MAN: I need you to loan me some money
so I can get some recording equipment.
WOMAN: No, uh-uh. Uh-uh.
MAN: Come on, auntie. You a rich woman.
WOMAN: I'm not rich. What make you think I'm rich?
MAN: What happened to all that money
you made when you fell off that bus?
WOMAN: That is my money to do with what I want to,
and I only got $250.
MAN: That's exactly how much I need to be a star.
Come on, woman.
Loan me the money,woman. Please.
WOMAN: I got my coat on layaway.
MAN: Please give me the money, woman.
WOMAN: [INAUDIBLE] for $50.
MAN: Oh, she gonna give me the money.
WOMAN: Yeah, because you about to cut off my air supply.
MAN: Oh, thank you. WOMAN: Get off around my neck.
MAN: Wow, you so [BLEEP] stingy then.
Give me the money, woman.
[CHEERING]
JIMMY KIMMEL: "Dolemite is My Name" is not Netflix now.
Please say hello to Luenell.
[CHEERING]
How are you?
It's great to have you here.
It's great to meet you, we've not--
this is our first time meeting.
LUENELL: Yes, it is in person. JIMMY KIMMEL: Yes.
LUENELL: But I've met you a lot of times in my dreams.
[CHEERING]
JIMMY KIMMEL: Well, thank you.
You-- by the way, I love this dress.
It's spectacular.
Your nails are beautiful as well.
How do you do things with these nail--
[LAUGHTER]
LUENELL: I don't do anything.
JIMMY KIMMEL: What do you mean you don't do anything?
LUENELL: I mean, what do you think I need to do?
JIMMY KIMMEL: I don't know, texting or whatever.
LUENELL: I use a stylus mostly for texting.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You do?
LUENELL: But I can do it with my fingertip,
but it gives me a crimp in my masturbation hand.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, I see.
LUENELL: So I choose not to do that.
What else do you think I need to be doing?
JIMMY KIMMEL: I don't know. LUENELL: Like house work?
JIMMY KIMMEL: I don't know, driving or something.
LUENELL: No, I have my girl Reyna.
Hey, Reyna!
I got Reyna to do all that house work.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I see, well that's good.
You got a house worker and everything.
LUENELL: Can I give a shout out to my brothers and sisters.
Hey, Larry.
Hey, Harry.
Hey, Chester.
Hey, Roger.
Hey, Sherry. Hey, Flori.
Hey, Anastine.
I made it [BLEEP], dang it.
[CHEERING]
JIMMY KIMMEL: You were very funny in "Dolemite."
I mean, and you knew Rudy Raymour who played Dol-- who
did Dolemite as the character.
The real guy.
LUENELL: He-- oh.
JIMMY KIMMEL: How did you know him?
How did you know him?
LUENELL: Well, we-- you know, I was
going to save it for the book.
We worked together several times back in the Portland and Tacoma
area.
And we actually have-- [CHEERING]
No, no.
And we actually have a love child
that we put up for adoption.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Wow, that is shocking.
LUENELL: Yeah.
JIMMY KIMMEL: A little Dolemite baby.
LUENELL: Yeah.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Did you work together, I assume?
LUENELL: Yeah we worked together.
We used to hang out.
Actually, I worked with him about five times.
He used to call me Nell.
Nell! Nell!
Like that.
Nell, pull up my socks for me.
That led to the affair that led to the child.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I see, yeah.
Once you touch a man's socks, there's really no going back,
is there?
LUENELL: Not after the socks, no.
JIMMY KIMMEL: You've had a remarkable career and life.
I learned this about you today, I will admit.
LUENELL: What did you learn?
JIMMY KIMMEL: I learned that you robbed a bank,
is what I learned. Yes.
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERING]
Is that an accurate way of putting
it, that you robbed a bank?
LUENELL: I'm only able to speak about this
because I'm not on probation any longer.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Very good.
LUENELL: I was the original set it up.
But I'm a smart criminal.
And I didn't have no crime partner.
I do my jobs solo.
JIMMY KIMMEL: No getaway car, nothing like that?
LUENELL: No, I didn't have no crime partner.
I did this by myself.
But I was just not the type of chick.
I had a very extensive background in banking
before I got into all this entertainment stuff.
I worked at the old, you know, Sumitomo Bank and First
Interstate and all that that ain't around no more
because of chick's like me.
[LAUGHTER]
I was just not cool with--
you know, I've never been addicted to anything.
