Wanda Sykes Says Chris Rock Top of Comedy Game

the Wonder sight [Applause] s they just gotta love on you for a minute thank you so much thank you what a beautiful audience and I know it's it's your 100th show so I've got you some flowers uh-huh get home uh your green room cup of coffee too and you bought me a cup of coffee where did this come from your green room I recycle girl I got I gotta love you so much Wanda know how much I love you I know and I'm Mutual it is so mutual and I want to say gosh your 59th birthday is coming up you look amazing girl you look and you got more jobs than anybody I was tired even saying your credits are you are you tired at all uh yes I could use a nap I wouldn't mind a nap but you know just you got you know how it goes you get it I'm telling you oh my God now your your wife Alex has been asking you about retirement yes yeah you planning on doing it no I keep telling her you know she's she's French and the Europeans all they do is talk about retirement when I am 16. that's all she does talk about retirement so she's like when are we going to retire babe I'm like I don't retire not they show us the door that's right when the phone stops ringing you go well I guess I'm retired right now but then when you get like 80 the phone can start ringing again right exactly no so you come on out yep that's right girl I we watched this trailer of the history of the world it is so doggone funny but what was it like to work with Mel Brooks was 50 96 years old 96 and you executive produced it you wrote and you starred in it my gosh what is that like uh it's it was amazing really I mean because even he's 96 years old but he's still there he's sharp he's funny yes yeah he's on so on top of it and you know it's Mel Brooks I know I'm saying like Blazing Saddles and all that stuff yeah right the icon she's an icon so I'm like man I'm I'm working with Mel Brooks and he called you like you were his right he was his first choice well that first but I was up there I think Nick Crone was first and then Nick called me yeah and then we brought on uh Ike and his partner David yeah oh and I'm telling you some of the sweetest guys I've ever worked with this is really a great group of great group great groups and you work with so many people and on this geez the cast of history of the world was so huge yes they couldn't even put everybody's name right on the poster yeah so what we did was we made a poster for you we put everybody I was actually on this show yeah and it was so funny because I'm looking at all the names of all the funny people and I was like maybe the s's are off the uh the Sherry Shepherd I you never called me you were busy you're always busy you're busy that's true and we shot everything in la oh yeah but I promise you if there's a season season two I would definitely call you first girl I'm so thank Stephanie [Applause] [Laughter] all right girl I'll see you tomorrow man this is like so much fun I one thing I'm very excited about is Chris Rock yes his live Netflix special is coming out tomorrow and tomorrow and like you know and we we love Chris Rock you have a you have a close relationship with Chris but are you happy that the special is coming out absolutely absolutely I'm so happy for him and you know Chris to me is is the best one working right now he's the best so uh I I just love when he gets on that stage and shows everyone why he is you know a goat that's right right oh my God yep I saw him in Madison Square Garden I said oh you got some you got some material for us for every whoa I can't wait I haven't seen it so I'm excited oh just watching him on stage I was so happy to see him on stage but now the Oscars are coming next weekend so do you think that this is really important that his specialist coming out right before the office oh yes because you host it right right I saw it yeah I heard it we all heard it oh man even the dude from Coda heard it so it's good that this is coming out now yeah before it comes out right right okay so excited that the timing I think couldn't be couldn't be better yeah and that not only Chris Rock specialist coming out your stand-up comedy specialist coming out in May May 25th May 23rd you've had so many specials Wanda how do you top yourself it gets funnier it's it's you know it's like you you just know when it's ready you know if if it ain't ready I won't do it you know so it's like I just keep working on the show keep traveling you know touring working on it and then I go [Laughter] because you know you came and you helped me when I was trying to raise money for Jeffrey's school right we raised 95 000 almost 100 000 wow because you came and did you did Amanda well people packed it you were on stage and you were on stage and you're doing your stand-up and people were taping you and you said please put your Comics don't like you to tape them you said please put the phones down this is you know my material and they wouldn't put the phones down and you were like I'm not going to Rhonda don't play one was like I'm not gonna do it no more I'm just I'm gonna walk off the stage and they put the phone down right you know when I got home my sister said I don't know why she wouldn't let us take the special uh we was trying to get it on that was my family Wanda that was taping you I'm sorry I am so sorry I'm sorry I never told you oh man so this is now now that I got that out we're still friends you're not mad at me I want to know you got twins you got a boy and a girl now they're teenagers Jeffrey has told me I can no longer talk about him on stage how were your teens uh they're doing that they told me it was like um you know our friends uh their parents let them watch your show can so can you like not talk about us you know because they know and I was like well first of all uh your friend's parents are horrible people I was like because I don't let y'all watch it so that they should be letting their kids watch so you need to tell your friends their parents need to step up and not let them watch stuff you bringing that back to me all that cursing I'd be doing they should be watching that but when they come to you did everybody say because Jeffrey is 17 and he going through something it's so much fun do they ever say my no some stuff you can't you can't take to the stage but it's that's my money for materials [Applause] is not fair you got to say well you know I was going to get you a car but it's not gonna happen down you know mama don't get those extra coins [Music]

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Keywords: talk show, daytime talk show, celebrities, entertainment, pop culture, music

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Length: 8min 24sec (504 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 03 2023