Comedian Leanne Morgan sits down with Bobby to talk about the long road from small comedy gigs to selling out arenas and landing her own Netflix series. She shares the advice Jerry Seinfeld gave her about success, what it was like beating Lainey Wilson on Family Feud, and the moment she realized her career had reached a completely different level. Leanne also opens up about 34 years of marriage, raising a family while chasing comedy, going viral later in life, and getting renewed for a second season of her Netflix show. Plus, she reveals her five favorite comedians of all time and reflects on the people who helped shape her sense of humor along the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
I remember telling, which is so arrogant, but I remember
saying to a group of women, you can book a
barney with me now, or you can see me in
Las Vegas later. I blamed it in my heart. I
just thought, I don't know when it's gonna happen, but
this is what I'm gonna be done with.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My next guest is very funny. Also, I'm recording this
intro after the interview is already over.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Just a little time machine here.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But after we finished this interview, she stayed for twenty
minutes and we just talked and she met my baby
and my wife. She is exactly what she seems. And
so it's Leanne Morgan and lean Season two is on
Netflix now and you can watch it. If you're watching
on Netflix, just go over. Also, the time of our
lives towards happening now and these are massive shows and
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we talk about that, and we talk about comedy in
life and growing up in Tennessee. Here she is the
very warm, equally lovely Land Morgan.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Land.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's great to meet you. Seriously, that's not good. Great
to meet you. I'm jaded. It's oh, you're.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Jus because you've met everybody in the hunted.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So great, it's so great to meet you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Thank you, my darling. I'm thrilled to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm thrilled. I feel like you're like my family.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, Momby, I'm shocked that it's taken this loan.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We also might be related, just because of generally the
proximity and being from the south. And if we did
a twenty three and meters, I bet you there'd be
a couple of threads.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It'd be you're that cousin.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Might be honey. Did your people cut up meat?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Uh hmmm, that's an interesting question. By cut up meat,
do you mean meat process Oh? No, no, and Farman.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Were your people farming people in Arkansas?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
No, we mostly were like stealing catalytic converters, trailer.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Park Oh, criminals, yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
So I didn't know if that was like euphemism for.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Some sort of criminal activity when you say cutting.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Meat, Oh, no, I mean literally cutting meat.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, we were killing meat like deer.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, well my people were ramping it,
processing it and ramping deer.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Your family really like your family or meat processing?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah? I was raised thirty five miles from here, north
of Nashville on the Kentucky Tennessee border near Clarksville, in
a little farming community.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, you're gonna have to help me with the meat processing.
Were you also butchers?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, my little daddy who's still living, was the butcher,
and my grandfather's too cut up meat, and all my
aunts and uncles and everybody worked in it. A meat
processing plant. So we did everybody's bay hogs, deer season,
all that in Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So let's say someone killed a deer and they didn't
tag it. Could they sneak it to you guys and
you processed it quietly? I think they did, Yeah, because
on the other side of that, that's what we did.
What's the criminal part of it? Oh yeah, we would
do a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Are you like a he kind of sewer like in
a ficionado?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now? I think because I was raising it was gross,
you know. I was the sixth grade when they opened it,
and my sister would lock me in a freezer as
a joke with a bunch of you know, animals that
have been skinned that I didn't. I was kind of
a vegetarian until I left and went the University of Tennessee,
and then I started eating hamburgers again in pepperoni pizza.
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But until then, I mean, like I was so turned
off from it because I smelled it all the time.
It was in you know, everything, in our clothes and
all that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Was it like summer job then for you or all job?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah? I had to rat meat. I w wasn't good help. Well,
I'm sixty, so imagine me in the eighties with big hair,
hot rolled hair, thinking that I was Miss Tennessee and
I didn't have time to rat meat. So I wasn't
good help. Yeah, I worked in it. When you went
to college, you try to find a job at a
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meat plan. No, okay, I want no. I wanted to
wait tame wims and smoke cigarettes waiting tables for me
because I did it for a long time. Not the
smoking cigarettes part, but waited a lot of tables. I
think it's the greatest lesson that I've ever had in
life on just people and how awesome, how awful at
the same time they are, and how you have to
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be completely consistent all the time because you're depending on them. Yes,
I think it's a wonderful. I think you're right. And
you know, I didn't want my children to do it
because I remember the there's a CD side, a dark
side to the restaurant business. Bobby, you probably didn't participate
in all that, but you know when people are in
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college and they're taking their cash money and drinking at
night and doing all that. I didn't want my babies
to go to get in that, but I do think
it's wonderful training. Well, CD, I know how many managers
would flirt with when you know, I don't know, it
was like people dating each other, and it was, well,
that's where I'm at their danny. But that was wholesome.
(04:59):
But yeah, like management, you know, with I didn't mean
to go down this dark home. No, it's not dark,
going down a dark hole.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Here's my CD.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
At the restaurant, we had a manager that made us
take food off the plate that didn't look touched and
put it back in.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
They made us like, that's a health code violation.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So we would if a role hadn't been touched, it
got put back into the roll machine. If a part
of the meat hadn't been touched, it was cut off.
This was and this was a very nice restaurant and
they had us like that, to me was the ceedy
part of our business. But also I was going to
school full time. That's for you, so I had to study,
but I participated in it. I'm not proud of it,
but that was that was my CD. Oh well, it's
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not as bad as what you guys were doing. Well,
sound like there was just.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
A lot of I think people maybe did a little dope,
not me, but not their deity. I'm glad you did this,
so a little dope. I think it was like it
was wild. It was everybody made a lot of money.
It was the most successful restaurant in Oxville. Everybody wanted
to work there. They stayed on the wait all day long.
It was just, you know, people partied, people dropped out
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of school because they were making so much money.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Those were the cash days too. Yeah, now, so much
of it is on a credit card. Almost never do
I pay with cash at a restaurant. It was almost
all cash back in the day. But I reported it
at all. I reported mine every bit of it. But
there were people that didn't because it was very easy
not to. Don't wink at me, I'm not part of
I have nothing to do with the wink.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
We had a lot of line cooks that would get
go to jail and then come back more. And that
was fun because I'd never been to jail and I
want to hear what they said. So I was smunk
cigarettes behind a dumpster with them and to find out
what jail was like. That was fun. What was Joel like? Rough?
They wouldn't have stayed long. They weren't those kind of boys.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I have the same stories, but with my family, I
have a so first cousin, a bunch of these first
cousin true story.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Probably seven years or so go.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I'm on the air doing my morning radio show and
I think we kept a television on Good Morning America,
and they start covering my cousin's escape from prison. And
so there's like a small like like a desk, it's
like a hole in a gate, and he finds a
way to run through, and he's on the run through
multiple states and they're every day. It's a different news
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story to where they're calling me. I haven't talked to
him in years, and he was rumored to be in
a pimp and some money issue. You know all of that,
because where I'm from, you just hustle it anyway you can.
But it was a massive news story for about a
week where they could not catch my cousin with the
same last name, first cousin running from the police, but
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it was from him. I learned how they got so
he was just FaceTime from jail because they put phones
on their butts and they'd get him in.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Okay, were you? Was this rural Arkansas? Or was this
more urban Arkansas? Or Warner Ween Tolkien or like like
small town?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But what do I do? I look urban?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, but you look like you're not rural.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I know it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Were you kind of like in a like a little county.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Population seven hundred and twenty two is my hometown, so
Mountain Pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So it was very rural, and.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So we lived in a trailer park for a while,
a couple apartments, we moved around. You know, didn't have
the most stable of upbringing. But I knew a lot
about the prison system. I think everybody in my family,
until my stepdad, I think everybody from my family had
spent a little time in prison.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Really, Bommy, look at you rising from the.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You don't know what illegal stuff I'm in though? Now
I look safe. I look very safe if I wear
the card again. Okay, So you're waiting tables in Knoxville.
Are you doing comedy at all yet?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No? And which is insane to me when I look
back on it, because there was a comedy club and
Henry Chow was doing big things. Who's a Knoxville Kid?
And Steve Harvey would come through there, George Wallace, all
these unbelievable comics. And I never even went to that
comedy club.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Were you funny, though? Were they? Was Leehn the funny waitress? I?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I've and I was. You know, people would tell
me I was funny growing up, and I had it
in my head from the time I was nine or
ten years old, I'm going to Hollywood. But I guess
I saw myself more as like a comedic actress, even
though I didn't. I was in one play in high
school and I didn't have a line. I played sports.
(09:38):
I loved sports more and I really didn't want to.
I wanted to go to college, but then I, I mean,
I just went because everybody else was going. I wanted
to go to Hollywood, but I didn't know how to
get there. Honey, I didn't even It didn't dawn on
me to get in the car at eighteen, like people
do and go try to make it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, that was fictional.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, I just didn't. It seemed to me there wasn't
a real thing people did. It was all only on
television where Los Angeles and New York did they even existed?
I mean the first time I went to New York,
I was blown away. They had that many big buildings
in a row. That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
It seemed like second city in Chicago. It never. I
mean I loved us and they on grew up watching it.
It never. I didn't even know such a thing that
people were actually driving to Chicago and trying to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So what were you doing in college? Then?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Flailing around smoking cigarettes and thinking like what am I
even doing? Even though and I dropped out? I dropped out?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Are you studying?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
The first time? It was fashion merchandise, honey? Because I
could put an outfit together and it didn't require Spanish
math science. That's a true I'm not kidding. I remember
looking in a catalog and going, what can I take?
Because I went to a school I graduated forty two people,
a big farming community, a lot of boys future farmers
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of America. We took home.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Eg, you grew up in a town like I grew up,
that was like mine.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I had yeah, and everybody got out and they were
going to farm. And I really thought I would marry
my hustle boyfriend. But he was so much smarter than
me and two years older, and he went to ut
so I followed him. That's why I went. I didn't.
Now I think I'm not staying in this all the
time thinking I want to be a mama and have
a bunch of babies. But I'm going to Hollywood. But
(11:23):
I don't know how, but that's what I thought my mind.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
You dropped out the first time, meaning there had to
be a second time.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, I went back. I went back and wanted to
finish then and and loved my degree in child family
studies crisis intervention counseling. Thought I wanted to be a
therapist if I didn't make it in Hollywood. But my
Hollywood was always the first thing. But I wouldn't do
anything to even try to get to Hollywood, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I know how much of a gap through between when
you dropped out the first time, I went back the
second time.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Probably about two and a half three years. So I
went back like at twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
What'd you do in that gap time?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I was working and I had gotten married, and I'd
gotten divorced in that amount of time. I got married
at twenty one? How country is that? Dropped out? It
was a bad situation. Got away from that and went
back to school.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The husband that you have that you met at the restaurant, though,
is that your husband with? Now?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Uh huh? That's Chuck Morgan.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
How's Chuck doing good?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah? I think I've made him into a fol hero.
You know, I talk a lot about him on my
Netflix specials and now everybody everywhere I go, people go,
is Chunk here? Can Chuck come on the podcast? Can
Chuck come on the Today Show? I've made him honest
to goodness famous?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Do you ever tell Chuck what? Do you ever run
jokes by him? Do you value his critique of your jokes?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
No? Now I do. He'll say something that's crazy and
I'll and he'll say, you need to put that in
your act. And he's given me a lot of material.
He's my He's a lot of material for me and
my baby child. All of them are, but Chuck's killiar.
So I get a lot of material from him. But
he has said things like, oh, you need to put
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that in your act and tell me things that I've used.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
If he said something, isn't that funny? Do you believe him?
If I wud like, if you have a joke that
isn't that funny? And he says, I don't think the
jokes that good. Do you allow that?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
He's got more of a drunk He's more of a
money money python kind of guy. I'm an SNL person.
That's my more mind sense of humor. How long have
you guys been married? Oh gosh, only thirty four years?
How a lot of praying in the Bathtom, Bobby?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
We just we just have We just have five years.
Like I just said, you said five years. I didn't
get married till later.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And so I'm always curious as to what people's stories
are as to what made their relationship and what was
making their relationship successful.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We have the same value system. I continue that. Do
we have good communication? No? I think I know what helps.
I just I've said I've got to be either the
weakest woman on this Earth of the strongest to be
married to Chuck Morgan. He's very ain't a retentive type,
a overachieverer. Everything's you know in it. But see I'm
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the opposite. I'm like, you know, so opposite's a tract,
but it's you know, we have some conflict and we
don't resolve it. Bomby with this new wife of yours
always resolved that conflict. Goode, same fight over and over again.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I know I tend to. And we go to therapy
every week. We have every two weeks ago, so we've
been going to therapy for years.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, since before we got married. I'm big therapy guy.
I go for myself and then we go to a
different therapist for us. And I think I have learned
that I don't have to win every fight even if
I'm right. I also don't have to say that second part.
I can just say I don't have to win every fight,
but then I have to say even if I'm right.
(15:37):
So I've learned that that is not is not important
to always win even if I should.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, that's a good thing. You learned that, yet Chuck
never has. But yeah, he named a little woman. I mean,
just keep the pace, you know, don't fight the big
I mean the little battles every day, you know, let
things roll off your back.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I think my wife does a great job at that,
and not at letting me not irritate her on the
small on the small stuff, I think I did a
lot in the beginning. I didn't know how to be
in a relationship. I had never been in a relationship.
I've never told anybody I loved him to my wife ever, really,
mom uh oh, no.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Never.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
There are parts of my life I feel like I'm
one hundred years old. I've been through it, but there
are parts where I feel like i'm nine, because like
my my growth as an actual human being with real
feelings and emotions, like I'm just now understanding. Sometimes my
wife will say to me, and she doesn't mean it
in a bad way, but she's like, I don't think
you understand the emotion you're feeling, like you would say
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to a seven year old who doesn't know how to
understand an emotion.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And she's right most of the time, because I don't
know that.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But she's because you were grinding so hard all those years.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I don't have any parents.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I grew up so I think not having that allow
stunted me in some ways, but then also push me
in different ways, which is why I'm just so curious
about why you started grinding so hard. It feels like
you come from a pretty stable background.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, so what a sweet mom and daddy.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And you're funny. You shouldn't be funny. I'm funny from trauma.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I mean I had some trauma, okay, but yeah, I had,
you know, some stuff. But I just I was surrounded
by a lot of funny people. My mama is so funny,
and she's eighty three. My dad's eighty six, and he's
a wonderful storyteller.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
They're still life.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh huh. Yeah, I'm gonna go see him after I
get to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah. And so I had all my because we're farming people,
all my grandparents, aunts, uncles, all my extended family was
raised around me or were around me. And I got
to see him almost every day, and everybody I got
to say was pretty funny, and we had a good time,
and I just, I don't know, there was something in me.
