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May 5, 2023 24 mins
Comedian Luenell came through the Cruz Show to talk about her residency at the Jimmy Kimmel Comedy Club in Vegas. She also talked abotu her love life, Borat, and so much more. Tap in for this hilarious interview.
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your crush like if you had theytalk down that trash when I come in

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and I gotta understand which I don'ttrue lot of more saw I'm pretty you
know that? Oh? I mean, you know that's when my people are
only fans. Tell me much moneyyou making? All? I just closed

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on a house that let's go inVegas. In Vegas my first. You
know, some people longer than others. So as long as you get there,
you know that part? Man,what kind of content? Um be
honest? We go not now?Yeah, I'm it's radio now okay.

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So well I started off just withlingerie. People wanted more, and you
know, you got to give thepeople, get the people what they want.
So it's a little, you knowa little and a little feet Yeah,

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my feet picks are delicious. Howmuch they go? Well, you
gotta go and subscribe. You knowhow you find them on my live I
think my friend picks. Well,no, it only works and people know
you and want to see you justI mean maybe the people who listen here,
people three what we want to do? If we're the ones off of

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this platform, do we got tenpercentage or no? Discon So my Coucci
price and yesterday's price is not today'sprice, that's right? Yeah, what
kind of like? Okay, you'retalking about price full price? Man,
I didn't know we're gonna do thewhole interview by my only fans. What

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I ask it is on the firstdate? Are you should it be splurging
or should it be you know,a little more conservative on the wallet splurge?
Nobody dates me? So I don'tknow what to say today. Why
do you think I think people maybe intimidated by Yeah, but real man
aren't intimidated. Yeah, real man, all right, that's right. Only

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boys are intimidate. But what thereal man at? I don't know.
I'm hoping to find someone in LasVegas. That's what the money at.
That's what the money died you rightnow? Yo. Lunell's performance at Jimmy
Kimmel Comedy Club, Vegas, Aprilsixteenth, seventeen, twenty third twenty every
Sunday and Monday for the rest ofhowever, that's right, that's right,

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right, Sunday's nine thirty, Mondaysat seven thirty indefinitely. So you're spending
a lot of time in Vegas,but you're back and forth between LA.
I'm not spending a lot of time. At least three days a week,
I'm in Vegas, and that's alot of time, but I'm in other
state, you know, Like today, it's what Wednesday? So tomorrow normally
I leave town. Maybe I goto Chicago, maybe I go to Detroit,

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maybe I go to Indianapolis. AndI do two shows on Friday,
two shows on Saturday, Sunday morning, I fly to Vegas performing Sunday night,
perform on Monday night, leave onTuesday night, go back to La
Repack, go back out again Thursday. That's that's why the only person I
could day would be in Vegas.That's the only place I really am every
week in LA. I'm only theretwo days and I got other stuff to

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do. Like you guys, that'sright, you hear you're working your constantly,
Okay, yeah, yeah, AndI was gonna pay for itself.
Absolutely not. No, we livein Vegas now as well, right,
so we're Yeah, I'm not aresident yet. I mean, I guess
I am because the house is mine. But I have to change, you
know, you're driver's life. Yeah, I get the tax break, taxes,
you know, Vegas absolutely. Workingwith Jimmy Kimmel, that's gotta be

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amazing. You know, he's ahuge supporter of comedy and people doing their
thing on stage. I mean,and he loves you, Yeah, clearly
because he let this old hood radgo up in his time and gave me.
I was there before the before theRoman, and then it was two
years and nine months until I wasback again. And so now I'm back.

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I've been back for like five monthsnow, and it's just, uh,
it's really exciting because the audiences arevery dark verse and um it's Vegas.
You know, Vegas used to bea place and people thought old folks
go to retire and just wash outuntil it di But I do know more.
You know, we got Usher outthere, we got Bruno out there,

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we got a mail out there innew edition. It's coming out there.
You know. I'm waiting for myboy, Drake, Drake, Drake,
I need your baby, baby.What do you need from Drake?
Well, I need Drake to Idon't know if I should say yeah,
because I don't want my daughter toget pissed off in me, but she'd
liked to get. My daughter's aprofessional dancer, and Drake's about to go

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on tour, I think, andso you know, ultimately I would love
to you know, I have mydaughter danced for Drake, and that's what
he could do for men, likechoreography dancer. Yeah, pole no,
no, you see all the yeahwords. You got pole dancers in here.

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Have you seen this? You've seen? Yeah, he got a big
thick girl, a big bama andthat girl she's impressive. He felt,
but he bounced right back. Yeah, he made that look so smooth.
Yeah, he never went down.The girl went down, but he didn't
qu I go down. He didthat. That's a really great show.

