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It's Crank it off.

Put it on setting two if you have to.

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Everybody for first we feast.

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones.

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

And today I'm joined by comedian Wanda Sykes is an Emmy Award winner with over two decades in the stand up game you nor from TV shows like Blackish and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

You can catch your latest project Face value Wednesdays on B.

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10 9 Central Wanda, Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me here.

How are you with hot food?

I enjoy hot food, but I like to enjoy it.

It's not a challenge for me.

You're sort of hacking the game already.

You have the power van ready to go?

You're in a good position right now.

A great position.

Yes.

I feel good about this.

I like how you mix up the little you know, the flag of the collapse and drop.

Yeah, a little smoke.

I want to start by taking it back to your career before show business.

Because I know that you work for the federal government.

And I say, What do you remember about Wanda Sykes, the government operative alive, that the people who were like in close to retirement they all had side jobs, like somebody selling candles or, uh, you know, fruit?

I knew early order.

That's not where I wanted to be a long time.

Wikileaks.

Do you think it's making the world a better place?

Worse place they're picking and choosing what they want to release.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, if it's something that we find entertaining and it takes down someone that we own light and get a good you know we're happy.

But then what?

Who?

Where they protected, you know, it's like I don't like that they pick and choose who to go left.

Is this a race or something?

Damn Knowing you're eating and faster than me, you've already cleared it.

I still have some meat on the bone.

Don't come after me like that.

Wander around, too.

So despite your many successful projects and storied stand up career, I have to imagine that it's curb your enthusiasm.

Fans that are some of the biggest Monda obsessives.

What sort of pitch did you get?

Was like, It's like Wanda Sykes.

But you yell more, you know, like, do you remember what it was like?

Um, I was friends with one of the producers on the show.

She called me.

She's like, we're shooting at this car dealership.

Come down here and meet Larry.

Okay?

I said, I'm not auditioning.

She's like, No, we're just gonna meet him.

Because when I hate audition, I suck at it.

I probably would never get a job that I had thought this.

So I get down there and there's life six other black women sitting in his car dealership.

And you're like, Wait a second.

I'm like, What?

Come on.

And hey, you're here.

Come on.

Is he just pushed me in the room and there's Larry and Jeff.

And Larry is like, you're out for a walk and I drive by and I go, Hey, I know that tush anywhere.

I don't want a foot.

Would you say something like that?

He just fell out laughing.

He just thought it was a fire staying and we just went back and forth, and he's I okay?

Yeah.

You have a job.

He kind of tricked you into a curb.

Your enthusiasm scene, right?

You know, like you kind of fell into his trap.

It pretty well.

Yeah, I'm surprised he didn't ask me to come back.

We'll see how that goes.

Help or, you know, the hot sauce.

A secret art mark with hell, huh?

Is the Crazy eyes killer episode the best ever.

In your opinion, do you have one?

That's a favorite.

Everyone loves that episode.

That's not one of my favorites.

It makes me so fucking nervous.

It really does.

Because whenever ah white person comes up to me and says, Oh, man crazy, I kill it.

And I'm like this.

Don't say it.

Don't say it.

Jesus.

Is he gonna say it?

Please don't say it.

And I'm just waiting for him to say, you know, are you might, uh don't Come on, man.

Don't say it.

I don't want to fight you with this airport.

That's bonnet and ginger sauce.

I have a little hair on it.

Right.

Uh, leva Harrell.

That's the YouTube red carpet treatment.

Wanda.

Welcome to my world rights on your new show, Face value.

Contestants are rewarded on their ability to profile total strangers.

So now I'm gonna turn the tables on you, Wanda would have done is I've pulled up some pictures of people who work behind the scenes here at hot ones.

But I'm hoping you could do is identify their role here.

Maybe a character trait or two.

And maybe they're most annoying habit.

Just just from a picture just from a picture from a picture.

Wanda.

Okay.

Not a lot to work off.

Okay.

It's okay.

I can do this.

You can do it.

Here we have Chris Murphy doing Chris Murphy things.

Chris Murphy still lives at home, goes get, takes the lunch orders, and, uh and you Eddie said he fucks it up a lot too.

I can tell.

And he's always trying to, like, hang out after work.

You guys are all, like, nah, maybe want home.

And I got this thing I gotta do.

