"How often does someone crash a party, heckle the executive producer and get a job?" Bernstein says. "I thought I was doing her a favor." She got her start doing stand-up, then sparkled on "The Chris Rock Show." Now she's on four TV series, including "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Inside the NFL." Rick Bernstein, executive producer of HBO Sports, hired Sykes to do offbeat sideline commentary after she rudely-and hilariously-interrupted his speech at a network event. "I remember in the first grade telling some woman her wig was crooked," she says. Puppets are added as the actors to give visual support to what is happening in the phone calls. Sykes, 39, has been a motormouth ever since she grew up in Maryland and Virginia. A show with real crank phone calls to real victims. But when she gets to speak her mind, "Wanda at Large" is big-time funny. Turd in Car - Wanda Sykes,Chinese Rapper - Billy West,Tech Orgasm,Nemesis,Birchum Looks for a Job,Spoonie Luv Sends Flowers - Tracy Morgan,Power Jammin & Mega Mixin - Jimmy Kimmel Patton Oswalt,Deaf. Meet Spoonie Luv, Hadassah Guberman, Special Ed and all Yankervilles crank calling puppets, voiced by Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla, Sarah Silverman. 1.Turd in Car 2.The Chinese Rapper 3.Tech Orgasm 4.The Nemesis 5.Birchum Looks for a Job 6.Spoonie Luv Sends Flowers 7.Power Jammin & Mega Mixin 8.Deaf. Sykes sometimes seems squeezed by the sitcom's conventions. During a piece on slave reparations, she hits the streets with a calculator demanding payment from white passersby. She advocates segregation ("Let's be honest-there's just some people you don't want to be around"). Last week Fox debuted "Wanda at Large," in which she plays a TV commentator with a tongue so sharp it could slit your throat. "I have to hurry and hang up."īut Sykes never shuts up for long. NOTE: Comedy Central ordered 10 new episodes of Crank Yankers that will. "I'll make a call and a couple of minutes into it, they'll say, 'Is this Wanda Sykes?' " she says. Buy Crank Yankerss album titled The Best Uncensored Crank Calls, Vol. She claims someone left a large steaming turd in the back of her car and is. On Comedy Central's "Crank Yankers," Sykes makes outrageous crank phone calls, such as phoning a tow-truck driver to say, "There's a turd in the back seat of my car!" When she doesn't get to finish a crank, it's not because of what she says. In any case, once you hear Sykes's honk-squawk-wheeze of a megaphone, you don't forget it. You could say it's the kind of sound that strips paint off walls-or a sistah-girl Ross Perot, if that didn't seem so weird. A turd in Gladys' car Elmer needs an apt Batman's Nemesis needs information Special Ed books a trip Birchum wants a job. It's hard to do her justice without hearing her voice. Jimmy Kimmel & Wanda Sykes: With Jack Black, Artie Esposito, Kyle Gass, BJ Guyer. Too bad Wanda Sykes can't read this story to you.
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