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Night sweats, cellulite, elderly parents: No topic is off-limits to Leanne Morgan, the Knoxville-based stand-up comic who at fifty-eight has only recently broken into the zeitgeist after years toiling at comedy clubs. That attention comes thanks in part to her first Netflix special, , an hour-and-fifteen-minute showcase of her flawless delivery—along with the pleasures of granny panties and Jell-O salad—which became one of the platform’s most streamed stand-up specials of 2023. Now she is on her Just Getting Started tour, selling out theaters and arenas nationwide, and will soon appear in Amazon Studios’ Reese Witherspoon/ Will Ferrell wedding caper, . Need a little laugh in between? Morgan’s Instagram videos of her

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