Joke’s On You: Wanda Sykes Says She’s Relieved She…
Wanda Sykes is never one to chunk her tongue, and now she’s holding it real about opting out of the Kevin Hart roast amid its litany of “racist, sexist,” jokes.
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Despite having her own particular on the streamer, the comedy legend decidedly handed on the roast even when instantly requested by Hart to take part. In hindsight, she credit her instinct and ideas with saving her from the fallout of the closely criticized particular.
“Kevin called me before it was announced, and I said, ‘No!,’” Sykes explained during an interview with Vulture‘s Good Ones podcast. “He said, ‘Come on, Wanda. Come on, it’ll be good. It’ll be good for your special. You’ve got a special coming out.’ I was like, ‘Kevin, you know I love you, man.’ He goes, ‘I know. I know it’s not your thing. I know it’s not your thing.’ He’s like, ‘You’ll just come in, do your thing, get out of there.’”
Though she had no thought just how left issues would end up, in watching “enough” of the particular, Sykes said she was grateful she’d handed on it.
“I consumed enough to go, ‘Thank God,’” she said. “I went to the Sparks game instead.”
Though she took issue with a lot of the issues that the final public criticized, from a comedic standpoint Sykes felt the real mishap was that of the writers on the night.
“Just lazy writing,” she said when requested what she felt made the particular a failure. “I felt the same way about the [Tom] Brady roast too. Just, it seems like the roasts are just recycled sexist, racist, gay jokes. Like, come on.”
With her feedback, Sykes joins a long line of other comedians who have criticized the particular as being one-note and punching down on weak communities, one thing the comedy world often frowns upon. Hart, however, has remained steadfast in his protection of the particular, pointing to its success on the streamer and lauding the comedians who took half. Only time will inform if his views will sometime change.
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