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Nobody has had anything bad to sayabout Drake's residency. It's really really good
show because you know, you gotbangers and the choreography is grave. I
just I you know, I didthe thing that a lot of people do
that went too deep in the nineteenforty two and I got really drunk.

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Us I went to the VIP partyafter and I had all this slick stuff.
I was prepared to say to Drakeat the I mean sorry Drake prepared
to say the ussher at the thingall came out as you so fine,
so fine. So anyway, he'sprobably running from me every time you see

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me from It's good to hear thethings between you and your daughter are straight
and everything is long. Yeah,everything's groovy, that's right, groovy and
your fenty savage m ambassador's ships lookat you. I don't know, I'm
not I'm not an ambassador anymore,but you know, I still got drawers
and drawers and drawers for the lingerie. Nobody to wear it for. Yeah,

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who gets to see that? Idon't know, because the thugs his
T shirt with no panties on.They don't care about lingerie. Yeah,
lingerie special. If a woman wearslingerie, it's like a gift. I
got an unwrap a gift. Soyou know, I don't know. I've
never bought into like the lingerie.It's not that. It's not that because

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you for the streets still. That'swhy I'm about the streets too. But
no, my like when I gotmarried years ago, when that was happening,
I remember I were, you know, the wedding night, you wear
a little thing, and I was. I came out. I was like,
bam, hey baby, how youlike it? He said, it
looks great? Take it off?And that was the end of lingerie for

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me. No, you got theman should always take off the woman's lingerie.
Daddy way a manage that show isright. But what y'all gonna wear
because you're you know, Dodger's Tshirt and ros ain't turning us on either,
right, what do we do?Savage jacks, finty robes and stuff

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shure? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, what do you wear? What do
we what do you guys wear liketo turn the lady? We got we
got a dad Bard and that's it. Yeah, I have like a Jordan
T shirt and Supreme underwear. That'sabout it. Sure my ethics, I
think that's how I get it popin. Yeah, well, you know

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it's all good. That is truethough, right, Like, yeah,
and what do we do? Butwe expect women to you know, facing
the bank and dad boding. Youcan have a dad Bob, but we
get some pressure. We got amombod. This is true double standard.
I want to shout out my mombodsthough, man over here, mombod over
here, that's right, Love LoveLunell. Did you work at a bank

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before and way back in the bandseveral banks? Did you take money from
that bank? I did? Howmuch money? Did you say? Fifty
racks? Now, so we're transpiredfrom that. Well, I did this
on the Drink Sump's interview. Butwhat I'll tell you is I worked.
I worked at a bank. Ihad worked at several banks and savings and

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loans, and you know, Idon't seem like your financial institution type check,
but I worked at banks and Iwas good at it because I've always
been good at handling money. Theyteach you how to count it in a
certain type of way. In allso, and this particular bank that was
working at, I could tell thatthey were going to go out of business.
They weren't doing that their proper todue diligence. They weren't doing things

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right. And then you work ata bank and you're the teller, and
you're the most important person in thebank, of the face of the bank,
of the person having the contact withthe customers. And then you get
your check and it's like pennies.But right over here, in this room
over here, there's millions and millionsand millions of dollars, yes, man,

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And I was you know, theydon't let you go in alone.
But and I wasn't alone. Butyou know when she turned her head one
day, I you know, you'reyoung, you're stupid, Like, what
did Why did you dug drive whenyou were eighteen? Why did you show?
So I snatched some bread and Iwas cool for over ten years,
but they finally got because the amountof the moneys of felony and felonies never

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go away. Oh, there's nolimitations now only I mister mans after ten
years, you can you're done?Have you done? A mister? For
sure? For sure? Felony Youcan get arrested at eighty two for something
you did at twenty two. Wow. So I went to jail, shout
out to her, my girls inTwin Towers Correction Facility, DVID. What

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did any women try to get atyou? Um? No, not really?
Um you mean sexually? Sure?No. When I went to jail,
I had already been on TV,on like Comic View instead. Yeah,
so they of them knew. Theywere like, what's up? Comic
View? What was up? AndI didn't really talk for like two months.

