
her audition? Are y'all still friends and is she like,
(06:00):
oh my gosh, she took my shot.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It was a guy who sent me on the audition,
and yeah we're still friends to this day.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh good, good, gid good.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Okay, So you know, a lot of people I think
know you as you know, this incredibly power post comedian.
You're just funny. I'm sure, like listen born funny, you know,
came from this family.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But have this.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Litany of mut movie credits. You've been in tons and
tons of films. When is it that you feel like
you looked back and you're like, damn, I'm making some money.
I might have made it. You know, at what point
in your career did you have that small moment when
you're like, Okay, I might be doing something.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Here well financially To this day, the most financially lucrative
film that I ever did was Borat. When I did
it was oh yeah, you know, I have different demographics.
So I have white people that know about stuff that
I do that's white related that black people don't know about.
(07:05):
And I have black stuff and I do that white
people don't know about. Then I have middle of the
road stuff, you know, just like I'm on Hacks, which
is on HBO MACS, I'm Jeans Smart. Well, a lot
of black people don't know about that show. I'm also
did a part on another show called Tiny Beautiful Things
for Amazon. A lot of people don't know about that show.
(07:26):
But then there's white people who don't know who Cat
Williams is. You know, there's there's there's it's just different demographic.
I just happened to straddle the line on both sides.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Bull Raight for sure, though, was the biggest movie that
I've I've done financially.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know that's that certainly says something for how you've
been able to diversify because I love that. You're like, look,
there's white people who know me from here, there's black
people that might know me for here from comedy, but
all these things. This is how you sort of have
longevity in like the fickle world of Hollywood for sure.
But I love Tiny Beautiful Things like that show is funny.
I love for igot that you were on there. That
(08:06):
is amazing. Let's let's go back into sort of this
the journey of comedy as well. You are one of
the first females to have your own Las Vegas residency
for comedy, like unheard of. What was it like trying
(08:26):
to navigate this because I know, you know, And I
don't want to go too far into this idea that,
oh my gosh, comedy is a male dominated industry, because
it is. But you've got trailblazers and icons like yourself
who are doing their thing. How did the residency come about,
because that's a major money move.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, I'm not the first, but I am one of
the few, because I do believe that maybe Marshall Warfield
might have been the first black female to have a
residency in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And I really don't.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Know as far as comedy goes, I really don't know
lot of others. I had been working at a club
called Tommy T's in the Bay Area for years and
Tommy got the opportunity to bring some comics to the
SLS which is now the Sahara here in Vegas, and
(09:18):
I was one of the comics that he brought down there.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Eddie Griffin was already doing.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Monique was doing Thursday, Friday, Saturday. They
had a slot for Sunday, so I did Sunday. I
thought this Sunday was going to be a difficult day
to do because it's Sunday. But of course Sunday in
Las Vegas is like Friday and Saturday anywhere else. I
(09:44):
started doing the Sundays and then Monique also had some difficulties.
I think her twins were new at that time, and
so she wanted to stay home more with the kids.
So I took over more days for her, and they
were very popular. So when that one ended, my agency
(10:05):
because you know, it's not about how cute you are,
it's not even about how fun you are. What is
it about is can you put asses in those seats?
Can you make us some money?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And so I had been doing that. So my agency
knew that Jimmy Kimmel was starting a comedy club. I
believe it started in probably twenty nineteen, and so they
went to them with the numbers and like, hey, this
girl that's pretty good out here, you might want to
consider her to come to your club. I guess that's
(10:38):
how the conversation went. And then I started my residency here.
Now I was only doing one night, I was only
doing Sunday nights.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Then on March.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Fifteenth of twenty twenty is when Las Vegas shut down,
and I'll never forget that day because my birthday is
March twelfth, and we were we were going to have
a party and everything like that. I got an email
just hours before the show saying, hey, we're not you know,
we're canceling the show until further notice.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Da da.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So oh god, that was such a crazy time.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Two years and nine months.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, two years and nine months before I was able
to come back, and I'm glad that they brought me
back here to Kimmel's And now I'm doing Sundays and
Mondays at nine thirty here in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Okay, tell me about the crowd because I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I love your sense of humor. I feel like you
got to wit to punch the pack. You are like
the secret spirit animal that I wish I had. That
I could just go out there and be like, ah,
tell everybody what I think, so like we all live
through you. Tell me what the crowd is, because I
think this is so interesting as you pack out seats.
Is it black people? Is it white people? Who's coming
(11:57):
to see you in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It really vary.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What it's not is it's not like a the regular
club like on the road. You know, a regular club
on the road, I can usually expect you know, mostly
black people and some white people. But in Vegas. Here
there's a lot of walk ups, people who just walking
by and say, oh my god, she's here. There's people
(12:21):
from Europe who just want to see the girl from Borat.
