‘Bad Girl’ Luenell starts comedy residency in Burbank

‘Bad Girl’ Luenell starts comedy residency in Burbank

Multi-talented comedian Luenell Batson, known mononymously to her adoring public as Luenell, was born a poor Black child in the nondescript hamlet of Tollette in deepest, darkest Arkansas, a town whose most distinguishing feature was, in her words, is that it did not have and still is without a “…pay phone, wash house or movie theatre.” Being the eighth of eight children, she relocated early on to another equally hardscrabble environment of a di…