"Leanne Morgan"

It’s 87 days of chicken piccata with the wonderful Leanne Morgan. A yelling beagle, breast-feeding & hemorrhoids, plus all those girls shooting boars in their panties. And yes, of course: some follow-up questions about the chicken and the porch. “Every day’s a party,” …on an all-new SmartLess.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:01Sean Hayes?

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• 2:51Sean Hayes?

  It's so, so cold in here. Is anyone else cold, or is it just me? I mean, like... Avalanche! Oh, it's... Avalanche! Oh, God, it's... Oh, Lord, it's like a, it's like a cold... There's nothing colder than a cold open. Snake! This is a cold open! Ah, now I'm getting bit by a snake! Everybody, run! The snakes are cold! It's a cold open! Ah, my phone is ringing. Hang on one second. Paul? It's time for a cold open. Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:34Jason Bateman?

  Listener...

• 3:35Sean Hayes?

  Oh, we're talking about the Golden Globes, yeah.

• 3:37Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, we're talking about the Golden Globes.

• 3:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. And, um, and it was fun. We had a good time, us guys.

• 3:42Jason Bateman?

  We did have fun.

• 3:43Sean Hayes?

  That was, um... That was super fun.

• 3:45Jason Bateman?

  We did our, we did, we did our sweaty bit at the beginning.

• 3:47Sean Hayes?

  It was great. It was super fun. Nice to be a part of the, um, of that, uh, that, uh, what was it? I guess, category. Um, and as, as our friend Jimmy Kimmel put it, "Nice to be a part of that category, because it could end up like breakdancing at the Olympics and..."

• 4:03Jason Bateman?

  Never come back.

• 4:04Sean Hayes?

  "...no one ever sees it again." Breakdancing at the Olympics. The last time you see that category. I don't know, but, uh, congrats to Miss Amy Poehler for winning the absolute best...

• 4:15Jason Bateman?

  Podcast in the world.

• 4:16Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 4:17Will Arnett?

  For good hang. Good hang did did very well. It was a it was a good hang. Her speech was a good hang.

• 4:24Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, a lot of good speeches last night.

• 4:26Will Arnett?

  A lot of good. You know what's fun about I saw Amy right before I saw Amy and Joel in the thing in the back. And she was like, oh, my God, you guys are gonna win. I go. Bull, effing shit.

• 4:36Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we've been saying he was gonna win for months.

• 4:39Jason Bateman?

  I won 200 bucks. I bet I bet on her and won $200.

• 4:42Will Arnett?

  I know you bet with Krasinski.

• 4:43Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 4:44Will Arnett?

  And then I I told Amy that you bet with Krasinski and I go right from moment one, you know that she's got it locked up when it comes to that like, you know.

• 4:53Sean Hayes?

  She's Miss Golden Globes.

• 4:54Will Arnett?

  Yeah, she's beloved.

• 4:55Sean Hayes?

  Darling, yeah.

• 4:56Will Arnett?

  She deserves it, but she's beloved.

• 4:57Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, for sure.

• 4:58Jason Bateman?

  For sure.

• 4:58Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 4:59Sean Hayes?

  For sure.

• 5:00Will Arnett?

  But anyways.

• 5:00Jason Bateman?

  Did you guys meet anybody you were excited to meet last night? Did you have anybody come up?

• 5:05Sean Hayes?

  I had a wonderful conversation with Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn.

• 5:08Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 5:09Sean Hayes?

  Those guys are great. Yeah.

• 5:10Jason Bateman?

  Willie, did you get some nice compliments on your film?

• 5:13Will Arnett?

  I did, actually. Yeah, it was nice. There was a lot of.

• 5:15Jason Bateman?

  Told you.

• 5:16Will Arnett?

  A lot of nice people said, a lot of people that that I really look up to and that I.

• 5:20Sean Hayes?

  Clooney loved it.

• 5:21Will Arnett?

  Things.

• 5:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 5:23Will Arnett?

  Yeah, George was very nice about it. He's, yeah, he's he was very sweet about it. He sent me a nice text and and as well and. Sandler and those guys are super nice and had some good had some good laughs at one point. Jason was bothering me pretending that he was working at the after party and he just kept bothering.

• 5:47Jason Bateman?

  I was running running the martini cart.

• 5:49Will Arnett?

  He was running the martini cart. He goes, I'll just be right here if you want anything.

• 5:53Sean Hayes?

  I have vodka and gin, vodka and gin.

• 5:55Will Arnett?

  Okay, like into my ear and I just kept going, would you fuck off?

• 5:58Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, it's hilarious.

• 6:00Jason Bateman?

  Shawnee, is everything's okay? Sean had to had to leave early. He's having some sort of an ailment.

• 6:07Will Arnett?

  It's funny how it timed out right to us losing our category that his emergency.

• 6:12Sean Hayes?

  So crazy. Who could have called that?

• 6:14Jason Bateman?

  So why? Fortunate timing, but everything was all taken care of. He got home in time.

• 6:19Will Arnett?

  Ended up being okay.

• 6:20Jason Bateman?

  Evacuate whatever was.

• 6:22Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. Yes, no, thank you for your concern. Thank you. Yeah, no, everything was turned out terrific. Yeah, I was just like, you know, it's super fun to go. We we we. The show Will and Grace, the Will and Grace program and myself and all the cast and everybody.

• 6:36Will Arnett?

  Now that's a comedy, huh? Bring it back. Because they're he's gay, so they can't be together.

• 6:45Will Arnett?

  But they're best friends. But they would be perfect together, buddy.

• 6:54Will Arnett?

  Boy, this guy's astute. He's got a real take on Will and Grace. The guy in the back of the beer.

• 6:59Sean Hayes?

  That is so funny. But, um, anyway, we were, we've been total, nominated a total of 27 times.

• 7:06Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 7:07Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, and then last night was 28, and we never won one.

• 7:11Will Arnett?

  Is that true?

• 7:12Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, never won.

• 7:13Jason Bateman?

  Wait, Will and Grace was up for what last night?

• 7:15Sean Hayes?

  No. I'm just saying total, and then last night was one more that I and the three of us.

• 7:21Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that you were a part of. Gotcha, gotcha. That's, that's 28 and oh, uh, oh and 28 at the Golden Globes?

• 7:27Sean Hayes?

  That is correct. Something like that, 26, 27.

• 7:30Will Arnett?

  I was there, Jay. I was there the night Jay won one. I was sitting next to Jay and we had a nice deep.

• 7:35Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's nice. For what, Jason? For Ozark?

• 7:37Will Arnett?

  For Arrested.

• 7:38Jason Bateman?

  This was for Arrested, yeah.

• 7:39Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's great. Congratulations.

• 7:42Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I made the mistake of thinking every single person I've ever met in my life.

• 7:48Will Arnett?

  No, you know what? I remember that night. It was really sweet and, and you were legitimately surprised and it was a, that was a really, really fun night.

• 7:57Sean Hayes?

  I'd like to look that up. I'd like to see that.

• 7:58Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's, you get to have those fun moments.

• 8:00Jason Bateman?

  Nice things don't usually happen for me.

• 8:02Will Arnett?

  Oh, I know, I know.

• 8:03Sean Hayes?

  It's been rough.

• 8:04Will Arnett?

  Everybody's, everybody's real concerned about, you've had a rough road.

• 8:08Jason Bateman?

  I was proud, I was proud of our little bit, the three of us, you know, we, uh,

• 8:11Sean Hayes?

  Committed.

• 8:12Jason Bateman?

  We were cook, cooking with gas up there.

• 8:14Sean Hayes?

  That's right. By the way, and I said to Jason, nobody in the, in the history of an award show has done a bit with their back towards the audience.

• 8:21Will Arnett?

  I know, it was so good. JB, that was so good.

• 8:24Jason Bateman?

  Tried to create a private moment.

• 8:26Sean Hayes?

  It was so funny. I'm just starting laughing at that.

• 8:29Will Arnett?

  I liked Clooney's and, and, uh, they were done. Cheadle, Cheadle. That was good. They were, they were really good. Anyway.

• 8:34Sean Hayes?

  Anyway, all right, here we go. Ready?

• 8:36Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 8:36Jason Bateman?

  Yep.

• 8:37Sean Hayes?

  My guest today is wonderful. She's fantastic. She's living proof that good things come to those who wait. She grew up in Adams, Tennessee, population 600. Where her parents ran the only grocery meat shop in town. She hung around the local funeral home for fun. After college, she sold jewelry at house parties to help make ends meet. Twenty-five years later, she's finally having her moment at 60. Sold-out arenas, Netflix specials, bestselling memoir, hit sitcom. She's a self-proclaimed Mrs. Maisel of Appalachia. It's the hilarious, big-hearted LeAnn Morgan.

• 9:10Will Arnett?

  LeAnn Morgan, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. I know it was LeAnn Morgan.

• 9:15Sean Hayes?

  I've never seen Will so happy.

• 9:19Speaker 03

  I'm in love with all of y'all, and I mean it in a sinful way. Thank y'all for having me.

• 9:28Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 9:29Speaker 03

  A dream come true.

• 9:31Sean Hayes?

  It's so nice to have you here.

• 9:32Will Arnett?

