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Luenell Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest is a self proclaimed original bad girl
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Speaker 1: of comedy. You have seen her in A Sorry Born,
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Speaker 1: A Star Is Born, where she shared the screen with
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Speaker 1: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Dolan. Night is My Name,
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Speaker 1: starring comedy legend Eddie Murphy. She's also part of the
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Speaker 1: cast of Coming to America Too, appearing in the sequel.
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Speaker 1: I got the hook up to my main master, Pete
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Speaker 1: plus a new Showtime comedy special which I just really
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Speaker 1: saw and laughed my butt off called Funny Women of
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Speaker 1: a Certain Age, And she was in two of my
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Speaker 1: movies that I executed to produce, Thinking Like a Man
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Speaker 1: and Thinking Like a Man Too. Please walking to money
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Speaker 1: making conversation for the very first time. Lou Nell, Hey,
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Speaker 1: how you doing that? Lou Nell? Hey, listen, I gotta
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Speaker 1: clarify something. Though I'm not self proclaimed the original backgirl
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Speaker 1: of comedy, that nickname was given to me. Never be
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Speaker 1: so cocky is to say that, but that name was
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Speaker 1: given to me. Well, let's talk about that. What does
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Speaker 1: that mean when you say the original bad girl of
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Speaker 1: comedy that was given to you? What were you doing
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Speaker 1: that made you get that name? Well? Rick Sullivan, who
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Speaker 1: was a comedy promoter back California. Yeah, Rick gave me
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Speaker 1: that name many many years ago. And I guess he
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Speaker 1: gave it to me because, you know, um, well, several
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Speaker 1: reasons I was a bad girl. I was that girl.
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Speaker 1: Um Physically, you know, I used to do a lot
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Speaker 1: of little bar sites like that, I was clipped quick,
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Speaker 1: the slap that they said something wrong back in the day.
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Speaker 1: I've calmed my sugar hand now. And but also because
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Speaker 1: I was really really, um, I guess bold in my
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Speaker 1: statements and my delivery back in the day. And there
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Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot of women who were talking as
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Speaker 1: reckless as I was then that you know, there was
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Speaker 1: there was those people who had um very um direct
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Speaker 1: uh opinions of course, you know, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's what I remember about you. You know you you
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Speaker 1: hit that stage. You were short, but you are a
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Speaker 1: dynamite you d You're a powder kid out there and
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Speaker 1: you and and then and you know you command the
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Speaker 1: stage too. You always could. Plus you had that gravelly
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Speaker 1: voice which made people listen to you. And you and
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Speaker 1: you are you are a character and it really always
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Speaker 1: like say, the interesting thing about it is that, uh,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've I've watched your career. You know, I
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Speaker 1: lived in l A from nineteen ninety have finally moved
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Speaker 1: to law to New York in two thousand and five,
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Speaker 1: and I started managing Steve Harving two thousand, so I
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Speaker 1: got I get to I got to see your career,
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Speaker 1: just like I got to see Kevin Hard's career. In
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Speaker 1: a lot of talented people who are who have risen
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Speaker 1: to two levels that they are just exploding and really
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Speaker 1: popular and recognizable not only just in social media but
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Speaker 1: on television. And so you know, when I when I
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Speaker 1: reached out to my staff to say I want to
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Speaker 1: interview through now you know it's it. You know it
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Speaker 1: wasn't about that. I've never talked to you or I
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Speaker 1: never never sat down, and you never shook your hand.
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Speaker 1: It's just if I've always been a fan of what
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Speaker 1: you are accomplishing and who what you represent and you
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Speaker 1: represent on stage to me honesty. Well, I thank you
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Speaker 1: for that, because I do try to keep it honest.
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Speaker 1: It's just easier to be honest than it is to
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Speaker 1: be fake and a liar. It's just easier to be
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Speaker 1: that in my real life and in my stage persona.
