What makes me laugh is that they say that like it’s an insult: ‘Oh, they’re woke.’ Thank you! Yeah, I read some stuff from time to time. “If you want to give me the label of a ‘woke comic,’ that’s fine. While speaking with Variety, Sykes mocked those who weaponize the word woke in an attempt to tear down socially conscious comedians. “Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ I think you’re focusing on the wrong s-,” she quips in the special. The Comedy Roundtable calls on Wanda Sykes, Jane Krakowski, Kenan Thompson, Anna Konkle, Robin Thede, and newcomer to funny Michiel Huisman to cheer us up. I’ve always just been grossed out by bathrooms.”Įlsewhere in the special, the veteran comic also condemns legislation criminalizing drag shows in public and in front of minors and banning books from schools “to protect the kids” - arguing that lawmakers concerned about children’s safety should instead focus on banning assault weapons.Īwards Wanda Sykes, Jane Krakowski, Kenan Thompson and others: How to be funny in dark times I was in a woman’s bathroom one time, and I was like, ‘Who would want to come in here anyway?’. “I wanted to find something where I can shine some light on what they’re going through, to show how just stupid and hateful really it is. “I’m not trans, but they have my support, 100%,” Sykes told Variety. In “I’m an Entertainer,” Sykes jokes about the unhygienic horrors of women’s restrooms and gladly invites her “trans sisters into the ladies’ room” in hopes that cisgender women will clean up their act to impress “new members coming in.” The bit is intended to serve as a rebuke of laws prohibiting trans people from using bathrooms that match their gender identities. ‘Those words have real-world consequences,’ tweeted TV writer Jaclyn Moore after Dave Chappelle made transphobic comments in his new Netflix special. Television Transgender Netflix workers have had enough after Dave Chappelle’s harmful remarks
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