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I just thought I'm gonna be on When did you
start pursuing that though, what age, I would say, really
like twenty seven. I had my first baby, Charlie, and
Chuck Morgan had moved me to bean Station, Tennessee, which
is in the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's a real town.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, bean Station, Tennessee. It's in uh Granger County. And
he was raised in Hamlin County in a country club.
He tells people that grew up hard, but he didn't.
He played tennis and golf. He knew what that was.
I didn't even know what that was, y'all. And he
moved me up there because he bought a used mobile
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home business out of after he graduating from NBA school
at ut And so I had my first baby and
I want to stay home in brasfeed him Bobby and
but Chuck Morgan was had his own business at twenty seven.
That was twenty six. He's a little bit younger than me,
and I needed we needed money, but not you know,
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I didn't have to go to work full time. I
want to stay them in breastfeed. So I started selling
jewelry like women sell Mary Kay and people's houses and
had these home parties. And I always thought I could
be funny before Chuck Morgan and I'm married. He took
me to see my sister in Hunting to Beach, California,
and he said, what do you want to do while
you're in LA? And I said, I want to go
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on the Hurst to or where you're rideing around the
Hurst and see where people have been murdered in La,
of course, and it was fascinating. And then I said,
I want to go to the comedy Store, the famous
comedy store. And I watched stand up for the first
time in a comedy club, and my heart beat out
of my body, and I thought, this is it, this
is what I'm supposed to be doing. I know I
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can do it. I know I can do it. And
so then fast forward he moves me up there. He
has this use mobile home business where they refurbish them,
They repue them from banks, refurbish them, and then sell them.
So I started selling jewelry to meet for because I
was by myself isolated in the foothills of the Appalachia
Mountains and just to make a little money for you know,
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by my baby and outfit, get my hair outlighted. I
would get up in front of I swear it's a
god thing. I would get up in front of women
in their living rooms, and nobody wants to go to
those parties. Everybody's like, oh, Suzi, you know that's teaching
fifth grade at the Elmry Schools having a party, and
we've all got to go and buy something during it. Okay,
I would, I would. I wasn't talking about jewelry. I
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was talking about breastfeeding hemorrhoids, and I, you know, it
kind of started some material and women thought I was funny,
and I knew it in that those living rooms, I
thought I can make these women laugh. I've got it.
And I remember saying I was booking so far in advance,
like a year in advance. The company noticed and asked
me to start speaking at their big things at opper
(20:51):
Land Hotangle. But I remember telling which is so arrogant.
But I remember saying to a group of women, you
can book a party with me now, or you can
see me in Las Vegas later. And I didn't have
any you know, did you believe that in your heart?
Though I believed it in my heart. I just thought,
I don't know when it's gonna happen, but I'm gonna
this is what I'm gonna be done.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Do you find that most successful people are a bit irrational?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah? Probably. I think we're dreamers.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, and you think to have that dream crazy. I
think to have that dream is crazy. I think to
have a dream like I had, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Where we come from, nobody does this, so it's not
like we're modeled this, So why do we think we
can do it. I think it's wildly irrational to go, Yeah,
I'm going to go and be a big star. But
I think the most successful people are often the most
irrational people. And that's what you had and you believed it.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And I heard Steve Harvey say this one time that
his teacher in first grade said, everybody, get up in
the class and say what you want to be. And
he said, I'm going to be on TV. And she
made fun of him and said, no, you're not. You
need to on something else. And he said, and I
felt sorry for her because I knew in my heart,
yes I am. And he said, I feel like God
put that in mine imagination because I was a child,
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And I feel that too, like, how would I have
known that? Now? Living outside of Nashville, we would go
to Rivergate Mall and I would see country music stars.
So I did see famous people and that were for performers,
and I, you know, I would think, am I crazy?
But I feel like I'm going to be like them
as a child. I just felt it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The Steve Harvey story ends pretty funny because then he
sent that teacher a TV every year. I hear that
part for her whole life until she died. Every year
he sent her a TV. A little petty but hilarious,
like he sent her a new television every year, that
same teacher.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh my gosh, I didn't hear that part. I got
to be on family Feud and compete against little Lady
Wilson and her family and we beat him and she's
never gotten over it.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I got to be on family feud and we lost,
and it's.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Who did you play?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They even said bring whomever you want to play against?
So I brought my friend Andy Roddick, who was a
professional tennis player in Brooklyn Decker. They're like my dearest friends,
and so I said, Hey, they think I'm famous, so
they letting me be on celebrity family feud.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Do you guys want to come play against me? And
they said yes, and they beat the pants off of us.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Did you do the buzzard quig. Yeah, I suck, and
I'm good that you don't need to do the buzzard
quin I have trying to read his card. I'm trying
to I come from criminals. I was trying to cheat
a little bit and I hit the buzzer way too
early because I thought I could see the question and
I was I missed it big time. And then y'all
run out of answers, and then we're over here. We
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can all huddle. Say, Laney and them were so much
faster than us. But then we had time to think.
And my kids said, I was so nervous. That was
one of the most nerve wracking things I've ever done.
And they said, y'all, you and Dan keep your mouth shut.
Just let us do it like y'all are idiots. And
then we ended up it was me and Chuck that
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won that thing. But they said that when mama's no
the questions because we ran a household and stuff, and
that makes sense to me. And my kids went blank
and couldn't think do and Chuck Morgan and I won
that fast round, and honey, it's just like we had
the same brain.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You did the fast money at the end, Yeah, how'd
that go for you?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Great? We won and we beat the Laney's family and
we won. I don't even know what we made for e.
Sency Children's Hospital, a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I know we lost and we were only able to
give Seen Jude like ten thousand dollars since we were
the losers.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But that, sweet, Mommy, I'm so competitive, Like I wanted
to bite a finger off when I finished.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But that was really fun to do family feud, Like
I watched so much family feud growing up that that
was really one of the fun Like when I look
back at some of the really cool stuff I get
to do, like that's one of the most fun things
you get to do, like stuff from when you were
kid that you saw on TV that you get to do.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And my fans loved that more than anything I thought.
And I love being with Steve Harvey because I'm a
huge Steve Harvey fan. And I remember saying the outback Concerts,
who are my concert promoters out of Nashville? They said
to me. Mike's Martineck asked me twenty years ago, what
do you want to do? Lann, And I go, I
want to be Steve Harvey. I want to be the
female Steve Harvey because back then, I mean he had
(25:18):
a talk show, you know, and Stan up. Yes, he's
done everything radio.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
So you're selling jewelry.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Actually you're doing a wonderful sales job, is what it
sounds like you were doing right your comedy with seven. Yeah,
I believe in something. So when do you start to
actually go? Did you open Mike's the open LECs and beancurr?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
No, there is not. Now. I was in my I
was loved my Sunday school class, and it was a
big Sunday school class with a bunch of friends in it.
And one of the guys I just thought I was
a cut up and said, Land, I'm in the Kawanas
club and we're having the Kauwanas Capers. Would you like
to get up and mc the Kauanas like this little
(25:59):
you know, like they club at the West High School
gym nasium. So I did. I was thrilled. Put on
a dress and a girdle. Okay. There was a guy
in the audience who had a sandwich shop in Marristown,
downtown Morristown, and they sold beer and sandwiches, and he
came up to me afterwards and said, do you want
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to do stand up at my club? I get bands
to come in here. I'll give you the door money.
I'll make the money off the beer and sandwiches. And
I went, okay. I went and did an hour. Had
never done stand up before. Took by then, Charlie, my oldest, was,
you know, three or something. I had his little kindergarten
(26:40):
tablet where you you know, practice writing, and I had
written down stories, just bullet points. And I got up
and did an hour.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Your first time you went up there?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yes, And somebody I think filmed it. And it makes
me feel like I wake up every once while at
three o'clock in the morning going where's that man? And
where's that film? I'm telling you this. I was so
scared that I couldn't move my neck that day. I
went and got my hair blown out at the mall.
Big mistake. They didn't know what they were doing. I
hated my hair, and I was so nervous and thought,
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why did I say I would do this? And I
ended up Somebody got me in with an ear nose
and throat man in Marstown that looked like Tim mcgrawl,
and he said, I don't see anything wrong with you.
I go, do I have a tumor? He goes, I
don't see anything wrong with you. He goes I, and
I said, this is what I'm doing tonight, and he goes,
I think you are like scared Staff. I mean when
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people say scared staff. And then that night, by then
I'd had Lord. I might have even had my third baby,
this baby that's in here with us. Chuck Morgan would
ride back. It was a big window behind me in
this sandwich shop, and I could see that mini van
with it. He would ride with the Kens checking on
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me while I was doing that hour.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
How many people were there?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Probably about fifty because there's nothing going on in Morristown.
So I sold out and then he said, do you
want to do this like once a month? I went okay.
So then I started doing like I feel like it
was more like a one woman show. But I would
do that every month, and meanwhile selling jewelry, and the
jewelry company would get me to speak at their things,
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and that's when people would say to me, you could
be a stand up. You could be a stand up.
So all that was happening and all that same amount
of time, and then Chuck sold that business and went
to work for a large mobile home manufacturing company and
they moved us to San Antonio, and that's when I
had a comedy club, and Austin, Texas had one of
the best comedy clubs in the United States, Cap City
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Comedy Club, Comedy Central was coming through there, Montreal, Aspen.
But the first time I ever got up, I called
Brian Dorfman at Zany's. I just cold called and I said, hey,
can I come. I'm from Morristown, Tennessee. I've got three
but I'd like to come. And I didn't even know
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what it was called, like opening or whatever, and he goes, Okay,
I'm gonna let you come. And I opened for Billy Gardell,
who is who's now in this season of my sitcom
and is going to do shows with me on this
tour than I'm on. So that was the first time
and he let me up. Little Brian Dorfmann who is
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one of my best friends and is my concert print
motor to this day. And he got me back in
the office and he said, I think you've got something then,
I really do, but you've got three babies, like you
can't do the traditional stand up you know. Working back
then it would be Wednesday through Sunday night. He goes,
you can't raise your own children, and I remember it
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made me mad, but he was right, and I just thought,
I'll find a way. I'll find another way. That way
moved to San Antonio, so.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
What was the way?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So I would work clubs when I could. Austin believed
in me at Cap City Comny Club and would let
me up all the time, and they moved me for
the first time in their history, from opener to headliner.
So I started headlining that club. And then a guy
in Chattanooga, Michael and Fonzo Fawno, would let me work there.
There was a few clubs that would let me work
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like twice a year, so that would be you know,
five six weeks out of the year. And then I
got this was another God think. And we moved back
to Knoxville and the blue collar remember the blue collar
thing had blown up, and this agent said, I want
to do one that's female and put me together with
(30:38):
Karen Mills and Eda May and it was very you know,
it was not like blue collar. But we worked theaters
all over the South on the weekends, and we had
this old agent that there was this a crusty old
man that didn't take no for an answer, and he
booked us in every nook and cranny in the South,
from theaters like three hundred seats to fifteen hundred seats.
(30:59):
And I was kind of an opener that I was
not as seasoned as them, but that gave me stage
time with them in beautiful theaters.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Did you take your kids with you?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
No, they would be on they would be home with
Chunk on the weekends. But I got to take them
to school every day. I got to be their mama.
And that was that tour. I toured with them about
two or three years, and then, you know, then television
still deals started coming. I didn't they didn't make it,
but I got my first deal with ABC and Warner
Brothers for a sitcom with Tom Warner that did Roseanne
(31:32):
and all those shows. But the writer's strike hit and
that didn't make it. But after that, I thought, Okay,
I've got something, or Hollywood wouldn't keep coming after me.
And even though I wasn't working all the time, like
I you know, I could go a month or two
without a booking, I still thought, I know, I'm supposed
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to be doing this, and I and I would do
anything anybody would let me get up and do any
kind of stage times. So I did breast cancer fundraisers,
you know the rotary, I you know, drop a kid
off at pre school and then go do something, a
little lunch program for the rotary. I did that kind
of stuff anything for years, anything anybody would let me do.
(32:15):
I was never not working. I just wan't your traditional
comedy club comic.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
In your mind. Were you still thinking I got to
get to Hollywood?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah? I thought I wanted a sitcom that was a dream,
and I just thought I just knew it was going
to happen. Even when it didn't, it wouldn't happen. I
would get these deals and they wouldn't happen. I think,
well that's enough for me to keep going. I felt
like it was a hope to keep going.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Did you have the experience of la people that they
would always promise everything and to leave the room feeling
like I'm about to be a superstar and then you
never would even get a call back.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Had that happened to me so many times?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Right left, I'm like I'm about to about to have
ten shows at once and then none of them would
ever work.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Did they ever feel like that with you?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah? I thought that they were fascinated by me, Like
in a room they'd be going hm, but they wouldn't
know what to do with me? Are they in the
sitcom deals that I did have? I mean I had
wonderful people, showrunners like Matt Williams that created Roseanne and
Hume Free, but he was my second deal. And but yeah,
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there were some where you we would pitch things and
you could see they thought there's something, but I don't
know what. And I also think the South. I think
a lot of people just didn't know what to do
with me and Southern and at the time, it wasn't
a hip thing to be. You know.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Did you see shows like Roseanne and Grace Underfire? Because
I would have watched those shows and go, oh those
are like us, and go oh, man, that gets to
exist in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Maybe I can do that. Did you see yourself and
those shows at all?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oh? Yeah? Yeah? And I thought to me, I thought,
I'm like Ray Romano. I mean, I'm I'm like Jerry Seinfeld.
