Wanda Sykes on Trump Farting in Court During Trial, Turning 60 & True Crime Obsession Going Too Far

Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-winning writer, actress, and comedian who has been hilariously annoying for more than three decades. New episodes of her show The Upshaws are on Netflix. Now please welcome Wanda Sykes. Wanda, it's always a pleasure to see you. I don't love you I don't think you won't be offended I hope they didn't just say everyone loves Carol Bernett loves Carol Bernett okay I start shooting I'm out of here. I'll return tomorrow on a more positive note. you're enjoying the Trump

trial

um, I'm enjoying the Trump

trial

, I really am, um, you know, yeah, I know they say he's passing gas and all that, so I like it, I like it, I'm watching it from home , yeah, you know, no.

I think I want to be in that room, you know, but you know, but the thing is, he's old, so that's what happens when you're old, you fall asleep and you play a little bit, yeah, I almost mean, I do. , you know, it's funny. because most people just do well, you know he's an old guy, he's sitting there, you know whatever, but this guy you know if Joe Biden did something like that, oh my gosh, he'd have a blimp. with Joe Biden

farting

flying over the

court

room oh yes they would, they would pump sound, they would like to put a microphone next to his ass, they would, they would mic his seed, oh my god they have him blowing hell up. boss out of his yeah, yeah, so it's all fair game in that case, yeah, because you know you can't make fun of him, I mean, they, Trump's people, they get really angry, right?

Some of them have been coming to my show and again I'm Why do you all already know me? They get mad, they come to the show, they come to the show and then as soon as I say one thing about Trump, I hit them and they actually make that noise and get up and it's like what the hell are you doing here? Well, they're not doing their research, that's for sure, I know, but it's, yeah. Do you feel like Trump is finally starting to age when you look at him? No, but we, I mean, he still looks the same.

I think he's getting younger, I don't know, you know, I don't know if he's getting virgin blood transfusions or something, I'm sure there's something

going

on there, I don't know, but you love it, you like True Crime, right? I like to watch that channel, what is the name of that channel? um Channel ID Channel ID yeah and it's just murders all the time it's murder. I had to stop, although to be honest with you, I had to. I had to put a pause because it started bleeding into my normal life, you know, and I was doing things that I wasn't proud of, you know, like I was having dinner and um, and it was like a rainy night and I know the owner of the restaurant. , so we were. sitting there cutting it and a couple of friends and it was an older couple sitting in the corner and I was like, do you know them?

He said no, it's the first time they've been here. I was like, okay, so EXC, then we are. I'm leaving and you know and I'm

going

and I get my car and I'm close to home and I see this same thing, you know, an old couple and they're walking around the neighborhood and then they do this and they do this I was like Oh, they can't find their car and I told them I should stop and see if I could help them and then I thought, but it's terribly suspicious that they were just hanging around the restaurant the first time they were waiting for me, trying to set me up. and if I help them they're going to hit me in the back of the head with a shovel and I've never heard of it again so I moved on they're probably still there I kept going I still don't feel good but I was like I had that feeling, you gotta trust your gut though, you gotta trust your gut, that's what those things say, right, you had a great birthday last month, happy birthday, by the way, would you mind saying I know? you know, some people some people don't like you to know what their age is.

I don't mind. I heard yes. Anyone here. Some people in this room don't like it. They do not like it. They do not like it. I mean, you know I'm 60 years old, but you know they say you look fantastic, thank you, well, you know they say black doesn't crack, but but, but it's the infrastructure you have to worry about. I have some needs for leaky things. to be replaced we have something from when you were just a kid I think this is from your high school yearbook oh wow Wanda and yes oh I can I guess what the and go ahead Yolanda no Yvonne no uh rod close what Is it Evette's event ?

Alright. I should have guessed that um twink for my social security number is the next Jimmy, why does it say twinkles next to it? um, that's my nickname, that's my family's nickname, yeah, they call me twinkles twinkle SES, yeah, I don't know how. Why did I put that in the earpiece? I guess the kids called you Twinkles. No, it was just family members who called me Twinkles. Is it possible that when you are like your mother you filled it out for yourself or did you fill it out? Know you, uh, your motto is I can do all things through Christ, which sounds like something your mom would have written there too, right, no, that was me, yeah, my mom would have quoted Scripture is FP, your favorite person .

