WEBVTT - Comedian Leanne Morgan: From Housewife to Fame at 57! 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.720 Really now, really. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:11.320 Really now really hello, and welcome to really know really 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.319 but Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden two old guys who 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.920 respectfully ask you to subscribe to the show so they 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:17.960 can make it big. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.480 And that, by the way, is something that rarely happens 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:21.880 in the entertainment business. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.639 Notoriety and success, if it comes, often occurs early in 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.960 a performer's life. It also often leads young stars to 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:34.400 crushing downfalls, addiction, financial ruin, and other personal tragedies. That's 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.199 why our guest today says it's better to become famous 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.800 later in life when you have the wisdom and experience 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.560 to handle it all. For Tennessee, housewife Leanne Morgan's success 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.760 came in her late fifties, but her incredible talent, wit, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.559 and perseverance enabled her to segue from selling jewelry at 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.519 in home parties to finding success as one of the 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.000 hottest stand up comics in the country. She's gone from 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.520 comedy clubs to big arenas, to having her own Netflix's 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.600 comedy special, and now she'll star in an upcoming movie 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.479 with Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.760 It all skyrocketed when her first. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:13.200 YouTube comedy special reached an audience with over fifty million views. Really, no, really, 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.560 Today we'll talk about her brand of Southern inspired comedy 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.560 and whether it's truly better hitting. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.920 It big later in life. So get ready to laugh. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.800 Here's Jason and Peter to introduce their new comedy Crush 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.200 miss Lee and Morgan. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.280 Yes, look at us, we're hearing you. Where would we be? Yeah, 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.480 you're right? What are we doing? You like doing this though? Right? 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.920 I do enjoy this, you do. I am fascinating people 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.279 because of you and people. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.600 And not only have I met fascinating people, You've gone 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.760 out of your way to introduce me via this podcast 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.760 to people I have been really excited to meet, and 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.520 today we get to do that for you because you've 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.080 been talking about our guest. This is someone who sort 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.880 of jumped off the screen for you and really caught 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.360 your attention. And I see why I've now you know 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.560 what generally does. This is a really special comedian and 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.840 you are, oh my god, people that can spend. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.679 And having been around comedians and we've talked about a 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.560 new Carl and John Rivers of course. Yeah. LeAnn Morgan. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.679 I watched her comedy special and she's Southern and when 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.000 the specialist time I go, she's brilliant and you don't 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.120 realize it brilliant because it doesn't look like she's working 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.520 down for its. It's effortless. So I dying to have 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.920 her on. And the really you know really here is 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.880 she didn't really pop and make it, and so she 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.480 was in her fifties and really fifty seven. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.120 Yes, it's so it's a late blooming career. I'm not 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.200 saying a late blooming talent, but a late blooming yah. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.280 And she had opportunities. She'll tell you about that. Because 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.200 what what the really know really for me is and 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.000 I know we discussed this is all those people that 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.600 you run across to go. You know, I'm so glad 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.160 that I became big later in life, because early I 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.000 wouldn't be knowing to have the wisdom later in life 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:53.560 to handle it. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.120 Because all right, Leanne, welcome to our show. First of all, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.680 thank you, and we are so happy to have you here. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.760 And I am no less enamored of you than my 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.480 friend Peter. However, I will tell you what it is 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.639 specifically about you that gets to him. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.720 And then because he'll tear up if he does. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.400 Peter considered his relationship with the late great Joan Rivers. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.120 She was like another mother to him. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.480 She has meant so much to him, and what he 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.960 sees when he watches you perform is a very similar 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.280 not in what you talk about or the style, but 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:34.640 he sees a woman whose success has come at a 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.840 really interesting time, with a similar work ethic, with an 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:43.000 ease with people, who is just talking about real things 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.640 in a real way and enjoying her audience, and. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.480 All of the way you do. 