I mean I didn't, I mean not, you know, their
level of success or anything like that. But I just
thought I'm in that group. I know I am anybody
to be so southern. No, not really, No that boay,
(34:33):
I'm married in college told me you need diction lessons
and everybody thinks you're stupid. And I'm telling you I
believed everything you said, but I didn't believe that. I thought, No,
I don't think people feel that way about me. I
think people are because it's authentic. This accent is authentic,
and I do get people to go that can't be real,
and I think, why do they think I would think this?
(34:56):
But no, I never had any anybody try to change me.
It was more like they would want to do a deal,
but it would be like okay, cause you know they
were trying to check off boxes, like you're married to
Hispanic man, and I would be like, I love Hispanic
men and I've made out with them, but there's no
(35:18):
Hispanic man selling mobile homes in apple Unch. I can
tell you that. You know, there was always like just
they didn't know how to they don't know what to
do with us.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Did you ever almost take a role as a second
person if a show wasn't about you, would you have
done that?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I never had the kind of management at the time
that could even get me into an audition to do anything.
I really didn't. I don't know what we were doing,
but no, I didn't. I wasn't in the game like that.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
When I asked to go into meetings, I would just
show up by myself, because I would go out to
California and go to all these meetings and I would
just have a backpack and show up by myself. And
they thought that was the weirdest thing because most people come.
It's so weird in the Nashville culture versus the LA culture.
In LA, you got to show up with a big
team and to act like you're a big deal. Everybody
acts like they're a big deal. They got loads and
loads of people in management. This is an agent's agent
and we're going to But I would just show up
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by myself because that's what you do here, you don't,
you know, you don't. You're not too too big. And
so I would show up and they'd be like, where's
everybody else, and be like, no, it's just me, And
I think they they looked at me kind of like
how you say, looked at you, like that's weird that
you just do that, even when I was like out
there doing like Dancing with the Stars, because they did
that show. Everybody thought it was so odd that I
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was often by myself without showing up, without having to
have a lot of flare or flash about me. Was
that odd about you when you would go to California,
that you were southern and very authentic in a very
inauthentic place.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Well, I mean i'd have a manager with me that,
you know, but I didn't. Yeah, I mean I never
thought about that. I do know that if maybe in
a Southern woman in the meetings, you know, somebody would
say an ugly word or something and then they would go,
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, and I'd go they
(37:08):
treated me different. But it was sweet, it really was.
But I and I didn't feel like better because things
weren't happening, and I really didn't. I just thought, they
just don't know, you know, they just don't know what
to do with me. But it'll be okay, we'll figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Did you have a show stand up wise that you
look back at and go, man, that's when I really arrived.
It could be a hometown venue, a ticket seal amount.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Did you have one of those shows.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I would say the first time I did the Rhymen,
that was a big deal to me because I grew up,
you know, going to the Rhymen because my family cut
up the meat of the people that did the Grand
o Opry, so we got tickets to the Grand o
Oprey and the Rhymen like to go and you know,
and so that was a big you. And my grandmother
(38:03):
owned a rory Acuff sofa. She had both that at
an antique story, so I knew the gravity of all that.
And I just remember seeing Elvis's picture in the bag,
Patsy Kline and all that. That was a big deal
to me. I felt like I and Reyes Witherspoon came
and Trisha Yearwood and you know, I thought, what in the.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
World could you appreciate it? In the moment?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
That's really cool that you can do that.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
And I think, because this has been so long, you know,
I was doing stand up for twenty something years for something. Hint.
Everything that happens to me, and I'm not trying to
be sappy, everything that happens to me, I cannot believe it.
I still think, what in the world, I feel so
lunky and so grateful, but it was so many years
(38:54):
of nose and you know, I would audition from Montreal Aspen.
Comedy Central didn't want me. I was not edgy enough
all that kind of stuff, and I would, but it
wouldn't get me down.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Everyone almost quote.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Only time I almost quent. I'd done a dry Bar special.
Do you know what they are? It's on Facebook and
it's clean comedy and nobody even knew what in the
world it was. When I shot a special. My career
was so in the toilet. I was doing the Chamber
of Commerce luncheon and Dubukee, Iowa, and they're precious and
(39:30):
pretty pimple, but they didn't even hire me for the
nighttime thing. It was the luncheon and I had to
pay my travel out of it, and that wind going
into debut, Honey, the planes usually had turned back around.
I thought I was gonna die. The plane was doing
this anyway, I do that, and my manager at the
time called me and said, there's this thing called dry
(39:51):
Bar and they want you to shoot a special. It's
in Salt Lake City. Nobody'll ever see it. He couldn't.
He didn't understand the internet. He goes they're going to
pay you. You a little bit of money. And when
I say a little bit of money, I mean a
little bit of money, and he goes, but we'll get
more clips for you to get more Chamber of Commerce luncheons.
So I fly down there and I do a bunch
(40:12):
of own material. I'm rusty. I barely worked in the
last few months, so I was so rusty and I
can't even watch it. And that thing. They put that
thing online and it got I mean certain clips on
it got fifty million views and stuff. Now I was
working that whole year after that, I was getting a
(40:33):
lot of work, but it wasn't good work. It wasn't
things that I wanted to be doing. And I was
watching Neighborgatsy. He was about a year and a half
ahead of me. He was starting to sell out in
clubs and then go into theaters. And I was always
a big fan of Jim Gaffigan and he's always been
in theaters. And I thought, I'm doing these horrible gigs
where I'm staying in a motel on the side of
(40:55):
the road. I'm a female by myself, I'm ridding the
uber and with some home marijuana. What if I do
when I'm fifty, you know, I don't want to be
doing this. And I got really down and I said
I was exhausted and I'd been working a lot, but
it was terrible stuff, and I cried to Chuck Morgan.
We went out to eat and I said, I just
(41:15):
don't I don't think anything's going to happen, and maybe
I should give up. And I think I want to
open up a hardware store, which could I dazzle in
a hardware but anyway, and he loves a hardware store,
and I thought, and he goes, you're crazy, Land, we
don't name me that. And I then went back to
my manager. And I had been noticing that Nate and Jim.
(41:37):
I thought, what are they doing? What's Nate doing? And
I knew they had social media people, and I told
my manager I need social media people and he goes, no,
you don't. You can't afford that, and taught me out
of it. And I found these young guys that got
my voice and I and it was expensive and I
never spent that kind of money on myself, which was stupid.
(41:57):
And I had like two headshow in twenty five years.
You know. Every time I got money for a gig,
I'd go buy these children uniforms, get their haircut in groceries.
So I should have invested more in myself. But anyway,
so I thought, I'll give these boys three months. That's
the money I thought I would spend on it. It's
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like two thousand a months. And I thought, I'll give
them three months. And if if something doesn't happen, then
I know that's God's way of saying bow out. And
I knew I was having a grand baby. And I'm
from the country. We tend our grand babies, you know,
and make pento beans and where a house dress. And
I thought, this will be the thing, and then I'll
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be okay. Whatever happens, I'll be okay. And we were
moving my baby child into a dorm my apartment in
New York for her to go to school. And they
put out a video that started going viral in thousands.
It was being shared thousands and thousands and thousands of times,
and I could feel something happening. And I look back
(43:03):
on it, and I promise, I feel like God said,
we got this last one tended to okay, let's roll land.
And that's what I feel like it was. And I'm
telling you, I went from months before working comedy clubs
and them saying we love her, she doesn't get drunk,
fight in the parking lot, but she can't sell tickets.
We're not having her back. I would be devastated in Orlando,
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West Palm Beach, Tampa at the improvs. They were precious
to me, but I couldn't sell tickets. I went from
that to after that went viral. I wish I had journaled.
I think it was probably a couple of weeks. Women
people would see that at video, then go and look
to see what else I had, and then would call
(43:44):
their comedy club in their town and go, do you
ever have Lanne Morgan? And call stry coming in and
trying to book me all over the United States, and
I would sell out like that.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
From that set of clips, Wow.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I think I wish I had written it down. But
I know one video, one clip of me talking about
taking Chuck Morgan to go see Death Lepard and Journey
and how everybody looked sick and had plannifationalities. That was
a big one. And then the second one might have
been talking about how this baby did competition cheer when
she was eleven and she had to wear a horror
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out fant. That may have been the second one, but
people started. I was I couldn't have I didn't have
time to cash the checks in my backpack. Chuck said,
you're like a drug dealer. I was so busy and
get a load of this. Could not get an agent
at the time. Nobody wanted me. I was selling out
(44:37):
all of the United States. And I don't know if
they looked at me and thought, well, she's a mom
and she's going to be a grandmama, and this is
a fluke. And I don't think people knew that I'd
been doing stand up for twenty something years. If they
thought that I was like some internet sensation, you just
went viral, then so that's what they died. Possibly, And
I don't think anybody want to take a chance on me.
(44:58):
They w had to beg somebody to hate me. And
then I got my first Then Brian Dorfmann and Mike
s Morn act from Nashville that I had known for
twenty something years. Brian said, something's going on land something,
it's big. This is you're speaking to people. Something has changed.
Let's do a tour. And I got my first tour,
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and that was the big Penny tour, and that was
announced right before COVID, so it shut down, shut that down,
and I wrung my hands and worried sick and thought
it's finally happened, and then look at this and then
but but I was on my porch just talking to
people in my phone like everybody else was doing, and
taking care of my elderly parents and I and I
(45:41):
got more and more people following me from just talking
and saying, you know what I'm cooking for my little mama,
she'd had a stroke. People would send me recipes it
and it became bigger than comedy. It was like a
community and it was really sweet. And so then when
that when it was time for COVID open back up,
it was own like I was selling out and doing
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my first big tour.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
No momentum was lost.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
No, do you think it's because you kept the moment
on going by connecting through social media, which also allowed
you to connect the first time through those clips.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
I think that really helped. And I also think that
I mean I had already sold those shows out before
COVID hit, and we had to move them two or
three times, which was aggravating, but that people had already
wanted to come, and then that community was built during
COVID talking about recipes. And think about it, there's nobody
(46:37):
else in comedy in my lane talking to women my age,
or moms or grandmamas or in just normal everyday people
out of the United States. Nobody was on Netflix like me,
nobody was in Hollywood like me, and I just hit
a lane by myself and I didn't even I mean,
(46:58):
you know, I didn't even know that's what was happening.
But I've got these precious women that feel like they
know me, and I'm speaking to them, and I'm speaking
about what they care about.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
How big is too big of a room, because when
you do your comedy, it does feel like you're talking
to I'll just say me individually, but you play big
rooms now like I'm time.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
We've got arenas. Everybody's moving around. Is that not distracting mine?
Don't move around, honey. Everybody's got on a sensible shoe
and I cross body purse.
Speaker 6 (47:31):
Everybody gets their popcorn first and their co colas, and
everybody sits down and they are so polite and so
precious because when this was all starting happening for me
in comedy clubs before COVID.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
These comedy club owners would say, where have you been,
because you've got the best people coming in here. And
it would be like an eighty five year woman and
never been to a comedy club, her daughter who was fifty,
and her granddaughter who was twenty five. Sweet couples and
like people that tip well and nobody's you know, rowdy,
and they would go, can you come back? I have
(48:07):
wonderful audience. Very rarely somebody, you know, might drink too much.
There has been some a vomit. Most of the time
women just yell out. I had a c section. I mean,
nobody is. I don't get rowdy, you know. So when
I did that. I'm starting to do arenas now. But
I did two shows in the American Airlines arenas before
(48:29):
the last two were ended, and it scared me. Today
they said this is where the Mavericks play. I was
like what, And then I look up on my ticket
thing and they said, do a lipa here in October
and I thought what in the world. But but the
way they we do it, and they I want so
many rows. Let so I can connect with.
Speaker 3 (48:49):
People you want them to let you want to see
their first.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
I want to see that at least the first three rows.
I got to see people. What if they're not laughing
and it's not your fault. What if they're just not laughers?
There are some men that are like Chuck Morgan that
just sit and do this and then I flirt with
them and it's okay.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
How much is of a relief is it to get
renewed for a show, Oh my darling.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
I was in the parking lot of a where do
we go and get sandwiches? And they have the good
club mcallisters. I was in a parking lot of a
mccallister's on the road on tour and they said can
you take a meeting? And I did it on my
phone in a rental car and all these people pop
(49:35):
up from Netflix and Warner Brothers. It was unbelievable, and
they were like, we want a second season and you're
big in Slovenia in Tel Aviv, and I was like,
what I mean yes, because I didn't want to be
a failure. I did and Jerry Seinfeld has been so
(49:57):
good to me through this whole thing, and he called
me the day it came out and he said, I
want you to listen to me and leanne, if whatever
happens after this, do you realize you've already won? And
he said you're a Christian woman, right, And I go yes,
And he said, then you know everything happens for a reason.
He said, if this does not go a second season
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or whatever critics say, because he's been through it. And
at first Jerry Seinfeld wasn't great. You know, when they
kind of canceled it and brought it back, he said,
know that you have already won because think of how
many people have had a sincome with their name on it.
And he named Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler, Moore, Lucille Ball
and you know that ray Everybody loves Raymond, I mean
(50:42):
Cosby and yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway that I watched and
loved Batienne.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
Oh my god, I just did a whole thing on
how not only would that show still be enjoyed today,
but all those actors were screwed out of residuals because
they couldn't show that show anymore.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Oh, I didn't even think about that. And I met
Little the one that knows I have, Yes, I've met her.
I met Malcolm Jamal Warner. Yeah, he judged me. I know,
he judged me in and he was pracious to me
and Nick and Night's funny as mom honey one hundred
(51:25):
years ago. Precious, but yeah. And then Raven Simone was
at something women in media thing in l A.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
I met r met Rudy once she's nice.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
We did an audition together, well, we were in an
elevator going to an audition together.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
We didn't actually audition together.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
So did you want to be an actor?
