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 Leanne Morgan addresses her audience like an emissary from another world. Her comedy unfolds as a charming account of her life, told with the assurance that these details will be unfamiliar, exciting, and exotic. In her 2023 Netflix special, I'm Every Woman, Morgan portrayed a world of honest pragmatism and down-to-earth, everyday sensibilities. There, too, she acts as a tour guide, but she describes a life they already know well: Jell-O salad, Sunday mornings at church, practical department store underwear. But in the catalog of Netflix's hour-long specials, Morgan seems like a traveler from a completely different place. That territory abounds with middle-aged men who nap on ottomans and occasionally realize that death comes for us all. Being a grandparent is as common an experience as being afraid of trans people (in fact, hopefully much more so), but only one of those perspectives is well-represented in the world of stand-up comedy. Morgan's rise to fame in recent years...