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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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Portsmouth
Virginia
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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 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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