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Speaker 1: I've never been a jokey, joke type of comic. I
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Speaker 1: don't tell jokes like Michael Collyer, I think is the
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Speaker 1: king of joke telling, but I don't. I don't tell jokes.
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Speaker 1: I tell stories like Osby and like George Cornelin and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. And so that's why it's always been
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Speaker 1: hard for me to do something like Our Senio or
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Speaker 1: or or something where I have to be on network television,
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Speaker 1: my house six minutes, my setups might take sit right right. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's been difficult for me, but I was able to
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Speaker 1: do it because you know, when you're presented with a challenge,
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Speaker 1: you you need to step up and do it. I
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Speaker 1: have been able to do it, but it's it's difficult
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Speaker 1: for me. Well, the thing about it is that how
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Speaker 1: do you help? Isn't as an actors? Why would you describe?
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Speaker 1: You said, are you a character actress or your comedic
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Speaker 1: actress or what type of actress are you? I'm basically
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Speaker 1: a comedic actress. But I did a lot of theater
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Speaker 1: before I ever did film and television. So I have
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Speaker 1: done musicals and I have done dramatic acting, and I
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Speaker 1: there's only one movie I think I've done where I
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Speaker 1: really was straight dramatic and not comedic at all, and
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Speaker 1: that was Never Die Alone. Robbie Reid cast me and
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Speaker 1: Never Die Alone with DMX. You know, d MS is
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Speaker 1: no joke, and so that was all about drugs and
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Speaker 1: murder and stuff like that. So I never did any
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Speaker 1: comedy in that. But I caught myself a comedic actress
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Speaker 1: because it's just my mind is wired so that I
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Speaker 1: see the humor and a lot of things and that's
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Speaker 1: my comfort zone. But I'm sure that at some point
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Speaker 1: in time my career, I will be approached to do
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Speaker 1: dramatic acting again. And I always have the problem. I
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Speaker 1: think that if I go too deep that I may
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Speaker 1: not come back out. You know, if I had to
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Speaker 1: uh playing you know, if I had to do something
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Speaker 1: and like Selma, or if I had to do something
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Speaker 1: and uh like you know, Roots or something like that,
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Speaker 1: I think it would be difficult for me to go
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Speaker 1: home and turn that off at night, you know, right
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Speaker 1: right right, They can get too deep into the character
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Speaker 1: speaking to lout Nell. Uh, the original Bad Girl comedy. Um,
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Speaker 1: she started in such movies that you are familiar with
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Speaker 1: the stars born Ladies guy Guy Bradley Cooper in an
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Speaker 1: incredible movie Dolma Is My Name, Eddie Murphy. I love
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Speaker 1: that Movie're gonna talk about that in a minute. And
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Speaker 1: coming into the much anticipated Coming to America too. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you never left the stage as a stand up. You
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Speaker 1: have a comedy special that you can catch right now
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Speaker 1: with the call the Funny Funny Women of a Certain Age.
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Speaker 1: That's and you have a couple of movies that are
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Speaker 1: come up as well. Let's talk. Let's go back and
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Speaker 1: talk about see to me, you just naturally funny to me.
