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Wanda Sykes says don’t expect ‘sober Wanda’ at the Oscars
Sykes, who’s co-hosting Sunday’s Academy Awards with Regina Corridor and Amy Schumer, says she can be consuming and issues might get loopy.
The comic appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” the place Kimmel guessed she was getting paid round $15,000 for the gig, about what he made when he hosted the present.
“It sounds prefer it’s so much for one evening, however it’s months of labor main as much as it,” Kimmel stated. “You are getting robbed. Maintain out proper now, as a result of they want hosts.”
Sykes stated she’ll begin consuming as soon as the primary act is completed.
“Then I am like, I am right here to have some enjoyable,” she stated. “It is not like I am getting paid, you understand. You get what you pay for. You need sober Wanda, you have to add some zeroes and transfer that comma. You are getting free Wanda.”
If she goes lacking, she joked, that can imply she’s consuming off digicam. “So if you happen to see simply Amy and Regina out, you’ll be able to simply go, ‘Wanda’s drunk, she’s backstage,’” Sykes stated.
Sykes additionally has a plan to make up for misplaced revenue. She stated she might steal an Oscar and promote it for revenue.
Kimmel thought that was an important thought, noting the recent Oscar would “be on ABC and eBay on the identical time.”
Sykes’ spouse Alex can be on the present, whereas her mother is not going to be attending.
“It is not like you are going to get seat,” Sykes advised her mom. “I am gonna be onstage working. I stated, if I assumed you have been gonna be, like, sitting subsequent to Denzel Washington, then I might fly you in. However you are gonna be up within the bleachers sitting subsequent to the man with Covid.”
The Oscars broadcast on ABC, starting at 8 p.m. EST on Sunday.