They may not even understand England, they just want to
see me. There's lots of people who plan their trips
to Vegas around my show because you know, you could
come see Usher on Saturday and go see me on Sunday.
You know you got a three day weekend boom there.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
My crowds vary. Some nights it's a lot of black
people with a few white people. Sometimes it's mostly white
people with a few black people. But if you're a
professional comedian, your job is to entertain all the people
all the time, and so that's what I'm able to do.
(13:03):
I don't get intimidated. I don't have any problem with
my comedy translating over from different audiences because what I
talk about is universal. You know, if you talk about
weight or kids, or food or sex. So that's what
I basically. Of course, I always speak from a you know,
(13:26):
African American standpoint, and I do teach a little bit
when I do my comedy because they're trapped and they
have to listen or they can leave, like Paul Mooney
like to run them out.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And I.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Also only can only speak from a female standpoint, so
you're getting a black female's perspective on everything.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You come see me.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But it's digestible. It's not nothing that's stuff down your throat.
It's not, you know, like you're going to a black
anther party. Although I do have my days, you know,
depending on what's going on in the world, you know,
because it's not been a great season for white people around.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The water lately. This is true between.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The submarine and that mollywop they got on the back.
You know, I've been a good season, and I do
talk about that.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Too, now you now you know, I have a question
because you brought the submarine, and I have to ask everyone.
Would you've gotten on that submarine if it was free?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Not only would I not have gotten I don't know
anybody who would have gotten on there because just like
I say in my act, you they're not marine biologists.
They didn't go down there to help nobody. This is
more about privilege and money. And I can do it
because I have the money to do it. They didn't
take that money and pull it and try to help nobody. No,
(14:48):
they just did that. That was that's about privilege. And
then they signed the paper saying if you go down here,
you might die, okay, And then it's not you know,
and you gotta go down there by the Titanic with
all them souls down there waiting for you to come down.
Not to mention my people that was thrown off into
(15:09):
the water before the Titanic even went down. Oh yeah,
so you know, it's not no place I would have
gone to my vacation destination, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Not for that money either.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I just I just had to ask. And I'm sure
there's people who would have gone down there. You know,
maybe Diddy, you know, he's such a crazy narcissist, he
might would have went down there, or you know, maybe
maybe I don't know somebody. But but but not this girl,
and not nobody I.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Deal with, not me, not me. And first of all,
you know how small that thing is. That actually would
have been my worst nightmare. It was tiny. It was
like a small Kia Sorrento. Everybody just like it was
tiny and then just pack it. But I'm not.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm not even getting in a Kia, so you well listen.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's testament, That's why I land. That's onland. Thanks for
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Speaker 3 (16:48):
Until next time,
They sent me and I got to part and that
was my first movie, which was also Mike Maya's first
movie before he started all the Austin Powers franchise.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to Money Moves powered by Greenwood, a finance
podcast dedicated to dropping all the knowledge and gems from
the world's leading celebrities, entrepreneurs, and experts in 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
(00:31):
how they are making their money moose. 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
(00:55):
me on all Things social at It's Tanya. Time to
stay locked in to new episode. Hey, money Movers, We're back.
I'm your hosts Tanya Sam. Get ready today for some
laughs and candid conversations, because today we have a comedy
legend in the house, the original bad girl of comedy.
She's a powerhouse on stage and screen, known for her
(01:15):
unapologetic humor and savage wit. You've seen her in films,
heard her voice across animated series, and watched her steal
the show in stand up comedy routines. She's a true
icon of the world of comedy, bringing her unique style
and no old bard commentary on life's quirks and challenges.
Money Movers, Please welcome the one the Only Lunelle to
(01:36):
the Money Moves Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Hi now I a there.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh my gosh, Well, it is such a pleasure to
have you on the podcast today. I'm super excited to
tell our Moneymover's audience how you got to where you are,
how you built this house that you so rightly wear
the crown in, and learn a little bit more about
how you've been thinking about making your money move over
the past history of such an incredible career.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay, I'll do my best.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well it's alwasy. Let me start from the beginning. I
want to go back and if you could, I want
you to introduce our audience to little Lou Noel tell
us sort of how you grew up, and I want
you to frame it from like how you thought about
money in your household or did you always know that
you would be rich, famous, a star.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I was born in Talland, Arkansas. I'm the eighth of
eight children. I have seven brothers and sisters and seventeen
nieces and nephews and one daughter.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Wow. But I wasn't raised in.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Arkansas through some circumstances in the family. I was raised
away from my brothers and sisters in California, specifically in
the Oakland Bay area.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
My parents.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I lived way better than my siblings because my parents
were professionals. My father was a supervisor of custodians for
Heyward Area Recreation in Park District. My nurse my mother
was a nurse at Holland Hospital in Oakland, and we
always lived well. So I've been around money all my life.
