WITH A SHERRI ON TOP
Funny how work flocks to ex-‘View’ star Shepherd
“The View” from Sherri Shepherd’s post talk show perch is spectacular.
Since parting ways with “The View” in 2014, the work that she’s landed has been as diverse as the hosts of the long-running ABC show.
Shepherd, 52, has a starring role as a school principal in the new Netflix series “Mr. Iglesias,” she hosts the Game
Show Network’s “Best
Ever Trivia Show,” and fans will see her for the first time in a dramatic lead role when the film “Brian Banks” hits theaters Aug. 9.
The Chicago native is also in New York for the last stop of the “Ladies Night Out” comedy tour at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre this Saturday.
But she’s not bragging. “There’s time when I’ve been unemployed, I just don’t put it on Instagram,” Shepherd (inset) told the Daily News. “I’m very thankful that the work still keeps coming in. I’m thankful to still be relevant, that people still like working with me.”
At Saturday’s show, hosted by reality TV vixen NeNe Leakes, she’ll be joined by longtime friends and fellow comediennes Loni Love, Kym Whitley and Adele Givens.
“I’m excited about this. It’s just everything from a lady’s point of view,” Shepherd said. “So you got your clean to your raunchy to everything in between. That’s what I love. Loni brings it in and she’s dating a new man. I’m talking about all the trials and travails of being married and divorced twice. And NeNe spills the tea about ‘Real Housewives.’”
Shepherd revealed that she joined the tour after actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish dropped out due to other obligations.
With a 20plus-year career in comedy, Shepherd said her routine has changed with the times.
“Twenty years ago I was in the space of, ‘I can’t wait for my Prince Charming to come on a white horse and deliver me from all the evil,’ but I found out my Prince Charming, his horse was broke down and he needed a princess to buy him a new horse and more horses,” she quipped.
“It’s just evolving,” she said of her comedy routine. “Now I have a son who’s 14 who has turned into an alien, has taken my child and given me somebody that resembles my son. But this alien hates me and I have this teenager here that I don’t recognize anymore, who is now, everything I do he’s not impressed. I’m really talking about being the mother of a teenager and dealing with that while trying to date and also dealing with ex-husbands.”