Speaker 6 (51:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (51:43):
I was for a talk show, got the pilot. We
did the pilot. They didn't pick up the pilot, but
it turned into other jobs at ABC, which is how
my whole career has happened. But whenever you get renewed,
because to get a show is amazing and hard, to
get renewed is almost impossible. And that's why I asked,
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not what was like to get a show, what was
it like to get a second season, because that's a
really big deal. That means they gambled on you and
they feel like they were right, and that is the
best feeling to prove someone right. I think I used
to want to prove everybody wrong. I'd be like I
showed them, But now like my greatest choice proving people right.
And I feel like that would be you proving all
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of them right when they go we won another season.
Would that be accurate?
Speaker 1 (52:28):
Yeah, you don't now that you say it that way. Yes,
And it was. It was such a relief because I
had two hundred and fifty crew members that thanked me
for a job every day. You know, nothing's being filmed
in Hollywood, and I'm one of the few things being
filmed next to the pet and Shrinking and the comeback.
(52:48):
And they would say to me every day, thank you,
lam for getting to this level where we have this job.
And that was a heavy thing to carry. And I
loved all my writers, and I love my cass and
Blake Clark is eighty and you know, unbelievable Celia Weston.
I mean, they thank me every day and we just
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sit and kiss and hug and everybody loves each other
and we've all it's like a family, it really is.
So I wanted it for them. I wanted it for myself. Yes,
I have ego. It would have It would have torn
me up if I hadn't have gotten a second season.
And you don't know, you have to wait like thirty
days with Netflix and the numbers. But Netflix has been
good to me, and I've got another deal with them
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for I've already given them one more special and I've
got another one that I owe them, and so they
believe in me. They've been good to me. Right, we
get a third season? How's Ryan styles Orlean Goofball? He is? Yes, yeah, funny,
brilliant in that part, brilliant in that part. But yeah,
(53:55):
like a bird. He's an odd bird. That is fun
and we love to be in the makeup room and
cut up and everything. Darling, do you have good stories? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (54:05):
To me, I've just seen him on TV for so long,
like I have a version of him that exists. To
hear you say that sounds like the version that I
picture of him. Like he's like that in real life too.
But you're also in real life like you are on screen,
which is not always the case. You have a massive personality.
Even before we started, I just wanted you to be
quiet and save your stories, but you were just.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Peeling them off one by one.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Because it's like, did a wonderfully wholesome, warm tornado walks
in the room when you come in? That is a compliment.
I hope that you take that as a compliment.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Uh do you have jokes do you feel like you
have to do? If I were to compare it to
like the hot pocket joke, do you have one or
two of those that you feel like you have to
do every time?
Speaker 1 (54:48):
I don't do them every time because I you know,
people get in your hand. They go. Nobody wants to
hear anything old, but they do. It's like it's like
going to see the Beatles or you know, or the
Eagles or something. You want to hear that song, Dad
Lepard and Journey is a good one, and people love
the Cheerleader horror story.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
How could you not know?
Speaker 1 (55:07):
And you won't believe how many parents to spent ten
thousand dollars a year to watch a little child cheer
and a whore mp fant It is so it's a
common thread the story.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
I just to watch Michael Molly, that's the show right
that he was on. Yeah, I watched all that. I
loved Michael Molly and so to hear I didn't know
you guys came up. I did see him on social
media talking about and his heads on your picture, the
big Picture. I didn't know you guys had like a history.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
Well, that's the only thing was the I opened for
him that time, and he was precious to me. And
then he came on my set to congratulate me, and
we know a lot of the same people. And then
they cast him to in this second season as a
guest and he was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (55:54):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby cast.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
I don't want you to say anyone's names, but have
you met people that you really thought were awesome?
Speaker 3 (56:13):
It turns out they weren't.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
No, not really. Maybe one or two, but not really.
You know, I've had good luck. I've had good luck.
And you know, I've done two movies. Now, one hadn't
come out yet, but I had Nick Stoller as my director,
with Will Ferrell and Rych Witherspoon, and they every day
they said, you'll never get another one. This good, this
(56:38):
is a dream come true. This is like summer caming.
I'm thinking, what are y'all going through? What do people
do to y'all? And evidently people are real buttholes, you know,
but everybody had a ball. And then the second movie
I did hadn't come out yet a ball. Everybody was darling.
I never had a director anybody to you know, rip
me a new one.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
Who's in that one?
Speaker 1 (57:00):
Can you say yes, honey, which you're gonna probably be.
You're probably in it, but come back king with Glenn Pale.
I have a lot of friends that are in it,
but I'm not in it. I thought you would be
in it, honey, because you're in.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
These classic good looks don't get used often enough.
Speaker 1 (57:14):
If you ask me, well, that's gonna be a good
one for country music. And they've got all those people
in it, and we had a ball. I was only
there for five days because my for my part, because
I was shooting my series too. But I'm telling you
it is going to be so funny, and Glenn Pale
is darling.
Speaker 3 (57:34):
Do you like to watch yourself act?
Speaker 1 (57:37):
No? But I just shot something in New York and
they go, do you want to see it? And I go, yeah,
let me say it And it makes you feel like
I'm gonna get the shingles. But I but I want
to see how my body moves and I want to
I want to see it because that's better for me
to see it, and it's better for me to watch
myself do my stand up, but that's very hard for me.
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I film every set on tour.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
Do you watch every set though?
Speaker 1 (58:03):
No? But I watch every few. But if something, if
I said something in a town that I could clip out,
I'll watch it. But I should watch it, but I
get too willied.
Speaker 2 (58:14):
Do you have a part of your set where you
just do crowd work hopeing you get something to clip.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
When I'm working on in clubs before I go into theaters.
I do a little bit. Yeah, but I don't do
them in theaters arenas because I feel like people in
the back don't know what we're even talking about, you know.
I feel like it's weird. I don't like that for me,
So I do it in comedy clubs. Comedy clubs are
wonderful to do that in.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Do you ever get the itch to just go out
with nothing prepared and just see where the night takes you?
Speaker 1 (58:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (58:45):
How does that turn out?
Speaker 1 (58:48):
Ok?
Speaker 2 (58:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (58:50):
I'm at a point now though that people are so
good to me that it almost it. They make it
too easy on me, you know, They're like, girl, you know,
and go out there and go and then go, you know,
because they just feel seene I think by me and
they feel like we're friends. And when I'm in an airport,
I mean, they go, girl, hey, Layne, and I think,
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did I go to high school with her?
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (59:16):
Because it's they're coming up to me like they know me,
and but it's at everywhere I go and they're precious, like, oh, honey,
I'm married to Chuck Morgan. You know I'm my boys
like yours, my baby child all Land.
Speaker 3 (59:31):
It's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
I just finished an interview where I was being interviewed
where the person said I noticed people. We'll just call
you Bobby, and I said, that's why I never say
nice to meet you, because I don't know if it's
somebody who feels like they know me because they've watched me,
or if they really do. So I never say nice
to meet you. I only say great to see you
because I'm confused if I know the people are not,
because they'll come up and just be like, hey, Bobby
and just start talking to me and me not knowing
(59:54):
if I know them or not. But that's it's even
a problem. It's a great It's great to have because
people feel like you understand them. I think that's why
I get to have this nice pool. I got a pool.
I don't know if you saw it, did I got
some pool? Yeah? And growing up, if you had a
small pool, you're rich. And I never had one until yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
When where I was raised. And everybody doesn't believe me,
I swear to you. Mama couldn't drive until she was
in her forties. She just didn't want to hear my
dad like have to teach her how to drive. But
she could drive a tractor, like was raised on a farm,
but just didn't get her driver's license. So every once
in a while, Filma, the next door neighbor, would take
us to the city pool in Clarksville. But you know,
it would just be you just bob up and down
(01:00:37):
because it was so crowded. Okay, we would We would
swim in the pond behind my house where cows would
walk through, so there was doudo and then there were
snapping turtles. So I would wear my high school old
Converse high top tennis shoes so that snapping turtles wouldn't
get my toes and we would just go and waller
(01:00:58):
in that nore. But that was the only place to go.
That's how rural it was. So when somebody had a
swimming pool. I think there was one person in my
high school that had a swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
We had one person as well, and we were like,
oh my lord, did you have a pool now?
Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
And I love it and my grand baby's low it,
and I've dreamed of it all my life. I dreamed
of it all my life.
Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
I never even get in. That's to look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
I love to look at it. Just go and fountains
go off in the morning. Chuck's gutting on a timer.
He's controlling, so nobody else gets to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Oh, you have different kind of money, then if you
have fountains, you have different kind.
Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
I mean I don't. It's just this thing that spits up.
But he didn't, and it's at the crack of dawn,
and I'm like, maybe we should do that during the
day and I can troll lap. He just now said
that we could turn on the hot time because he
didn't want to spend the money on heating it. So
the one of the grand babies said, I love this
warm pool, So now he'll let us get in it,
(01:01:56):
and we all sit in it. And it's not the
kind that would hurt a baby. I want everybody to
know that. But we we've gotten the heat it once
since I've been in I'm on the road paying for it,
but but we I have gotten the set in it
once when it was hot and not just cold bubbles.
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
All right, final final question, and I'm going to clip
this just so you know this is going to be clipped.
I want your five favorite personal favorite comedians of all time.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Oh my gosh, mom being because I love all of them.
I love I love stand up since Honey, Phyllis Diller
and Red Skelton. But okay, hold on number one, all right,
Number one Day Chapelle, Neil Brennan, Tom Pampa. Oh my gosh,
(01:02:49):
there's so many. I mean, it's on any kind of day, like,
oh gosh, I mean I'm sitting everything of all these boys,
and there's women. But I'm just saying, all right, let
me think. Let me think, because there's so many. Jim Gamfigan,
I'll say, Jim Gamfigan, you have one spot left. Seinfeld,
(01:03:14):
I'm Jerry.
Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Have you got to go watch him perform? Since you
guys have become friends, we.
Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Performed together at the Greek in La. He asked me
to perform with him. That was nerve breaking. I saw him.
What am I doing? Am I okay? And he was precious.
Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
That was an impression of Jerry Seinfeld, just inadvertently, What
am I doing?
Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Am I okay?
Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
He came out after I got off stage and he said,
if y'all can tell, I'm into Grandma sixty year old.
Grandma was from Tennessee. And I was told this, which
I mean, this is one of those moments in this
business where you're like, oh my gosh. When he's on stage.
He does a Q and A at the end and
(01:03:58):
they will who's your favorite commedy right now? And he'll
say me. People have told me they've been to shows,
and he says me. And we talk often and he
just wants to talk about how'd you come up with that?
Joe Lan? What are you thinking about? This is what
He just loves stand up and he wants to be
with stand ups and just talk comedy, and he is
(01:04:19):
He's been a joy to me. But that kind of
stuff that because Bobby I was in Noxville, Tennessee, raising
three precious children. I've never felt like I was one
of the cool kids. Because I did. I couldn't get
nobody would let me go I got to go to
Montreal one time years ago. I've been since, but I
didn't get you know, Comedy Central didn't want me all
these I got a lot of no's, so to have
(01:04:42):
who I think are the cool kids know who I
am and like bits of mine, like John Mulaney, Andrew Santino,
David Letterman.
Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Have you met Have you met David Letterman? Yes, that's
my hero. I've never met him, dore Lyn.
Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
I did John mulaney show with him and he was
precious to me. And I got to meet at the
last luncheon for Netflix Eddie Murphy. Now he didn't know
who I was. I said, Eddie, I'm a grandmama and
I'm on Netflix. I'm a stand He goes, you're a
stand up. I go yes, And he said I'm a
grandparent and I go, is that the best things ever happened?
(01:05:17):
He said, it's the best things they rapped to me.
And he told me when he's got one due and
we sit and talked about grand babies the whole time. Precious.
But yeah, I've gotten to meet those kind of people
and that's been a dream come true. I mean, you know,
because I wentn't in the out in La or New York.
You know, I just that's not how I came up,
and I want him to be, but that just wann't
(01:05:39):
my path. So for them to know who I am
and say nice things to me, and you know, that
means a lot to me. And for people to know
I've been doing this twenty seven years, you know, and
I'm not a flash in the pan. That means a
lot to me too.
Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
For everybody watching this on Netflix, go over if August
twenty seventh is when.
Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
August twenty seventh, season two.
Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
What I tell people on because the podcast is on Netflix,
you don't have to watch it. Just turn it on
and hit play and walk away. Just get the stream
Just give give me the streams, so run it while
you're backing run it Leanne season two. Just give it
the streams. We hope you watch it. But if you
don't have the time, just hit please complete each episode. Yes,
I care about let it run.
Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
Have you done?
Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Because I've sat with them and they go, Okay, this
is how long people are getting through your episodes.
Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Have you done that kind of thing with Netflix?
Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
They tell me this. At first they said people are
not completing it, and they and then they realize that
people were saving it like once a week, like network television.
Mary Povich said to me Land, me and Connie Chung
watch it. We save it for every Saturday night. So
either people were binging it and now they watched it
(01:06:46):
four and five times, or they were saving it. So
at first they thought people are not completing it, and
that's a big number.
Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
Oh you don't mean the episode, you mean the whole season.
Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Well, the episode or the whole scenes. Yeah. Yeah, So
people were saving it over time and then and then
over as time went on, they go, oh yeah, they're
completing it and they're doing and they're watching it a second,
third time. But it was because people love that format
of you know, like NBC, yeah, back in the day. Yeah,
(01:07:15):
so they were either doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Or bingeing watch LeAnn season two. Complete it.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
But if you can't, just hit play and go to work,
because it'll just go to the next one.
Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Yeah, and let your kids go to bed to it
at night. I've heard little children like the like they
find it comforting in that suite.
Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Are you making that up?
Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
And they I don't, you know, because my voice is
not you know, like a country music stars and a
beautiful voice. But I think people tell me that their
children find comfort in it and they run it in
the background at home because it's comforting to them.
Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
If you work in a daycare, play Leanne season two
and just let it run.
Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Yes, you are a joy. Thank you for coming here.
Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Thank you, thank you. I feel very very special.
