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Wanda Sykes

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“Sure, from the French Riviera. Today's show was produced by Na ⁇ raza, Blakeney Schick, Christian Castor Rosell, and Megan Burney. Special thanks to Kate Gallagher, Fernando Aruda, engineered this episode, and our theme music is by Tracademics. If you're already following the show, you get a flute lesson from Lizzo and boy, are you lucky? If not, Wanda Sykes' fanbase is coming after you, and it's a lot of armed lesbians. Go wherever you listen to podcasts, search for on with Cara Swisher and hit follow. Thanks for listening to On with Cara Swisher from New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network, and us. We'll be back on Thursday with more.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just am always interested when people come out at a later age. I'm sort of, especially after AIDS, right? That was the 80s. I felt like, wow, how do you not come out in this day and age, including back then, because of all the different political issues? I just was like, why would you do it? And obviously there's your parents, there's religion, there's all kinds of things pressing on anybody, any one person.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Spot on. You don't want to compare it to being gay, but I remember having to explain things to my family, and I was like, why do I have to explain it to these idiots? You know what I mean? Like, it was interesting. And in her case, obviously, it was at the same time that the pandemic was happening, you had George Floyd, you had Ahmad Arbury. You had so many different incidents and we had no one to talk to and you couldn't express yourself. You couldn't be on the road where she may have worked this stuff out was hard for her. And I thought that was a really pressing thing to think about when she was working on it.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that's the thing. You can't make fun of him because he makes fun of himself in a weird way. I think it's going to be really interesting. I mean, if you remember the first term, it's all the, you know, Alec Baldwin dressing as Trump, and it's all fun and games. But since the insurrection, I think that really knocked the stuffing out of a lot of people. And I think it's, if you were a comic to try to make Trump jokes, it's going to be hard. A lot of political jokes, so much of it is so ugly. I'll be interested to see.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not even funny anymore. And I appreciated her point, which is that everything you do, he will outdo you. Yes. You can't make a joke anymore. It's moved beyond. It's surreal. Like you can't, it's not even, it's not funny anymore. But what are you going to do? There he is like oxygen. And so I think it's going to be very hard for comics coming forward, though he provides enormous. It's not funny. And three, making fun of it seems to diminish the importance of not making fun of it. So I think it's hard. Comics are going to have a hard time going forward.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Reserved in that interview. She is. She was very, I think she must be exhausted. You know what I mean in some way. But I think one of the things about comics is when they're on, they're on, when they're not, they're often quite quiet as they're thinking about their act and how they want to present it. Just even being here for a short time, because we have a lot of fans, both pivot and on fans. And getting constant attention, and I like your show and this and that is exhausting. And I'm not famous, but nowhere else, maybe south by southwest. You're conference famous. I'm conference. Well, no, it's full of these people here, but it's really, I think it must be the incoming for someone like her must be quite substantive. And so I think probably they shut down a little bit. Yeah, as just as we as media kind of think about the Trump return and what that means for coverage, she seemed to be thinking about that for comedy and thinking, well, it's...”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That rain that came in. She was apologizing for the rain. I know. She's funny. It was a lot of rain. She was trying to share with you that her child is apologizing too much and you're like, my child is perfect. No apologies for my child. Well, I'm trying to get her. She does wine for ice cream here in France. Suddenly she's become an addict for French ice cream, which is on every corner. Well, that's nothing to apologize for. She's like made for their French Riviera or daughter, by the way. She is. She's looking good. She's wearing the dresses. She's posing all over the place. She's making friends. I left her right now dancing in the middle of a square, eating ice cream and dancing with the band, which was excellent. Yeah. By herself or chaparral. By herself. She was dancing, but she's not by herself. Amanda is before. Yes, we leave her there. It's France. I gave her a cigarette, a bottle of wine, and she's on her own. She'd get her cell phone. Get yourself home, sweetie. Three years old. That's the plan. That's the plan. I liked Wanda. She seemed a little.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love that. All right, Wanda, thank you so much. You're a wonderful comic. I'm an enormous fan for decades, for absolute decades. And I really appreciate it.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can I ask you who you think is funny right now? If there are one thing you just saw recently, you're like, oh, that's really fucking funny.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that must have been an amazing experience. You guys were perfect. My favorite pair. But you did a great job on the Daily Show, too. I was just watching all the clips from your week there. Do you want that job? Is that something you're interested in? I asked this of Roy Wood, who was on earlier.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yep, my daughter doesn't apologize. We could. We're good with her. So let me ask you two more questions. Are you on the new season of Curb, your enthusiasm? I hope so.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is that system of yours where you went to the comedy clubs and you got a special and then you might have gotten a show, et cetera? Is that over from your perspective or does it still work?”