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Speaker 1: So if somebody gives you a serious line, the way
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Speaker 1: you just twitch words where you look, it can come
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Speaker 1: out funny. And so so you're telling me that when
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Speaker 1: you were cast on in The Stars Born. You were
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Speaker 1: casting for comedy Relief. Now, if you remember, I only
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Speaker 1: really had about seven seconds of screen trying and the
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Speaker 1: Stars Born. And that was strictly because I have a
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Speaker 1: relationship with Bradley Cooper and he said, you know, I
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Speaker 1: want to throw you mail in him Bradley want Bradley
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Speaker 1: loved comedians. I mean there was Andrew d Clay was
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Speaker 1: in that, and myself and Eddie Griffin, right, So it
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Speaker 1: was just a little quick cameo. You know. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: I definitely wasn't put in there for comic relief because
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Speaker 1: I wasn't in there long enough. But most of the
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Speaker 1: pictures that I do get cast, and that's that's what
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Speaker 1: I'm there. I'm gonna just tell you this. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: in the movie. There's a whole lot of people went
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Speaker 1: in there for one second and the star is boring Dough. Now, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you were in the movie. Okay, and and and got
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Speaker 1: a credit in the movie. And I guess what, I
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Speaker 1: saw you in the movie. Because I saw the movie
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Speaker 1: three times. I wanted these people. I see the beginning
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Speaker 1: of it, that I see the middle, that I catched
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Speaker 1: the end and then I come back and see the
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Speaker 1: whole movie and go, wow, I missed that part. So
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Speaker 1: I saw you in the movie. And so I always
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Speaker 1: tell me one thing I always knew about you, even
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Speaker 1: though you never spoke to me. You never saw me.
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Speaker 1: I saw a humble person. Did I Did I misread you? No,
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Speaker 1: you didn't misread me. Um. And I think that one
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Speaker 1: of the only reasons that we really never spoke be
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Speaker 1: sinnd it because whenever I saw you, most of the time,
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Speaker 1: you were so immersed in the steve or you know,
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Speaker 1: comedy and I would be backstage and it ain't like listen,
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Speaker 1: it ain't you didn't talk to me either. It wasn't like,
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Speaker 1: you know, you ignored me. But there was just so
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Speaker 1: much around them at the moment that there wasn't time
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Speaker 1: for us to click. I I know that, Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's easiest for me to be in the comedy zone.
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Speaker 1: I know that I can do dramatic acting because like
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Speaker 1: I said, I did see them before I ever did
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Speaker 1: um anything else. Yes, but my my, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: A Star is Born, I was in two Academy Award
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Speaker 1: nominated films. A Star Is Born was nominated for the
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Speaker 1: Academy Award. I was able to go to the Golden Glows.
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Speaker 1: I was able to go to the Stack one, and
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Speaker 1: so was Borat. You know, people forget about to us
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Speaker 1: about that because that's really your big moment, right Well yeah,
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Speaker 1: but black black people didn't latch on the boat and
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Speaker 1: still have not the subside, but most didn't. That was
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Speaker 1: like a big thing, you know. That got me a
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Speaker 1: lot of attention in Europe and stuff like that because
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Speaker 1: Sasha being from you know, uh, London, I believe, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, was really big with the whole Ali g
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Speaker 1: thing and everything like that. Close on the same time
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Speaker 1: that Bora I came out, I was on tour with
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Speaker 1: Cat Williams. So it's like I had a black audience
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Speaker 1: that I had this white one, and then I'm just
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Speaker 1: saying that was about doing bor At. Was that six
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Speaker 1: months after the film came out, I was under guig order.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell nobody that I wasn't the Protestant too,
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Speaker 1: because I would reach my contract and here in l A,
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Speaker 1: you could be talking to anybody in the bar and
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Speaker 1: you say like that, what you don't know is they
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Speaker 1: worked for the movie company or they sleeping When somebody
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Speaker 1: worked for mo coming in the tail and then you
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Speaker 1: know you're in trouble. So for six months when I
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Speaker 1: went out, there was people who see me in the
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Speaker 1: bar to be like and you can't deny it, right,
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Speaker 1: That's amazing that I also didn't get to do any
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Speaker 1: of the promotional stuff. Siser and Ken Davindian, who played
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Speaker 1: they got to go on you know, Jay Leno, they
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Speaker 1: got to go on and there, They got to go
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Speaker 1: on that and talk about the movie. And I didn't
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Speaker 1: get to do any of that stuff. So I could
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Speaker 1: have been that had my quote unquote Tiffany had this moment.
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Speaker 1: But I get I got shut down a couple of times.
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Speaker 1: You know we're gonna be right back when we come back.