  For us, too. Oh, my God, I'm so happy. I love your story. I love that you are having this moment. It's so deserved. You're so funny and cool and original. Oh, I'm so psyched that you're here.

• 9:44Speaker 03

  Thank you, Will. Thank you. Now, I've got a beagle yelling at me. Hold on, boys.

• 9:49Sean Hayes?

  A beagle?

• 9:50Will Arnett?

  A beagle?

• 9:51Speaker 03

  A beagle, a little beagle.

• 9:52Sean Hayes?

  Oh, I like beagles.

• 9:53Speaker 03

  I'm up on my top floor, and she doesn't like for me to talk on the phone. So let me get that out of the way. I'm sitting here in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I love y'all.

• 10:10Sean Hayes?

  We love you.

• 10:12Will Arnett?

  By the way, LeAnn, when you said you had a beagle talking to you, Sean was thinking to himself at the same time, he was like, "I feel like there's a bagel talking to me from the kitchen, too."

• 10:22Will Arnett?

  Sean!

• 10:23Sean Hayes?

  So you're Knoxville.

• 10:24Will Arnett?

  Eat me.

• 10:25Sean Hayes?

  That's amazing. I mean, it is really cool, like Will said, to hear your story, and we'll get into it in just a sec, but like, I am so, I don't even know you, and I'm so excited for you for all that's happening.

• 10:35Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 10:36Sean Hayes?

  It's really, really cool.

• 10:37Will Arnett?

  I've seen you do, first of all, congrats on your, I know your show has been a super big hit, so congrats on that.

• 10:44Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 10:45Will Arnett?

  And then now, you, did you just have a special, a Netflix special?

• 10:50Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, it was in the top 10.

• 10:51Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's like, exactly. It's like you're just having all this stuff. And then I've seen you on a couple of interviews, and you've got a great vibe. I watched a little bit of your, you were on with Conan. And it was so funny. God.

• 11:03Jason Bateman?

  We like that Conan.

• 11:04Will Arnett?

  We love Conan. He's the best.

• 11:06Speaker 03

  I know. He was wonderful.

• 11:08Will Arnett?

  This guy's working with nothing. He has so little talent and then he's managed to like kind of.

• 11:13Jason Bateman?

  Stay smooth.

• 11:14Will Arnett?

  Yeah, stay smooth and kind of scotch something together, this dude.

• 11:17Jason Bateman?

  Bless his heart.

• 11:17Will Arnett?

  It's amazing.

• 11:18Sean Hayes?

  Yep. It's all repetitive, but it works.

• 11:20Will Arnett?

  It is. And just think about how little intellect he has and yet he's able to kind of make it work.

• 11:25Jason Bateman?

  Work. Yeah, it makes the hair dance a little bit and he distracts you.

• 11:28Speaker 03

  His hair.

• 11:29Will Arnett?

  I know. I know.

• 11:31Speaker 03

  Blame it away.

• 11:32Sean Hayes?

  Wait, Leanne, so tell me like to what Will just said, why do you think, what do you, why do you think you are hitting at this time right now in your life, in this business and all of it? What do you think's going on?

• 11:44Speaker 03

  Oh, my Lord. I don't know, boys. I guess, okay. I guess, you know, I've been doing stand up for 20 years with this head. I was in my early 50s.

• 11:54Jason Bateman?

  So good.

• 11:54Speaker 03

  And I think that, um, I mean, I was doing the same stuff I'd always been doing. And one time I was backstage with Reba McIntyre's ex-husband, Norval. And he said.

• 12:05Will Arnett?

  No, we know Norval well.

• 12:06Speaker 03

  Norval?

• 12:07Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 12:08Speaker 03

  That has Blake Shelton and all these people, Kelly Clarkson. And he said, it's just a phenomenon, Leanne. Like you've been doing the same thing for 20 years and you, you know, changing up my material, you know, all that, but doing stand up and, and, um, and then this hits, it's like somebody turned a light on in a dark room. But I, I started doing that social media thing, y'all. I found my audience and I think that I found, um, a niche, a demo. I don't know what you'd call, you Hollywood boys would call it.

• 12:39Speaker 03

  But a bunch of people that were probably being ignored by Hollywood. I think that. And I think I spoke to all these darling people that, um, love to be entertained, buy tickets to theaters and have been wonderful to me. And they like my sitcom and they watch my specials.

• 12:56Will Arnett?

  They love your sitcom. By the way, these guys are, I'm from Toronto. I'm just a kid. I'm just an Ashak's kid from Toronto, it should be noted. I'm just a Canadian kid.

• 13:04Jason Bateman?

  Yeah. We'll fill in all the Hollywood stuff for you guys. Sean and I, we got you.

• 13:09Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:10Jason Bateman?

  But yeah, you know, it is interesting that, uh, I think, um, our buddy Judd Apatow explained why comedy movies are, are, are not doing as good a business nowadays.

• 13:22Jason Bateman?

  Because social media, there's these great little bite sized moments of comedy that people kind of get satisfied by and and it is great. I mean, I'm looking at them too. I'm laughing my ass off and it does seem like.

• 13:36Will Arnett?

  And it's immediate, right?

• 13:37Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, and so but it is helping some sorts parts of the business and maybe hurting others. I or I don't I don't know, but it is.

• 13:45Speaker 03

  I think it hurts. I do. I love a I love a comedy. I love a movie. I was in a I've only done one movie and I played Reese Witherspoon's big sister Gwen.

• 13:56Sean Hayes?

  With Will Ferrell. Yeah, that was great.

• 13:57Speaker 03

  With Will Ferrell. He was darling and we had a ball. But I miss movies like that. I love all of Judd Apatow's movies. I mean, I just, yeah, and I do. I think there's these little snippets and then people just get satisfied with that.

• 14:10Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 14:10Speaker 03

  And let me tell you all that my sitcom made it to number two on Netflix because The Hunting Wives came out the same time. All those girls that were shooting boars in their panties. Did you all ever watch that show?

• 14:23Jason Bateman?

  Wait, what happened?

• 14:24Sean Hayes?

  No, what is it?

• 14:26Speaker 03

  It's Hunting Wives.

• 14:28Jason Bateman?

  They'll shoot a wild boar in panties?

• 14:30Speaker 03

  They were shooting boars in their panties, Jason.

• 14:32Sean Hayes?

  Jason's like, what channel?

• 14:34Speaker 03

  And then would do sexual stuff with each other and I could not be that, you know, a multi woman could not be that.

• 14:40Will Arnett?

  How do you spell hunting? Sorry.

• 14:46Will Arnett?

  My internet's slow here, but.

• 14:51Jason Bateman?

  Is that true? I have heard of The Hunting Wives, but I haven't seen it yet. Is that is that what we can look forward to if we sample that?

• 14:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think you would enjoy it, Jason, in the privacy of your own home. And then the my special Unspeakable Things, that's the one that just came out. The first one was I'm Every Woman. And I could not believe Netflix gave me a special, me being, you know, out in the

• 15:14Sean Hayes?

  Were they both in the top 10?

• 15:16Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 15:18Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, that's so amazing.

• 15:19Jason Bateman?

  That's so good. Deservedly so. It's funny as hell.

• 15:23Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 15:24Speaker 03

  Thank you. Thank you.

• 15:25Jason Bateman?

  But so then so then you think that that perhaps the the bits that were that you were releasing onto social media, they caught fire a bit. And then, did you then see attendance at your stand up gigs get larger? And Netflix took notice of that? And then they said, okay, now you get a special? Is that the way?

• 15:44Speaker 03

  Yes, that's exactly what happened.

• 15:46Jason Bateman?

  And then that special brings even more people? And then there's another special?

• 15:50Sean Hayes?

  And she gets a sick note.

• 15:51Jason Bateman?

  That's the way it goes, alright.

• 15:52Will Arnett?

  Jason works in business affairs, so he's trying to figure out the commerce here.

• 15:56Jason Bateman?

  At what point was the big negotiation? Was it before the first special?

• 16:00Will Arnett?

  How far apart were you guys on your first offer? Okay.

• 16:03Speaker 03

  I think what turned it around, I was at, I could not get arrested, I always say that. I could not sell tickets in Clums. I was in my early 50s, I already felt like it was over. And then Clums would say, we love her, but she can't sell tickets. And I was just about to give up. And then I put out a clip of me taking my husband Chuck Morgan to go see Def Leppard and Journey. And how everybody looked sick and had plantar fasciitis. And that went viral. And then I think people saw that and they were like, what else does she have?

• 16:37Will Arnett?

  Everybody looked sick. And had plantar fasciitis.

• 16:41Jason Bateman?

  That is a rough crowd, I'll bet you.

• 16:43Sean Hayes?

  Because of the way he walks, is that what it is?

• 16:45Speaker 03

  Oh, the little boys in Journey, you know? Well, they've hired that little guy, that little young guy, and he can still flip and squat and stuff. But then, those old boys, and then Def Leppard came out. And I thought, he had a little bump underneath his little chest. What, Jason?

• 17:05Jason Bateman?

  Is it Benson Boone? Is that the flipping squatter?

