Name: Leanne Morgan | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #627
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Leanne Morgan | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #627

Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. She's an actress. She's a writer. Her new
special
Unspeakable Things is out now on Netflix, as well as her series Leanne. I had a
great time
getting to know her and spend time with one of my favorites, Leanne Morgan.
No, I just, my hair, I feel like my hair just got out of the dryer. You ever
feel like
that? Um, yeah, but you are stunning. I don't know if I want to be damn stunned.
I'm not
stunning. Maybe I'm stunning in like a, like if people are trapped in a mine or
something
and I walk up, they're like, yeah, damn, who's that model? You know, if people
have been trapped
in like a mine for like a month. In Kentucky? Um, but no, I think, I've always
thought you're
beautiful and I, you know, I don't want to be beautiful, Leanne. That's insane.
What do
you mean? Handsome? Yeah, I just want to be a handsome guy. Yeah. Guy looks
healthy enough,
right? But you've got that beautiful skin tone. Oh, well that's, I will take
that. Thank you,
baby. I know. You don't need a spray tan. Thank you, baby girl. You're welcome.
I appreciate
that. Good to see what's going on today. Oh, my darling. I'm so tickled to be
here. Thank
you for having me. This is my Superbowl, as the young people say. I mean, I
really feel
that way. All right. I don't know if you don't know this, but I saw you, was
that last comic
standing in LA? Gary Marshall was one of the- Gary Marshall from the department
store? Who
were you talking about? Gary Marshall that did. Laverne and Shirley, he was one
of the judges.
Gary Marshall, bring him up. You were a baby and you did last comic standing. I
saw you
do a set in LA. It was on NBC. Okay. Gary Marshall. That was last comic
standing, right? With April
Macy was on there. Yep. Josh Wolfe. She assimilated up Felicio. She did? In her
set. She did. You
talked about your little daddy being old when he had you and all that. Yeah.
And I, you killed
and I fell in love with you then. Well, you're an angel. And then I got to see
you do a full
set at the Hollywood Improv. David Spade was on the show with you. He came out
first and I love
him. And then you, I had my daughters with me and we laughed until we were weak.
And you did a full plank
on a stool for, I don't know, seven minutes. Yeah. And that's part of the
ticket cost. I include that.
And then you, that ain't extra. Okay. And then we got to meet you and you
remember their names.
Oh, I do remember that. And there was a bunch of girls that looked maybe like
porn girls that were
wanting to talk to you. Oh, good. Mm-hmm. Had on high heels and tight britches
and. God, I'm so lonely.
But go on. And they were beautiful girls around you. And, um. God, I wish they
were still here,
but go on. And then, um, and then I always get, all my friends are at Zaney's
and they get,
they always tell me they get to be with you and I don't get to be with you.
Well. Because I live in
Knoxville or I'm out on the road working like a mule. That's what it is. Or
living in Los Angeles.
Well, when are you just going to settle down, Leanne? I don't know. I mean, I'm
60. Did you know I
turn 60 in October? You are 60? Yes. Gosh. I hate to even say that in front of
you. No,
it's fine, honey. I didn't even know 60 could be like that. God, I want to be
60 just for a half
hour with you. You know, my God. Thank you, my daughter. You know, I've got two
grandbabies.
You do? Don't even. Now, don't tell me that. Just tell me you're 60. I like
that part.
Do you do? Really? Um. Yes. Well, yeah. I mean, congratulations, A, on, uh,
having a family.
Obviously, that's something that's super important to you. Thank you. I met
your husband, Chuck. I met
him. Was that his name? You met Chuck Morgan where? Yes, I met him. At the
freaking, with
Morgan Wall. It was Morgan. Oh, yeah. At the ball game. Yeah. At the ball game.
Go Vols. You
know, I'm a Vol for life. I went to the University of Tennessee. I know you are.
Oh, yes. Chuck
Morgan was there. That's right. Chuck Morgan was lingering around. We met Peyton
Manning. And
he's worried death about Arch. He's having to tend to Arch at Texas, who is
beautiful and
precious. I know his daddy, Cooper. I know Cooper, but I never met Peyton, so I
was tickled
about that. And then I know Tony and Vitello were friends. Oh, he's great. Is
he not darling?
I know. He's great. I know that they're all going to miss him over there, but I
know that
they're all supportive of him. He's just the kind of guy you have to support as
he makes
those choices. But God, he is just a great guy. Mm-hmm. There's some great
people over
there. And yeah, and yeah, that was fun, though. Had you met Morgan before? Yes,
honey. Morgan
and I did a show together when he got kicked off of The Voice. You told me that.
That little
thing was mowing. Mm-hmm. Had mowing equipment. And we got, both got asked to
do a charity thing.
I think they paid us $200. If they paid us anything, I can't remember. And he
sang and
we were in the back and I promised him a casserole because I thought he was so
sweet. And darling,
he goes, I'm going to try to make it in country music. And I thought, how's
that little thing
going to go? And not that I didn't think he was talented. No, of course. But I
thought
that's just so sweetie that you would even consider making a casserole for him.
Well, he's the
age of my children. He's great. And darling. He is great. He does a good job.
He's a smart
guy. Yeah. He's a smart guy. He's competitive. And he just, he's, he's really
fine tuned on
who he is. He's, you know, some people that are willing to be this or that, but
not Morgan
is. This is who I am. You know, I know. And he doesn't care. And that's a good
place to
be. You know, you don't care. You do your own thing. Well, you've been working
in comedy
for how long have you been doing comedy for? If you don't mind if I ask. Oh, no,
I don't
mind you, Angel. I was 32 when I think, when I, my baby was 18 months old, the
first time
I ever opened at, I opened at Zaney's. I'd been, I'd been fooling around like
at the Rotary,
you know, like I'd take a baby to mom's day out, go and do a little something
at the Rotary,
make $50. And now were you in East Tennessee? Okay. Yeah. And then I came. What
county was
that in? Uh, Hamlin County. Over in Hamlin? Uh-huh. Okay. And that's where you
met Chuck
Morgan? I met him at the University of Tennessee. God, I knew it, huh? And what
was he doing over
there? Was he loitering or was he enrolled? I was probably the one loitering.
