Wanda Sykes and the mosquito man | The Graham Norton Show – BBC

Wanda Sykes and the mosquito man | The Graham Norton Show – BBC

We grew up where my grandparents live it was like just woods and you know not a not a lot going on out there so the thing that would entertain us would be when the Mosquito Man would show up um the Mosquito Man it you know they come

And they spray for mosquitoes and back then it was just straight deep it wasn’t any you know friendly uh pet friendly or anything like that pesticide so he would show up and to us it was like the ice cream man you know other neighborhoods would get ding ding ding ding ding but we

We and we would just lose our minds we run behind the truck and playing that fog it’s like oh it’s the mosquito man you can’t see meun around playing tag and and the Mosquito Man was an because instead of saying kids get out of here he would just like shoot us like

Like he was like trying to clear a path to get out of you know

Wanda Sykes jokes that where she grew up, the kids would get excited with the mosquito man turned up to spray deet in her neighbourhood, running behind the van like he was the ice-cream man.

With Graham are Hollywood great Jodie Foster, starring in the latest season of TV drama True Detective: Night Country, Oscar winner Olivia Colman, talking about her new mystery comedy Wicked Little Letters, US comedy great Wanda Sykes, whose new Netflix special is Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer, doyenne of British TV Lorraine Kelly, discussing her debut novel The Island Swimmer, and Austin Butler and Josh Brolin, two of the stars of new sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two. Plus music from Calvin Harris and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, in a world-exclusive performance of their new single Lovers in a Past Life.

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