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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.

Wanda Sykes

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Writer
Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
Wanda Yvette Sykes-Hall
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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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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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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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We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'
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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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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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Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.
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But I understand that relationship I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.
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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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You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.
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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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When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.
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I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' - I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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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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People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.
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