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you think about that, it's changed so drastically in general. But one of the things that sort of hangs over all your heads, or you go over to TikTok and there's a million creators, 1% of whom are excellent. Like, not just good. High level. Does that worry you where you see all that, where comics, like, just talk about comedy? I mean, you can see it in lots of different ways dancing and singing and things like that. But is that a worry to comics like that where you see a lot of people breaking on these social networks, especially TikTok, I would say, or Instagram maybe.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You've been operating, you're on Netflix, you're on lots of things. How do you look at the changing entertainment environment aside from the strike, which these are major issues, the rooms, the AI, residuals, et cetera? Everything's changed in terms of economics. How do you look at it? How have you seen it?”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what is the thing you want most from this? Is it the writers' rooms? Is it AI? Is it all of it? Because this doesn't seem like the studios are budging at this point.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where do you think the strike's going to come out? Because I think they'll say AI is not quite there yet, so we're not going to negotiate on it.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can't find it funny. Another thing that's not funny is the writer's strike. Talk a little bit about that and the issues for you. I know you can't appear in certain things. You certainly have some series. Where are you in that? Because comedy is a little different, but still an issue as you move forward.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, okay, all right, I see your point. One of the things you didn't cover also, by the way, was Roe v. Wade. Did you come up with a good joke yet? You said you couldn't come up with one There”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who do you think your audience is? I mean, who's your platonic person who you want to appeal to? Is there anybody or not?”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of comedy rests on that though, on people being angry about cancel culture or being canceled, and comedy especially, they're mad if they get shoved out of something or not able to say what they want to say.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the things you do talk about is this issue of woke, which never goes away. It's the new version of politically incorrect or politically correct, really. And you said the whole complaint about cancel culture is a lot of men, especially straight men, and I would say straight white men, I would add that to it, or just pissed off. They can't say anything anymore. And you also notice not like you can't say these things, you can say them, now there's consequence. So that's why I say I can't get canceled, only God can say, I write Wanda. That's enough. But you've taken a stance here in a very strong way. You left the Roseanne reboot after her incredibly horrific statements about Valerie Jarrett. Talk about that idea of sort of defending woke.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know about the anger. My kid looked at me and said, Are we not a family anymore after campaign? And Obama had just won, so there was a lot of happiness about that. That's right. And we lived in California. So it was easy to do it on stage to talk about it. Out of anger Was the reaction to people from your perspective? Was there any difficulty or not at all? It seems like you did it flawlessly and seamlessly.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you met her, she's French, as you say. She's such a part of your act. Talk about the dynamic of bringing your personal life, including being gay into your act. How difficult was that? And I suppose the answer is I'm an entertainer, so anything is fair game.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who are 14 Personally, I think lesbians make ideal parents, especially for boys. I think they should raise all the boys. I have three and just one daughter.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“School of Baptist. Regular So, why did you wait so long? Was it working at the NSA? Was it? I didn't go into the military or the CIA because I was gay, because I didn't want to not be out. And that was an issue at the time was there any reason why?”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the things that I get nervous about, as I said, is being gay right now and having children and things like that. I'm just curious, let's talk a little bit about that in your family. Why did you wait until 44 in 2008 to come out? I know it was hard with your parents. I assumed due to religion. Was that the issue?”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow. Okay. You could be Trump's lawyer now, by the way, just so you know. Do you have any thoughts on the indictment right now”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you feel like you should be talking about Trump now when you're thinking about what you're doing? He's hard to leave out. And at the same time, you don't want to talk about him. So, what do you do as a college”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yep, he keeps rising to the top like styrofoam, orange styrofoam. Talk about Trump, how you feel about, you didn't have a lot of Trump in here.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you ever feel like you should push harder even because things have gotten worse, like a lot worse? And I can't imagine being a comic and not being angry on stage. But that's a mistake, presumably”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You cut back at all on things, especially around racials, especially with white supremacy gaining. Like it's out in the open right now in a way that it never has been. And all these polls are showing people are very nervous about their own lives. I know as a gay person, I'm much more nervous than I was since the 80s. Honestly, isn't”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There was just a Washington Post survey of Black Americans saying they felt they were better off, but were more scared than ever, which I thought was an interesting juxtaposition that financially they feel better, but they feel much more in danger and exposed to white supremacy and everything else right now. Can you talk about how you think about talking about racism in your show and you cover racial issues from George Foyd, Ahmad Arbury, when you are touching on these hot button issues, do you worry at all from a comic point of view or do you think this is what people expect you to do, to sort of hit all these very thorny issues for people?”