She recently completed voice work for Over the Hedge and Barnyard - two animated films due for release next year. While she has no intention of giving up stand-up comedy, Sykes says she's interested in doing more work for film and television. The things he does on that show are so inappropriate. "I think he probably wishes he could just poke me with a stick a couple times. "I don't know if he's ever had a short black woman yell at him," says Sykes, who stands 5-feet-2-inches tall. In one episode, he yelled at her from his car, "Hey! I'd know that anywhere." Sykes turned it into an insult regarding the size of said behind and created much grief for him.
She is consistently capable of flummoxing David, improvising her lines as she goes along. Sykes has proved popular in her recurring role as Larry David's neighbor and tormentor on his HBO show, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Recounting the story, she says, "The kids laughed, but I don't think the superintendent cared for me." Knock it out while you're young and then start life over again." And some of you should probably report to the county jail right now. When she was invited to deliver the commencement address at her nephew's high school in Manassas, Va., she told the graduates: "Let's be honest. She also had a knack for tweaking authority. Sykes is known for pushing the envelope and being slightly offensive in her humor (such as her thoughts on Michael Jackson's recently concluded trial, which, sadly, are not printable in this newspaper).
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While professional athletes usually enjoy speaking with Sykes, it's not hard to see why teams' management would have reservations. For a future segment, she hopes to interview female Indy car racer Danica Patrick - said to have a major influence on young female athletes - and take her around to little girls who will have no idea who she is.
Her segment on the Costas show is called "Disrespecting the Game," an often humorous take on timely sports topics. He wanted Sykes to do a segment on steroids for Costas' new show, but they couldn't find a ballclub that would let Sykes interview its players. "I don't think my wife's ever seen me laugh so much." He took home a tape of her work and watched it that night. "She had me cracking up," Bernstein says.
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