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
When this ends, she goes into a British accent, just
so you guys know, couldn't be more British before we started,
couldn't be more British.
Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Thank you, Lanne. Great to see you. Thanks for listening
to a Bobby Cast production.
I remember telling, which is so arrogant, but I remember
saying to a group of women, you can book a
barney with me now, or you can see me in
Las Vegas later. I blamed it in my heart. I
just thought, I don't know when it's gonna happen, but
this is what I'm gonna be done with.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My next guest is very funny. Also, I'm recording this
intro after the interview is already over.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Just a little time machine here.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But after we finished this interview, she stayed for twenty
minutes and we just talked and she met my baby
and my wife. She is exactly what she seems. And
so it's Leanne Morgan and lean Season two is on
Netflix now and you can watch it. If you're watching
on Netflix, just go over. Also, the time of our
lives towards happening now and these are massive shows and
(00:52):
we talk about that, and we talk about comedy in
life and growing up in Tennessee. Here she is the
very warm, equally lovely Land Morgan.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Land.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's great to meet you. Seriously, that's not good. Great
to meet you. I'm jaded. It's oh, you're.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Jus because you've met everybody in the hunted.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So great, it's so great to meet you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Thank you, my darling. I'm thrilled to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm thrilled. I feel like you're like my family.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, Momby, I'm shocked that it's taken this loan.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We also might be related, just because of generally the
proximity and being from the south. And if we did
a twenty three and meters, I bet you there'd be
a couple of threads.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It'd be you're that cousin.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Might be honey. Did your people cut up meat?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Uh hmmm, that's an interesting question. By cut up meat,
do you mean meat process Oh? No, no, and Farman.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Were your people farming people in Arkansas?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
No, we mostly were like stealing catalytic converters, trailer.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Park Oh, criminals, yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
So I didn't know if that was like euphemism for.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Some sort of criminal activity when you say cutting.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Meat, Oh, no, I mean literally cutting meat.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, we were killing meat like deer.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, well my people were ramping it,
processing it and ramping deer.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Your family really like your family or meat processing?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah? I was raised thirty five miles from here, north
of Nashville on the Kentucky Tennessee border near Clarksville, in
a little farming community.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, you're gonna have to help me with the meat processing.
Were you also butchers?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, my little daddy who's still living, was the butcher,
and my grandfather's too cut up meat, and all my
aunts and uncles and everybody worked in it. A meat
processing plant. So we did everybody's bay hogs, deer season,
all that in Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
So let's say someone killed a deer and they didn't
tag it. Could they sneak it to you guys and
you processed it quietly? I think they did, Yeah, because
on the other side of that, that's what we did.
What's the criminal part of it? Oh yeah, we would
do a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Are you like a he kind of sewer like in
a ficionado?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now? I think because I was raising it was gross,
you know. I was the sixth grade when they opened it,
and my sister would lock me in a freezer as
a joke with a bunch of you know, animals that
have been skinned that I didn't. I was kind of
a vegetarian until I left and went the University of Tennessee,
and then I started eating hamburgers again in pepperoni pizza.
(03:23):
But until then, I mean, like I was so turned
off from it because I smelled it all the time.
It was in you know, everything, in our clothes and
all that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Was it like summer job then for you or all job?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah? I had to rat meat. I w wasn't good help. Well,
I'm sixty, so imagine me in the eighties with big hair,
hot rolled hair, thinking that I was Miss Tennessee and
I didn't have time to rat meat. So I wasn't
good help. Yeah, I worked in it. When you went
to college, you try to find a job at a
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meat plan. No, okay, I want no. I wanted to
wait tame wims and smoke cigarettes waiting tables for me
because I did it for a long time. Not the
smoking cigarettes part, but waited a lot of tables. I
think it's the greatest lesson that I've ever had in
life on just people and how awesome, how awful at
the same time they are, and how you have to
(04:16):
be completely consistent all the time because you're depending on them. Yes,
I think it's a wonderful. I think you're right. And
you know, I didn't want my children to do it
because I remember the there's a CD side, a dark
side to the restaurant business. Bobby, you probably didn't participate
in all that, but you know when people are in
(04:38):
college and they're taking their cash money and drinking at
night and doing all that. I didn't want my babies
to go to get in that, but I do think
it's wonderful training. Well, CD, I know how many managers
would flirt with when you know, I don't know, it
was like people dating each other, and it was, well,
that's where I'm at their danny. But that was wholesome.
(04:59):
But yeah, like management, you know, with I didn't mean
to go down this dark home. No, it's not dark,
going down a dark hole.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Here's my CD.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
At the restaurant, we had a manager that made us
take food off the plate that didn't look touched and
put it back in.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
They made us like, that's a health code violation.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So we would if a role hadn't been touched, it
got put back into the roll machine. If a part
of the meat hadn't been touched, it was cut off.
This was and this was a very nice restaurant and
they had us like that, to me was the ceedy
part of our business. But also I was going to
school full time. That's for you, so I had to study,
but I participated in it. I'm not proud of it,
but that was that was my CD. Oh well, it's
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not as bad as what you guys were doing. Well,
sound like there was just.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
A lot of I think people maybe did a little dope,
not me, but not their deity. I'm glad you did this,
so a little dope. I think it was like it
was wild. It was everybody made a lot of money.
It was the most successful restaurant in Oxville. Everybody wanted
to work there. They stayed on the wait all day long.
It was just, you know, people partied, people dropped out
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of school because they were making so much money.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Those were the cash days too. Yeah, now, so much
of it is on a credit card. Almost never do
I pay with cash at a restaurant. It was almost
all cash back in the day. But I reported it
at all. I reported mine every bit of it. But
there were people that didn't because it was very easy
not to. Don't wink at me, I'm not part of
I have nothing to do with the wink.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
We had a lot of line cooks that would get
go to jail and then come back more. And that
was fun because I'd never been to jail and I
want to hear what they said. So I was smunk
cigarettes behind a dumpster with them and to find out
what jail was like. That was fun. What was Joel like? Rough?
They wouldn't have stayed long. They weren't those kind of boys.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I have the same stories, but with my family, I
have a so first cousin, a bunch of these first
cousin true story.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Probably seven years or so go.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I'm on the air doing my morning radio show and
I think we kept a television on Good Morning America,
and they start covering my cousin's escape from prison. And
so there's like a small like like a desk, it's
like a hole in a gate, and he finds a
way to run through, and he's on the run through
multiple states and they're every day. It's a different news
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story to where they're calling me. I haven't talked to
him in years, and he was rumored to be in
a pimp and some money issue. You know all of that,
because where I'm from, you just hustle it anyway you can.
But it was a massive news story for about a
week where they could not catch my cousin with the
same last name, first cousin running from the police, but
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it was from him. I learned how they got so
he was just FaceTime from jail because they put phones
on their butts and they'd get him in.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Okay, were you? Was this rural Arkansas? Or was this
more urban Arkansas? Or Warner Ween Tolkien or like like
small town?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But what do I do? I look urban?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, but you look like you're not rural.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I know it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Were you kind of like in a like a little county.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Population seven hundred and twenty two is my hometown, so
Mountain Pine, Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
So it was very rural, and.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So we lived in a trailer park for a while,
a couple apartments, we moved around. You know, didn't have
the most stable of upbringing. But I knew a lot
about the prison system. I think everybody in my family,
until my stepdad, I think everybody from my family had
spent a little time in prison.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Really, Bommy, look at you rising from the.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You don't know what illegal stuff I'm in though? Now
I look safe. I look very safe if I wear
the card again. Okay, So you're waiting tables in Knoxville.
Are you doing comedy at all yet?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No? And which is insane to me when I look
back on it, because there was a comedy club and
Henry Chow was doing big things. Who's a Knoxville Kid?
And Steve Harvey would come through there, George Wallace, all
these unbelievable comics. And I never even went to that
comedy club.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Were you funny, though? Were they? Was Leehn the funny waitress? I?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I've and I was. You know, people would tell
me I was funny growing up, and I had it
in my head from the time I was nine or
ten years old, I'm going to Hollywood. But I guess
I saw myself more as like a comedic actress, even
though I didn't. I was in one play in high
school and I didn't have a line. I played sports.
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I loved sports more and I really didn't want to.
I wanted to go to college, but then I, I mean,
I just went because everybody else was going. I wanted
to go to Hollywood, but I didn't know how to
get there. Honey, I didn't even It didn't dawn on
me to get in the car at eighteen, like people
do and go try to make it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, that was fictional.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, I just didn't. It seemed to me there wasn't
a real thing people did. It was all only on
television where Los Angeles and New York did they even existed?
I mean the first time I went to New York,
I was blown away. They had that many big buildings
in a row. That's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
It seemed like second city in Chicago. It never. I
mean I loved us and they on grew up watching it.
It never. I didn't even know such a thing that
people were actually driving to Chicago and trying to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So what were you doing in college? Then?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Flailing around smoking cigarettes and thinking like what am I
even doing? Even though and I dropped out? I dropped out?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Are you studying?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
The first time? It was fashion merchandise, honey? Because I
could put an outfit together and it didn't require Spanish
math science. That's a true I'm not kidding. I remember
looking in a catalog and going, what can I take?
Because I went to a school I graduated forty two people,
a big farming community, a lot of boys future farmers
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of America. We took home.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Eg, you grew up in a town like I grew up,
that was like mine.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I had yeah, and everybody got out and they were
going to farm. And I really thought I would marry
my hustle boyfriend. But he was so much smarter than
me and two years older, and he went to ut
so I followed him. That's why I went. I didn't.
Now I think I'm not staying in this all the
time thinking I want to be a mama and have
a bunch of babies. But I'm going to Hollywood. But
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I don't know how, but that's what I thought my mind.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You dropped out the first time, meaning there had to
be a second time.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, I went back. I went back and wanted to
finish then and and loved my degree in child family
studies crisis intervention counseling. Thought I wanted to be a
therapist if I didn't make it in Hollywood. But my
Hollywood was always the first thing. But I wouldn't do
anything to even try to get to Hollywood, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I know how much of a gap through between when
you dropped out the first time, I went back the
second time.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Probably about two and a half three years. So I
went back like at twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
What'd you do in that gap time?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I was working and I had gotten married, and I'd
gotten divorced in that amount of time. I got married
at twenty one? How country is that? Dropped out? It
was a bad situation. Got away from that and went
back to school.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The husband that you have that you met at the restaurant, though,
is that your husband with? Now?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Uh huh? That's Chuck Morgan.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
How's Chuck doing good?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah? I think I've made him into a fol hero.
You know, I talk a lot about him on my
Netflix specials and now everybody everywhere I go, people go,
is Chunk here? Can Chuck come on the podcast? Can
Chuck come on the Today Show? I've made him honest
to goodness famous?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Do you ever tell Chuck what? Do you ever run
jokes by him? Do you value his critique of your jokes?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
No? Now I do. He'll say something that's crazy and
I'll and he'll say, you need to put that in
your act. And he's given me a lot of material.
He's my He's a lot of material for me and
my baby child. All of them are, but Chuck's killiar.
So I get a lot of material from him. But
he has said things like, oh, you need to put
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that in your act and tell me things that I've used.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
If he said something, isn't that funny? Do you believe him?
If I wud like, if you have a joke that
isn't that funny? And he says, I don't think the
jokes that good. Do you allow that?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
He's got more of a drunk He's more of a
money money python kind of guy. I'm an SNL person.
That's my more mind sense of humor. How long have
you guys been married? Oh gosh, only thirty four years?
How a lot of praying in the Bathtom, Bobby?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
We just we just have We just have five years.
Like I just said, you said five years. I didn't
get married till later.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
And so I'm always curious as to what people's stories
are as to what made their relationship and what was
making their relationship successful.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We have the same value system. I continue that. Do
we have good communication? No? I think I know what helps.
I just I've said I've got to be either the
weakest woman on this Earth of the strongest to be
married to Chuck Morgan. He's very ain't a retentive type,
a overachieverer. Everything's you know in it. But see I'm
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the opposite. I'm like, you know, so opposite's a tract,
but it's you know, we have some conflict and we
don't resolve it. Bomby with this new wife of yours
always resolved that conflict. Goode, same fight over and over again.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I know I tend to. And we go to therapy
every week. We have every two weeks ago, so we've
been going to therapy for years.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, since before we got married. I'm big therapy guy.
I go for myself and then we go to a
different therapist for us. And I think I have learned
that I don't have to win every fight even if
I'm right. I also don't have to say that second part.
I can just say I don't have to win every fight,
but then I have to say even if I'm right.
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So I've learned that that is not is not important
to always win even if I should.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, that's a good thing. You learned that, yet Chuck
never has. But yeah, he named a little woman. I mean,
just keep the pace, you know, don't fight the big
I mean the little battles every day, you know, let
things roll off your back.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I think my wife does a great job at that,
and not at letting me not irritate her on the
small on the small stuff, I think I did a
lot in the beginning. I didn't know how to be
in a relationship. I had never been in a relationship.
I've never told anybody I loved him to my wife ever, really,
mom uh oh, no.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Never.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
There are parts of my life I feel like I'm
one hundred years old. I've been through it, but there
are parts where I feel like i'm nine, because like
my my growth as an actual human being with real
feelings and emotions, like I'm just now understanding. Sometimes my
wife will say to me, and she doesn't mean it
in a bad way, but she's like, I don't think
you understand the emotion you're feeling, like you would say
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to a seven year old who doesn't know how to
understand an emotion.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
And she's right most of the time, because I don't
know that.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But she's because you were grinding so hard all those years.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I don't have any parents.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I grew up so I think not having that allow
stunted me in some ways, but then also push me
in different ways, which is why I'm just so curious
about why you started grinding so hard. It feels like
you come from a pretty stable background.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, so what a sweet mom and daddy.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And you're funny. You shouldn't be funny. I'm funny from trauma.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I mean I had some trauma, okay, but yeah, I had,
you know, some stuff. But I just I was surrounded
by a lot of funny people. My mama is so funny,
and she's eighty three. My dad's eighty six, and he's
a wonderful storyteller.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
They're still life.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh huh. Yeah, I'm gonna go see him after I
get to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah. And so I had all my because we're farming people,
all my grandparents, aunts, uncles, all my extended family was
raised around me or were around me. And I got
to see him almost every day, and everybody I got
to say was pretty funny, and we had a good time,
and I just, I don't know, there was something in me.