• 17:08Speaker 03

  Oh, no, that, he's a skipper and squatter. But no, the little, they've hired Journey, you know, because Steve Perry had a hip replacement. And maybe they even fell out. Maybe somebody got mad and they fell out. But as we say in the South, but he, they've hired some little man that can sound like Steve Perry. And he could still move. But all the old boys were in the back, you know, and had a blank stare and you could. But then Def Leppard came out and had like a little bump under, and I thought, he's got a hernia. Def Leppard, man.

• 17:40Jason Bateman?

  He's wearing yoga pants still?

• 17:42Speaker 03

  He has tiny legs. His legs were this big and he had hair down to here and you could see through it. And I thought.

• 17:51Will Arnett?

  Through it.

• 17:53Speaker 03

  And I just, and I had never done that bit before and I was going to Chattanooga, Tennessee and I thought, everybody's already heard all this mess. I gotta come up with something new. And I thought, oh, I'll tell them about me and Chuck Morgan going to see Def Leppard in Journey. And then, and that's what did it. And then I got the big panty tour, boys. So then I was, I found myself talking about my panties a lot. So I named it the big panty tour. And that, and then, but that was all like coming out of COVID. So everything was booming and I was selling tickets.

• 18:24Sean Hayes?

  And then your daughter used to run your Facebook account during COVID and you, because you didn't know how to, you're not like a tech person and that's when you discovered like, oh.

• 18:31Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh, my kids were doing it until I hired these darling young guys who they had during COVID, they helped me.

• 18:38Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 18:39Speaker 03

  And I was on my back porch, you know, eating chicken and dressing. Well, I don't even want to say that in front of y'all because that's country, like a chicken casserole and drinking wine. Too much wine. And then I, then I went on tour and every picture of me at the big panty tour, I looked sweaty and heavy and like I was just like chicken casserole was coming out of my pores. And then, and I had imposter syndrome and I was freaked out. And then Netflix bought that and I, and I did that special. And then, you know, Netflix is the stamp. I think Netflix is the stamp to say she's legit. This is the real deal and that changed my life. That changed my life. Yeah. And then Chuck, Lori came to my house

• 19:23Speaker 03

  in Knoxville, Tennessee and asked me if I, I would do a television show with them.

• 19:28Sean Hayes?

  And this was, and, and talk about though, before that, where there was four other like ones that didn't work for you? Like, were they pilots or were they actual shows that went?

• 19:36Speaker 03

  I never shot a pilot, but I did. But I would be in Knoxville, Tennessee, raising my three children. And I guess my first one, Warner Brothers and ABC, ABC bought it.

• 19:49Speaker 03

  And um, my children were in elementary and maybe one was in middle school. And I thought that was it. This was it. I'm gonna be the next Roseanne.

• 19:58Will Arnett?

  You're right.

• 19:59Speaker 03

  And then the writer's strike hit. That first writer's strike hit and it was over in a day. And um,

• 20:05Will Arnett?

  In oh seven. That was so, that was a while ago.

• 20:07Speaker 03

  Yeah. And then um, I got two or three more. You know, you get them mixed up. Some of them I think could have gone somewhere. Some of them I don't think were ever gonna go anywhere. But I didn't know. I'm not a Hollywood. You know, I don't know all that.

• 20:21Will Arnett?

  But it's not the way it was supposed to. That was not your story. This is your story. And this is the kind of the best version of it too. I think it's awesome. That was not your train, Leanne. This is your train. You're on it now. It's, it's so exciting to watch.

• 20:34Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 20:35Will Arnett?

  And Jason has some follow up questions about the chicken on the porch.

• 20:41Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, was it a white wine or was it a red wine?

• 20:45Speaker 03

  It was a red. It was a red, Jason, in the middle of Perry Mint Paws that made that worse. You're talking about wallowing in the bed at night sweating. Y'all are asking each other, how did you sleep?

• 20:56Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 20:57Speaker 03

  Before I came on here. Not well.

• 20:59Jason Bateman?

  I know it. I know.

• 21:02Sean Hayes?

  Wait, and then did I, speaking about food, you, you celebrated your 60th birthday by going and eating two cakes with a fork at the grocery store. Is that right?

• 21:11Speaker 03

  Okay, we were in Florida, my favorite beach to go to. Chuck Morgan took me and all these kids and my two grandbabies. I've got two grandsons, a blonde and a redhead, Will, because I did Amy Poehler's podcast, That Doll. And she said, we've got, honey, we've got that too. Okay, and they took me down there and we had one in their toddler. So we stayed in every night. It was wonderful. And then my kids bought me two birthday cakes from the grocery store. And I stood and ate them at the counter with a fork, with an old tankini swim skirt, Lanzin bathing suit, boy.

• 21:48Sean Hayes?

  Why did we get two? Because you have two favorites?

• 21:51Speaker 03

  That, well, my kids, I've trained them to, we overeat, but they were like, we know she likes chocolate and the grandbabies like chocolate. And then we know that they, I think they wanted Chuck Morgan, he also likes a vanilla and a chocolate. So they said, let's get two, because I've raised them that every day's a party, a hell.

• 22:09Sean Hayes?

  Right, right, right.

• 22:10Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 22:12Sean Hayes?

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• 25:55Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 25:58Will Arnett?

  Can we just talk a little bit about Chuck Morgan? Because I love this idea of Chuck Morgan. I like hearing his full name every time. I love it. Now, what's the deal with Chuck Morgan? He's a character, right?

• 26:08Jason Bateman?

  He's been a problem for some time.

• 26:10Speaker 03

  He's been a problem for some time.

• 26:15Speaker 03

  I met him at the University of Tennessee, honey. I had gone through a divorce and had smoked cigarettes and not gone to class, y'all. I hate to even say that to y'all. But I was regret.

• 26:27Will Arnett?

  I dropped out.

• 26:28Speaker 03

  Dropped out.

• 26:29Jason Bateman?

  It's all voluntary when you get to college. You do whatever.

• 26:32Speaker 03

  All you want, you know? And I was an idiot. And then I went back to finish, and I did. And then Chuck Morgan, I think is attracted to people who are broken. And so

• 26:46Speaker 03

  we started dating.

• 26:48Will Arnett?

  Not a lot of pushback from the from the broken folks.

• 26:51Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 26:51Speaker 03

  So we thought, let's merge this like Kmart and what was that Sears and let's just run it in the ground. But anyway, so Chuck Morgan and I married. And then he buys a used mobile home business. He got an MBA and he had never stepped in a mobile home, a trailer, and bought a mobile home business and moved me to the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains. All the while, y'all, knowing from the time I was little, I'm gonna be in show business. I'm gonna be on television. I knew it from the time I was 10.

• 27:23Will Arnett?

  Really?

• 27:23Speaker 03

  But I just didn't know how, you know, I was from the country and farming people. I didn't know how to, you know, I would have loved to have done the Groundlings or Second City. I was raised on Sir Not Love. I would have loved to have done, but I just didn't know how, you know, I was this little bitty country kid.

• 27:40Sean Hayes?

  And all through your 40s and 50s and all that, you still held on to that kind of thing that I'm still, it doesn't matter how long it takes, I'm still gonna do it?

• 27:47Speaker 03

  When I started, I call myself a true stand up when Chuck sold that business and went to work for a big

• 27:54Will Arnett?

  Chuck Morgan?

• 27:54Speaker 03

  Berkshire Hathaway Company, Chuck Morgan. And we, he moved me to San Antonio and I would go drive back and forth to Austin, Texas, where one of the best comedy clubs in the United States was in Austin. And Jimmy Miller, who is Dennis Miller's brother.

• 28:11Will Arnett?

  We know Dr. Jimmy Miller. He's got a PhD in showbiz. That's what I always say. We love Dr. Miller.

• 28:18Speaker 03

  The third brother owned that comedy club. And he's the one that sent my first CD, CD, to Hollywood to Jimmy and he gave it to Tom Warner at Warner Brothers. And that's how I got that deal.

• 28:31Will Arnett?

  Hey, Tom, Jimmy Miller here. I got a hot CD for you.

• 28:36Will Arnett?

  Tom's like, oh, great. Sounds great. Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks.

• 28:41Will Arnett?

  Two great guys.

• 28:43Speaker 03

  Now, I was thirty-two when I started doing clubs and I considered myself a real. But I had been doing like little gigs in Maristown, Tennessee, in the Appalachia. Like, somebody'd say, can you come and do your program at the Rotary? And I would get paid fifty dollars, take my babies to Mom's Day Out and go do that. But I, but I started doing clubs and, you know, being more like the real thing at thirty-two years old.

• 29:08Jason Bateman?

  Who was your hero, who was your hero coming up? Like, who were you looking at going, I'd love for my career to go that direction? Was it somebody on a sitcom or was it a stand-up?

• 29:17Speaker 03

  I loved all sitcoms, but I loved stand-up. I loved Johnny Carson and watching the stand-ups. So I would watch, you know, Jay Leno, David Letterman.

• 29:26Jason Bateman?

  Remember David Brenner?

• 29:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 29:28Speaker 03

  Yes, and Richard Lewis.

• 29:31Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 29:32Speaker 03

  I loved Richard Lewis. I would watch Ellen, Roseanne. When Roseanne was on there, it blew me away, but I loved sitcoms. I grew up, you know, watching WKRP in Cincinnati.

• 29:42Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, sure.

