The actor and comedian on what’s at stake in the writers’ strike, why politics are central to her standup, and how the scene has changed during her thirty-plus-year career.
-inspired Netflix multicam comedy that returned for its fourth season on August 17th. The Black family sitcom, which she co-created with Regina Y. Hicks and stars in alongside Mike Epps and Kim Fields, received two Emmy nominations this year, as did “I’m an Entertainer.” Perhaps the clearest evidence of Sykes’s versatility and workaholism is that she received yet another Emmy nod for her role in a very different project—the adult puppet show “Crank Yankers.
What’s more concerning is the size of the rooms. These smaller rooms with high-level writers, you don’t have a new writer in there to learn. And that’s really where all the groundwork is done, in those rooms, learning from people who’ve been doing it quite a while. That’s how you move up in this business.Yeah, I was on “The Chris Rock Show.” I was doing standup and then I got this job, and I was surrounded by other people who started in standup but became proven writers and producers.
It’s just what I’m interested in, you know? I would love to go out and do an hour just being silly. But, if I could, that means things are great in this country. [.] I just don’t have the freedom to do it. Because, if I do, I’m, like, Why am I just up here having a good time and not really talking about what’s important? It would feel like I’m wasting my platform. And it would be at the expense of people who really need my voice.
It’s not even about church. Even if they don’t go to church, I need them to have faith. I want them to know that God loves them. I have this sense that no matter what happens to me, I’m going to be O.K. And I need them to have that. I feel like this generation, they’re kind of disrespectful to what we consider someone who’s famous or talented. Because all they [watch] is YouTube; they know all these YouTube stars. I’m not saying that YouTube stars aren’t talented or they don’t deserve to be famous. I mean, people want to watch it. That’s great. But it’s just different.
I liked the format. I missed having my show. I had a late-night talk show, but it was only once a week. So I wanted to see what it was like to do it every night, just to get that rush of having to turn a show around the next day. And I had some things I wanted to say. I mean, I’ve done it for local politicians. I don’t think it helps move the needle on the national level.Yeah, and also my home state of Virginia, I’ve helped out. I mean, not actually on the trail, but I’ve [done] messages for some of the local candidates.Maybe it’s getting better. Look at Jane [Fonda] and Lily [Tomlin].No, this feels right. This feels natural. It’s so funny: my wife says, “When you retire . . .
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