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I just thought I'm gonna be on When did you
start pursuing that though, what age, I would say, really
like twenty seven. I had my first baby, Charlie, and
Chuck Morgan had moved me to bean Station, Tennessee, which
is in the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's a real town.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, bean Station, Tennessee. It's in uh Granger County. And
he was raised in Hamlin County in a country club.
He tells people that grew up hard, but he didn't.
He played tennis and golf. He knew what that was.
I didn't even know what that was, y'all. And he
moved me up there because he bought a used mobile
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home business out of after he graduating from NBA school
at ut And so I had my first baby and
I want to stay home in brasfeed him Bobby and
but Chuck Morgan was had his own business at twenty seven.
That was twenty six. He's a little bit younger than me,
and I needed we needed money, but not you know,
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I didn't have to go to work full time. I
want to stay them in breastfeed. So I started selling
jewelry like women sell Mary Kay and people's houses and
had these home parties. And I always thought I could
be funny before Chuck Morgan and I'm married. He took
me to see my sister in Hunting to Beach, California,
and he said, what do you want to do while
you're in LA? And I said, I want to go
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on the Hurst to or where you're rideing around the
Hurst and see where people have been murdered in La,
of course, and it was fascinating. And then I said,
I want to go to the comedy Store, the famous
comedy store. And I watched stand up for the first
time in a comedy club, and my heart beat out
of my body, and I thought, this is it, this
is what I'm supposed to be doing. I know I
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can do it. I know I can do it. And
so then fast forward he moves me up there. He
has this use mobile home business where they refurbish them,
They repue them from banks, refurbish them, and then sell them.
So I started selling jewelry to meet for because I
was by myself isolated in the foothills of the Appalachia
Mountains and just to make a little money for you know,
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by my baby and outfit, get my hair outlighted. I
would get up in front of I swear it's a
god thing. I would get up in front of women
in their living rooms, and nobody wants to go to
those parties. Everybody's like, oh, Suzi, you know that's teaching
fifth grade at the Elmry Schools having a party, and
we've all got to go and buy something during it. Okay,
I would, I would. I wasn't talking about jewelry. I
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was talking about breastfeeding hemorrhoids, and I, you know, it
kind of started some material and women thought I was funny,
and I knew it in that those living rooms, I
thought I can make these women laugh. I've got it.
And I remember saying I was booking so far in advance,
like a year in advance. The company noticed and asked
me to start speaking at their big things at opper
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Land Hotangle. But I remember telling which is so arrogant.
But I remember saying to a group of women, you
can book a party with me now, or you can
see me in Las Vegas later. And I didn't have
any you know, did you believe that in your heart?
Though I believed it in my heart. I just thought,
I don't know when it's gonna happen, but I'm gonna
this is what I'm gonna be done.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Do you find that most successful people are a bit irrational?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah? Probably. I think we're dreamers.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, and you think to have that dream crazy. I
think to have that dream is crazy. I think to
have a dream like I had, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Where we come from, nobody does this, so it's not
like we're modeled this, So why do we think we
can do it. I think it's wildly irrational to go, Yeah,
I'm going to go and be a big star. But
I think the most successful people are often the most
irrational people. And that's what you had and you believed it.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And I heard Steve Harvey say this one time that
his teacher in first grade said, everybody, get up in
the class and say what you want to be. And
he said, I'm going to be on TV. And she
made fun of him and said, no, you're not. You
need to on something else. And he said, and I
felt sorry for her because I knew in my heart,
yes I am. And he said, I feel like God
put that in mine imagination because I was a child,
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And I feel that too, like, how would I have
known that? Now? Living outside of Nashville, we would go
to Rivergate Mall and I would see country music stars.
So I did see famous people and that were for performers,
and I, you know, I would think, am I crazy?
But I feel like I'm going to be like them
as a child. I just felt it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The Steve Harvey story ends pretty funny because then he
sent that teacher a TV every year. I hear that
part for her whole life until she died. Every year
he sent her a TV. A little petty but hilarious,
like he sent her a new television every year, that
same teacher.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Oh my gosh, I didn't hear that part. I got
to be on family Feud and compete against little Lady
Wilson and her family and we beat him and she's
never gotten over it.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I got to be on family feud and we lost,
and it's.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Who did you play?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They even said bring whomever you want to play against?
So I brought my friend Andy Roddick, who was a
professional tennis player in Brooklyn Decker. They're like my dearest friends,
and so I said, Hey, they think I'm famous, so
they letting me be on celebrity family feud.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Do you guys want to come play against me? And
they said yes, and they beat the pants off of us.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Did you do the buzzard quig. Yeah, I suck, and
I'm good that you don't need to do the buzzard
quin I have trying to read his card. I'm trying
to I come from criminals. I was trying to cheat
a little bit and I hit the buzzer way too
early because I thought I could see the question and
I was I missed it big time. And then y'all
run out of answers, and then we're over here. We
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can all huddle. Say, Laney and them were so much
faster than us. But then we had time to think.
And my kids said, I was so nervous. That was
one of the most nerve wracking things I've ever done.
And they said, y'all, you and Dan keep your mouth shut.
Just let us do it like y'all are idiots. And
then we ended up it was me and Chuck that
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won that thing. But they said that when mama's no
the questions because we ran a household and stuff, and
that makes sense to me. And my kids went blank
and couldn't think do and Chuck Morgan and I won
that fast round, and honey, it's just like we had
the same brain.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You did the fast money at the end, Yeah, how'd
that go for you?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Great? We won and we beat the Laney's family and
we won. I don't even know what we made for e.
Sency Children's Hospital, a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I know we lost and we were only able to
give Seen Jude like ten thousand dollars since we were
the losers.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But that, sweet, Mommy, I'm so competitive, Like I wanted
to bite a finger off when I finished.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But that was really fun to do family feud, Like
I watched so much family feud growing up that that
was really one of the fun Like when I look
back at some of the really cool stuff I get
to do, like that's one of the most fun things
you get to do, like stuff from when you were
kid that you saw on TV that you get to do.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And my fans loved that more than anything I thought.
And I love being with Steve Harvey because I'm a
huge Steve Harvey fan. And I remember saying the outback Concerts,
who are my concert promoters out of Nashville? They said
to me. Mike's Martineck asked me twenty years ago, what
do you want to do? Lann, And I go, I
want to be Steve Harvey. I want to be the
female Steve Harvey because back then, I mean he had
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a talk show, you know, and Stan up. Yes, he's
done everything radio.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
So you're selling jewelry.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Actually you're doing a wonderful sales job, is what it
sounds like you were doing right your comedy with seven. Yeah,
I believe in something. So when do you start to
actually go? Did you open Mike's the open LECs and beancurr?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
No, there is not. Now. I was in my I
was loved my Sunday school class, and it was a
big Sunday school class with a bunch of friends in it.
And one of the guys I just thought I was
a cut up and said, Land, I'm in the Kawanas
club and we're having the Kauwanas Capers. Would you like
to get up and mc the Kauanas like this little
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you know, like they club at the West High School
gym nasium. So I did. I was thrilled. Put on
a dress and a girdle. Okay. There was a guy
in the audience who had a sandwich shop in Marristown,
downtown Morristown, and they sold beer and sandwiches, and he
came up to me afterwards and said, do you want
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to do stand up at my club? I get bands
to come in here. I'll give you the door money.
I'll make the money off the beer and sandwiches. And
I went, okay. I went and did an hour. Had
never done stand up before. Took by then, Charlie, my oldest, was,
you know, three or something. I had his little kindergarten
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tablet where you you know, practice writing, and I had
written down stories, just bullet points. And I got up
and did an hour.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Your first time you went up there?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yes, And somebody I think filmed it. And it makes
me feel like I wake up every once while at
three o'clock in the morning going where's that man? And
where's that film? I'm telling you this. I was so
scared that I couldn't move my neck that day. I
went and got my hair blown out at the mall.
Big mistake. They didn't know what they were doing. I
hated my hair, and I was so nervous and thought,
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why did I say I would do this? And I
ended up Somebody got me in with an ear nose
and throat man in Marstown that looked like Tim mcgrawl,
and he said, I don't see anything wrong with you.
I go, do I have a tumor? He goes, I
don't see anything wrong with you. He goes I, and
I said, this is what I'm doing tonight, and he goes,
I think you are like scared Staff. I mean when
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people say scared staff. And then that night, by then
I'd had Lord. I might have even had my third baby,
this baby that's in here with us. Chuck Morgan would
ride back. It was a big window behind me in
this sandwich shop, and I could see that mini van
with it. He would ride with the Kens checking on
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me while I was doing that hour.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
How many people were there?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Probably about fifty because there's nothing going on in Morristown.
So I sold out and then he said, do you
want to do this like once a month? I went okay.
So then I started doing like I feel like it
was more like a one woman show. But I would
do that every month, and meanwhile selling jewelry, and the
jewelry company would get me to speak at their things,
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and that's when people would say to me, you could
be a stand up. You could be a stand up.
So all that was happening and all that same amount
of time, and then Chuck sold that business and went
to work for a large mobile home manufacturing company and
they moved us to San Antonio, and that's when I
had a comedy club, and Austin, Texas had one of
the best comedy clubs in the United States, Cap City
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Comedy Club, Comedy Central was coming through there, Montreal, Aspen.
But the first time I ever got up, I called
Brian Dorfman at Zany's. I just cold called and I said, hey,
can I come. I'm from Morristown, Tennessee. I've got three
but I'd like to come. And I didn't even know
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what it was called, like opening or whatever, and he goes, Okay,
I'm gonna let you come. And I opened for Billy Gardell,
who is who's now in this season of my sitcom
and is going to do shows with me on this
tour than I'm on. So that was the first time
and he let me up. Little Brian Dorfmann who is
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one of my best friends and is my concert print
motor to this day. And he got me back in
the office and he said, I think you've got something then,
I really do, but you've got three babies, like you
can't do the traditional stand up you know. Working back
then it would be Wednesday through Sunday night. He goes,
you can't raise your own children, and I remember it
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made me mad, but he was right, and I just thought,
I'll find a way. I'll find another way. That way
moved to San Antonio, so.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
What was the way?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So I would work clubs when I could. Austin believed
in me at Cap City Comny Club and would let
me up all the time, and they moved me for
the first time in their history, from opener to headliner.
So I started headlining that club. And then a guy
in Chattanooga, Michael and Fonzo Fawno, would let me work there.
There was a few clubs that would let me work
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like twice a year, so that would be you know,
five six weeks out of the year. And then I
got this was another God think. And we moved back
to Knoxville and the blue collar remember the blue collar
thing had blown up, and this agent said, I want
to do one that's female and put me together with
(30:38):
Karen Mills and Eda May and it was very you know,
it was not like blue collar. But we worked theaters
all over the South on the weekends, and we had
this old agent that there was this a crusty old
man that didn't take no for an answer, and he
booked us in every nook and cranny in the South,
from theaters like three hundred seats to fifteen hundred seats.
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And I was kind of an opener that I was
not as seasoned as them, but that gave me stage
time with them in beautiful theaters.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Did you take your kids with you?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
No, they would be on they would be home with
Chunk on the weekends. But I got to take them
to school every day. I got to be their mama.
And that was that tour. I toured with them about
two or three years, and then, you know, then television
still deals started coming. I didn't they didn't make it,
but I got my first deal with ABC and Warner
Brothers for a sitcom with Tom Warner that did Roseanne
(31:32):
and all those shows. But the writer's strike hit and
that didn't make it. But after that, I thought, Okay,
I've got something, or Hollywood wouldn't keep coming after me.
And even though I wasn't working all the time, like
I you know, I could go a month or two
without a booking, I still thought, I know, I'm supposed
(31:54):
to be doing this, and I and I would do
anything anybody would let me get up and do any
kind of stage times. So I did breast cancer fundraisers,
you know the rotary, I you know, drop a kid
off at pre school and then go do something, a
little lunch program for the rotary. I did that kind
of stuff anything for years, anything anybody would let me do.
(32:15):
I was never not working. I just wan't your traditional
comedy club comic.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
In your mind. Were you still thinking I got to
get to Hollywood?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah? I thought I wanted a sitcom that was a dream,
and I just thought I just knew it was going
to happen. Even when it didn't, it wouldn't happen. I
would get these deals and they wouldn't happen. I think,
well that's enough for me to keep going. I felt
like it was a hope to keep going.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Did you have the experience of la people that they
would always promise everything and to leave the room feeling
like I'm about to be a superstar and then you
never would even get a call back.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Had that happened to me so many times?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Right left, I'm like I'm about to about to have
ten shows at once and then none of them would
ever work.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Did they ever feel like that with you?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah? I thought that they were fascinated by me, Like
in a room they'd be going hm, but they wouldn't
know what to do with me? Are they in the
sitcom deals that I did have? I mean I had
wonderful people, showrunners like Matt Williams that created Roseanne and
Hume Free, but he was my second deal. And but yeah,
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there were some where you we would pitch things and
you could see they thought there's something, but I don't
know what. And I also think the South. I think
a lot of people just didn't know what to do
with me and Southern and at the time, it wasn't
a hip thing to be. You know.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Did you see shows like Roseanne and Grace Underfire? Because
I would have watched those shows and go, oh those
are like us, and go oh, man, that gets to
exist in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Maybe I can do that. Did you see yourself and
those shows at all?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oh? Yeah? Yeah? And I thought to me, I thought,
I'm like Ray Romano. I mean, I'm I'm like Jerry Seinfeld.
