Wanda Sykes plans on partying on the Oscars, whereas she’s internet hosting.
Sykes, who’s co-hosting the 2022 Academy Awards with Regina Corridor and Amy Schumer, says she will likely be consuming and issues might get loopy.
The comic appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! the place Kimmel guessed she was getting paid round US$15,000 (approx. $20,000) for the gig, about what he made when he hosted the present.
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“It sounds prefer it’s rather a lot for one evening, but it surely’s months of labor main as much as it,” Kimmel mentioned.
“You are getting robbed. Maintain out proper now, as a result of they want hosts.”
Sykes mentioned she’ll begin consuming as soon as the primary act is completed.
“Then I am like, I am right here to have some enjoyable,” she mentioned.
“It isn’t like I am getting paid, you understand. You get what you pay for. You need sober Wanda, you have to add some zeroes and transfer that comma. You are getting free Wanda.”
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If she goes lacking, she joked, that may imply she’s consuming off digital camera. “So in case you see simply Amy and Regina out, you may simply go, ‘Wanda’s drunk, she’s backstage,'” Sykes mentioned.
Sykes additionally has a plan to make up for misplaced revenue. She mentioned she might steal an Oscar and promote it for revenue.
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Kimmel thought that was an excellent concept, noting the recent Oscar would “be on ABC and eBay on the similar time.”
Sykes’ spouse Alex will likely be on the present, whereas her mum won’t be attending.
“It isn’t like you are going to get a great seat,” Sykes instructed her mom. “I am gonna be onstage working. I mentioned, if I assumed you have been gonna be, like, sitting subsequent to Denzel Washington, then I’d fly you in. However you are gonna be up within the bleachers sitting subsequent to the man with COVID.”
The Oscars broadcast on Monday, starting at 11am AEST.
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