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Speaker 1: I saw you when you did your appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, Okay,
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Speaker 1: when you walk out there, and I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about that because it's amazing. My My life is such
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Speaker 1: a cool life. I get to see people and to
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Speaker 1: see them grow, and I can see the seed I could.
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Speaker 1: I can remember just watching Kevin Hodge just go from
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Speaker 1: stage and stage and stage and stage and stage, and
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Speaker 1: and watching you and and this many other comedians. I
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Speaker 1: Dot Ai. Hi this Rashan McDonald. You're listening to money
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Speaker 1: making conversations. I have Lunelle, fabulous stand up comedian I've
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Speaker 1: followed and looked at over the years and watched the
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Speaker 1: career blossom. And last year, uh, the great movie came
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Speaker 1: out called Dolan Is My Name, starring my man Eddie Murphy.
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Speaker 1: Uh Uh. It's kind of interesting because I'm a former
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Speaker 1: stand up comedian, so Dolomite had an impact on me,
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Speaker 1: and so so watching that movie is almost kind of
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Speaker 1: like watching a bit of my life because I know
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Speaker 1: where I met Dolomite. I performed with Dolomite, and so
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Speaker 1: he had a place in my heart and and I
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Speaker 1: got to grow, and then I got to see you,
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Speaker 1: Lunelle performing a very very funny character, uh, opposite Eddie
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Speaker 1: Murphy and hold your own when you go. Eddie Murphy's
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Speaker 1: kind of like the Michael Jordan's and a comedy to me. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so when you're sharing the screen with somebody like Eddie Murphy,
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Speaker 1: do you what are your thoughts when you when you
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Speaker 1: get catching a role like that? Do you are you nervous?
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Speaker 1: Do you feel you have to step off? Do you
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Speaker 1: do you what? What? What are your thoughts right there?
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Speaker 1: Lou new Well, I must say that had I not
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Speaker 1: already had a relationship with Eddie, it would have been
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Speaker 1: a total mind mind you know what I'm saying, because
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Speaker 1: he is the goat. Like for me, there's Richard and
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Speaker 1: there's Eddie in that order, and then there's everybody that. Um,
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Speaker 1: I knew Eddie socially. I had been the parties with
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Speaker 1: Eddie and stuff like that. And Eddie knew me because
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Speaker 1: I was very good friends with Charlie, Charlie Rest in Peace,
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Speaker 1: Charlie Back, Charlie and I made movie together, Charlie and
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Speaker 1: I did projects together. Charlie and I, you know, would
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Speaker 1: kick it together. I went to see him during the
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Speaker 1: Black and Brown comedy get Down with him and g
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Speaker 1: l and Joyde's Lopez and said, and um, you know,
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Speaker 1: so Eddie knew knew me like for years, and I
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Speaker 1: even have pictures here in the house with me and
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Speaker 1: Eddie and all of that. Also, I knew Rudy as well.
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Speaker 1: I just was had in my hand the Rudy Raymore
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Speaker 1: Dolomite bobo head that Rudy gave me. Rudy gave me
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Speaker 1: a Baba Head. He gave me a backscratcher. He gave
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Speaker 1: me some albums that were raided five X like not
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Speaker 1: triple eggs like five x. And he gave me his
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Speaker 1: whole video collection. Pete Wee Straw, The Devil, Sun Law,
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Speaker 1: and Dolomite Is My Name, I mean Dolomite and um,
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Speaker 1: you know the like three others. So one of the
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Speaker 1: things I knew for a fact is that Rudy did
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Speaker 1: not want to be forgotten, you know. And my agent
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Speaker 1: came to me and was like, I got audition for
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Speaker 1: you today and the movie is called Dolomite is My Name?
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Speaker 1: And I said, Dolomite making a movie about do mate?