• 29:43Speaker 03

  And Cheers and Frasier and all that. But anything to do with, you know, comedy movies, stand-up, I loved all of it. And I just didn't know how, what I was gonna do and how you can make a living at it.

• 29:56Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:56Will Arnett?

  Well, guy, guy, I'm gonna go around the horn. What's every, what was everybody's favorite multi-cam sitcom of all time?

• 30:02Jason Bateman?

  All in the Family.

• 30:03Will Arnett?

  All in the Family, your number one?

• 30:04Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 30:05Will Arnett?

  Yeah, Cheers for me too. Cheers for me too.

• 30:07Jason Bateman?

  Taxi was up there pretty good, too.

• 30:08Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I should say Will and Grace, but I.

• 30:11Speaker 03

  Oh, Will and Grace!

• 30:13Jason Bateman?

  Wait, which one was that?

• 30:14Sean Hayes?

  No, no, I, I mean, because I was on it, so it'd be something else, so it would be.

• 30:18Will Arnett?

  No, it would be weird if you said it, if you, it'd be weird if you named your own show.

• 30:21Sean Hayes?

  That's right, that's what I did say.

• 30:22Will Arnett?

  Let's just say, but yeah, Cheers for me. Okay, sorry. Okay, sorry. Wait, what was your, wait, wait, Liam, what was your favorite, favorite of all, of all the multicam sitcoms of all time? If you had to pick one, gun to head.

• 30:33Sean Hayes?

  I love Lucy.

• 30:33Will Arnett?

  I don't know why there'd be a gun to your head, but there is a gun to your head.

• 30:35Speaker 03

  I love Lucy. Oh, gosh. Okay, y'all, let me think. I, I, does that, I really enjoyed WKRP in Cincinnati.

• 30:43Will Arnett?

  There you go.

• 30:44Sean Hayes?

  Okay.

• 30:44Speaker 03

  I just loved it. And I loved Lonnie Anderson.

• 30:46Sean Hayes?

  Les Nessman.

• 30:47Speaker 03

  I loved all those guys on radio.

• 30:49Sean Hayes?

  Gordon Chump.

• 30:50Speaker 03

  When I think about it, or like Three's Company. I'm 60 years old.

• 30:53Will Arnett?

  Oh, I love Three's Company.

• 30:54Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, I did too.

• 30:55Speaker 03

  Three's Company, yeah.

• 30:56Will Arnett?

  Never has, has a swinging door been more well-used than in Three's Company.

• 31:00Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 31:01Will Arnett?

  Ah, the kitchen, that swing, oh, so good.

• 31:03Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 31:04Speaker 03

  LeBron and Shirley.

• 31:05Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, that door swung pretty good, too.

• 31:08Will Arnett?

  Sure.

• 31:09Sean Hayes?

  So, wait, when you first started out, you were doing like Kiwanis Club stuff, right?

• 31:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 31:13Sean Hayes?

  Like, community center stuff? And did you know by those early, and then you were doing, I said in the intro, you were doing, um...

• 31:19Speaker 03

  Jewelry.

• 31:20Sean Hayes?

  Oh, like, like, oh, jewelry, right. Jewelry parties. Is that like Tupperware parties and stuff?

• 31:24Speaker 03

  Yes. I was selling, because Chuck Morgan, y'all, is tight with money. And people don't believe me when I say that.

• 31:30Sean Hayes?

  I remember that.

• 31:31Speaker 03

  We were just in New York celebrating my five-year-old grandbaby's, uh, fifth birthday. We took him to the Museum of Natural History and to The Lion King and all that. Chuck Morgan booked me in a Hilton Garden Inn.

• 31:43Sean Hayes?

  Uh, that's where Will is right now.

• 31:47Speaker 03

  I've, I've, um...

• 31:48Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 31:50Speaker 03

  But I'm, you know, I kind of, can't, kind of, I'm a big deal. But he, but he likes to keep us, you know, with the brakes on. But, so, I wanted to, I wanted to, of course, he was 27 years old, y'all, and had a business and was having to, you know, all these people on payroll. So, I wanted to make a little money. I wanted to stay home and breastfeed my first baby. And I wanted to make a little money and, and, um, get my hair highlighted. And then, so, one of my friends said, "I'm selling this jewelry." And I don't even care about jewelry. And I, she goes, "You can meet people," because I was isolated up in the Appalachian Mountains. She said, "You can meet people and you can eat a dip, eat some dip, eat a brownie, sell some jewelry, you know." And so...

• 32:34Sean Hayes?

  By the way, I'm in.

• 32:36Jason Bateman?

  I just had a, I had a vision of you just now presenting a necklace with a little bit of dip underneath your fingernails.

• 32:46Will Arnett?

  Jason's thinking about other people touching the other vegetables in the dip or the chips, all the other fingers that get in there, right Jay? A little bit.

• 32:53Jason Bateman?

  Oh, double dipper.

• 32:56Speaker 03

  But you know what, I look back on, it was really fun and I, and I sold jewelry to everybody in the Appalachian Mountains because I was funny and people thought they would book me about a year in advance because I was, they would have a good time. I wasn't talking about jewelry. I, I kind of developed some of my first material and I was talking about breastfeeding and hemorrhoids. I always talk about what I'm going through and women could relate to it. And then I remember saying to women, because you have to, you have to do the pitch at the end, like to book a party with me. And I said, I mean, it's see me in, see me, get me now with a party or see me in Las Vegas later.

• 33:34Jason Bateman?

  You're right.

• 33:35Speaker 03

  It's up to y'all. And I, but I felt in my heart, y'all, I thought, I'll be on TV one day. I'm gonna be on, you know, I'll be in Las Vegas. I'm gonna be doing, and which was crazy, but I thought that. I felt that every time. And then the company noticed. Yes.

• 33:49Will Arnett?

  You have to see it. You have to see it to believe it. You really, really do.

• 33:53Jason Bateman?

  If you don't believe in it, no one else is gonna.

• 33:56Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's so true.

• 33:57Speaker 03

  And I always believed it. I got real worried in my, right before I blew up, I told Chuck Morgan, I go, I don't think anything's gonna happen. I feel desperate. I think I'm gonna open up a hardware store. And he was like, that's crazy. And you don't need to do that, Lynn. And I, that's the first time I had doubt and I almost quit. And then that's, and I said, these social media boys that I hired who are darling, I'm still with them. And, and I, that was, I never spent that kind of money on my career. And I thought, I'm giving it three months because it was expensive. I thought, I'm giving it three months. If nothing happens, I know that's a sign and I will bow out. And the first video they put out went viral and changed everything.

• 34:41Will Arnett?

  Let's give a shout out to those boys. What are their names?

• 34:43Speaker 03

  Honest Fox Media and that is Jared and Andrew. And they are precious. And, and I tell you, y'all, they had a mom, they grew up in, with a big bunch of brothers and sisters and they got my voice. They understood my brand from the word go.

• 35:00Will Arnett?

  What does Chuck Morgan think about the money you spent with Jared and the boys?

• 35:05Speaker 03

  He fought me on it.

• 35:06Will Arnett?

  Yeah, of course he did. The classic Chuck Morgan.

• 35:09Sean Hayes?

  And I read that Chuck Morgan didn't know, didn't realize how big your fame was until a gig at the University of Tennessee or something like that, you're walking out.

• 35:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, maybe when we went to see Lionel Richie and Earth went in fire and people, he got me regular tickets, which, you know, I don't mind sitting regular in some, but now I got a bunch of darling, middle-aged women, you know, and they've had a cocktail. And before you know it, I mean, we're all kissing and hugging and I don't see the show.

• 35:39Will Arnett?

  No, you get it.

• 35:40Speaker 03

  But anyway, he, um, people were yelling at me through that, at the big arena and he, and I think he was dumbfounded.

• 35:47Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, well, let's say more about that. What happens, old Big Birch's Chuck Morgan with his Berkshire Hathaway gig?

• 35:53Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 35:54Jason Bateman?

  And he's seeing Leanne up there.

• 35:55Will Arnett?

  You're jackass-ing it back to Austin and it's not for shits and giggles, you're really doing something and all of a sudden Chuck Morgan's in for a bit of a reality check.

• 36:03Jason Bateman?

  Security's getting between you and Chuck Morgan and you're walking back out to the car and he's not comfortable with that, is he?

• 36:09Speaker 03

  Well.

• 36:10Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 36:10Speaker 03

  Some of it he loves, Jason, some of it, I think it's been, it has been something to navigate. I think he does like to go to the University of Tennessee and sit up in a box and meet Peyton Manning.

• 36:22Will Arnett?

  Yeah, of course he does.

• 36:24Jason Bateman?

  That doesn't suck, does it, old Chucky bump?

• 36:27Sean Hayes?

  Chucky bump.

• 36:28Speaker 03

  But he has been a wonderful provider, so I think it was, you know, it was a little...

• 36:31Will Arnett?

  We love Chuck Morgan.

• 36:32Speaker 03

  It was hard for him, for me to make, honey, to have this power, you know what I'm saying, boys?

• 36:37Will Arnett?

