Wanda Sykes
Wanda's smart-witted stand up has sent her career in many different directions
Wanda Sykes
Wanda's smart-witted stand up has sent her career in many different directions
Wanda Sykes
Wanda's smart-witted stand up has sent her career in many different directions
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She earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named her as one of the 25 funniest people in America. She is well known for her role as Barbara Baran on The New Adventures of Old Christine and for her appearances on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In November 2009 The Wanda Sykes Show, her own late-night talk show, premiered on Fox, airing Saturday nights and ended April 2010.
Sykes also has a successful film career, appearing as the motor-mouthed observer in Monster-in-Law, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Evan Almighty, and License to Wed, and voiced characters in Over the Hedge, Barnyard, Brother Bear 2, Rio, and Ice Age: Continental Drift.
Sykes is also a keen LGBT rights activist and married her French wife partner Alex in 2008, with whom she has two children. In 2004 she authored "Yeah, I Said It", a humorous collection of essays touching on life, family, and current events.
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On Point!
Wanda you are incredible; never afraid to say how it is and wow, it is indeed crazy. Your bold performance in a Red State in a Blue City, we embrace your absolute humor on topics not many can pull off. You left me in stitches and tears of laughter. The theater was in full hilt laughter!! Your ability to take awful events and find some humor it was makes you comedic genius. Thank you!!! ... Read more
Elizabeth Laughlin
Been so long that I’ve laughed so hard!
I was expecting funny … but my sides ached and my cheeks hurt. She was beyond chuckle and straight to laugh out loud. There was a space in the middle of the routine where she seemed to struggle to get back in the rhythm. She did way more physical comedy than I’ve seen in the past. Yes, there were bits about politics, race, culture wars, but I expected that. Of course, those parts were aimed at a liberal audience. The majority of her material, though, was just plain hilarious! Surpassed my expectations! ... Read more
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