Watch Ellen DeGeneres and Wanda Sykes Parody "Lemonade" to Perfection

Ellen DeGeneres makes her debut in Beyoncé's LEMONADE with a little help from Wanda Sykes.

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Ellen DeGeneres is pretty damn good at doing popular music video spoofs on her daytime talk show, and she's back with yet another one. The comedienne did the inevitable to create a parody video of "Hold Up" off of Queen Bey's highly successful visual album LEMONADE

Beyoncé's ode to women scorned by their husbands got a funny flip by Ellen, who introduced the video by referencing her own fictional cameo in the video. "Did you see me in it?" she asked, adding, "I've been given permission to show it—I hope she's not mad." Perhaps that last bit was precautionary following the backlash she received from Nicki Minaj after spoofing her "Anaconda" video.

In the clip, DeGeneres comments with her signature dry-humored ab-libs while sitting in the front seat of the same parked car that Beyoncé beats on with a baseball bat. Ellen drops hilarious lines referencing the California water shortage crisis after witnessing Beyoncé break the top of a fire hydrant ("Well, somebody doesn't care about the drought"), and that now-infamous "Becky with the good hair" ("Becky, I have to go. I'm going to call you back, but I do love what you're doing with your hair.").

In the end of the two-minute clip, Ellen urges Beyoncé to stop destroying her car's windshield, pointing to Sykes and saying, "Hey look, that's Becky with the good hair!" Wanda Sykes makes her quintessential scene-stealing cameo by taking offense and correcting Ellen, saying it's a "good weave" she's wearing.

Vintage daytime TV.

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