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Wanda Sykes on the Russian Cyber Attacks: ‘We Gave them Yeltsin… They Paid us Back with Trump’ WATCH

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Wanda Sykes courtesy of Netflix.

Out comedian Wanda Sykes, in her latest stand-up special, Not Normal, on Netflix, says she understands why Russian meddled in our election and that getting Trump elected was a revenge plan in a joke.

People forget history. The Russians hate us. We broke up the the Soviet Union. We put Boris Yelstin in power. He was a drunk. He was an embarrassment. So they paid us back with Trump.

“It’s Not Normal.”

Sykes in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

Entertainment Weekly: With the world and political landscape so different from when you last put together a set, what was the process like this time?

Wanda Sykes: This was weird, because after the election, it got really tense doing stand-up. The audience is just so polarized, either you love everything about Trump or you hate everything about Trump. For me, a comic who talks about what’s happening in the world, I either had to talk about it or, when I didn’t, it felt like I wasn’t addressing the orange elephant in the room. And I really shied away from doing stand-up. It was really stressful, but then I said, “Just hit it head on,” because things just got so crazy and, to me, it wasn’t even about Trump, it was more about us and our reaction to it. Because it’s not normal. Once I was able to hit from that approach, it just developed pretty quickly and I was having a lot of fun with it. Also, I open the show with, if you came to see me and you voted for Trump, you’re just a bad decision maker. [Laughs] You just don’t get it.

The New York Times says of Sykes performance, “The freshest material here is toward the end when she does more than 10 minutes on aging. Many female comics (Rita Rudner, Elayne Boosler) have been exploring this subject, but none with the force that Sykes does in describing its physical impact, including hot flashes. Is this a design flaw or something else, she asks. “When you get older, you can’t bring life into the world, so they set you on fire.”

Watch the trailer below. Not Normal is currently streaming on Netflix.

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