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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
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Portsmouth
Virginia
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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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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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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 felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.
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I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.
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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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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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My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.
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