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Yeah. Why do you think it's gained ground? Because a lot of this stuff is gained ground, whether it's racism, homophobia. Anti trans.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can you talk about how you craft this joke? Because you brought a lot of things in. You have book bands, assault weapons, drag queens, and to kill a mockingbird, which is always a good thing. Talk about why you did it this way. I thought it worked perfectly.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So let's play one that you have, which I thought was a perfect joke about the laws around kids at drag shows in places like Arkansas. Let's play that clip.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the things I wrote about was I, you know, you can talk about anything you want as a comic, obviously, and I think you probably back that. But I always kept going, why an hour on it? Why an hour on it versus like a minute, right? Like he had one kind of okay lesbian joke and a couple of others, but an hour. And I was like, gosh, that's a lot. To attack someone.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why do you think they do? It's not just Dave Chappelle, it's Ricky Gervaise. There's a lot of people that do it. Elon Musk does it, does all kinds of anti-trans stuff, despite having a trans child.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, one of the things you talked about trans issues was a big focus, which I appreciated. You called out Dave Chappelle, as I did and many did, but it seems to have just gotten worse. Talk a little bit at why you wanted to put this in the show. And actually, it's even more pertinent now. I know, I'm not sure when you tap this, but it's gotten more and worse.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you for coming. Let's start with a new show and how you made it. This is your first show since the pandemic, and you piled on some very serious topics. Talk a little bit about the conceptual idea behind the show.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. Well, she's a touring comedian. And so she's been on the road forever, and it's part of her job and something she does. And it sort of changed a little bit during the pandemic. And she was trying to find humor in that. And she has pandemic jokes. She's got political jokes.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, exactly. She doesn't slap down. She slaps up, which I really appreciate. And again, she's a very powerful comic in the pantheon of comics. And there's not that many who's a woman, who's a person of color, and a lesbian.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because she's just been consistently a good comic, there's a lot of people that sort of pop up and get well known. And I like most comics, I'll be honest. I really do. I like all kinds of different comics. And some of them would surprise you. I like even sort of politically incorrect comics. I like right-wing comics. They're funny. I like humor. And I think this is an area that's really been trying to figure out how to speak to the audience. And she doesn't go into sort of meanness, which I really appreciate. She doesn't need to dunk constantly in the way a lot of male comics do, male white comics especially. And she has to dunk.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I love Wanda Sykes. She's one of my favorites. She's not here. But I ran into a lot of the SNL cast last night, including Lauren Michaels, who created SNL. And, you know, she's one of my favorite comics of the many comics I like, and I spend a lot of time listening to comics. But she is one of the people that really is a truth teller. She's very funny. She's more left, I guess, or more liberal than other comics, but she certainly is really funny. And so I think she takes it to people, the powers of being. I just really like her.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Left. Yeah. Well, it's a bigger world in the United States. It's a bigger world. And that's what happens when you leave it.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess advertising has long been a relationship business and it's increasingly not. It's a data and analytics business. And so there's all these tech companies here.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know it's where people get together and make deals. It's essentially marketers and people who are buying advertising meet people who are selling advertising and all the big internet companies which are now big players in digital media buy out the beaches here and they throw parties and there's a lot of ros ⁇. And it's just a networking event. And I do think a lot of deals get done while it's happening. But they also give out awards and it's an excuse to get together and drink together, I think, in an analog way, which is going to change dramatically, I think. I'm not sure things like this will survive the future.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Life is exhausting a lot of work. It was, it is a little bit when you're working in somewhere beautiful, you're still working.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I am. I'm exhausted. I've been talking to advertisers and marketers and talking about all kinds of issues. And we tape a live pivot this afternoon. Oh, wow.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She can. I saw her last night play it. She played beautifully. And the reason I'm referring to is there's a big joke by Wanda Sykes about that. She was amazing, she was astonishing. She played six or seven songs and just blew the top off the place. It was great. And I would say I'm here because they hire people like Lizzo and other stars to appear at this Con Lions event. And so there's parties everywhere and they bring in the big names.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hi everyone from New York Magazine and the Box Media Podcast Network. This is Lizzo on the French Rivera and I can definitely play the flute. Just kidding, this is on with Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher.”
2023-06-26 · On with Kara Swisher · Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT