I'm Sam Jay, this is Wanda Sykes,
and you're watching Playback.
We'll have some drinks.
Let's go with tequila.
Talk jokes.
-Oh, fuck. -So, yeah, this is what
I wanted to talk to you about.
Sing about butt stuff.
To finger my butthole
-I feel like a pervert. -And bullshit.
I haven't seen my pussy in a year.
The show where I watch comedy with comedians.
You worked on that for a year?
Are we discussing the artistic process
or is this Sam just crushing all our sets?
Let's cheers 'em and pop one in.
All right, let's do it.
You need a black friend.
Get a black friend, you'll learn some shit.
Like, here's a easy one, you should know this one.
Never touch a black woman's hair. Yes.
Never... touch... a black woman's hair.
I don't give a fuck if she has a tarantula sitting on her head.
Let it bite her.
-That's facts, right? -That's facts. That's big facts.
When I was watching you do it...
-You were there. -Yeah.
-You came to the live taping... -I was at the taping.
I was like, "This feels good."
I just want to see you get up and fucking rock jokes.
-Yeah. -Here's another one
I'll give y'all.
White people, you go and you get a tan.
You get a nice tan, you've been on vacation.
Do not go back to your job
and go up to your black co-worker...
"Hey, Denise.
I'm almost there."
We hate that shit.
When you... when you find those little tags, right,
do you find those in road gigs or do you just--?
Absolutely. It's always on the road.
You know that second show?
-The late show. -The late show.
-Yeah. -It's the late show.
You find, like, little tags.
And the audience, man, when they're really into it,
and they're having a good time, it gives you permission, right?
-To run. -Right?
Right. When they're not, you're like,
you're a little bit in a box.
-There's like... -Yeah. Yep.
I don't think they get how much they matter in that sense
of like, if you guys are fun,
this is going to be a lot more fun.
A lot more fun.
I'm at work, I'm sitting in the writer's room
with a bunch of white people, right.
And I'm like, "Damn, I got a headache."
White people start pulling out all kind of pills and shit.
Just fucking loose pills in Ziploc bags.
And this actually also happened at an airport.
That... had a headache and this woman just was like,
"Oh, hey, look I got some..."
I was like, "I don't even know you."
Other girl over there preparing a needle.
"Give me your arm."
How do you decide when to act out?
You just feel it?
I've been doing it a lot more.
-Is it fun? Are you ever-- -It is.
It is fun, man.
And I'm doing it and not even aware of it.
Don't it feel silly, though?
Like, when I first started doing them I was like,
-"You look goofy as fuck." -Yeah.
All she needs is a mall cop on a Segway.
Catch this, motherfucker.
I love doing them.
-I do. -They're fun.
Also, I think because I've been doing more acting roles...
that I think that just carried into my... performance.
Not the stairs, Tiff. Not the stairs.
I hate watching myself.
I don't know how you're doing this so composed.
You know, I can watch it with... with someone else,
but I'm not sitting at home watching this by myself.
-Right. -Because then I'm just--
-Going crazy. -Going crazy.
-Like... -Yeah.
When it was confirmed that Russia indeed attacked us,
they interfered with our election,
I said, "Oh, shit, here we go.
Here comes the America I know and love. Here we go."
Because this is what we do.
When we are attacked,
we stop the bullshit and we unite.
-Yep. -That's what we're
supposed to do. Right?
It's not even about Trump, it's about us.
It's about how America is behaving.
Right.
And I think that was the crux of it,
was that we were attacked,
and we're not behaving how we usually...
-Right. -How we're supposed to behave.
It's like when Cardi B is beefing with Nicki Minaj...
The Nicki and the Cardi thing, that just came to me.
I was like, "Oh, wow. OK."
And then Taylor Swift pops off...
Cardi B and Nicki are like,
"OK, Nicki, we gonna put this on pause, right?
And let's go drag that ho."
Because, you know, you can say what you want to say,
but if you don't have that joke at the end...
-Yeah... -Then it's like...
-Then it's preaching. -Yeah, exactly. Right?
-It's not comedy. For sure. -Exactly.
I like your bartending skills.
This is loosey-goosey stuff, right there.
It's like how you bartend at a dorm.
Yeah, this is exactly the feel.
And we are going to be all right.
We're going to be all right.
We're just in a fight right now. We're just in a fight.
And when you're in a fight,
big thing, you gotta stay consistent.
Have you worn a suit every special?
Some kind of version of a suit.
Does it drive you crazy that, like, us younger ones,
we don't wear suits to our specials?
-No. -And we wear tees and stuff?
It doesn't bother me.
Because you know what? Carlin did that.
-Right. -You know.
You gotta stay consistent, ladies.
You can't be out there at the Women's March,
"Fuck, Harvey! Yeah!
Equal pay! Yeah, we gotta get equal pay."
And then be like,
"Girl, I gotta get home and watch The Bachelor."
No.
I had this bit about how I hate The Bachelor, right?
But it was just a standalone bit.
-And I was, like... -Yeah.
"How can I get this in the special?"
I got a few of those right now.
"How can I get this in the special?"
-I'm like, "I want it in." -Right?
And it just takes just finding that connection.
So, it was the connector.
Soon as I figured out the part,
"The women need to be... We gotta be consistent.
We can't do this." And then, you know...
The only time you hear, "Me, too," on The Bachelor,
is if somebody says, "I have chlamydia."
Gotta let The Bachelor go.
You're an Emmy nom now, right?
You're an Emmy-nominated comedian.
-That has to feel great. -Two.
Seriously, like, when I got the nomination, it was like,
"OK, great." Because, you know, you put something out there,
and then your peers appreciate what you put out there.
I'm like, "OK, I already won."
-Word. -But, hell yeah,
-it'd be dope to win. -For real.
-Well, this has been a blast. -Thank you.
Thank you so much for coming by and giving some time.
Is there anything you want to plug?
Anything you want people to be looking out for?
Hey, if they haven't watched it, they should check it out.
Wanda Sykes!