Clean Comedian Dishes on What Life On the Road Is Really Like
By Movieguide® Contributor
Clean comedian Leanne Morgan is dishing on the hard behind-the-scenes details that come with her career.
“I’m always dragging a big suitcase through an airport and then getting in a rental car and then getting to a theater, getting to a hotel, then putting on a girdle, then get to a theater and then do all that. It is just hard on your body and hard on your mind,” she told the “Dadville” podcast hosts Dave Barnes and Jon McLaughlin. “Then you got to get there, and you want it to be the best for your audience, you know? Then you got to get up so you can be the best and give it everything you got, and then yeah, try to go to bed and sitting in a hotel room, you know, staring into space.”
Even though her job comes with its challenges, Morgan couldn’t be more grateful for it.
“Truly, I don’t want to sound like…that I’m not grateful because I’m so grateful, but I think two things can be true at the same time,” she explained. “You can have this wonderful thing happen, which is everything I’ve ever dreamed of and bigger than I ever dreamed of it to be, but it is so hard.”
Morgan is known for her clean comedy that honors God. Although she originally didn’t aspire to be a comedian, she followed God’s leading when that door opened.
For a long time, Morgan sold jewelry door-to-door, and it was while working that job that she realized she was able to connect with people and make them laugh.
“There were no comedy clubs around when I was a little mom in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and God made me a comedy club,” Morgan said. “Every night I was in front of my demographic talking about all the things I thought was funny, they thought was funny. I just look back on it and I do see that it was God’s plan.”
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Despite her success — her first special on YouTube has over 50 million views and her Netflix special reached the top 10 — Morgan knows her value comes from Christ.
“If you put your everything into your looks, money — you know, money can be taken from you in a heartbeat… your beauty fades — if you put all your worth into all these worldly things it means nothing,” she said. “All that is fleeting.”