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Speaker 1: Is this for reality seri? And they were like that
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Speaker 1: and um. Then they told me that it started Eddie
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Speaker 1: Murphy and I was like, get out of here. I know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get to work with Eddie. Like come on,
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Speaker 1: y'all just churking my chain. You must just have people
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Speaker 1: you want to audition and you just need to you know,
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Speaker 1: them running through the room. They know what they got
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Speaker 1: the right right. So I went to the audition and
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Speaker 1: actually the audition that the part I was on Disney
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Speaker 1: for was a part of Lady Read, not the part
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Speaker 1: that I yet. Our audition for that role, and I
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Speaker 1: had seven callbacks. We even did a screen tell us
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Speaker 1: with the wig and with the outfit and everything like that.
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Speaker 1: As it turns out, the role went to the vine
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Speaker 1: Joy Randall, which is fine. I think she did a
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Speaker 1: fine job and I like her. Yes, she's an old
20:13
Speaker 1: theater actress. That's why nobody knows who she is, because
20:16
Speaker 1: theater is great. But you can you can do a
20:20
Speaker 1: chose a week for ten years on Broadway and do
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes on television, and more people will know you
20:27
Speaker 1: in that thirty minutes than will will in the ten
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Speaker 1: years you are Broadway. That's just a fact. So the
20:32
Speaker 1: Banjo Randol is a theater actress. Then Craig Brewer, who
20:38
Speaker 1: had done Puzzle and Flow and did Dolomite is my
20:41
Speaker 1: name and has directors coming to America the quest. Craig
20:46
Speaker 1: like me so much that he didn't want to let
20:47
Speaker 1: me go, and and he saw my dimensions and everything
20:52
Speaker 1: like that. And I can take direction after auditions seven times,
20:55
Speaker 1: so he gave me the part of his hands. So
20:58
Speaker 1: I was very very happy to have at because I
21:00
Speaker 1: didn't have to share the room with a bunch of cats.
21:03
Speaker 1: It was just Eddie and myself. Eddie and myself and
21:05
Speaker 1: I had a great time. Then fast forward to Craig
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Speaker 1: Brewer is now doing Coming to America and I didn't
21:14
Speaker 1: have to auditions for that cuign So I'm very happy
21:19
Speaker 1: to be in to Eddie Murphy movies back to back,
21:22
Speaker 1: and there's Coming to America's sequel is gonna blow everybody's mind.
21:25
Speaker 1: I was just telling my um Instagram live audience earlier
21:31
Speaker 1: that there's some fake flyers going around about Coming to America.
21:35
Speaker 1: They had Tiffany Hattish on him. Tiffany's not in the movie.
21:39
Speaker 1: They said it's coming out August seven. That doesn't come
21:41
Speaker 1: out to December. They said it's Coming to America too.
21:44
Speaker 1: It's called Coming to America the Quest. So there's fake
21:47
Speaker 1: flyers going around. Don't believe that. But the sequel to
21:52
Speaker 1: Coming to America is one of the most amazing films
21:56
Speaker 1: that I've ever been on. Of course, he's film done
21:58
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry's old studio and the new studio. I got
22:02
Speaker 1: a tourls a lot. I got to see the album stages.
22:05
Speaker 1: It was so prideful and so amazing Plus, when you're
22:09
Speaker 1: watching Coming to America in the living room thirty years ago,
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Speaker 1: you can't even fathom that there's gonna be a sequel
22:15
Speaker 1: thirty years later and you'll be in it. That's why
22:18
Speaker 1: when they say God can dream, dreams bigger. God got
22:21
Speaker 1: bigger plans to you that you could ever dream, It's true,
22:24
Speaker 1: you know. And I was very um lucky to be
22:28
Speaker 1: in this film along with the great John Amos and
22:34
Speaker 1: with James Jones, and you know, Vanessa Belle Callaway, And
22:39
Speaker 1: there's so many of the people that were in it before.
