Getting her own Netflix show was a breakout moment for Leanne Morgan.

Her series "Leanne" has been renewed for a second season , and the comedian tells Willie Geist she was "thrilled" to see it do so well.

"Jerry Seinfeld called me the day it came out, and said, 'You have a sitcom with your name on it, which is unheard of,'" she said on the Nov. 16 episode of Sunday Sitdown.

"And he goes, 'You’re in there with Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball,'" she added.

Morgan spent many years working as a struggling comedian. After graduating from the University of Tennessee, the comic started a family with her husband, Chuck, and realized comedy was her calling.

While selling jewelry at home parties, she would joke about her life at home with her husband, whom she always calls "Chu

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