(03:08):
Not so fortunate for my siblings, however, who were raised
in Arkansas with my mother who was single sights, but
they were raised not as populently as myself. Of course,
that you caused a little resument and contention in the
(03:29):
early years, but things have even down now. I know
that I don't want to say that I've always known
that I was going to have money, but I know
it was always a goal of mine to have money,
and I didn't know that doing comedy when I started
(03:49):
was going to be the way that I was going
to make it because at the time when I started,
this was before Comic View, before Deaf Jam, before blackfl
on TV and a regular so we were just in
the clubs doing it, you know, fifty dollars, maybe a
couple of drinks, something to eat maybe, So I didn't
really know that that's.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Where my money would come.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And my whole career has been sort of a fluke,
like there's no blueprint to how I got where I am.
I don't think there's a blueprint for anybody. I think
everybody's journey is different. So film and television actually were
my first introductions to money before it. Stand up was
(04:32):
I went to an audition for a friend who couldn't
go and landed the part.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I love those stories.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, my friend, and this would never happen today, But
back then my friend couldn't go to an audition. They
the agent needed somebody. They said, well can I send
my friend? They sent me, and I got the part,
and that was in my first movie, which was also
Mike Maya's first movie before he started all the Austin
Powers franchise. So I Married an ACTI Murderer? What was
(05:00):
the first movie? The second movie I did, which got
me into the Union, was also filmed in the Bay Area.
That was the rock that would starting Sean Connery and
Nicholas Cage was filmed on Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I also was working.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I got picked to work as a television host on
a local television network called the Sobe Television Network which
was in Open which was all black owned and operated,
training on the job training before b ET came out.
This was years and years ago, so I was already
on TV. Same to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay, this I got a question now, because you're right,
this is the nineties, and I remember Mike Myers, I
remember So I Married an AX Murderer. Those were huge,
major motion pictures at the time. Like, even though this
is before like I grew up, it was hilarious. It
was so funny. What about the girl that you stole
her audition? Are y'all still friends and is she like,
(06:00):
oh my gosh, she took my shot.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It was a guy who sent me on the audition,
and yeah we're still friends to this day.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh good, good, gid good.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Okay, So you know, a lot of people I think
know you as you know, this incredibly power post comedian.
You're just funny. I'm sure, like listen born funny, you know,
came from this family.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But have this.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Litany of mut movie credits. You've been in tons and
tons of films. When is it that you feel like
you looked back and you're like, damn, I'm making some money.
I might have made it. You know, at what point
in your career did you have that small moment when
you're like, Okay, I might be doing something.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Here well financially To this day, the most financially lucrative
film that I ever did was Borat. When I did
it was oh yeah, you know, I have different demographics.
So I have white people that know about stuff that
I do that's white related that black people don't know about.
(07:05):
And I have black stuff and I do that white
people don't know about. Then I have middle of the
road stuff, you know, just like I'm on Hacks, which
is on HBO MACS, I'm Jeans Smart. Well, a lot
of black people don't know about that show. I'm also
did a part on another show called Tiny Beautiful Things
for Amazon. A lot of people don't know about that show.
(07:26):
But then there's white people who don't know who Cat
Williams is. You know, there's there's there's it's just different demographic.
I just happened to straddle the line on both sides.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Bull Raight for sure, though, was the biggest movie that
I've I've done financially.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know that's that certainly says something for how you've
been able to diversify because I love that. You're like, look,
there's white people who know me from here, there's black
people that might know me for here from comedy, but
all these things. This is how you sort of have
longevity in like the fickle world of Hollywood for sure.
But I love Tiny Beautiful Things like that show is funny.
I love for igot that you were on there. That
(08:06):
is amazing. Let's let's go back into sort of this
the journey of comedy as well. You are one of
the first females to have your own Las Vegas residency
for comedy, like unheard of. What was it like trying
(08:26):
to navigate this because I know, you know, And I
don't want to go too far into this idea that,
oh my gosh, comedy is a male dominated industry, because
it is. But you've got trailblazers and icons like yourself
who are doing their thing. How did the residency come about,
because that's a major money move.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, I'm not the first, but I am one of
the few, because I do believe that maybe Marshall Warfield
might have been the first black female to have a
residency in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And I really don't.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Know as far as comedy goes, I really don't know
lot of others. I had been working at a club
called Tommy T's in the Bay Area for years and
Tommy got the opportunity to bring some comics to the
SLS which is now the Sahara here in Vegas, and
(09:18):
I was one of the comics that he brought down there.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Eddie Griffin was already doing.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Monique was doing Thursday, Friday, Saturday. They
had a slot for Sunday, so I did Sunday. I
thought this Sunday was going to be a difficult day
to do because it's Sunday. But of course Sunday in
Las Vegas is like Friday and Saturday anywhere else. I
(09:44):
started doing the Sundays and then Monique also had some difficulties.
