Sykes, who’s co-hosting Sunday’s Academy Awards with Regina Corridor and Amy Schumer, says she shall be consuming and issues would possibly get loopy.
The comic gave the impression on “Jimmy Kimmel Are living!” the place Kimmel guessed she was once getting paid round $15,000 for the gig, about what he made when he hosted the display.
“It sounds adore it’s so much for one evening, however it is months of labor main as much as it,” Kimmel mentioned. “You are getting robbed. Cling out at this time, as a result of they want hosts.”
Sykes mentioned she’ll get started consuming as soon as the primary act is completed.
“Then I am like, I am right here to have some a laugh,” she mentioned. “It isn’t like I am getting paid, you already know. You get what you pay for. You wish to have sober Wanda, you have to upload some zeroes and transfer that comma. You are getting unfastened Wanda.”
If she is going lacking, she joked, that can imply she’s consuming off digicam. “So when you see simply Amy and Regina out, you’ll simply cross, ‘Wanda’s under the influence of alcohol, she’s behind the curtain,'” Sykes mentioned.
Sykes additionally has a plan to make up for misplaced source of revenue. She mentioned she would possibly thieve an Oscar and promote it for benefit.
Kimmel idea that was once a super concept, noting the recent Oscar would “be on ABC and eBay on the identical time.”
Sykes’ spouse Alex shall be on the display, whilst her mother might not be attending.
“It isn’t like you’ll get a excellent seat,” Sykes instructed her mom. “I am gonna be onstage operating. I mentioned, if I believed you had been gonna be, like, sitting subsequent to Denzel Washington, then I might fly you in. However you are gonna be up within the bleachers sitting subsequent to the man with Covid.”
The Oscars broadcast on ABC, starting at 8 p.m. EST on Sunday.