  Yeah, yeah, but let me, Leanne, let me ask you just a little bit about you saying that Chuck Morgan got you the regular tickets and you don't mind and stuff like that, but now people are yelling out and that experience of like, because there is that thing of people going, "Oh, look at those celebrities, they're all in that special thing" and now you're like, "Oh, I kinda get it a little bit," because, right, a little bit, can you speak to that?

• 36:58Speaker 03

  Um, yeah. Because y'all, I mean, there are, I have wonderful fans. And when I tell y'all, I go out on those, in those theaters or arenas, and they stand up and blow me kisses before I've ever said a word. They're precious, and they wanna see me win. And I think a lot of women my age are, I think it, they tell me, it's inspiring that this happened to me at this age, and it's not over, and all of that. But you never know if somebody's crazy. There could be somebody that's unhinged, you know? And you just don't know. And I didn't know that. I didn't know, so when I am, only when I'm in large crowds, they'll have somebody walk with me. But Chuck goes, "We don't need anybody, Lynn, I got it." And Chuck's a big man.

• 37:41Speaker 03

  He's 6'4", he's grumpy, you know? He's this.

• 37:46Sean Hayes?

  Do you run stuff, material by him at all? Like, you're like, are you, is this funny? Is this not, or does he not?

• 37:50Speaker 03

  No, I don't, because he, now, he'll say to me, "You need to say that," or, "Tell him this, Lynn." Like, he'll remember something and say, "What, why don't you tell him that?" And he's giving, he gives me a lot of good material, y'all, because he's peculiar.

• 38:05Sean Hayes?

  What about your kids? Do you, do you, do your kids think you're funny?

• 38:09Speaker 03

  He's peculiar. They do, they do, Jason, but they're annoyed by me, too. Yeah, they do. They, they'll go, "Girl, you're funny." But, but they, um, they also think I've gotten kind of, um, diva-ish.

• 38:24Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 38:24Jason Bateman?

  Oh, do they?

• 38:25Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 38:26Speaker 03

  Well, they're all grown, they can cook, you know? I get home, I've been on the road. Y'all are on the road. Y'all know you get home, you're exhausted. You're staring out into space, could somebody else boil the macaroni?

• 38:40Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 38:41Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 38:42Jason Bateman?

  Mom's hammering it.

• 38:44Sean Hayes?

  And then, and then when you were, um, you got, wait, how many kids you have?

• 38:48Speaker 03

  Three, a boy and two girls.

• 38:51Sean Hayes?

  Right, and you said babies come first, comedy came third. So what's, I, did you, was that implied that you're second? Or like, what's second?

• 38:59Speaker 03

  Oh, Lord, I don't know, I didn't feel second. Um, what would that be? I mean, being a wife, probably. Did I say that out of my butthole? Okay.

• 39:09Jason Bateman?

  So you say, so it's mom, it's mom, wife, career?

• 39:13Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 39:13Jason Bateman?

  But now, but now, the all, the kids are, the kids are, are out of the house, yes?

• 39:18Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 39:19Jason Bateman?

  Chuck's doing just fine. He's got a brand new chair that he loves. He can spend all day in that chair now. He's good. And so now, do we get to move a career up to number one now?

• 39:31Speaker 03

  Um, yeah, it's number one now, Jason.

• 39:33Jason Bateman?

  There we go.

• 39:34Speaker 03

  And I feel bad, because I am the mama, and they do still need me some. But yes, it's, this is taking over everybody. Y'all know what that, it's, I go, I live out in LA part of the year to shoot, and so I can't be there for, I now miss my family so badly. And they come out back and forth to see me, and I'll go home. But yeah, it's taking over everything.

• 39:58Jason Bateman?

  So wait, so this is the sitcom you're shooting out here, right?

• 40:00Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 40:01Jason Bateman?

  Now, that schedule, that, that schedule does free you up quite a bit, doesn't it? That's a real nice schedule. Those sitcoms, the Chuck Lorre world, oh mama. Are you doing just four day weeks over there?

• 40:13Speaker 03

  No, we do, well, we do a table read on Monday, and then rehearsal Tuesday, Wednesday, and then pre-shoot Thursday, and then live audience Friday.

• 40:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, right. Have them slide that table read over to Friday, right before you start shooting, and you can free up that Monday. You can spend more time in Chattanooga.

• 40:30Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 40:31Jason Bateman?

  Tell Chuck, tell Chuck there's a new plan, you know?

• 40:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 40:35Jason Bateman?

  God.

• 40:36Speaker 03

  Oh, well.

• 40:36Will Arnett?

  Jamie, you're gonna run into Chuck Lorre, like, today, and he's gonna be like, hey, man.

• 40:41Sean Hayes?

  Exactly, on the driving range. I mean, isn't that, isn't that kind of, it's so great that you're so used to a live studio audience since you toured all?

• 40:48Speaker 03

  Oh, that changed everything.

• 40:50Sean Hayes?

  It's probably, yeah, it probably relaxes you, you know?

• 40:52Speaker 03

  It does. And I, I'm telling y'all, this scared me to death. I had always wanted this, you know, and then you're like, oh my gosh, did I, why did I wish for this? Because at first, it was so stressful. And Kristen Johnston plays my sister, who is a pro, and she has to sit and tell me what to do, and, and had to do her job, and then teach me. I was like, what is that? What are y'all talking about? So at first, I was terrified. And then, and Reese Witherspoon said to me, it's the best schedule in television land. It's the best thing you could do. And we shoot two weeks on, one week off.

• 41:28Jason Bateman?

  Two on.

• 41:29Speaker 03

  Because of Chuck Lorre, that's the way he wants it.

• 41:31Jason Bateman?

  It used to be three. That's, this is very, look, how great. Now, are you, are you able to cross paths with, with the great director Jimmy Burrows at all?

• 41:39Speaker 03

  I have not met him yet, no. And I've heard them say something about him.

• 41:44Will Arnett?

  He's the greatest.

• 41:44Speaker 03

  I did have Andy Ackerman for an episode.

• 41:47Will Arnett?

  Very good, very good.

• 41:48Speaker 03

  And I love him, and I'm hoping I get him on some of these this season. I loved him, that was my favorite episode.

• 41:56Jason Bateman?

  Are you shooting over at Warner Brothers, or are you over at the Netflix lot?

• 41:59Speaker 03

  I am. Warner Brothers.

• 42:01Jason Bateman?

  You're at the spot.

• 42:02Speaker 03

  On the Friends lot.

• 42:04Jason Bateman?

  This is.

• 42:04Speaker 03

  I mean, on the Friends soundstage.

• 42:06Sean Hayes?

  And do you use, is it a lot of, do you rely on a lot of your own family stories to write stories for the show?

• 42:14Speaker 03

  No, not really. I mean, they, they listen to every podcast, read my book, watched all my stand-up. So it's based on my stand-up, but, but, I mean, they'll get ideas from me, but not, I mean, they're, I've got a really, I've got Nick Bakai.

• 42:28Sean Hayes?

  Because when I was reading, when I was reading about your, all your family stories are so fucking funny. Can you say the one about the ski trip and your, and one of your kids getting hurt?

• 42:39Speaker 03

  Um, oh, when, when I fell off the ski lift, are you talking about when I fell off at 49 years old?

• 42:45Sean Hayes?

  No, one of your kid, well, no, yeah, that, but one of your kids scared a, you know, shared a personal observation about themselves?

• 42:51Speaker 03

  Oh, are you talking about when the baby, who is my makeup artist, who is my true makeup artist on tour, she says now she's my caregiver and she hates that. But she's also my, my makeup artist on the set at Warner Brothers.

• 43:09Sean Hayes?

  Right, so your youngest kid?

• 43:10Speaker 03

  The baby, uh-huh, and she's been a booger. I'll just tell y'all, I'm in love with her, and she's funny, she's so funny, and, but she has been like Chuck Morgan, she's a lot like her daddy, very strong-willed, she's been a lot. And we were in Beaver Creek, Colorado, she was, and, and I think it was one of the two or three times we had been already, all right, everybody goes off skiing, this baby is on the gondola with me to go up to the bunny slope, which is not far to get up on that, and it's just me and her, and in that short amount of time, she takes all of her clothes off.

• 43:46Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, she's hot.

• 43:46Speaker 03

  And you know, skiing is hard. I've never enjoyed it. Chuck Morgan loves it. It's like I compared it to working in a coal mine.

• 43:55Will Arnett?

  Oh, wow.

• 43:56Speaker 03

  When I go skiing, because I gotta get everybody dressed, I gotta make lunches for everybody, because chicken tenders cost forty-five dollars up on that ski mountain in Chuck Morgan. I didn't go for that. But anyway, she, I said, why are you taking your clothes off? And she said, my butthole itches.

• 44:15Sean Hayes?

  You can't get to it through all those layers.

• 44:17Speaker 03

  You cannot get to it through all those.

• 44:18Sean Hayes?

  She took all her clothes off.

• 44:20Speaker 03

  And let me tell y'all, I had been doing that on tour. I'd been trying to work out that bit about snow skiing, because I hate snow. I'll go, I'll stare at rich people, but I don't ski anymore. Okay, and she said to me, Mom, can you tell people I was four or five years old? You did not tell them, they think I'm grown, and then I took my clothes off and my butthole was itching.

