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...Sassy Wanda Sykes is Sassing her way to a career of sassifying. See, Sykes hates that word, and she's at her funniest when she's angry. "Sassy to me is a put-down. It's given to black women. No one calls Ellen DeGeneres sassy. No one calls Robin Williams sassy. And that's a sassy man," she says. "Sassy is all attitude and no content. And I've got something...
...much that Sykes feels the need to say it everywhere: a new sitcom on Comedy Central, Wanda Does It; a book, Yeah, I Said It; a 31-city comedy big-venue stand-up tour, The Cotton T-Shirt Tour; a big role in this summer's Monster-in-Law with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda; a gig as a prank-calling puppet on Comedy Central's Crank Yankers; and a recurring role on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Also, she fixed up her website real nice...
Overexposure, however, requires being everywhere, and everywhere includes a whorehouse. For Wanda Does It, a sitcom disguised as a reality show in which the dialogue is improvised from an outline, Sykes tries out a different job every episode, apparently unhappy with the 50 she already holds. And since Sykes is extremely curious about what society deems unacceptable and in particular how to use those things to get herself more attention, she flew to the Chicken Ranch, the legal brothel in Pahrump, Nev., that was the basis for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (whorehouses, unsurprisingly, sometimes have to flee...
Everything is used for the show, including the fact that a reporter is on set. Playing Sykes' manager, Tim Beagley complains about the unseemliness of Wanda's behavior in front of a TIME reporter. For a scene shot back in Los Angeles, an actor is hired to play me. An actor who is slightly less handsome than I find realistic...
Sykes is trying to create a new kind of sitcom because, after her middling Fox show, Wanda at Large, was canceled last year, she no longer believes a writers' room can create an entertaining show. Reality, she believes, has made people realize how wooden sitcoms feel. "Now, when you have a laugh track, you say, What were they laughing at? It wasn't that funny," she says. The Comedy Central show forgoes a laugh track. "The people at home will do it for us. If you open your window, you will hear everyone laugh. It will be like Network. They...