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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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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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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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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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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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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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Men don't hear women.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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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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