I mean I didn't, I mean not, you know, their
level of success or anything like that. But I just
thought I'm in that group. I know I am anybody
to be so southern. No, not really, No that boay,
(34:33):
I'm married in college told me you need diction lessons
and everybody thinks you're stupid. And I'm telling you I
believed everything you said, but I didn't believe that. I thought, No,
I don't think people feel that way about me. I
think people are because it's authentic. This accent is authentic,
and I do get people to go that can't be real,
and I think, why do they think I would think this?
(34:56):
But no, I never had any anybody try to change me.
It was more like they would want to do a deal,
but it would be like okay, cause you know they
were trying to check off boxes, like you're married to
Hispanic man, and I would be like, I love Hispanic
men and I've made out with them, but there's no
(35:18):
Hispanic man selling mobile homes in apple Unch. I can
tell you that. You know, there was always like just
they didn't know how to they don't know what to
do with us.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Did you ever almost take a role as a second
person if a show wasn't about you, would you have
done that?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I never had the kind of management at the time
that could even get me into an audition to do anything.
I really didn't. I don't know what we were doing,
but no, I didn't. I wasn't in the game like that.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
When I asked to go into meetings, I would just
show up by myself, because I would go out to
California and go to all these meetings and I would
just have a backpack and show up by myself. And
they thought that was the weirdest thing because most people come.
It's so weird in the Nashville culture versus the LA culture.
In LA, you got to show up with a big
team and to act like you're a big deal. Everybody
acts like they're a big deal. They got loads and
loads of people in management. This is an agent's agent
and we're going to But I would just show up
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by myself because that's what you do here, you don't,
you know, you don't. You're not too too big. And
so I would show up and they'd be like, where's
everybody else, and be like, no, it's just me, And
I think they they looked at me kind of like
how you say, looked at you, like that's weird that
you just do that, even when I was like out
there doing like Dancing with the Stars, because they did
that show. Everybody thought it was so odd that I
(36:29):
was often by myself without showing up, without having to
have a lot of flare or flash about me. Was
that odd about you when you would go to California,
that you were southern and very authentic in a very
inauthentic place.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Well, I mean i'd have a manager with me that,
you know, but I didn't. Yeah, I mean I never
thought about that. I do know that if maybe in
a Southern woman in the meetings, you know, somebody would
say an ugly word or something and then they would go,
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, and I'd go they
(37:08):
treated me different. But it was sweet, it really was.
But I and I didn't feel like better because things
weren't happening, and I really didn't. I just thought, they
just don't know, you know, they just don't know what
to do with me. But it'll be okay, we'll figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Did you have a show stand up wise that you
look back at and go, man, that's when I really arrived.
It could be a hometown venue, a ticket seal amount.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Did you have one of those shows.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I would say the first time I did the Rhymen,
that was a big deal to me because I grew up,
you know, going to the Rhymen because my family cut
up the meat of the people that did the Grand
o Opry, so we got tickets to the Grand o
Oprey and the Rhymen like to go and you know,
and so that was a big you. And my grandmother
(38:03):
owned a rory Acuff sofa. She had both that at
an antique story, so I knew the gravity of all that.
And I just remember seeing Elvis's picture in the bag,
Patsy Kline and all that. That was a big deal
to me. I felt like I and Reyes Witherspoon came
and Trisha Yearwood and you know, I thought, what in the.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
World could you appreciate it? In the moment?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
That's really cool that you can do that.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
And I think, because this has been so long, you know,
I was doing stand up for twenty something years for something. Hint.
Everything that happens to me, and I'm not trying to
be sappy, everything that happens to me, I cannot believe it.
I still think, what in the world, I feel so
lunky and so grateful, but it was so many years
(38:54):
of nose and you know, I would audition from Montreal Aspen.
Comedy Central didn't want me. I was not edgy enough
all that kind of stuff, and I would, but it
wouldn't get me down.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Everyone almost quote.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Only time I almost quent. I'd done a dry Bar special.
Do you know what they are? It's on Facebook and
it's clean comedy and nobody even knew what in the
world it was. When I shot a special. My career
was so in the toilet. I was doing the Chamber
of Commerce luncheon and Dubukee, Iowa, and they're precious and
(39:30):
pretty pimple, but they didn't even hire me for the
nighttime thing. It was the luncheon and I had to
pay my travel out of it, and that wind going
into debut, Honey, the planes usually had turned back around.
I thought I was gonna die. The plane was doing
this anyway, I do that, and my manager at the
time called me and said, there's this thing called dry
(39:51):
Bar and they want you to shoot a special. It's
in Salt Lake City. Nobody'll ever see it. He couldn't.
He didn't understand the internet. He goes they're going to
pay you. You a little bit of money. And when
I say a little bit of money, I mean a
little bit of money, and he goes, but we'll get
more clips for you to get more Chamber of Commerce luncheons.
So I fly down there and I do a bunch
(40:12):
of own material. I'm rusty. I barely worked in the
last few months, so I was so rusty and I
can't even watch it. And that thing. They put that
thing online and it got I mean certain clips on
it got fifty million views and stuff. Now I was
working that whole year after that, I was getting a
(40:33):
lot of work, but it wasn't good work. It wasn't
things that I wanted to be doing. And I was
watching Neighborgatsy. He was about a year and a half
ahead of me. He was starting to sell out in
clubs and then go into theaters. And I was always
a big fan of Jim Gaffigan and he's always been
in theaters. And I thought, I'm doing these horrible gigs
where I'm staying in a motel on the side of
(40:55):
the road. I'm a female by myself, I'm ridding the
uber and with some home marijuana. What if I do
when I'm fifty, you know, I don't want to be
doing this. And I got really down and I said
I was exhausted and I'd been working a lot, but
it was terrible stuff, and I cried to Chuck Morgan.
We went out to eat and I said, I just
(41:15):
don't I don't think anything's going to happen, and maybe
I should give up. And I think I want to
open up a hardware store, which could I dazzle in
a hardware but anyway, and he loves a hardware store,
and I thought, and he goes, you're crazy, Land, we
don't name me that. And I then went back to
my manager. And I had been noticing that Nate and Jim.
(41:37):
I thought, what are they doing? What's Nate doing? And
I knew they had social media people, and I told
my manager I need social media people and he goes, no,
you don't. You can't afford that, and taught me out
of it. And I found these young guys that got
my voice and I and it was expensive and I
never spent that kind of money on myself, which was stupid.
(41:57):
And I had like two headshow in twenty five years.
You know. Every time I got money for a gig,
I'd go buy these children uniforms, get their haircut in groceries.
So I should have invested more in myself. But anyway,
so I thought, I'll give these boys three months. That's
the money I thought I would spend on it. It's
(42:20):
like two thousand a months. And I thought, I'll give
them three months. And if if something doesn't happen, then
I know that's God's way of saying bow out. And
I knew I was having a grand baby. And I'm
from the country. We tend our grand babies, you know,
and make pento beans and where a house dress. And
I thought, this will be the thing, and then I'll
(42:40):
be okay. Whatever happens, I'll be okay. And we were
moving my baby child into a dorm my apartment in
New York for her to go to school. And they
put out a video that started going viral in thousands.
It was being shared thousands and thousands and thousands of times,
and I could feel something happening. And I look back
(43:03):
on it, and I promise, I feel like God said,
we got this last one tended to okay, let's roll land.
And that's what I feel like it was. And I'm
telling you, I went from months before working comedy clubs
and them saying we love her, she doesn't get drunk,
fight in the parking lot, but she can't sell tickets.
We're not having her back. I would be devastated in Orlando,
(43:24):
West Palm Beach, Tampa at the improvs. They were precious
to me, but I couldn't sell tickets. I went from
that to after that went viral. I wish I had journaled.
I think it was probably a couple of weeks. Women
people would see that at video, then go and look
to see what else I had, and then would call
(43:44):
their comedy club in their town and go, do you
ever have Lanne Morgan? And call stry coming in and
trying to book me all over the United States, and
I would sell out like that.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
From that set of clips, Wow.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I think I wish I had written it down. But
I know one video, one clip of me talking about
taking Chuck Morgan to go see Death Lepard and Journey
and how everybody looked sick and had plannifationalities. That was
a big one. And then the second one might have
been talking about how this baby did competition cheer when
she was eleven and she had to wear a horror
(44:17):
out fant. That may have been the second one, but
people started. I was I couldn't have I didn't have
time to cash the checks in my backpack. Chuck said,
you're like a drug dealer. I was so busy and
get a load of this. Could not get an agent
at the time. Nobody wanted me. I was selling out
(44:37):
all of the United States. And I don't know if
they looked at me and thought, well, she's a mom
and she's going to be a grandmama, and this is
a fluke. And I don't think people knew that I'd
been doing stand up for twenty something years. If they
thought that I was like some internet sensation, you just
went viral, then so that's what they died. Possibly, And
I don't think anybody want to take a chance on me.
(44:58):
They w had to beg somebody to hate me. And
then I got my first Then Brian Dorfmann and Mike
s Morn act from Nashville that I had known for
twenty something years. Brian said, something's going on land something,
it's big. This is you're speaking to people. Something has changed.
Let's do a tour. And I got my first tour,
(45:18):
and that was the big Penny tour, and that was
announced right before COVID, so it shut down, shut that down,
and I wrung my hands and worried sick and thought
it's finally happened, and then look at this and then
but but I was on my porch just talking to
people in my phone like everybody else was doing, and
taking care of my elderly parents and I and I
(45:41):
got more and more people following me from just talking
and saying, you know what I'm cooking for my little mama,
she'd had a stroke. People would send me recipes it
and it became bigger than comedy. It was like a
community and it was really sweet. And so then when
that when it was time for COVID open back up,
it was own like I was selling out and doing
(46:04):
my first big tour.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
No momentum was lost.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
No, do you think it's because you kept the moment
on going by connecting through social media, which also allowed
you to connect the first time through those clips.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
I think that really helped. And I also think that
I mean I had already sold those shows out before
COVID hit, and we had to move them two or
three times, which was aggravating, but that people had already
wanted to come, and then that community was built during
COVID talking about recipes. And think about it, there's nobody
(46:37):
else in comedy in my lane talking to women my age,
or moms or grandmamas or in just normal everyday people
out of the United States. Nobody was on Netflix like me,
nobody was in Hollywood like me, and I just hit
a lane by myself and I didn't even I mean,
(46:58):
you know, I didn't even know that's what was happening.
But I've got these precious women that feel like they
know me, and I'm speaking to them, and I'm speaking
about what they care about.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
How big is too big of a room, because when
you do your comedy, it does feel like you're talking
to I'll just say me individually, but you play big
rooms now like I'm time.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
We've got arenas. Everybody's moving around. Is that not distracting mine?
Don't move around, honey. Everybody's got on a sensible shoe
and I cross body purse.
Speaker 6 (47:31):
Everybody gets their popcorn first and their co colas, and
everybody sits down and they are so polite and so
precious because when this was all starting happening for me
in comedy clubs before COVID.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
These comedy club owners would say, where have you been,
because you've got the best people coming in here. And
it would be like an eighty five year woman and
never been to a comedy club, her daughter who was fifty,
and her granddaughter who was twenty five. Sweet couples and
like people that tip well and nobody's you know, rowdy,
and they would go, can you come back? I have
(48:07):
wonderful audience. Very rarely somebody, you know, might drink too much.
There has been some a vomit. Most of the time
women just yell out. I had a c section. I mean,
nobody is. I don't get rowdy, you know. So when
I did that. I'm starting to do arenas now. But
I did two shows in the American Airlines arenas before
(48:29):
the last two were ended, and it scared me. Today
they said this is where the Mavericks play. I was
like what, And then I look up on my ticket
thing and they said, do a lipa here in October
and I thought what in the world. But but the
way they we do it, and they I want so
many rows. Let so I can connect with.
Speaker 3 (48:49):
People you want them to let you want to see
their first.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
I want to see that at least the first three rows.
I got to see people. What if they're not laughing
and it's not your fault. What if they're just not laughers?
There are some men that are like Chuck Morgan that
just sit and do this and then I flirt with
them and it's okay.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
How much is of a relief is it to get
renewed for a show, Oh my darling.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
I was in the parking lot of a where do
we go and get sandwiches? And they have the good
club mcallisters. I was in a parking lot of a
mccallister's on the road on tour and they said can
you take a meeting? And I did it on my
phone in a rental car and all these people pop
(49:35):
up from Netflix and Warner Brothers. It was unbelievable, and
they were like, we want a second season and you're
big in Slovenia in Tel Aviv, and I was like,
what I mean yes, because I didn't want to be
a failure. I did and Jerry Seinfeld has been so
(49:57):
good to me through this whole thing, and he called
me the day it came out and he said, I
want you to listen to me and leanne, if whatever
happens after this, do you realize you've already won? And
he said you're a Christian woman, right, And I go yes,
And he said, then you know everything happens for a reason.
He said, if this does not go a second season
(50:19):
or whatever critics say, because he's been through it. And
at first Jerry Seinfeld wasn't great. You know, when they
kind of canceled it and brought it back, he said,
know that you have already won because think of how
many people have had a sincome with their name on it.
And he named Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler, Moore, Lucille Ball
and you know that ray Everybody loves Raymond, I mean
(50:42):
Cosby and yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway that I watched and
loved Batienne.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
Oh my god, I just did a whole thing on
how not only would that show still be enjoyed today,
but all those actors were screwed out of residuals because
they couldn't show that show anymore.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Oh, I didn't even think about that. And I met
Little the one that knows I have, Yes, I've met her.
I met Malcolm Jamal Warner. Yeah, he judged me. I know,
he judged me in and he was pracious to me
and Nick and Night's funny as mom honey one hundred
(51:25):
years ago. Precious, but yeah. And then Raven Simone was
at something women in media thing in l A.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
I met r met Rudy once she's nice.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
We did an audition together, well, we were in an
elevator going to an audition together.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
We didn't actually audition together.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
So did you want to be an actor?
Speaker 6 (51:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (51:43):
I was for a talk show, got the pilot. We
did the pilot. They didn't pick up the pilot, but
it turned into other jobs at ABC, which is how
my whole career has happened. But whenever you get renewed,
because to get a show is amazing and hard, to
get renewed is almost impossible. And that's why I asked,
(52:04):
not what was like to get a show, what was
it like to get a second season, because that's a
really big deal. That means they gambled on you and
they feel like they were right, and that is the
best feeling to prove someone right. I think I used
to want to prove everybody wrong. I'd be like I
showed them, But now like my greatest choice proving people right.
