Word: crouther
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...quit her job five years later to move to New York City, where she met Chris Rock, who hired her as a writer for his HBO show. She got her performing break when fellow writer (and star, as a nonsense-spewing rapper, of the movie Pootie Tang) Lance Crouther agreed to take her to a work party for HBO's Inside the NFL, even though he wasn't supposed to take a guest. Sykes, who was told to lie low, spent the entire time loudly mocking show host Bob Costas' inability to admit he doesn't know something...
Sykes and writing partner Crouther have lifted such reality-show tropes as participants commenting to the camera about what is to transpire in the next scene to juice the comedy. In one episode, Sykes' manager tells the camera that Wanda often comes up with crazy ideas that wind up hurting her; we then cut to Wanda deciding to fix her drinking-and-driving problem by getting...
...Crouther says he realized Sykes' performing talents were greater than his (though, seriously, he was Pootie Tang) when they worked together as writers on Rock's show. "The first acting Wanda did was when she laid down on the street and pretended she got hit by a bus," he says. "It was like a shot to the brain. She was a great writer, and then she started performing...
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