I think her twins were new at that time, and
so she wanted to stay home more with the kids.
So I took over more days for her, and they
were very popular. So when that one ended, my agency
(10:05):
because you know, it's not about how cute you are,
it's not even about how fun you are. What is
it about is can you put asses in those seats?
Can you make us some money?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And so I had been doing that. So my agency
knew that Jimmy Kimmel was starting a comedy club. I
believe it started in probably twenty nineteen, and so they
went to them with the numbers and like, hey, this
girl that's pretty good out here, you might want to
consider her to come to your club. I guess that's
(10:38):
how the conversation went. And then I started my residency here.
Now I was only doing one night, I was only
doing Sunday nights.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Then on March.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Fifteenth of twenty twenty is when Las Vegas shut down,
and I'll never forget that day because my birthday is
March twelfth, and we were we were going to have
a party and everything like that. I got an email
just hours before the show saying, hey, we're not you know,
we're canceling the show until further notice.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Da da.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So oh god, that was such a crazy time.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Two years and nine months.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, two years and nine months before I was able
to come back, and I'm glad that they brought me
back here to Kimmel's And now I'm doing Sundays and
Mondays at nine thirty here in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Okay, tell me about the crowd because I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I love your sense of humor. I feel like you
got to wit to punch the pack. You are like
the secret spirit animal that I wish I had. That
I could just go out there and be like, ah,
tell everybody what I think, so like we all live
through you. Tell me what the crowd is, because I
think this is so interesting as you pack out seats.
Is it black people? Is it white people? Who's coming
(11:57):
to see you in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It really vary.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What it's not is it's not like a the regular
club like on the road. You know, a regular club
on the road, I can usually expect you know, mostly
black people and some white people. But in Vegas. Here
there's a lot of walk ups, people who just walking
by and say, oh my god, she's here. There's people
(12:21):
from Europe who just want to see the girl from Borat.
They may not even understand England, they just want to
see me. There's lots of people who plan their trips
to Vegas around my show because you know, you could
come see Usher on Saturday and go see me on Sunday.
You know you got a three day weekend boom there.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
My crowds vary. Some nights it's a lot of black
people with a few white people. Sometimes it's mostly white
people with a few black people. But if you're a
professional comedian, your job is to entertain all the people
all the time, and so that's what I'm able to do.
(13:03):
I don't get intimidated. I don't have any problem with
my comedy translating over from different audiences because what I
talk about is universal. You know, if you talk about
weight or kids, or food or sex. So that's what
I basically. Of course, I always speak from a you know,
(13:26):
African American standpoint, and I do teach a little bit
when I do my comedy because they're trapped and they
have to listen or they can leave, like Paul Mooney
like to run them out.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And I.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Also only can only speak from a female standpoint, so
you're getting a black female's perspective on everything.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You come see me.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But it's digestible. It's not nothing that's stuff down your throat.
It's not, you know, like you're going to a black
anther party. Although I do have my days, you know,
depending on what's going on in the world, you know,
because it's not been a great season for white people around.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The water lately. This is true between.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The submarine and that mollywop they got on the back.
You know, I've been a good season, and I do
talk about that.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Too, now you now you know, I have a question
because you brought the submarine, and I have to ask everyone.
Would you've gotten on that submarine if it was free?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Not only would I not have gotten I don't know
anybody who would have gotten on there because just like
I say in my act, you they're not marine biologists.
They didn't go down there to help nobody. This is
more about privilege and money. And I can do it
because I have the money to do it. They didn't
take that money and pull it and try to help nobody. No,
(14:48):
they just did that. That was that's about privilege. And
then they signed the paper saying if you go down here,
you might die, okay, And then it's not you know,
and you gotta go down there by the Titanic with
all them souls down there waiting for you to come down.
Not to mention my people that was thrown off into
(15:09):
the water before the Titanic even went down. Oh yeah,
so you know, it's not no place I would have
gone to my vacation destination, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Not for that money either.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I just I just had to ask. And I'm sure
there's people who would have gone down there. You know,
maybe Diddy, you know, he's such a crazy narcissist, he
might would have went down there, or you know, maybe
maybe I don't know somebody. But but but not this girl,
and not nobody I.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Deal with, not me, not me. And first of all,
you know how small that thing is. That actually would
have been my worst nightmare. It was tiny. It was
like a small Kia Sorrento. Everybody just like it was
tiny and then just pack it. But I'm not.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm not even getting in a Kia, so you well listen.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's testament, That's why I land. That's onland. Thanks for
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If this.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Were easy, everyone would do it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
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