(audience claps)
I have some big news for you.
I'm very excited to tell you.
I am getting married!
(audience applauds) Oh my gosh!
Oh my gosh!
It's okay. It's okay.
Yo, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
I'm not getting married. (audience laughs)
Let me tell you something,
all the bridesmaids in my last wedding
just stopped in their tracks,
screaming "No, no, no more!" (audience laughs)
No, it's not quite a wedding.
But it is good news.
Because starting in September,
I am debuting my own talk show, "Sherri."
(audience applauds)
Sherri! Sherri!
Sherri! Sherri! Oh my goodness.
Sherri! Sherri!
Sherri! Sherri! Thank you.
Thank you. (audience cheers)
Oh my gosh!
I am so excited because I am going to be joining
the Deb-Mar Mercury family.
That is the company that produces this show.
And several others that you love.
Hey, Nick! (audience cheers)
So, I am so excited because when I started in this business,
I have always wanted to do a talk show.
Even before I joined "The View" in 2007,
when I was like, three, I had a microphone,
and my teddy bears, and a chair,
and I just came out of my mother's womb talking.
(audience laughs)
And 2007, I shot a pilot for a talk show, in 2004,
that never saw the light of day.
And about four years ago,
I started telling God,
I said "Lord, I want a talk show.
"I want my own talk show."
And you know how God works,
turn to your neighbor on your right
and say "Won't he do it?"
Turn to the neighbor on your left
and say "Won't he will?"
Won't he will?
There we go.
And so I do wanna say there have been
all of these crazy stories online
about me replacing Wendy.
And I am here to tell you
that that is not true.
Because no one can replace the queen.
(audience applauds) Nobody.
And trust me.
I am not trying to at all.
It is Wendy's place to share her story with you.
But I do wanna give the queen her props
and her flowers,
because Wendy had a legendary career in radio.
And this show was specifically crafted for her.
No one can do this format but Wendy.
When you talk about- (audience applauds)
Yes.
Nobody can sit in a purple chair
and sip the tea like Wendy Williams.
Because when you talk about
the greatest talk shows of all time,
"Oprah Winfrey," "Phil Donahue," "Ricki Lake,"
"The View," "Montel Williams."
You have got to mention "The Wendy Williams Show."
(audience applauds)
You do not understand how hard it is to do
13 years of sitting in a chair
and talking hot topics.
Wendy's unique brand of shade
and her shoe cam.
And for the die hard fans, you remember the bubblegum wall?
Yes.
Wendy Williams created a unique brand
that folks are always gonna love and talk about.
But I am so excited for you to go
on this "Sherri Show" journey with me this September.
(audience applauds) I am so excited.
"Sherri Show" is going to look different.
It's going to feel different.
But we're gonna have a lot of fun.
We're gonna have a lot of laughter.
We're gonna have a lot of joy.
And we're gonna laugh because that is who I am.
That is Sherri.
And I want to say, thank you to the staff
of "The Wendy Show."
(audience applauds)
Because the staff take such good care of me
and every other guest host who has come in
while the queen is out.
This show is a well oiled machine.
Y'all do not understand how hard it is
to produce a talk show every single week
without the queen sitting in the chair.
They're basically doing a pilot every week,
and they manage to make every person
that sits in this chair
feel like they are at home.
So thank you, thank you, thank you.
(audience applauds)
We love you, Sherri!
We love you, Sherri! Thank you.
There are so many great people here behind the scenes
that you never get to see on camera.
Y'all think that door opens by itself?
It's not an elevator, there are people pulling those cords.
(audience laughs)
And it's heavy, and I wanna say thank you,
but I'm gonna be filling in once a month
until they break for the summer.
And I just have to say, you know,
Marco G, I love you.
We've not finished our love affair,
so you know you're gonna be with me.
(audience applauds) Marco.
We ain't finished it yet.
So to all the tabloids and the blogs
that have been making up stories
about what's going on here,
you have heard it directly from me.
"The Sherri Show" will premiere this September!
(audience applauds) So.
(Sherri laughs)
(indistinct)
(audience chants "Sherri")
Oh my gosh!
Y'all sit down.
Somebody sit down.
Oh my gosh!
I gotta, y'all gotta.
Please, tell your families, tell your friends,
tell your aunties and them
that there's a new girl on the block
and she's premiering in September.
So you gotta tell them.
And I wanna say one last thing.
'Cause y'all know, anybody who knows me
knows that I am a woman of faith.
And I wanna say,
2004 to 2022,
(audience claps)
the answer, when you feeling like
you have been forgotten.
When you're feeling like people saying no.
It may not be no.
God maybe saying,
"It's not time." (audience applauds)
And when God says...
When God says "Do you trust me?"
He don't need a lot of faith.
Just a little bit.
And when God says it's so,
it will be.
So thank you. (audience applauds)
Thank you.
All right, y'all.
Whoo, thank you, Jesus.