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.000 What you do evokes for him such a strong connection 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.360 and memory of Joan that he feels so warmly and 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.800 so loving toward you, having never met you, that he's 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.880 never been this silent in the history of our relationship. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.280 Because it talked from the heart. And we're out of time, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.160 by the way, thanks for being with us, Me and Morgan. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.120 We're actually got a book. She's appearing at the tribal 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.560 for tell Everybody, just in case somebody tuned in and 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.560 lean Organ. She has the top comedy specials on Netflix. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.719 She's got tons of a billion views YouTube sensation that 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.440 happened later in life, a book coming out, any book 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.840 coming out. She's on and she's getting ready for yet 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.479 another tour and she's as big as you can be 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.640 and as good as you can be. And I'm watching 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.279 you and I'm going son of a big it's so 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.640 good that I just wanted to be a little an 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.280 hour out of time. So why you tell everybody else 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.800 how you start? How you start? Did you get you 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.080 the story? Yeah? I know, Peter. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.240 Thank you for all of your angel thank you, thanks 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.200 a lot to make, and thank you all for heaving me. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.000 We're thrilled. Oh don't be Oh, my. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:01.800 Husband's not here. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.880 I thought about that because he would be weird, and 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.520 that weird, and I don't lean that. I'm in a 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.039 hotel room in Kansas City, Missouri. I've got a show 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.400 tonight and one tomorrow night, and then I can go 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:14.120 to Minnesota. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:14.960 And I wanted to have. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.279 One a cute talk, stylish, stylish. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:20.719 I do have someone now. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.400 I do have someone now because I made a lot 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:28.440 of missteps. I was on a budget, raising a bunch 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.520 of kids with a tight husband, Chuck Morgan was so tight. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.440 But now I'm not making big purchases, Peter, I'm not. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.599 I'm not made the biggest purchase I've made since this 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.120 happened to me. And they asked me on the Wall 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.600 Street Journal. And it's a playground for my grand babies. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:45.560 I bought and. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.080 It's not that big a deal. It's just one of 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.159 those things where it won't flanter. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.720 You know. It's got for little children. It won't hurt them. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.760 It's the night's time that they bring in their build 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:57.120 in your yard. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.640 I will just warn you if it's made at the 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.680 plast stick stuff with the metal stuff, it's going to 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.120 heat up like an inferno. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.039 I've burned many a child on those things. So and 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.359 by the way, in the South, you have stuff in 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.120 your backyard that's intended to kill kids. You got trampoline, 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.760 you got all kinds of stuff. You can go. Oh, 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:20.320 nothing happens over opens unfed federal dogs. I know it's 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.120 it's the nervous. So could you tell everybody just to 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.960 get people listening up to speed, please, Okay. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.400 I met Chuck Morgan at the University of Tennessee and 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.120 we married and he made a bean station Tennessee in 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.520 the foothills of Avalanche mount All the time though from 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.599 the time I was a child, I wanted to be 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.080 in show business, you know, but like kitchen, the teeth 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.240 and you think maybe I'm crazy, you. 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.560 Know, I shouldn't think that or whatever. But I always 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.200 had to bake. So we go to Think Station. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.560 I get pregnant with my first baby, Charlie, who's now thirty, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.800 and I wanted to stay home with him a nurse 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.880 and and that like. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.440 Just spend money and that's not a stick. I'm not kidding, Chuck. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.640 I wanted to get my hair halighted. I wanted to 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:05.720 buy Charlie an outfence. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:11.320 So one of my girlfriends was selling jewelry in the Ashual, Tennessee, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.640 and she goes, it's like Mary Kay or tuber Land, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.040 and you'll make a little money and you can stay 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:21.200 home with Charlie. And I started selling jewelry and women's houses. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.920 At night, we put they put a dip out or 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.000 in a pan of brownie. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:25.960 We beat deep. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.120 And then I started like I developed an act. And 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.840 I look back on it now and I think, oh 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.200 my gosh. There were no comedy clubs for I heard, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.320 but I thought I had my own little comedy club 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.360 every night, and these women thought I was funny. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:42.760 Carmen Peede on a count. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.560 She now works for my eye doctor at her We 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.520 hold each other every time. I see her, I told her, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.920 I go, you don't understand, Carmen. It was a god 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.360 thing you peed on that count. It gave me the 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.240 courage to go. I think I can make it anyway. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.000 Woman thought I was funny. They started booking my. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.560 Parties like a year in advance, and then the company 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.960 noticed and asked me to start speaking at their big things, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.080 and so I would do. I was supposed to be 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.280 talking about booking parties, and I talked about breastfeed and 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.480 hemorrhoids and all that, and women would come up. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:14.720 To me and say, you need to be a stand up. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.080 So that gave me the courage. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.840 And then I went to my first comedy club in 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.120 Nashville to saying open for Billy Gardelle. And that was 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.240 probably my baby was eighteen months old. She's twenty six. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.080 So a lot of years of comedy. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.280 Books, a lot of years, honey. And I remember Brian 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.720 Dortan saying to me at Zane's, who is now one 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.640 of my concert promoters, and I love him. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.959 And he said, Lenn, you cannot You cannot do this. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.200 In clumbs and be a like a stand up, like 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.240 the regular path and raise these three children. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.679 And he was right. I remember it made me mad, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.319 but he was right. So I just had to do when. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.680 I could and do just a different I had to 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:58.520 do a different path. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.640 Yeah, jumping a bit of head social media wise, which 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.720 is still the thing. I explained it to Jason, and 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.160 I laughed as I start to talk about it. Is 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.079 you talking about going to the Journey concert. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.240 And if you forget any bits of the route and 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.800 Peter can fill it in for you, well. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.960 And that that's what turned everything around. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:18.600 I'm not kidding. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:19.480 I was about to quit. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.080 I thought I'm gonna go to work at Target. And 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.240 I knew I was having a grand baby, and I said, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.439 and I thought, if this doesn't hit, I paid these 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.600 two little boys, I say little boys, they were in 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.960 their twenties to do my social media. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.160 I've been putting up pictures of docs. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.520 And then I gave them a little bit of money, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.840 well a lot of money to me, a lot of money. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.439 And I thought, I'm gonna give it three months and 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.680 he put out first clent was made taking Chuck Morgan 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.920 to go see Death Leparding Journey. Okay, so what I 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.520 say had one in the eighties when I went to 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.559 the University of Tennessee where we went to see Death 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:53.560 Leopard and Journey. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.679 I was, this was the eighties. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:00.000 I saw Tina Turner, Brod Stewart, John Cougar, Mellen Kane, 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:04.440 Felton John, and I was so cute and tiny in 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.600 my breeches, you know, I was. I had had a 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.280 metabolism and my thyroid was functioning, and I didn't care 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:11.960 about food. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.440 You know. I eat a half a can of tuna 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:15.839 and go, I'm full. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:23.200 Well, the man Chuck Morgan go to Deth Liberty Journey. 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.079 First of all, I thought we were gonna have a 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:26.600 date night, and he goes, i' don't have time for that. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.360 Land It was a it was a week night. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.840 So he stopped at the gas station and got a 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.000 tall Boy and an egg Sally sandwich and ate that 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.960 on the way and then he burnt. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.400 I had to smell that all night. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.600 But anyway, we get to the Thomson Bowling Arena and 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.000 everybody there was fifty and older, and everybody was at 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.200 the snack bar. Journey was already on state. Nobody cares, 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:51.800 nobody cared. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.680 Everybody was at the snack bar, and I was too. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.520 I was so hungry and I was getting a big 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.800 thing a popcorn, like a big bucket, a popcorn and 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:01.520 a everybody had a big old dik coke, and I 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.719 love a dyk coat. I'm gonna get all but one. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.320 We were all sucking on those big dank coats. Finally 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.440 get to the sea, and you know, Steve Perry's. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.000 Not with Journey anymore, which I love. I loved him, yes. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.040 But they something's happened, something's gone down. They've had a 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.160 fallen down. They've hired some little man who is tiny 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.920 from another country, who sings just like Stave Harry. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.679 It's crazy. I mean, you shut your eyes with no 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.200 one and you could tell that little thing is in 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:30.800 good shape. 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.959 And you could tell he hasn't been eating white Farne sugar. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.400 And he hasn't been doing dough. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.400 You know, we hadn't been taken dough and sleeping with 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.280 nasty women like all the old boys in Churny, can 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:45.960 you know? 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:52.000 They all so that little fella is just going up 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.160 and down that big stage and flipping and churning and 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.480 squatting and don and then all those old boys in 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.400 the back looks sick, and. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:05.920 There in the back. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.600 Just barely strumming a good tar. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.800 And then but they were wonderful. Okay. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.520 Then death Lepert comes out, that little man from Death Leppert, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.079 And I asked people in my bed, like, when's the 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.000 last time y'all saw that man? But he comes out 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.520 with legs that they're that big, tiny, little frail legs. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.400 I've never seen legs. It's tiny on a man in 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:30.840 my life. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.280 And every once while he prop it up on the 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.240 little stow, you know, it would just barely go. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.160 And then he had hair down to here and it 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.480 was singing. You could see through it, and I thought 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.240 THYROI and I thyroid because. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.600 I've had thyroid issue. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.520 And then he starts singing, put some sugar on it, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.760 and that is Chuck Morgan's favorite song. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.960 And my husband is very introverted and does not tall. 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:04.520 I've seen his teeth three times in thirty years. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.400 And he fits up. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.240 And it starts dancing, and then it's back day because 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.400 his knees hurt. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.120 You know, and joint pain. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.600 And then the whole time that little man is singing 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.160 put some sugar on it, I'm studying his little body, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.000 and I thought he's got a hunt right here up 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:28.680 thunder here. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:30.520 I thought, what is that hunt? 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:30.720 Now? 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:31.880 Old hernia. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.199 He's got a herd in, because I know because I've 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.040 had a hernia boys the same place right here. I 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.600 was in my local dancing with the stores. I hain't 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.560 to can tell you all that, because y'all are big time. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.200 I was in my local dancing with the stores, got 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:46.400 a hernia popped out. 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.559 I had to have emergency surgery. Anyway, they did. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.840 Put a mission mine, and I often I felt worried 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.960 about that little man, the little deflivery man, and I 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.360 often thought, I hope dury Covid that little thing had 0:13:58.360 --> 0:13:59.440 time to get a mash put in. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.920 But anyway, they were wonderful. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.480 We had a ball, and then all these fifteen older 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.079 people start walking out of Thompson Bowling and everybody's just 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.040 barely going because we've all got planter. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.720 Facehin in our. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.640 Feet, you know. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.080 And the whole time I'm thinking, we got to get home. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.320 It's ten o'clock. What are we doing when let's get 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.640 the car. So that's it. That's the ban. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.240 It's brilliant. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.200 When you were talking about, you know, you were a 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:32.880 kid going I want to be in show business. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.000 I want to be in show business. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.800 Was this the dream or did you think Oh, I'd 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.000 love to be an actress. I'd love to be in Hollywood, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.840 or I'd love to what were you hoping it would be? 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.800 Versus what you are? The road you've taken. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.320 I thought in my mind, probably at nine or ten 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:53.880 years old, I want to be a movie star. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.880 I thought movie stars. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.560 But I was from a town of five hundred people, 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:59.880 a little farming community. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.720 My people farm, and I think rural kids. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:08.360 Think of show businesses all movie star, right, But I 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.040 loved sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.320 And that was the one. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.120 By the time I started getting into comedy, and probably 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.720 when I was in college, before I ever tried anything, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:20.720 I thought, I wish. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.200 I could be a sitcom star, and that became my goal, 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.120 you know. And I and when I got into. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.080 The business, but people would ask me that, you know, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.560 mentored me, what do you want to do? And I said, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:32.760 I want to go all the way. I want to 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.280 be a sitcom star. And then but I didn't. I mean, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.920 I don't even know why I even said that, because lord, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.000 I only took one improv class when I was in 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.160 high school. My little country in high school, let us 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.760 do improv, and I loved it, and then U t 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.080 I didn't do anything. I tried to take a theater 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.480 class and this woman with the tight bun on set 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.800 everybody out of here. That's not majoring in theater. And 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.480 I'm a crew follower, so I didn't stand there. And 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.840 it's just crazy what I thought. But did y'all know 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.840 that I've done my first movie? 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:10.600 Yes, yes, yes, honey and real Ferrell. Oh, it blew 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:11.120 my mind. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.560 And I think little Reese Witherspoon did that for me. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.600 I met her years ago before Coke, before the pandemic, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.880 and she and I bunded. I could tell, and I 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.160 think that little thing as somebody for me to do 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:23.880 a table ringing. 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.240 They called me and said, do you want to do 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.080 a table ring Now? Know what's a table ring? 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.240 And I flew out there and I thought I was 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.440 going to die and Will was there all their next 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:34.640 dole or all these people? 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.760 And I did it. And I don't even know how 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.200 in the world, but I got that thing. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.840 But and I ended up having a ball, and I 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.080 really think that I'd like to do it again. By 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.040 the time I got through with that, I thought, Okay, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.720 I kind of know how things work. It was hard 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.160 for me at first because I really was insecure because 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.040 I I'm used to get to laugh at right, you know, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.440 And so when everybody's on the set, nobody's saying anything 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.440 that really tore me up and mess with me. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.240 But by the end of it, I thought, Okay, I 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.359 did it, and I know what's funny. I might not 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.159 hit it every time, but I feel like I know 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:08.760 what's funny. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:14.480 And so everybody's saying, it's so cute and fun and 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.119 it's gonna do way all day funny and I just 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.600 have a bit part in it. I played Race Witherspoon's 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:24.760 big sister, which is crazy because I outweighed her, weel everybody. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.240 I I felt. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.760 Like it was like one big breast was be size 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.080 of little Grace Witherspoon's little head. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:37.800 Leah, you are so funny, and I'm thinking you and 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.240 I must might have some similar paths. When you were 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.120 a kid, when you were younger, when you were a kid, 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.159 did you know you were funny? 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.359 Did you think of yourself as being a funny person? 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:48.679 I did you did? 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.359 See I did you strike me as someone who people said, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:57.160 you know you're funny? And you went, I am I'm surprised, 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.000 so like, how did you know you were funny as 0:17:59.000 --> 0:17:59.520 a little kid? 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.600 We're were were you the family delight? I was? 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:04.479 I was. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.080 I was raised around all my grandparents and aunts and 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.280 uncles and and they just thought I was so kide 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.280 and fun and they would tell me and I was 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.480 a ham and I And let me tell you why, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.600 I'm embarrassed to even say that, aunt, because I've been 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.879 looking through pictures that I'm going to include in my book. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.040 In every picture, I'm going duh. I mean, I'm a 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:31.320 little kid doing it, and I'm like, somebody should have 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.919 slat much everything was? 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:36.960 You know, I was trying to tap and I didn't 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:38.720 know how to tap because I didn't get to take 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:39.479 tamp lessons. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:40.320 We were that rural. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.199 But but yeah, I would be funny at school. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.480 The teachers would say, lamb, will you m see this? 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.480 A aunt? Will you do the announcements? 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.359 I always I found any way I could. And I 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.720 know I was cling. I talked too much? 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.280 What's so interesting to me about that? And I don't 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.199 There are two things I'm about to do, and I 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.480 don't mean any of them in the wrong way. I'm 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:14.400