• 44:42Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 44:42Speaker 03

  So then I had to put in there, I thought, oh, my God. So then I started saying, okay, she was four or five years old and her butthole was itching. But yeah, I've had more people go, oh, my gosh, that's snow skiing.

• 44:54Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 44:54Speaker 03

  Because, you know, it's so hard with little children.

• 44:57Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah.

• 44:57Sean Hayes?

  Did you, and now, is it true you bring your whole family to some of, like, your Netflix special? You brought your whole family for the first time?

• 45:04Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 45:04Sean Hayes?

  And what do they, and what, yeah?

• 45:06Speaker 03

  They came out on the first one.

• 45:10Speaker 03

  And I just, I don't know, I just naturally thought that was the thing to do.

• 45:13Sean Hayes?

  And they'd never seen you do anything like that?

• 45:15Speaker 03

  No.

• 45:16Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 45:17Speaker 03

  And they were in shock. And then I brought them out on the second one, and each child now introduces me. So Charlie, my oldest, introduced me on the first one, and then Maggie, my middle child, introduced me on the second one. But y'all won't believe how many people have said, that's so sweet, you brought your family out, and we want to see your family, because you tell all these stories.

• 45:34Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 45:34Speaker 03

  And I don't know, it just seemed natural to me to bring them out. It really wasn't that calculated. I just thought, oh, look at my family.

• 45:40Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, we went on tour, I brought my sister out, and the audience was like, thought it was like, you know, Elvis walked on stage.

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• 48:51Sean Hayes?

  And back to the show.

• 48:54Jason Bateman?

  But doesn't it get a little tricky with the stories? I mean, perhaps some of them you might need to embellish to trip it into hysteria. And then do some of them get a little, their nose out of joint? Those like, well, you know, you always say like that I'm the one that's dirty, or that I'm the one that's lazy, or the I'm the one that would... Like, do you have to kind of divvy it up evenly so that you don't get a bunch of heat when you get home?

• 49:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. You know, the only time anybody's given me any grief over it and said, "Do not speak my name," when they went through middle school.

• 49:27Will Arnett?

  Right.

• 49:28Speaker 03

  Middle school, everybody was paranoid and angry and puberty, and I did not, that was a dry time for me. That's the only, and then they got in high school, and they were like, "We don't care what you do." And y'all, I wasn't working that much. I mean, I was working, but it was so pitiful that nobody cared. And then college, you know, they didn't even know who I was. And then now, I always say... Is this okay? And now they even say to me, Mom, you've never told this story. Tell this one.

• 49:56Jason Bateman?

  Oh, that's great.

• 49:56Speaker 03

  So now everybody's in on it and they're fine. The only time Chuck Morgan ever said to me, don't you ever say that again. It was the one of the first times I was on stage. I'll just tell you, boys, I breastfed three babies. My breast looked terrible. They had sucked up into my body. They were like a little wadded piece of tissue with a like in the bottom of a tube sock. And I had life left in me. I had life left in me. And I was 32 years old and I wanted to get my breast done. And I said, one of the first times I was ever on stage, I said, I want to get my breast done, but it's been a bad mobile home year.

• 50:36Speaker 03

  And Chuck Morgan said to me, don't you ever say that again. You know, I can write a check for your breasts today. I've always provided for you. And it hurt his feelings. And so I've never said anything. Well, now I say it on interviews, but now, I mean, I, after that, I never said it again.

• 50:56Will Arnett?

  I love that Chuck Morgan took issue with the, when you talked about a downturn in the mobile home sales. That was the only thing that bummed him out. That's so good. What a dude. That's such a dude thing.

• 51:08Jason Bateman?

  Now, have you guys, you got, do you guys currently have a, a mobile home that, that you, that you guys like to travel around in?

• 51:15Speaker 03

  No, these are the kind, Jason, they're not even those. This is the kind that you, a double wide? Have you ever heard of that, my darling?

• 51:23Jason Bateman?

  This, this, this can be like a legit home.

• 51:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, where you put it on a foundation. This is the, one of the largest home builders in the United States.

• 51:32Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 51:32Speaker 03

  And he has worked for them for over 30 years. And it is a Warren Buffett company. And they've sent us to Cancun.

• 51:41Will Arnett?

  Oh, wow.

• 51:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, boys, yeah.

• 51:45Will Arnett?

  Jason, yeah, you, Jason, Jason's been on a couple motorhomes. Who, who'd you go with, JB? I forget.

• 51:51Jason Bateman?

  With, with the Leif Garrett. We had, we went on a nice, nice ski tour.

• 51:56Speaker 03

  Oh, my Lord.

• 51:57Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, there was snow of a different kind.

• 51:59Jason Bateman?

  I've got some video of that trip I gotta find.

• 52:04Speaker 03

  Which I do think an RV would be fun.

• 52:06Will Arnett?

  You had your mountain bikes with you too, didn't you?

• 52:08Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, up on the roof there. So we could travel from the mobile home lot where we plug in, dump, dump, dump, dump the trash and then bike into town.

• 52:17Sean Hayes?

  Oh, God.

• 52:19Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah.

• 52:19Sean Hayes?

  God.

• 52:20Jason Bateman?

  It's a good time.

• 52:21Sean Hayes?

  Uh, so wait, Leanne, you were gonna be, is it true you were gonna be a therapist at one point? Did you study psychiatry?

• 52:27Speaker 03

  Um, I did study, uh, I wanted to be a child and family therapist if I didn't make it in Hollywood.

• 52:32Sean Hayes?

  Wow.

• 52:32Speaker 03

  And I love all that. I still love that. I loved my degree and I loved all that. And I, you know, I look back on it and I think during COVID, when I was wringing my hands and drinking wine and, and eating a chicken casserole, I should have gotten a master's online.

• 52:45Sean Hayes?

  Uh, did you get a degree in psychology?

• 52:48Speaker 03

  I got it in, um, crisis intervention counseling in, under child and family studies. Loved it.

• 52:55Sean Hayes?

  Wow, that's kinda cool.

• 52:56Speaker 03

  After I went back, y'all, after I went back, uh, and got through all that bad time, then I buckled down and studied and, but yeah.

• 53:05Jason Bateman?

  Do you, that ma- it makes me think like, you know, you, sometimes when you see like, um, like, one of my favorite movies is King of Comedy, when Jerry Lewis played a very, very sort of severe, serious talk show host, uh, behind the scenes and, and, you know, comics, particularly stand-up comics, um, always have this exciting, darker, quiet side. Do you, I started thinking about like this, this degree you've got and, and, and therapy and all that. Do you ever fantasize about playing a role where it's, it's, it's dark and it's quiet? And there's this sort of this flip side, uh, to, to the character? I mean, do you have like acting aspirations like that?

• 53:42Speaker 03

  I wo- I do, Jason. And y'all would know better than I do if I could even do it.

• 53:46Jason Bateman?

  I'll bet you'd be great.

• 53:47Speaker 03

  But I would love to do drama and I would love to do a darker character.

• 53:51Sean Hayes?

  It'd be great.

• 53:52Jason Bateman?

  You can't do what you do without that side being under at all. Like, we, we, we get it. We know what you're doing. Uh, you should, you should, you should get after that.

• 54:02Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 54:03Speaker 03

  Thank you, my darling. I would love to. I don't know if anybody would take me seriously.

• 54:06Jason Bateman?

  Sure, they would. It would be exciting as hell.

• 54:08Will Arnett?

  Jason's a big time director. Jason, what are we talking about here?

• 54:10Jason Bateman?

  Big time, big time.

• 54:11Will Arnett?

  You are. You're a big time director. You are.

• 54:13Jason Bateman?

  Big, big, big, big, big, big.

• 54:14Will Arnett?

  You are.

• 54:14Sean Hayes?

  Yes.

• 54:15Jason Bateman?

  But no, I, that would be, that would be very cool. So, uh, you know, more exciting, even more so now that everyone... Is so excited and familiar with the flip side of it. You show them what's behind the curtain, Leanne.

• 54:27Speaker 03

  I would love that.

• 54:28Sean Hayes?

  I love that. Leanne, you said so many little tiny things, like you love doing laundry, which is like, what? Who loves doing laundry?

• 54:38Jason Bateman?

  Therapeutic.

• 54:39Sean Hayes?

  And gas station, your favorite gas station snack on tour? Because I heard you love grabbing stuff at gas stations, like when you're on tour. What's your classic snack?

• 54:50Speaker 03

  Well, honey, we have two. I don't want a boiled egg, but I have, I try to because I don't want my butt to look big on TV. That was a shock, boys.

• 55:02Speaker 03

  That was a shock.

• 55:02Jason Bateman?

  You know what I don't like?

• 55:03Speaker 03

  Where's my chin?

• 55:04Jason Bateman?

  I don't like boiled nuts, which you see a lot in the south.

• 55:08Sean Hayes?

  Like warm nuts?

• 55:09Jason Bateman?

  No, no, boiled, like they're in a, like a bag, like a wet frickin' bag with it. And it makes the peanut shell all soft and sometimes they're a little spicy and so. And I, I, I'm a big peanut fan and so I tried to get into it over and over again there in Georgia. All the years I've spent there, I just can't get there. But I feel like I might be close. No?

• 55:32Speaker 03

  No.

• 55:32Jason Bateman?

