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\u201cI\u2019m speaking to a whole new crowd that I never spoke to before,\u201d Johnson-Reyes said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t relate before and now that I\u2019m speaking to them, I want to make sure that I don\u2019t leave anyone else behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Alex Lyon)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n
Have eyes, have seen them! With \u201cUgly Baby\u201d being your seventh special, are you ever running material by your family like hey, I\u2019m about to blow up your spot?<\/b><\/p>\n
You know, I\u2019ll try it first to see how I <\/i>feel in my body doing it, and if I start to feel a little guilty, then I\u2019ll run it by them like, hey I\u2019m doing this joke about the one time you did this and that, are you OK with it? Sometimes they\u2019re like, yeah, say whatever, and then it\u2019s a green light, go! I actually can\u2019t think of a time where anybody has said no. Usually my family is very, \u201cDo it, that\u2019s funny.\u201d I will say, in this hour, I do a whole piece on my mother-in-law, and I\u2019ve talked about my mother-in-law a lot in my comedy specials, and she loves it. She laughs, she likes the video, and she\u2019ll even leave comments on the video, but for some reason I\u2019m nervous about this one. I think as she\u2019s getting older, and maybe a little more sensitive \u2014 I don\u2019t want her to think I\u2019m making fun of her because I\u2019m definitely not<\/i>. I\u2019m just highlighting her little \u201cisms\u201d with people, and I mean, you saw the show, I\u2019m definitely not making fun of her!<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll be so happy celebrating this special with you. And if not, run! What a wild ride though, from not wanting kids to being equated with Mama\u2019s. I\u2019m wondering how your gratitude will be this Sunday with your newborn, \u201cUgly Baby.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
You know, thank you for asking that, because I\u2019ve been so caught up in preparing for this release \u2014 editing, color correcting, and all the logistics. And I directed it this time, for the first time, and I\u2019ve learned so much in this process and I\u2019ve been so caught up in all of that, in the emotions of it, that I haven\u2019t really paused to reflect and feel gratitude for what I\u2019ve actually just accomplished. And what that means not only for me and my career, but for my family and for my daughter watching me. Watching how her mom and her dad work together and how we\u2019re a team, and how her dad supports me and uplifts me and is the man behind the curtain making it all happen. From producing and writing the music involved, to being on tour with us on the bus, it\u2019s just really special that I get to do something like this. I know she\u2019s young now, but I can only imagine when she\u2019s able to fully understand the weight of what her parents do, and what her mom has been able to accomplish, I can only imagine what that will feel like. I\u2019m so grateful that I get to experience that with her.<\/p>\n
Oh my gosh<\/b>,<\/b> you are going to make me cry. Let\u2019s flip it. Do you think there will be any mad-itude this Sunday?<\/b><\/p>\n
Girl, yes! I\u2019m not gonna say it here though because I don\u2019t want people looking, but like I said, it was my first time directing so there are things that I would have definitely done differently. Overall it looks beautiful and I\u2019m proud of the hour of material. I\u2019m proud of everybody who worked on it, I\u2019m proud of the audience that showed up for it, and overall it\u2019s my hope and prayer that this special is a blessing to people. When they see it they feel good, and they walk away feeling like their internal vibration has been lifted. And I pray that it carries them into the next room that they walk into, whether it\u2019s a board meeting, going to see a family member, whatever it is, I just pray that whatever they receive from the special, that it\u2019s joy and they\u2019re able to take it with them wherever they go. Maybe there won\u2019t<\/i> be any mad-itude actually because I\u2019m honestly just so grateful.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a consistent theme in comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes\u2019 orbit: gratitude. From her hit podcast \u201cFunjelah\u201d to the way she shapes her stand-up material about her life, that perspective carries into her latest milestone, releasing a new special, \u201cUgly Baby,\u201d on Mother\u2019s Day. Considering the occasion, the due date of her seventh comedy special feels comically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2404371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Anjelah-Johnson-Reyes-blends-motherhood-with-her-funny-tia-tendencies-in.com2F732Fa42F24eb32ef41ac933f11016376.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404372,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404370\/revisions\/2404372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}