At Sykes' behest, we rang her L.A. home at the crack of dawn.

Wanda Sykes

City Paper: What'd you think of the Super Bowl, since you work on Inside the NFL and all?

Wanda Sykes: It was pretty boring. Like, how did either of these teams get there in the first place?

CP: Didn't you beat Jerome Bettis on Celebrity Poker Showdown?

WS: I took his money and Mena Suvari finished him off.

CP: You were No. 14 and Chris Rock was No. 1 in Entertainment Weekly's funniest people issue. Did you feel robbed?

WS: [Laughs] Not at all.

CP: But Larry David was No. 4, and you carry his show too!

WS: Hey, hey, hey—I'm a team player, so it's cool.

CP: You're just saying that because you beat Conan O'Brien.

WS: Oh man, Conan. He has to do that every night. I respect that.

CP: You've been doing a lot of voiceovers lately. Has Wanda Sykes been typecast as a barnyard animal?

WS: [Laughs] A skunk and a cow shows a lot of range.

CP: Your time on The Chris Rock Show went well, but your sitcom, Wanda at Large, flopped. What did you learn from that?

WS: I'm amazed at what ends up on television. There's many filters messing with the material. We had it so good with HBO.

CP: Like Larry David's show? Do you really live that close to one another in L.A.?

WS: Oh, no. I have no idea where Larry lives. [Laughs]

CP: It's all a facade, then!

WS: I'm not going to ask. We're cool. We're just not that kind of cool.

CP: Your Comedy Central show, Wanda Does It, was brilliant. Curious minds want to know: What won't Wanda do?

WS: Oh, wow. I don't know. I worked at a brothel, so there isn't much I wouldn't do.

CP: So who would win in a fight: Jennifer Lopez or Jane Fonda?

WS: It's a tie.

CP: That's a cop-out, Wanda.

WS: Jane's been around. She's got a new hip. I don't know.