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All they talked to the guys.I didn't talk to nobody. I
didn't need this mouth. I didn'ttalk. Then when I started talking.
You know, comedy is in youno matter where you are, f you
are a comedian in your soul.So I was being funny and stuff like
that, and I'm you know theyI did a lot of letter writing because
I have a degree in English lit. So a lot of the girls were

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you know, someone's illiterate, someonewas drug addict, someone's you know,
teen mothers and stuff like this,And when they had to write a letter
to the judge, I would writethe letter for comics series feel me,
Oh yeah, smart to see it. Yeah, what I wouldn't do for
some Doritos, I tell you didn't. I was like, yo, just

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give me five of them things,right, So for real, like your
Snickers and Doritos is those are greatand Cheetos, No, Doritos are best
because at Doritos and that scared Yeah. Yeah, because because if you crunch
from countrm cuntrrom crunch from up youcan make like seasonings. Yeah, there's

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another salt and pepper in county jail. That's right. Everything tastes like trash.
Last time I saw you. Ibelieve you had a Latino boyfriend.
Yeah, that a long time ago. But he's still me. You know
he still loved me. Yeah,you got still together. Now we're not
still together, but you know anyday best boyfriend I ever had. Really,

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why do you say that? Becausehe remember courteous and sweet? Who
I'm not. That's why you know? I messed with I'm trying to watch
my mom. I met. Imessed with with Latinos and and and the
Italians were messed with me. Imessed with them too. I love my
brothers. I hope they loved me. You know that's um. Yeah,
he was very sweet, very considered, very kind, such a gentleman.

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You know that he deserved that.He was a Now you know he tatted
it up and teardrop. Oh no, he put in that work. I'm
sure you know who he is.I'll tell you when I get out.
It does a lot of filming forlike guapping them over at okay, okay,
love and respect. Yeah, soy'all not together right? Not like

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that? Like that, I'm saying, ready to ming distruct because let you
was wondering if you're a good kisseror not. I couldn't tell ye,
I'm an excellent kiss I actually hadI thought you were gonna be. I
am a great kisser. I don'tget kissed enough kissing the first day people
don't care. I met guys thatI eat that before that even kiss excuses.

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I'm like, it is crazy.But day I'll tell you know,
y'all is out there, Jackie,how does it feel to be in the
middle of all that? Honestly Ineeded an all. I come back,
come back performing at the Jimmy KimmelComedy Get tickets right now at Jimmy Kimmel's

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comed Kimmel's Comedy Club dot com.Okay, it's where you get what about
Halo nell dot com as well?And Halo nel dot com as well?
But Kimmel's Comedy Club dot com.They got my boy Fizzle, I shot
out my West. My god,man, did they do their thing?
It's like the Dream Group. Yeah, you know you got Cube and Snoop

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and Short at forty. What elsedo you need? You know what you
need? Maybe if they do methodMan in there or something like that.
East and that My West was everything. I know all them hal You know
you're worried about cancel culture or anythinglike that when you're doing or you're writing
comedy. I have experienced um beingdragged, you know, through social media

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before. But what I've found outis if you just push delete all for
the next week, even in threedays, somebody else would be the hot
topic and stuff would be over.And I don't get cyber bully because you
have to read it to get cyberbully. Just don't read it, just
put delete, delete. I'll tellyou don't feel like you have to look

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at it to give it any kindof attention. And if you don't.
I got a lot of lunatics,lunatic. I got a lot of lunatics
that ride with me. They knewwhen I went to jail. They knew
me from when I lived in Oaklandand you know, and did dope and
did all kinds of stuff, andthey're proud of me now. And so

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I think, if you cancel me, you got to cancel all them.
And my relatives and my lunatics arevicious. They they ready for the fight.
So I would literally have to likekick a dog in the face.
Are you a kind of blocking peopletoo, honey? My block? This
is this is my pin. WhatI blocked. People would like no,
my block game is strong. Iwould block you while you looking at me.

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So so so here you go byhey uh loutell. At the end
of the day, what do youwant your legacy to be? What do
you want people to say when we'reno longer on this earth. I want
them to say that I ride forthe people, that I'm trying to be

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the best mom, I could dosome really difficult circumstances, and that I'm
one of the funniest comics I've everseen in their life. Those are the
things that I would like them tosay about me. You know, I
guess I don't. I don't know. You know, people are gonna say

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what they what they want to say. You know, everybody don't love me,
you know the people I do that, But I don't care about that,
right you said the FD You meanI could have been cut? Yeah?
Shit, No no, I'm gonnastill trying to keep it, keep
it cute. No no, no, no, no, listen, You've

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done so much right, but youryour um, your scenes on Borat are
still so legendary. That's the moviethat will not die. It will not
let you want to die. Imean no, because I'm still getting residuals
bad one because see, guys,the thing about that Borat movie there was
only five actors in it. Yeah, that's why you stood out. Everybody

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they signed a release because everybody wantsto be on TV where they're drunk,
whether they say racist stuff or anything. And if you really look at the
movie for what it is, besidesbeing so crazy, it's pulls back the
curtain on racism and what people sayeven when the camera's rolling. You know,
the drunk fat boys and the whina baygo and the families that we