Okay. He was
enrolled, getting a master's, an MBA, and I was trying to finish up a
undergraduate that took
me several years, Theo, because I, um. Drank. I wasn't drinking. You weren't? I
was smoking
cigarettes with Diet Coke and coffee. Oh, that's fine. And I was, and I was, I
was not going to
class. I was having to flirt with people to get notes. I didn't care. And I
wish I'd have cared,
but I was doing stuff like that and, and, and making out with people. Yeah. Oh,
God. Like
Italian boys, because I, I never seen one. Okay. So I was raised like right
outside of Nashville in a
town of 500 people, uh, farming community. So everybody was the same. So when I
got to UT, I was like,
oh, and I, you know, went to the club. Oh yeah. If you see something new, you
got to put your lips on
it. You know, that's the Hamlin County motto. But then Chuck Morgan came to get
an MBA and then
fell in love with me. And was he on a horseback or something? When you saw him,
was he on a damn
King Corso? What was he on? He was just on a damn big Datsun, wasn't he? Like
God thing. He's got a long
one on him under him. Is Datsun a dog? Datsun's a dog. I've had a Datsun. Puddin.
Puddin? Yeah.
She was precious. Well, she'd bring up a picture of her. Look up Puddin Datsun.
She was a little
bitty toy. Little orange. Overweight. Had some thyroid issues. Loved to cuss. UPS
trucks. But
darling. Oh. Like another baby to me. Gosh. That's a beagle. That's my beagle
right now. That is
beautiful. That's you? Look at that old. Lord, that was a dress from Dillard's
from the junior
department that was too tight on my back. Theo. Honey, look baby girl. I know I
used to have shoes
that weren't mine growing up. And I'd have to stuff the fucking edges of them.
I'd have to put a
hand towel around each one of my feet and put them bitches on and go to school.
Look like a damn vaudeville character or something. I look like they used to
call me
Ronald McDonald's son, Lil Ronnie. Here come Lil Ronnie. Look at his shoes,
dude. It took me seven
minutes to get off the bus from going down those steps, dude. Because if I got
out ahead of those
skis, baby, it was downhill, you know. It was just slope central. You killed me.
Louisiana,
is that where you were raised? Yeah. What part of Louisiana? Over in St. Tammany
Parish, Louisiana.
Okay, I just did Shreveport in Baton Rouge. Is that over in the hoopty-doo park?
Shreveport,
and I'll say it out loud, has definitely gone downhill. Which is interesting
for a place that's
it's flat land over there. Somehow it find a way to go down. I heard you said
something about it when
you got on stage. What'd you say? Everybody that looked like a damn missing
person,
if you meet anybody in the city, the city is vacant. It looks like a movie set.
I know. I mean,
the buildings are empty and they told me they go, "Do not leave this hotel."
Yeah. But I love that
theater and they've got a little Elvis museum in it. You know, and Priscilla
brought some britches
of little Elvis that you could not get your toe in. He was so tiny. That's
beautiful. Bring up a picture
of a little Elvis. How little did he get? Before he got in bad health, have you
ever been to Graceland?
Yes, I have. And you've seen his little, all those jumpsuits and you, and they
were, his little waist.
He was getting little as he got older. Look, there's little baby Elvis's. Look
at little Elvis
right there. And they probably had him down singing already. Probably 11 months
old. They got him out
there. I know. And his little daddy had written bad chinks just to take care of
their family. He
couldn't help it. And he had dysplasia. That's how he got the hips going. You
know that? No. Yeah,
like an Australian shepherd. That's how it happened in the beginning. He didn't
know what he was doing,
dude. He wasn't. If you're like, he's a dancer. No, he ain't. Damn, he just got
a loose back. Are you kidding me?
Cause you know that I'm gullible. You can tell that about me. You can smell it.
Honey. Okay. Honey
bun. He had dysplasia. Baby girl. I'm not joking with you. Yeah, he had dysplasia.
He had a damn
fucking loose tailbone, dude. He was missing a couple of joists on that thing.
And yeah. And he just had
that tick tock in him, you know? Hell, we had an Elvis impersonator in our
neighborhood and he had the
same thing. He had a thing, this guy, he, he broke his leg, right? He had a
couple of children. He kept
them on an electric fence in our neighborhood because they were his prized
possessions. And I,
and I actually respected that. The rest of the kids in our neighborhood got
real, you know,
you'd be out there and you know, the elements would get you, you know, people
smoking or getting in
trouble drinking or people fucking catching crows and fucking picking bugs off
of them and shit,
just fucking loose cannon type stuff. Yeah. But this fella said, well,
I got to take care of my kids. I'm gonna give me a little electric fence, right?
So he had that
thing. And, uh, anyway, he kept people out, kept people like kept the kids in,
kept the kids in
because my people had electric fence and that'll keep you in. You don't want to
get buzzed by that
thing. Uh, uh, you turn into a fucking doorbell for a couple of hours, dude.
That bitch,
you get hit by that bitch. We really were so born little country kids that we
would go and just stand
on it to feel something. Oh God. Yeah, honey. Oh, I remember one time I grabbed
it on accident.
I couldn't fucking close my mouth for four days. I coul