I recreational use everything, but I'm not--
[LAUGHTER]
But I'm not addicted to anything but money.
I gotta had money, Jimmy.
So you can't work for two weeks and give me a check for $250
and let me loose in the vault. But I paid my debt to society.
JIMMY KIMMEL: So you took cash out of the vault?
LUENELL: And put it right here in these 42DDs.
And I was doing--
you know, I didn't even steal it for,
like, to help a relative with a kidney transplant or something.
I just took it.
[LAUGHTER]
JIMMY KIMMEL: You just wanted it?
[CHEERING]
LUENELL: And I messed it all off.
Like, I even did nice [BLEEP] for people like my parents
that I never did nice stuff for before.
Like, I got them a suite in Long Beach right down the street
from the bank that I robbed.
I paid for their dinner and their valet.
They should have known something was wrong.
Because I never do a damn thing for.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Well, you obviously bounced back.
And I think the first thing I ever saw you
in was "Borat" was that movie.
For those who haven't seen it in a while,
you're part of a hilarious scene.
Give us a refresher of your character
and what was going on in that.
LUENELL: You know, I tried to watch it again
about a couple of weeks ago.
And I got five minutes in and I was like, I can't.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Because it's uncomfortable.
LUENELL: I'm traumatized.
I'm very traumatized because I played,
you know, a hooker, right?
JIMMY KIMMEL: Yes.
LUENELL: I was running around with the stinky foreign guy,
right?
Because, you know, Sasha wore the same suit the entire time
that he filmed the movie.
JIMMY KIMMEL: OK.
LUENELL: So it was stinky, like, they didn't spray it on there.
It stunk for real.
And, you know, you don't do stuff like go to--
you know, country line dancing people are
very serious about their craft.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh, yes.
LUENELL: And they don't take kindly to a stinky foreigner
and a hooker--
black hooker-- coming in and going in opposite
direction and messing up the--
I was like, no, I don't want--
I'm traumatized.
They gonna kill me.
Everything we did, I didn't want to do.
You know, do you remember the dinner party scene?
JIMMY KIMMEL: When you went into those people's house?
Yeah.
LUENELL: So, you know, we couldn't
do a second take because they were real people,
said we messed up.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Right.
LUENELL: We had to go to another family and set them up,
you know.
And these are like secessionist, real, you know, racist.
Like, bona fide, dyed in the wool racist.
They never had a black person on their front porch
let alone a heavyset chick in a Calvin Klein mini skirt
and a leopard bra with a cowboy hat on.
And Larry Charles, my director, he's
like, what we're going to do-- because there was not really
a script-- this was guerrilla.
This was Dolemite before Dolemite was a thing.
Guerrilla filmmaking-- OK, so you know,
we're in the van looking at the monitors.
Sasha's in the house.
You know, they're feeding him all this fine cuisine,
vichyssoise. He's like,
[SPITTING]
I like these American food, Little Debbie.
And he's after, you know--
and so, you know, I'm still going to knock on the door.
And I said, I don't want to do it.
And he said, no.
It's going to be fine.
We're right here for you.
No, I don't want to do it.
I don't like to go places where they don't want me to be.
There when 96 arrests during the filming or "Borat."
We ran from the police several times,
which is hard to do on a dirt road
with stilettos on when you got all this.
[LAUGHTER]
It traumatized me, Jimmy.
JIMMY KIMMEL: I bet.
But he loves being in uncomfortable situations,
and you don't. LUENELL: I don't.
I'm black.
I don't like to be in uncomfortable situations.
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERING]
JIMMY KIMMEL: And finally, I do want to mention
what I mentioned before.
Every Sunday night you were at my comedy club in Las Vegas,
and--
LUENELL: And every Saturday you come to see them whit boys,
and you never come see me. JIMMY KIMMEL: I gotta come.
LUENELL: Jimmy--
JIMMY KIMMEL: I will come see you.
LUENELL: Now what do you mean, finally?
JIMMY KIMMEL: You were there last night.
LUENELL: I only got two segments.
Am I getting ready to go?
Hell, no.
I'm not going nowhere.
You better--
JIMMY KIMMEL: Luenell is not leaving.
LUENELL: Leave Kesha out. I'm not leaving.
JIMMY KIMMEL: Kesha is canceled.
LUENELL: No, bring her out, but I ain't going nowhere.
JIMMY KIMMEL: That's Luenell, everybody.
"Dolemite is My Name" is on Netflix.
Every Sunday night in Vegas.
We'll be right back with Kesha and Big Freedia.