Wanda Sykes

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1,102 appearances 10 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 28 Mar

Wanda Sykes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend · Wanda Sykes Returns · 9 Mar 2026 podcast

And I did okay.

So that's when I was like, okay, I don't need these things.

Did you have that?

You know what?

I think my version of that was my hair.

I think that the reason I was always when I found out in my teens that my hair was kind of springy and could I could have this big shelf hanging out over the front and I started combing it up like that.

and kind of rockabilly and just, and then, but also part game show host.

And I, um, I think a lot of that was, uh, don't look at me, look at this.

Do you know what I mean?

It was, my hat came with me, my comedy hat.

And, and,

You know, you look at some of the early late night shows and there are ones where this thing is coming out like three feet and it's going way up in the air and you're thinking, people at home must have just been saying, what is wrong with him?

He looks like a fool.

Your hair's in everybody's shot.

Yeah, exactly.

Every time I turned around, the guest, Mr. T, would get hit in the face.

It's just so funny how

Everybody that's this self-hating thing, which is very natural, but we don't think we're good enough, especially when you're that, when you're starting out and you think I have to, I need all this extra stuff to be able to go up there.

And then later on, now I've been going to these different clubs to try out Oscar material and I'll just, I don't even know what I'm wearing.

I'm just wearing a t-shirt sometimes.

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