And I feel like that would be you proving all
(52:24):
of them right when they go we won another season.
Would that be accurate?
Speaker 1 (52:28):
Yeah, you don't now that you say it that way. Yes,
And it was. It was such a relief because I
had two hundred and fifty crew members that thanked me
for a job every day. You know, nothing's being filmed
in Hollywood, and I'm one of the few things being
filmed next to the pet and Shrinking and the comeback.
(52:48):
And they would say to me every day, thank you,
lam for getting to this level where we have this job.
And that was a heavy thing to carry. And I
loved all my writers, and I love my cass and
Blake Clark is eighty and you know, unbelievable Celia Weston.
I mean, they thank me every day and we just
(53:09):
sit and kiss and hug and everybody loves each other
and we've all it's like a family, it really is.
So I wanted it for them. I wanted it for myself. Yes,
I have ego. It would have It would have torn
me up if I hadn't have gotten a second season.
And you don't know, you have to wait like thirty
days with Netflix and the numbers. But Netflix has been
good to me, and I've got another deal with them
(53:31):
for I've already given them one more special and I've
got another one that I owe them, and so they
believe in me. They've been good to me. Right, we
get a third season? How's Ryan styles Orlean Goofball? He is? Yes, yeah, funny,
brilliant in that part, brilliant in that part. But yeah,
(53:55):
like a bird. He's an odd bird. That is fun
and we love to be in the makeup room and
cut up and everything. Darling, do you have good stories? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (54:05):
To me, I've just seen him on TV for so long,
like I have a version of him that exists. To
hear you say that sounds like the version that I
picture of him. Like he's like that in real life too.
But you're also in real life like you are on screen,
which is not always the case. You have a massive personality.
Even before we started, I just wanted you to be
quiet and save your stories, but you were just.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Peeling them off one by one.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Because it's like, did a wonderfully wholesome, warm tornado walks
in the room when you come in? That is a compliment.
I hope that you take that as a compliment.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Uh do you have jokes do you feel like you
have to do? If I were to compare it to
like the hot pocket joke, do you have one or
two of those that you feel like you have to
do every time?
Speaker 1 (54:48):
I don't do them every time because I you know,
people get in your hand. They go. Nobody wants to
hear anything old, but they do. It's like it's like
going to see the Beatles or you know, or the
Eagles or something. You want to hear that song, Dad
Lepard and Journey is a good one, and people love
the Cheerleader horror story.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
How could you not know?
Speaker 1 (55:07):
And you won't believe how many parents to spent ten
thousand dollars a year to watch a little child cheer
and a whore mp fant It is so it's a
common thread the story.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
I just to watch Michael Molly, that's the show right
that he was on. Yeah, I watched all that. I
loved Michael Molly and so to hear I didn't know
you guys came up. I did see him on social
media talking about and his heads on your picture, the
big Picture. I didn't know you guys had like a history.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
Well, that's the only thing was the I opened for
him that time, and he was precious to me. And
then he came on my set to congratulate me, and
we know a lot of the same people. And then
they cast him to in this second season as a
guest and he was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (55:54):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby cast.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
I don't want you to say anyone's names, but have
you met people that you really thought were awesome?
Speaker 3 (56:13):
It turns out they weren't.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
No, not really. Maybe one or two, but not really.
You know, I've had good luck. I've had good luck.
And you know, I've done two movies. Now, one hadn't
come out yet, but I had Nick Stoller as my director,
with Will Ferrell and Rych Witherspoon, and they every day
they said, you'll never get another one. This good, this
(56:38):
is a dream come true. This is like summer caming.
I'm thinking, what are y'all going through? What do people
do to y'all? And evidently people are real buttholes, you know,
but everybody had a ball. And then the second movie
I did hadn't come out yet a ball. Everybody was darling.
I never had a director anybody to you know, rip
me a new one.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
Who's in that one?
Speaker 1 (57:00):
Can you say yes, honey, which you're gonna probably be.
You're probably in it, but come back king with Glenn Pale.
I have a lot of friends that are in it,
but I'm not in it. I thought you would be
in it, honey, because you're in.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
These classic good looks don't get used often enough.
Speaker 1 (57:14):
If you ask me, well, that's gonna be a good
one for country music. And they've got all those people
in it, and we had a ball. I was only
there for five days because my for my part, because
I was shooting my series too. But I'm telling you
it is going to be so funny, and Glenn Pale
is darling.
Speaker 3 (57:34):
Do you like to watch yourself act?
Speaker 1 (57:37):
No? But I just shot something in New York and
they go, do you want to see it? And I go, yeah,
let me say it And it makes you feel like
I'm gonna get the shingles. But I but I want
to see how my body moves and I want to
I want to see it because that's better for me
to see it, and it's better for me to watch
myself do my stand up, but that's very hard for me.
(57:58):
I film every set on tour.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
Do you watch every set though?
Speaker 1 (58:03):
No? But I watch every few. But if something, if
I said something in a town that I could clip out,
I'll watch it. But I should watch it, but I
get too willied.
Speaker 2 (58:14):
Do you have a part of your set where you
just do crowd work hopeing you get something to clip.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
When I'm working on in clubs before I go into theaters.
I do a little bit. Yeah, but I don't do
them in theaters arenas because I feel like people in
the back don't know what we're even talking about, you know.
I feel like it's weird. I don't like that for me,
So I do it in comedy clubs. Comedy clubs are
wonderful to do that in.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
Do you ever get the itch to just go out
with nothing prepared and just see where the night takes you?
Speaker 1 (58:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (58:45):
How does that turn out?
Speaker 1 (58:48):
Ok?
Speaker 2 (58:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (58:50):
I'm at a point now though that people are so
good to me that it almost it. They make it
too easy on me, you know, They're like, girl, you know,
and go out there and go and then go, you know,
because they just feel seene I think by me and
they feel like we're friends. And when I'm in an airport,
I mean, they go, girl, hey, Layne, and I think,
(59:13):
did I go to high school with her?
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (59:16):
Because it's they're coming up to me like they know me,
and but it's at everywhere I go and they're precious, like, oh, honey,
I'm married to Chuck Morgan. You know I'm my boys
like yours, my baby child all Land.
Speaker 3 (59:31):
It's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
I just finished an interview where I was being interviewed
where the person said I noticed people. We'll just call
you Bobby, and I said, that's why I never say
nice to meet you, because I don't know if it's
somebody who feels like they know me because they've watched me,
or if they really do. So I never say nice
to meet you. I only say great to see you
because I'm confused if I know the people are not,
because they'll come up and just be like, hey, Bobby
and just start talking to me and me not knowing
(59:54):
if I know them or not. But that's it's even
a problem. It's a great It's great to have because
people feel like you understand them. I think that's why
I get to have this nice pool. I got a pool.
I don't know if you saw it, did I got
some pool? Yeah? And growing up, if you had a
small pool, you're rich. And I never had one until yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
When where I was raised. And everybody doesn't believe me,
I swear to you. Mama couldn't drive until she was
in her forties. She just didn't want to hear my
dad like have to teach her how to drive. But
she could drive a tractor, like was raised on a farm,
but just didn't get her driver's license. So every once
in a while, Filma, the next door neighbor, would take
us to the city pool in Clarksville. But you know,
it would just be you just bob up and down
(01:00:37):
because it was so crowded. Okay, we would We would
swim in the pond behind my house where cows would
walk through, so there was doudo and then there were
snapping turtles. So I would wear my high school old
Converse high top tennis shoes so that snapping turtles wouldn't
get my toes and we would just go and waller
(01:00:58):
in that nore. But that was the only place to go.
That's how rural it was. So when somebody had a
swimming pool. I think there was one person in my
high school that had a swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
We had one person as well, and we were like,
oh my lord, did you have a pool now?
Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
And I love it and my grand baby's low it,
and I've dreamed of it all my life. I dreamed
of it all my life.
Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
I never even get in. That's to look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
I love to look at it. Just go and fountains
go off in the morning. Chuck's gutting on a timer.
He's controlling, so nobody else gets to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Oh, you have different kind of money, then if you
have fountains, you have different kind.
Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
I mean I don't. It's just this thing that spits up.
But he didn't, and it's at the crack of dawn,
and I'm like, maybe we should do that during the
day and I can troll lap. He just now said
that we could turn on the hot time because he
didn't want to spend the money on heating it. So
the one of the grand babies said, I love this
warm pool, So now he'll let us get in it,
(01:01:56):
and we all sit in it. And it's not the
kind that would hurt a baby. I want everybody to
know that. But we we've gotten the heat it once
since I've been in I'm on the road paying for it,
but but we I have gotten the set in it
once when it was hot and not just cold bubbles.
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
All right, final final question, and I'm going to clip
this just so you know this is going to be clipped.
I want your five favorite personal favorite comedians of all time.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Oh my gosh, mom being because I love all of them.
I love I love stand up since Honey, Phyllis Diller
and Red Skelton. But okay, hold on number one, all right,
Number one Day Chapelle, Neil Brennan, Tom Pampa. Oh my gosh,
(01:02:49):
there's so many. I mean, it's on any kind of day, like,
oh gosh, I mean I'm sitting everything of all these boys,
and there's women. But I'm just saying, all right, let
me think. Let me think, because there's so many. Jim Gamfigan,
I'll say, Jim Gamfigan, you have one spot left. Seinfeld,
(01:03:14):
I'm Jerry.
Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Have you got to go watch him perform? Since you
guys have become friends, we.
Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Performed together at the Greek in La. He asked me
to perform with him. That was nerve breaking. I saw him.
What am I doing? Am I okay? And he was precious.
Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
That was an impression of Jerry Seinfeld, just inadvertently, What
am I doing?
Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Am I okay?
Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
He came out after I got off stage and he said,
if y'all can tell, I'm into Grandma sixty year old.
Grandma was from Tennessee. And I was told this, which
I mean, this is one of those moments in this
business where you're like, oh my gosh. When he's on stage.
He does a Q and A at the end and
(01:03:58):
they will who's your favorite commedy right now? And he'll
say me. People have told me they've been to shows,
and he says me. And we talk often and he
just wants to talk about how'd you come up with that?
Joe Lan? What are you thinking about? This is what
He just loves stand up and he wants to be
with stand ups and just talk comedy, and he is
(01:04:19):
He's been a joy to me. But that kind of
stuff that because Bobby I was in Noxville, Tennessee, raising
three precious children. I've never felt like I was one
of the cool kids. Because I did. I couldn't get
nobody would let me go I got to go to
Montreal one time years ago. I've been since, but I
didn't get you know, Comedy Central didn't want me all
these I got a lot of no's, so to have
(01:04:42):
who I think are the cool kids know who I
am and like bits of mine, like John Mulaney, Andrew Santino,
David Letterman.
Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Have you met Have you met David Letterman? Yes, that's
my hero. I've never met him, dore Lyn.
Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
I did John mulaney show with him and he was
precious to me. And I got to meet at the
last luncheon for Netflix Eddie Murphy. Now he didn't know
who I was. I said, Eddie, I'm a grandmama and
I'm on Netflix. I'm a stand He goes, you're a
stand up. I go yes, And he said I'm a
grandparent and I go, is that the best things ever happened?
(01:05:17):
He said, it's the best things they rapped to me.
And he told me when he's got one due and
we sit and talked about grand babies the whole time. Precious.
But yeah, I've gotten to meet those kind of people
and that's been a dream come true. I mean, you know,
because I wentn't in the out in La or New York.
You know, I just that's not how I came up,
and I want him to be, but that just wann't
(01:05:39):
my path. So for them to know who I am
and say nice things to me, and you know, that
means a lot to me. And for people to know
I've been doing this twenty seven years, you know, and
I'm not a flash in the pan. That means a
lot to me too.
Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
For everybody watching this on Netflix, go over if August
twenty seventh is when.
Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
August twenty seventh, season two.
Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
What I tell people on because the podcast is on Netflix,
you don't have to watch it. Just turn it on
and hit play and walk away. Just get the stream
Just give give me the streams, so run it while
you're backing run it Leanne season two. Just give it
the streams. We hope you watch it. But if you
don't have the time, just hit please complete each episode. Yes,
I care about let it run.
Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
Have you done?
Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Because I've sat with them and they go, Okay, this
is how long people are getting through your episodes.
Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Have you done that kind of thing with Netflix?
Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
They tell me this. At first they said people are
not completing it, and they and then they realize that
people were saving it like once a week, like network television.
Mary Povich said to me Land, me and Connie Chung
watch it. We save it for every Saturday night. So
either people were binging it and now they watched it
(01:06:46):
four and five times, or they were saving it. So
at first they thought people are not completing it, and
that's a big number.
Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
Oh you don't mean the episode, you mean the whole season.
Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Well, the episode or the whole scenes. Yeah. Yeah, So
people were saving it over time and then and then
over as time went on, they go, oh yeah, they're
completing it and they're doing and they're watching it a second,
third time. But it was because people love that format
of you know, like NBC, yeah, back in the day. Yeah,
(01:07:15):
so they were either doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Or bingeing watch LeAnn season two. Complete it.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
But if you can't, just hit play and go to work,
because it'll just go to the next one.
Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Yeah, and let your kids go to bed to it
at night. I've heard little children like the like they
find it comforting in that suite.
Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Are you making that up?
Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
And they I don't, you know, because my voice is
not you know, like a country music stars and a
beautiful voice. But I think people tell me that their
children find comfort in it and they run it in
the background at home because it's comforting to them.
Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
If you work in a daycare, play Leanne season two
and just let it run.
Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Yes, you are a joy. Thank you for coming here.
Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Thank you, thank you. I feel very very special.
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
When this ends, she goes into a British accent, just
so you guys know, couldn't be more British before we started,
couldn't be more British.
Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Thank you, Lanne. Great to see you. Thanks for listening
to a Bobby Cast production.
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