Stand-up comic and actress Wanda Sykes recently unveiled her vision of a Saturday night talk show. Is it a keeper or should she stick to The New Adventures of Old Christine?
The Wanda Sykes Show is a late night talk show that airs once a week. It’s hosted by Sykes and her trademark biting wit to a monologue, skits, and interviews. Comedian Keith Robinson co-stars as her sidekick.
The show debuted on November 7th to a 2.2 household rating. According to Variety, that placed the Wanda Sykes premiere 16% higher than the average of MADtv a year earlier (1.9/4) and double the performance of Talk Show with Spike Feresten from last winter (1.1/2).
The first episode was also in part competing against the highest-rated episode of Saturday Night Live of the season.
Last Saturday’s episode wasn’t quite as good. The second episode of Wanda Sykes dropped to a 1.9 rating, essentially matching the MADtv average from one year ago.
A second week decline in the ratings is certainly not unusual and this one wasn’t as significant as it could have been. The show’s future will likely be determined over the long haul though FOX was hoping for significantly better performance from Sykes than what they were getting with MAD.
What do you think? Is The Wanda Sykes Show worth watching or do you wish MADtv or Spike Feresten hadn’t left the airwaves? Cancel or keep it?
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anybody who says she’s one sided, and realize this show is on FOX is being redundant. FOX news is one-sided and attacks Obama at any chance they can get.
SNL sucks a$$… hasn’t been funny in a decade. MAD TV was my favorite, but the original cast left and it just declined.
CANCEL THAT SHOW!!. It’s not even close to being funny. Her jokes are lame. She’s only funny for few minutes but watching her for an hour or more.. that’s getting really boring. What kind of idiot cancels MadTV for this crap!?!?!?!?!? Bobby Lee alone is funnier than her! Spike’s talkshow was great as well.
cancel…it’s not funny.i do not watch a comic to hear constant obamadoration.
Keep it! Love the way she lampoons the right while being on fox.
Big Piece of Feces. Cancel it.
She is NOT funny… way too political and one sided. Get this crap off of FOX!!!! Best Bet, let Seth Mcfarlane have a 1/2 hour live show (kinda like the special he did).
CANCEL IT!
Wanda Sykes and Oprah Winfrey need to go off the airwaves.
She’s funny and we like the show for about half an hour..then find it tedious. Loved Mad TV. What idiot cancelled that show? The writing and ideas were almost always better than SNL, wch hasn’t been very good forever, with the exception of the political commentary and skits during the presidential campaigns last year.
She is super funny!!! but her show isnt! idk if its the writers or shes trying way too hard, it just wasnt her, shes too fake on there!
same here, i love her stand up and i thought wanda at large was hilarious but it fells like i have to force myself to laugh at the jokes. stick to stand up
Sykes is only marginally funny on The New Adventures of Old Christine. She is even less than that on her own show. She has a somewhat cutting wit at times, but needs to get over herself and try to generate humor that will appeal to a broader cross section of the viewing public. She is much more tolerable when she is just doing a few minutes on some one else’s program.
Oh please. This person is so NOT funny. With all of the decent shows getting canned, she certainly does not deserve to stay on the air.
I didn’t even know she was on. No publicity. At any rate, any show would be better than MadTV. Dead air is an improvement.
It is so bad, she is trying way to hard to be funny and biting. MadTv was so much funnier than this. Her opening monologue is all about the economy and obama and those things our so depressing right now, she needs to be talking about more things, she literaly endorsing obama. Then her visit to the Sex Toy convention was uncomftorable to watch and her round table discussion is not even that great.
She needs to stop talking politics and awkward sex bits and then she might have a show
Her Show Isn’t Bad. But I think it should only be a half hour at 12:00 – 12:30. Enjoyed Takshow With Spike Frestern Much More Than This. At Least It Has Better Use Of It’s 1 Hour Time Last Year!!!