22:42
Speaker 1: Mostly all the people that were here before are in
22:44
Speaker 1: it this time. The only person who passed away was
22:47
Speaker 1: a great Match Sinclair, who played Prince Akim's a mother.
22:51
Speaker 1: And then there's cameos and other roles by other people
22:55
Speaker 1: that I can't say is giving me a hemory because
22:58
Speaker 1: I got the pictures in my phone that I wanted drop,
23:00
Speaker 1: and I've had almost a year now, and I'm like, oh,
23:03
Speaker 1: I didn't say I want to just show them, and
23:05
Speaker 1: I can't do it. But it's gonna be amazing. It's really, really,
23:09
Speaker 1: really a wonderful experience. I'm blessed. One of the great
23:12
Speaker 1: things on Barack. You couldn't promote, but you could promote.
23:16
Speaker 1: Dolomite is my name. I'm watching Jimmy Kimmel because they were.
23:20
Speaker 1: I saw a promotion, said Lunelle, from a pre promoted
23:23
Speaker 1: that you was going to be on the show. And
23:25
Speaker 1: when you came, when he introduced you and you came
23:27
Speaker 1: out that beautiful dress, what ran through your mind? Because
23:32
Speaker 1: you know I've been I have come out on stage,
23:34
Speaker 1: I've been introduced like that, never at the level that
23:36
Speaker 1: you was introduced. Because you introduced as a star on
23:40
Speaker 1: a major late night television successful show talk walkers through
23:45
Speaker 1: those steps emotionally. Um uh. And when you sat down
23:49
Speaker 1: and did the interview, in the crowd reacting to you, Lunell, well,
23:55
Speaker 1: you know I had also prior to the interview on Kimmel,
24:00
Speaker 1: I had been lucky enough to obtain a residency at
24:04
Speaker 1: his comedy club in Las Vegas. But some of the
24:06
Speaker 1: people got a chance to see me before the shutdown. Um.
24:11
Speaker 1: I was at Jimmy Kimmel's comedy club in Las Vegas
24:15
Speaker 1: every Sunday night at ten o'clock. So we had been
24:19
Speaker 1: talking to them about the fact that yo, I'm Jimmy's
24:22
Speaker 1: resident like I'm here every week. You know, most people
24:26
Speaker 1: would come in. They may do a weekend, they may
24:28
Speaker 1: go somewhere or something like that, but they I was
24:31
Speaker 1: there every Sunday, every Sunday at ten pm. So when
24:35
Speaker 1: it came through to my agent said yeah, we're gonna
24:38
Speaker 1: be able. You know you're gonna be able to do
24:39
Speaker 1: the show, I was just elated because I've always pictured
24:43
Speaker 1: myself kitting at the desk. You know, if it wasn't Carson,
24:47
Speaker 1: and I thought it'd be the winnout, it wasn't Lenos,
24:50
Speaker 1: and I thought it'd be a Letterman. If it wasn't Letterman,
24:52
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was gonna happen. But I did
24:54
Speaker 1: get a chance to walk out there from behind the
24:58
Speaker 1: curtain and our fit that I was very proud to
25:01
Speaker 1: wear by a black designer named Angela Dene. I was
25:06
Speaker 1: able to, you know, be my witty self. I didn't
25:09
Speaker 1: have to do stand up. I just was able to
25:13
Speaker 1: sit there and you know, be me, and um, it
25:18
Speaker 1: was great. You know, Jimmy's very kind, He's a very
25:21
Speaker 1: kind person, and um, he was very into me. He
25:26
Speaker 1: makes you feel very important. You know. I was low
25:29
Speaker 1: key flirting like I always do very cute at it,
25:33
Speaker 1: very cute at it, showing those nails, showing those nails, yeah,
25:38
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So it was it was a wonderful,
25:43
Speaker 1: wonderful experience. And I'm glad that I have the tape.