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went to have dinner with and allthat kind of stuff. And it was
really a very deep, deep filmever you could get past the crazy.
But um um I it was nominatedfor Academy Award. People don't know that
that's the like third movie I've done. It's been nominated Academy Award because I
did The Stars Born. I wasnominated and won, and I don't know

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something else I did. But umuh, it was a really big experience
to be sitting on Chris Shaw andcheck your email and your flight to buk
arrest Romania has been booked. I'mlike, what where the book arest Romania?
Why am I what where am Igoing? I didn't travel with somebody
at that time, so I flewby myself out there. Yeah man,

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yeah, good for you. Whatwas the craziest thing you saw out there?
It was just nasty. We weren'tin Bukarest. We were in some
other little nasty little town. Yeah, how Glad or something like that.
And you know, there was clearlyno dental assistance out there, and they

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were. It was dirty. AndI mean, if you look at the
movie, that's not central casting.That's how we rolled up in their people
and you give them stuff like oiland sugar and computers, you know what
I'm saying for payment to film them. Wow? It How was the food?

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A black came back high? Yeah, but when well, you know,
brank fast over there isn't like eggsand stuff. It was like cold
cuts in this hotel that does that, which whatever God knows that. It
was like salami and cheeses and somethinglike, oh my God, don't know,

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grits and bro man and so Ihad to get through that. I
I think we found a pizza placeyeah, later, and we ate there
and lots of booze though, becausethey'd be steady getting drunk. I don't
know how. I don't know wherethe liquor store were, but I went

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to a Dracula restaurant thing. Youhave to It was just a Dracula's castle
thing, because you know Draculas fromTransylvania. We were in Romania and so
you have to go down and itwas all spooky and stuff like that.
I didn't stay that long. I'dbe scarred. Stuff like. No,

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I've never even meant to not scaryfar yeah, no, not scary jump
battle on me. No, I'mtrying to live about the ookie boogie bash
No, no, no, Iknow why, no, no, I
don't like to be scared, andwe want to be and we go Kane,
Well, God, can we allgo at the end of the year

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in October and we'll take you andyou roll with us. We'll go to
like Disneyland to start off, andthen we'll go to That's Light and then
we'll do Universal. Yeah, we'lldo a little tour. We have to
face her fears. She gotta wegotta heal her inner child. Let's do
it. Let's do it. Whatdo you say, get scared ears or
many ears. We'll have a securityguard for you as well. Name has
let you. He's got you.I got you. Okay, we're doing

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I mean, okay, I'll gowith you guys. Yeah, amazing,
But I'm not going. My daughtergonna be like mom, I'm might live.
I've been asking you, my daughterand me go to is the say
Halloween? Yeah? Hey, ifI'm not working us always working. I

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got your in Vegas man at theJimmy Kimmel Comedy Club, Man, get
your tickets. We love you,Luna. Thank you so much for stopping
by. Thanks for having me.Next time I need some thoughts the balads
or sometime need snack? What's thatone sweet bread bread? Oh yeah,
okay, all that's all the carbsI made, all the cars, some
tremoy, some Terisa you whoever was, and the money that's right, right,

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but um yeah, I need snacksand that's all cool. I almost
didn't get up here. I almostcussed a very rude white pady downstairs,
because you know, you can't comeup to the fifth floor. So then
I didn't know where to go,and there was nobody at the information and
then I said, I said,excuse me, can I get up to
the She had a guest bad?Can you get up to the fifth floor.

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She said, I don't know.I guess I don't work here.
I said, not, you bitchme, How do I get up to
the fifth floor? Now, I'mgonna slap on these homes. I swear
I'm trying to stay out of jail. I know we gotta go, I
asked, So they're slafty, Iasked, um uh? I asked the

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Lord. Please, you know duringall this racial tension, during the and
stuff like that, said, pleaseLord, please send the care in my
way. I have pent up frustrations. I really want to smack a whole
Lord, I really really do lether get me read not randomly, but
if somebody gets slick with me,I want to fuck that bit up.

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Please Lord, And you know what, the Lord did not answer my prayer.
You know I've been having that pencilfenergie too. I'm gonna start boxing
classes, so are you. Ithought about that. We need to go
together. I got week shoulders,girl, I need I can't be doing
all that. She's scared of hornights, but not scared of bebody slap a
bitch, But I am scared ofthings. Jumping out to Lucius that man,

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so don't fight nobody at hornite orI can't say that. No,
please, they scare me. Imight punch them. Oh my god,
Hey Lunell dot com Man, JimmyKipper Comedy Club in Vegas. Let's go,
Let's gus Lunelle Cruise shal realnety twothree, I get sure on The
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