Look how I tried to copy the Bible, right? My motto, you know, I wrote it down. Yes, of course, my motto. I don't think you have to write your own motto. I think you can borrow a motto. Okay, you can, okay, you can B, okay, thank you. You, you're in B all four years, you're a drummer in the band Yes, you played basketball on the track team, what event did you do well? I started long distance, uhhuh, it was really fun because I started long distance and uh and I. "Okay, come on, let us know, let's do this and all my black friends went to the track and they were doing sprints and it was like eight white girls started running and the coach was like, go, go, go run with them and I I was like, what is that, she said it's long distance, so I started going after them and I was running, we got to the end of the school parking lot and I was like, where the hell are they going, should we go in the back and they were like?

No, let's go to the mall and then we'll come back. I was like you're running around my house. Hell, no, I like it. I'm taking the bus to school. Why am I going to run? in the manager you've been the manager I became the manager see everyone run I saw everyone run well, you know, as long as you do it through Christ, that's it, there you go, you want SES to be here, upws it's the program that we I'll be right back oh man hey we got We Electric certified we got We Electric certified hey woo I don't care what they say cheating works yeah say that's one of the fields of SES Mike K on the Update Giveaways, Part Five, which is on Netflix. now Mike EPS I always feel like every time he's here and he's always a lot of fun, but I really always feel like underneath the surface there's a genuinely crazy person that we haven't figured out all of yet, do you agree that he's not?

It's not crazy, uh, there's a lot underneath, yeah, maybe L underneath, yeah, it's just, yeah, it's deep, it's fun, but it has ALS. You know that you have to resolve the situation first before you can do it completely. You just see everything. He has a lot of stories, some of them I shouldn't show you what I am, but you don't care a lot of his personal stories for the show itself, that's for me when the show is at its best when you know Mike gives us a little you know a little story or tell us something about you know his family or the kids or something like that to me, although that's the goal right there, I root it, yeah, go on, why do you think that's what it's about when you know something is TRUE? that it works because it's not manufactured, you don't know, I think it's you, who you identify with, yeah, well, I think it's also interesting that the public understands that there is something that you think you know that you could write about. this or that and you say this or that but then something that's really

true

for you has an extra resonance for some reason yeah, I don't know why, I don't know either, jimy, yeah, I guess we'll never figure it out I was hoping you knew what It's maybe because we miss it we missed the truth maybe that's it yeah maybe that's it maybe that's it you're like oh that feels real I know at one time that felt really good I don't know I know why, yeah , you're on a comedy tour.

You haven't been on tour in quite some time. How long? It's probably been at least 15 years since I've done a real tour. 15 years because I always like sporadic dates, you know, two dates here maybe come out every two months, but this is like a legit tour, like you have a show right in front of us on May 2nd here starts at the Dolby Theater , part of the Netflix Festival, is a joke. Here now, do you know that John Stewart has a show the same night at the Hollywood Bowl? Did they tell you this? They never tell you things with terrible planning that they never tell you.

Things like that, have you and John considered merging your shows so you're not against each other on the same night in the same neighborhood? I'd love to do that, you know, but yeah, I love John, so I think it's them. the same times, really, yeah, yeah, you know, there's always a bomb threat. Did I say it out loud? Where are you going? So you're in Reno after that uh yeah it's Los Angeles and then Reno Spokan Washington and then Anchorage Alaska Anchorage Alaska wow yeah you're really good I'm out there I'm with the people. Yes, you are with the people you are with.

Are you at a casino in Reno? I think so, because all the big places are casinos. You like doing that? Well, you love the casino. You will go to bed. I know you. like a little gambling I love to gamble I love to gamble I love, yes, Blackjack and slot machines and roulette and, yes, craps. I love it can you bet at the casino where you're performing and there are signs of you're everywhere um for the most part like me I wait until it gets too late and then I fall in with all the degenerates and you hit yeah yeah at them and They don't care, they don't care or I find machines out there like like where is the backarat table uh because because they're all Asian they don't know me so they leave me alone they leave me alone I leave them alone everything's fine yeah well it's okay, so we're I'm going to make an announcement, oh, first of all, the result of part five is on Netflix, um, and Wanda syes is on tour.

You can get all of her live dates at Wanda

sykes

.com and we just want a reminder if you really like Donald Trump. maybe you don't want to show maybe you don't want to come you're going to be there for a very short time Wanda yes everyone thank you Wanda we're back with gabrielas