  Don't, stop trying.

• 55:33Speaker 03

  I've never cared about a boiled peanut.

• 55:35Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 55:36Speaker 03

  I try to eat nuts, you know, because they, you know, a handful of nuts. I don't want to get dementia or whatever, but I don't.

• 55:44Jason Bateman?

  Wait, does that help? Do nuts help with the?

• 55:46Speaker 03

  I think some, like walnuts and brain health, I think so. Omega's something.

• 55:51Jason Bateman?

  Omega's in there?

• 55:52Speaker 03

  But now Chuck Morgan, now Chuck Morgan can go to a gas station, make a full meal with boiled eggs. And because it's cheaper and relish and a mayo packet and make his own egg salad. But I, being on tour, y'all know what that is. I'm constantly getting, you know, trying to get in protein because I'm 60 and now everybody yells about women having all that protein, but. It's hard on the road.

• 56:18Jason Bateman?

  Who's cooking in the house? Does Chuck know how to throw a meal together when mama comes home super tired from all of your just hammering it?

• 56:24Speaker 03

  He can make do. Cause I was the stay at home mom. And even though I was doing stand up, I was, I cooked every meal. I, I am a country, I'm from the country. We cook, we put everything into these children. I was doing all that and doing everything, you know, cause he was traveling.

• 56:44Jason Bateman?

  That house always smells so yummy. What's your, what's your go to meal?

• 56:50Jason Bateman?

  Fancy folks coming over and you wanna, you wanna, you wanna really wow them with how you can make this particular.

• 56:57Speaker 03

  Oh y'all, I don't feel like, I don't feel very fancy, but.

• 57:02Jason Bateman?

  No, it doesn't need to be a fancy dish. These people, these people need not be fancy. But something you know you make well. If you're looking to brag a little bit.

• 57:07Speaker 03

  I can make a good chicken piccata.

• 57:10Sean Hayes?

  Oh, look at that with the capers.

• 57:12Jason Bateman?

  Sure.

• 57:12Speaker 03

  With the capers, lemon, with a thin chicken breast. I can do that with a little angel hair.

• 57:21Jason Bateman?

  A lot of water retention on the capers.

• 57:23Sean Hayes?

  Is there really?

• 57:24Will Arnett?

  My friend Josh, our friend Josh, he once told me that he ate chicken piccata, I think something like 87 days in a row and a real low point in his life.

• 57:34Jason Bateman?

  He was looking a little puffy through a few months.

• 57:37Sean Hayes?

  Leanne, who, who's your, outside of your family and Chuck Morgan, who's your best, who's your friend that makes you laugh the hardest? Or who, who makes you just gaggle?

• 57:46Speaker 03

  I tell you, the Karen Mills, who is a stand up, who's been doing it longer than I have, has been my saving grace in this whole thing. Because imagine y'all, my girlfriends, you know, their husbands are executives. They're out playing tennis. They're all, you know, getting new countertops. And I love them. And I love them, but they don't understand the comedy mind. You know, you gotta be around other comedians. And Karen Mills opens for me on tour, not all the time because she's got her own thing going on. But I can't tell you all how grateful I am to have her. We laugh so hard together. I, you know, I go back and forth with her about material.

• 58:27Speaker 03

  And then when we've had, through the years, I had to do a lot of private corporate things because I had three children and couldn't stay gone. And I would do a gig and then call her and say, I'm quitting. That was the worst thing that's ever happened to me. I wish somebody had shot me while I was on stage. And then, and she would call me on the way home from a horrible gig and say, I'm quitting. And I'd go, no, you're not. But we had each other. But we, and you know, it really helped me to have somebody. Because I'm in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I'm not around in Nashville. I work Zany's all the time and, and my concert promoters are out of Nashville. Nashville's a huge comedy scene now with Nate Bargatze, John Crist, um, Theo Von, all these people.

• 59:10Speaker 03

  Um, and I get to be with them, but all these years I was on my own. And this mom, you know, and everybody else was talking about school stuff and stuff that I was involved too with my kids. But I needed somebody that understood what I was going through. Because it's hard. Stand up is hard.

• 59:26Jason Bateman?

  The hardest.

• 59:26Speaker 03

  You know, and you drive 300 miles and make $50 and all that kind of stuff.

• 59:31Jason Bateman?

  And what, how do you, how do you handle when it's, you were saying, like some, sometimes like some of those gigs, it's just, it's the worst, somebody shoot me like, how do you handle that when the audience is just not, like they're distracted, they're talking, they're drinking, maybe they're having a meal or whatever. Like, do they ever get nasty? Do you ever, do you ever feel like, well, fuck this, I'm going to engage with these people and like, get after them a little bit or, or maybe a heckler or something? Does it ever get, does it ever get like not fun and, and contentious?

• 1:00:01Speaker 03

  It's not fun. And there's times when you feel gutted, you know, coming out of the, doing a show for men that make carpet fiber. But then, but I don't get contentious.

• 1:00:13Jason Bateman?

  No.

• 1:00:14Speaker 03

  I don't go there, Jason, because I'm too sissy. If I started, you know, going after somebody, then if they came after me, then I don't, I don't feel. And people have never heckled me. Like, I only get like a drunk woman saying, I got a C-section. You know, I get that kind of stuff. I don't get, you know, people coming after me. And I think it's because I'm a mom and people are, and they can tell I've got a sweet spirit. And they don't want to come after me.

• 1:00:40Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, good.

• 1:00:41Sean Hayes?

  Right, right, right.

• 1:00:41Speaker 03

  But yeah, some of these corporate things will kill you.

• 1:00:44Jason Bateman?

  What about cursing? Do you ever, there's a, there's some, there are comics that curse and comics that don't, correct? Isn't there, there's like, there's a, there's a demarcation line there.

• 1:00:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I don't, and I love, like, I'm a huge fan of Dave Chappelle. Oh, my gosh, I love, I love all kinds of comedy and I don't care if they cuss. I've never done it, but I think it's because I started out, you know, with little children and I didn't want to say anything that I didn't want them to say.

• 1:01:10Jason Bateman?

  It's almost funnier without it.

• 1:01:11Speaker 03

  And it just wasn't in my thing, you know? But I don't mind it when other people do it. But yeah, there is kind of a, there's a line.

• 1:01:17Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's like, I always loved that about Nate, too. You mentioned Nate Bargatze, who I love, and he's such a good dude and he's so funny and he never cusses. It's amazing.

• 1:01:25Jason Bateman?

  He doesn't, huh?

• 1:01:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:28Jason Bateman?

  No, I don't know, I don't know.

• 1:01:30Will Arnett?

  No, he doesn't, he doesn't.

• 1:01:31Sean Hayes?

  Leanne, we're gonna do some rapid fire and then I'm gonna ask you one last question, okay? Ready?

• 1:01:35Speaker 03

  Okay, my darling.

• 1:01:37Will Arnett?

  Is it new section? We're doing a new segment.

• 1:01:39Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:40Jason Bateman?

  Do we need like some Sting music to tee it up?

• 1:01:42Sean Hayes?

  I love this, sure. We can do a little Sting music.

• 1:01:44Will Arnett?

  Rob, uh, Rob, uh, jump us up some.

• 1:01:46Jason Bateman?

  Sean's rapid fire section.

• 1:01:47Sean Hayes?

  There's only like five of them. Ready? Sweet tea or bourbon?

• 1:01:52Speaker 03

  Ugh, I'd even say bourbon.

• 1:01:55Sean Hayes?

  Oh, love that. Jello salad or banana pudding?

• 1:01:59Speaker 03

  Banana pudding.

• 1:02:01Sean Hayes?

  Country music concert or arena rock show?

• 1:02:04Speaker 03

  Or what kind of rock show?

• 1:02:06Sean Hayes?

  Like a big arena rock show.

• 1:02:07Jason Bateman?

  Arena rock show, like the journey to definitely.

• 1:02:09Speaker 03

  I'd probably go for a rock show.

• 1:02:12Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow. Um, live studio audience or on, on location or like touring or something?

• 1:02:17Speaker 03

  Live studio audience.

• 1:02:19Sean Hayes?

  How about that? Early bird or night owl?

• 1:02:21Speaker 03

  Um, early bird.

• 1:02:23Sean Hayes?

  Oh, wow. Pizza or barbecue ribs?

• 1:02:26Speaker 03

  Pizza.

• 1:02:28Sean Hayes?

  Pancakes or bacon?

• 1:02:29Speaker 03

  Pancakes.

• 1:02:31Sean Hayes?

  Levi's or Lycra?

• 1:02:33Speaker 03

  LeVons.

• 1:02:34Jason Bateman?

  Boy, I answered all of them the same.

• 1:02:36Will Arnett?

  Sean's just listing all the stuff that's in front of him right now, by the way. He's just looking at stuff in his room.

• 1:02:44Will Arnett?

  Pizza and ribs, lycra and jeans. He's just looking at shit that's in his, in his view.

• 1:02:49Sean Hayes?

  There's an open box of pizza in the corner.

• 1:02:51Will Arnett?

  Banana pudding, he's like, I'm gonna get after that banana pudding.

• 1:02:56Sean Hayes?

