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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
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Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.
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I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.
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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.
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Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.
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To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.
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I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.
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white criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.
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When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.
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All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.
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I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.
Wanda Sykes
Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.
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