So he's like, Okay.

And then you guys get together without him.

You drew back the arrow and just bull's eye bull's eye.

Kristen sleigh.

Now that's a powerful black woman, right?

There she is.

She's not taking any lip.

She will put you in your place.

Uh, she's probably the receptionist.

That's That's the gatekeeper right there.

Here we have Chris Schoenberger.

Oh, boy.

These guys say it might be gay.

His dog, Ruggles, over here, His dogs like, Don't jump, buddy.

You got May.

That's what the dog is saying.

Thing can.

So it seems like comedians who loved their craft, that urine for nothing more than the microphone as somebody who is political Saturdays and somebody who focus on political humor, have you noticed a difference in the way that these rooms air received in different cities throughout the country?

I may, I would hope.

And what?

Have whatever what I've experienced.

If you come to see Wanda Sykes, you should know what your would you come in for, which what you're gonna get now, Every now and then, you get a few people who like Oh, let's go see bar from the new adventures of Old Christine And they get in there and then they're like, What the hell is this?

What?

You know, What is she talking about?

He's gay.

What the fuck you know, And it cursing and screaming, They run out with their hair on fire.

This one's dirty Dex.

Very aggressive brand name dirty dicks.

Lou.

All right.

A nice little sweetness tour with the tropical twist.

That's what it is.

So I recently heard you cracking jokes about Jay Z's ashy Penis, which I think may be your most haunting phrase to date.

I'm all the things I've said that one just landed.

That was it was a bomb that went off my brother.

Are you bee hive till you die?

Are you a little suspicious of the new Beyonce?

Get the sense that you're a fan and limbo I am.

I am all in I 100 Beyonc?

I'm behind.

Yes, I am.

That the last album to eliminate that?

That won't be back.

Would you let your kids watch the drunken love video?

Hell, no.

Wow.

Do that.

No.

Okay.

Hello?

Uh huh.

Because you couldn't, like, do a little gradual and correct.

I mean, this is, uh, like, hot.

I don't I'm not been joined.

That's the road.

I think we're gonna take to the finish line.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

You are going to get some fans there.

You crank it off, put it on setting two.

If you have to pricking my tongue there, just Yeah, I'm still eating it.

is it So in 2090 the White House Correspondents Dinner, which is an event that always find fascinating, especially from a comedian's perspective?

Do you have to get jokes approved?

You have to jump through different hurdles?

How's it different?

I was shocked, too, that I thought I would have to send in all my jokes and they tell me what I could say.

I couldn't say nothing.

I keep asking, uh, do they want a recording or they want to strip nothing?

Is there anything that Brecht that you thought would play well and it just kind of fell flat, I think because the first lady put a bust of Sojourner Truth in the White House.

I told her I said, Look, you guys let you make sure you nailed it down, you know, because you know, the next white people getting who are there, they're gonna move her to the kitchen.

So okay.

And that was a little flat.

It was a little flat.

They kiss.

So far, no big boat.

Here it is.

No.

Oh, boy.

Oh!

Ah, Okay.

She's getting real.

Yeah.

Is there a piece of parenting advice that everyone thinks is really good advice.

But that you've decided is not particularly good advice.

This banking thing way didn't spank.

I did.

I did make a couple times.

I got a couple of I got you, Wanda.

How do you tell your kids that they suck at something?

How do you let them down?

Easy.

I do a big, loud boom boom.

Actually, we meet Essen Thinkit's Thumbs up.

Thumbs down.

That's what we do.

But it's what we do.

Everybody always wants to feed all the Oh, you're so great.

You're so this.

You're so that no, like, sometimes you just need to get a job.

Really?

My kids do it to be two thumbs up from town Proof.

How you doing?

You don't know how you're right now.

Oh, boy, I think I'm camping out.

Got a job?

Just chill.

This show just lined up.

I'm 53.

Yeah, I can't eat this crap in.

Right.

Right.

My stomach like old for, uh, it's kind of going a little bit crazy over there.

This but this is the problem.

It's there.

Goes like from one thio.

He's like threes.

And then you go to 18 right?

Right.

And then this is like 100 right?

Right.

Because now I could say anything.

It's, you know, I'm ready to, you know, confess to shit I haven't done.

That's where my mind is right now.

Yeah.

Did stop up Kevin Hart.

It was May.