  Leanne, I want to leave you with the, first of all, this has been so great. I just want you to say, you know, you said your message is, over and over again, is about women of a certain age, as you said. It's not over for us. What does that mean? What, what would you tell your younger self about that? Growing up, by the way, we didn't even talk about you moving to a town called Bean Station. But anyway.

• 1:03:17Will Arnett?

  Bean Station.

• 1:03:18Speaker 03

  I just, I, I'll go right, y'all, being in Hollywood with these young girls that are, and these actresses, first of all, if I'd have moved to Hollywood at 20, I'd be on dope. Let me say that. I don't know how they've done it. I think, you know, because I'm 60 years old and I'm who I am, that I'm able to handle all this. But I tell young women all the time, because they all think, and I remember feeling at 30, like I'm old, and 40, it's over. And I feel like I'm smarter than I've ever been, I'm better at my craft. It took me 20 years to figure out how to do this.

• 1:03:52Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:53Speaker 03

  And I just think, it makes sense when people make it big, like, like, Bill Burr, I heard him in an interview say, it took me 20 years, I couldn't sell tickets, I couldn't do anything, and I, it was a slow build, but I'm who I am and why it's happening to me, you know, all this has happened to me at this age. I just think, it's crazy to think that, and I know y'all have been big deals since y'all were young, and that's wonderful.

• 1:04:19Will Arnett?

  Not true.

• 1:04:19Speaker 03

  And y'all have given so much joy to all of us. But I do think there's something about, you know, honing a craft and.

• 1:04:27Jason Bateman?

  And learn, like you said, learn, like you, you're at 60, you know, three times as much as a 20 year old. That's right. And so that informs the things you can access when you're talking about funny shit. You know, it's like, it just like makes so much more sense.

• 1:04:41Sean Hayes?

  I'm still doing the multiplication after Jason just said that.

• 1:04:46Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's also a privilege to get older, you know, like, cause the only other choice is dying.

• 1:04:51Speaker 03

  I know.

• 1:04:52Jason Bateman?

  You know, like, like it's like, you want to get as old as possible. Cause if you don't, you die.

• 1:04:59Sean Hayes?

  You're dead.

• 1:05:00Speaker 03

  I know.

• 1:05:00Sean Hayes?

  That's your choices. Those are your choices.

• 1:05:02Jason Bateman?

  Bring the wrinkles on.

• 1:05:03Speaker 03

  That's why eating those two cakes in that stretched out tankini swim skirt meant the world to me. I thought, I thought 60 was gonna be rough on me and I thought, oh my gosh, I'm so thankful to have my health and that, and I'm having the time of my life. This is crazy what's happening to me. It's like winning the lottery. It's like God's put down at the carnival and picked up one of those little ducks and said, it's you, girl.

• 1:05:27Jason Bateman?

  60 is the new 40.

• 1:05:29Speaker 03

  I just feel so blessed by all of it.

• 1:05:32Jason Bateman?

  Well, you're doing it real well and this has been an enormous pleasure.

• 1:05:36Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 1:05:36Will Arnett?

  Sean, be honest, be honest, did it make you think about order, getting a cake today?

• 1:05:41Sean Hayes?

  A hundred percent. I just wrote it down.

• 1:05:42Will Arnett?

  You did?

• 1:05:45Sean Hayes?

  And I put it too next to it. Yeah. Um, Leanne, you are, you can see why you made it. You're just an absolute unbelievable joy and.

• 1:05:53Speaker 03

  I'm all in.

• 1:05:54Will Arnett?

  All your success is so deserved. It's so awesome to, to talk with you.

• 1:05:57Jason Bateman?

  Thanks for talking to us today.

• 1:05:59Speaker 03

  Thank you all. I'm in love with all three of y'all.

• 1:06:02Jason Bateman?

  Back at ya.

• 1:06:03Speaker 03

  Y'all are darnly, y'all have given so much joy. I hope y'all know that to all of us people out here in the middle of the United States.

• 1:06:10Jason Bateman?

  Well, let us know when you're gonna do a set out here in Los Angeles. I'm gonna come.

• 1:06:14Speaker 03

  Okay, I will. I'll be working on that new hour, Jason.

• 1:06:18Jason Bateman?

  Come on.

• 1:06:19Speaker 03

  All right, you angel.

• 1:06:21Jason Bateman?

  You angel. Thank you for this today. Have a great rest of your day, Leanne.

• 1:06:25Will Arnett?

  Thank you, Leanne.

• 1:06:25Speaker 03

  Thank y'all.

• 1:06:28Jason Bateman?

  Bye.

• 1:06:29Sean Hayes?

  See you.

• 1:06:33Will Arnett?

  Sean, what a great guest.

• 1:06:34Sean Hayes?

  I know, she was great. I, I, you know, Scotty loves her. Lives for her. And I do too, but I mean, he knows, he's seen every single thing she's ever done.

• 1:06:42Will Arnett?

  Scotty turned you on to her?

• 1:06:44Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. And I was like, wow, she is really funny.

• 1:06:47Will Arnett?

  She's really funny. I could hear her talk about Chuck Morgan all day.

• 1:06:52Sean Hayes?

  I know, he comes up a lot.

• 1:06:54Jason Bateman?

  He's so fun. He's gotta come out on stage.

• 1:06:55Sean Hayes?

  Wouldn't that be fun? I wanna talk to that guy.

• 1:06:58Jason Bateman?

  Book him.

• 1:06:59Sean Hayes?

  Alright, book him. Don't shout at me, don't shout orders at me.

• 1:07:03Jason Bateman?

  Hey, are you gonna bring a cake over tonight?

• 1:07:05Sean Hayes?

  Do you want me to?

• 1:07:06Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, or a pie. Why don't you go to, why don't you go get, get...

• 1:07:08Sean Hayes?

  I'll go get a Sweet Lady Jane's pie, or a cake or something.

• 1:07:11Jason Bateman?

  Or a Winston's pie?

• 1:07:12Sean Hayes?

  Will you really eat it if I get it?

• 1:07:14Jason Bateman?

  If you get a Winston's pie, I'm gonna eat the hell out of it.

• 1:07:16Sean Hayes?

  Ah, they're okay.

• 1:07:17Jason Bateman?

  You're not a pie guy, you're more of a cake guy?

• 1:07:19Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, pie, I don't, I don't understand pie. It's just fruit shoved into, into pastry.

• 1:07:24Jason Bateman?

  Alright, well, then bring a cake. Yeah.

• 1:07:26Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:27Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:28Sean Hayes?

  That I understand.

• 1:07:28Jason Bateman?

  What are we watching?

• 1:07:30Sean Hayes?

  You said.

• 1:07:31Jason Bateman?

  Oh, oh, right, right, right, yeah.

• 1:07:32Will Arnett?

  Are you guys getting together tonight?

• 1:07:34Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:35Sean Hayes?

  Let's go watch a movie.

• 1:07:37Jason Bateman?

  Now, Will, aren't you supposed to, you're supposed to come home for a week and then go back to Long Island?

• 1:07:43Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:44Jason Bateman?

  Is that gonna happen?

• 1:07:45Will Arnett?

  I'm coming back Friday.

• 1:07:48Jason Bateman?

  For?

• 1:07:49Will Arnett?

  A week, eight days. Yeah.

• 1:07:53Jason Bateman?

  Is there any...

• 1:07:53Sean Hayes?

  Wait, really?

• 1:07:54Jason Bateman?

  Is there any way that you can free up for some hangout with Danny D's on Sunday morning?

• 1:08:01Will Arnett?

  No, I can't Sunday.

• 1:08:03Jason Bateman?

  God damn it.

• 1:08:04Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 1:08:04Jason Bateman?

  What about Saturday morning with me?

• 1:08:06Will Arnett?

  Uh, Saturday...

• 1:08:07Sean Hayes?

  Oh, that's sweet.

• 1:08:09Will Arnett?

  No, I can't. Cause I got that thing that you can't do Saturday afternoon that you said that you can't do.

• 1:08:15Jason Bateman?

  I can't, that's why I'm gonna cram in the ground in the morning.

• 1:08:18Will Arnett?

  I can't, I, I, cause I have two, I have other shit I gotta do after.

• 1:08:21Sean Hayes?

  I don't think you're going through your schedule right now.

• 1:08:22Jason Bateman?

  Wait, are we still rolling?

• 1:08:24Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:24Jason Bateman?

  God damn it. Well, hey, what about that LeAnn Morgan?

• 1:08:28Will Arnett?

  I know, I know.

• 1:08:31Jason Bateman?

  She was an absolute delight.

• 1:08:33Sean Hayes?

  She's a delight.

• 1:08:34Will Arnett?

  I mean, maybe late Sunday afternoon. Sorry, yes, LeAnn Morgan.

• 1:08:40Sean Hayes?

  You know, I must say, Willie, you are, you are...

• 1:08:43Jason Bateman?

  There he comes.

• 1:08:43Sean Hayes?

  You're gone for a long, long time with this junk and this incredible movie that you're in. I can't wait for everybody to see you in it. When do you think you're, when do you, when will you be done?

• 1:08:54Jason Bateman?

  Bye.

• 1:08:54Sean Hayes?

  Bye.

• 1:08:56Jason Bateman?

  Love you all. Bye.

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