25:46
Speaker 1: You know that my daughter was there with me. I had, uh,
25:51
Speaker 1: my crew that day was my agent, my manager, my stylast,
25:56
Speaker 1: my daughter, and um glode the white, the late very
26:01
Speaker 1: white white. She's not very dear friends. So she was
26:04
Speaker 1: backstage with her sister Landa up and um, yeah, and
26:09
Speaker 1: a couple of more people that I loved, and so
26:12
Speaker 1: I did have a crew, and it was it was great.
26:15
Speaker 1: You know, we celebrated after we went to Yamaha old
26:18
Speaker 1: back when you could find dying and stuff like that,
26:23
Speaker 1: and and uh, it was you know, it was dream
26:27
Speaker 1: come true, you know, and that's why that's why I
26:31
Speaker 1: was excited about it. You know, when you when you
26:33
Speaker 1: came out there, so people standing for you, assuming there
26:36
Speaker 1: might have been some of your crew members, said dad,
26:39
Speaker 1: your daddy, your daddy, your dad, and then you sitting
26:43
Speaker 1: down like a star like you you belong there, You
26:45
Speaker 1: belong there. And I noticed and I'm not this is
26:48
Speaker 1: not the end of your journey. It's the start of
26:50
Speaker 1: an even bigger journey. How are you dealing with this pandemic? Now?
26:54
Speaker 1: My friend, before we get out of here, I was
26:57
Speaker 1: made for quarantine. Trust me, I haven't. I've been had three,
27:03
Speaker 1: you know, almost three months to get anywhere in the
27:06
Speaker 1: thirty years that I've been doing stand up, and I
27:09
Speaker 1: haven't even had this much time to lay around at
27:12
Speaker 1: home with my husband because I was always working from
27:16
Speaker 1: the time that you know, I started doing the stand
27:20
Speaker 1: up in Long Beach and they went back to Oakland,
27:22
Speaker 1: where I'm from and was working on the soul be
27:25
Speaker 1: Television network, and then came back out to l A
27:28
Speaker 1: and get want to stand Ever, went on tour where
27:30
Speaker 1: Captain started my own tour and got the rid of
27:32
Speaker 1: that we don't get ninety days, ninety days to lay
27:36
Speaker 1: at home. It's not like I'm laying on the beaches
27:38
Speaker 1: of Tahiti. You know, I'm at home. And uh, you know,
27:43
Speaker 1: we've gotten real creative. I started my YouTube show. For
27:47
Speaker 1: anybody out there who's interested in YouTube or has my Instagram,
27:50
Speaker 1: me to click the Lincoln the bio. It's called helu
27:53
Speaker 1: now h E y l u E n E l
27:57
Speaker 1: l It comes on live every Wednesday from three to
28:01
Speaker 1: four Pacific time. And um, so you know you get
28:05
Speaker 1: creative when you're at the house and I've been cooking
28:07
Speaker 1: and doing the mommy thing and doing the white thing.
28:10
Speaker 1: I told my husband the other day, I said, I
28:13
Speaker 1: will be going back to work to enjoy it. This
28:15
Speaker 1: why you can't to them movie starle WHI. I love it.
28:21
Speaker 1: She is the original bad girl of comedy. You've seen
28:24
Speaker 1: that Doler, You've seen him. She is a queen to me.
28:28
Speaker 1: I've I've seen it from a far and it's great
28:30
Speaker 1: talking to you, little Nell and your resume. Now when
28:33
Speaker 1: when when coming to America? Come back out in the fall?
28:36
Speaker 1: Can I get you back on the show? Oh you
28:39
Speaker 1: will want to, Yes, absolutely, And then I'll tell you
28:42
Speaker 1: some of the bad story about some sulf So we
28:45
Speaker 1: have some real, real, real, um memorable memorable times. I'm
28:51
Speaker 1: gonna bring you back. Thank you for doing my show.
28:53
Speaker 1: And I know that I consider your blessing. I consider
28:56
Speaker 1: you a gift and I and a hard worker and
28:59
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