We're talking to a legend in comedy.
Whoopi Goldberg, now she's hit a
rough patch in her career after she
was suspended from the view for
wild comments about the Holocaust,
but we wanted to know more about this.
So we got Whoopi here,
played by Comedy Legend in DC's
very own Sylvia Morrison as part of
our series with the constituents.
Here's part of that conversation.
It is so good to have you on open Mike,
how are you?
Well, I'm fantastic race I really am
as I'm happy to be here and ready to
talk about anything except for race.
OK, alright we will.
We will do our best to work around that.
Whoopi, can I ask you this?
How does it feel to be cancelled
and then actually come back?
Well, you know, you know,
I I I wasn't cancelled.
I'm I wasn't cancelled, I was suspended.
Now that's a big big
difference being canceled.
That's like not paying your cable bill.
OK, and but a two week suspension is
really more like living in purgatory, OK?
Everytime live your life for a bit on
Gilligan's Island but but you know what?
You know what I think I think I I
needed this vacation or at first I was
so excited I made sourdough bread.
Now have you ever done one
of those Tik T.O.K dances?
You know what I've tried to
learn the Tik T.O.K dances.
And then I get winded.
I start sweating and I figure
out this is probably not the way
this is supposed to be going,
because I gotta be in good enough
shape as some of these other kids.
That I've been watching actually
executed correctly and the numbers
on my tick tock in fact say no.
But what else have you been doing?
Well, you know.
I I I got into astrology, how about that?
And Speaking of stars, Speaking of stars,
did you know they're about to do
a remake of the movie The Color
Purple and Fantasia's playing me?
And and you know what?
I just can't wait to hear the
song sugaree the new sugar.
Avery it's my favorite song from the movie.
It goes if you remember this sister,
how are you going?
Sister, we won't be alone. I'm sitting
here waiting for you.
Well, look, I I can tell you that I
am happy for any kind of revival.
Color purple because I have quoted
the line until you do right by me.
Everything you do is gonna fail
pretty much anytime that I
watch all of our sports teams.
I absolutely love that.
And and in fact I enjoy running
down the stairs.
On Saturday mornings and asking
my wife anything come for me.
I love it.
Well, you know I watched The Color Purple
6 times during those two weeks. I did.
I believe it. Your singing
sound incredible by the way.
Well, thank you. It's it's my
my aunt shook and the family
I'm so impressed that you
did all that in two weeks.
Well you know it's it's amazing.
It's amazing how you can get so much
done when you're when you don't have to
go to work OK when you don't have to
go to work you can get so much done.
And now they want me to come
back to the office. No thanks.
So you don't actually want to go back
to the view. If I have you correctly?
Oh no, no, no, I I want to work.
I love my job. I absolutely love my job.
I just don't want to go back to the office.
So I guess zoom in is is really
what you're what you're going for.
You know, I I could.
I could have guests come
here as a matter of fact,
I have Hillary here,
Hillary Clinton,
Melania Trump and Michelle
Obama right here right now.
Dale, Melanie, and Hillary are
all at your house right now.
We're all first lady so we
call ourselves ladies first.
We all hang out because we're rich.
I just love being a part of the ME generation
now. Whoopi, with all due respect,
what makes you a first lady?
Well, I was first before all of them.
So I I consider myself first.
I love it now. You may have heard
of Sylvia and her legendary career,
her impressions and comedic
ability have led her to some
amazing things like hosting the
Rose of Muhammad Ali back in 1979.
Being the first black female writer on SNL,
among many other things,
but a huge part of her legacy
is being the first black female
impressionist in the country,
and we asked her about this experience.
You can hear that conversation
and just a few minutes.