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Hosting a talk show is new for Sykes but the format is not. She got her start on HBO's The Chris Rock Show, a talk show that had no restrictions because it aired on premium cable. The freedom was perfect for Sykes, who finds humor in...

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Like edgy comedy? Sykes special is Wanda-ful Wanda Sykes brings the edgy comedy goods in HBO special 'I'ma Be Me' Thursday, October 8th 2009, 4:00 AM Wanda Sykes riffs on being black and gay in her second standup HBO special, 'I'ma Be...

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Posted: 11/06/2009 01:00:00 AM MST "The Wanda Sykes Show," premiering this Saturday on Fox, caps an amazing year for Sykes, including this fall's HBO special "I'm a Be Me" and other comedy roles. (Jesse Grant, Getty Images for Fox )

In this article: Wanda Sykes, Barack Obama, White House, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Glenn Beck, OxyContin, Yeah, I Said It, and Forrest Gump

Wanda Sykes is out of closet and uncensored in HBO stand-up special Wanda Sykes keeps it raunchy in her HBO special "I'ma Be Me." HBO photo WANDA SYKES: I'MA BE ME Wanda Sykes starts her Saturday talk show on Fox next month, and if this...

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...has a minor hairstyle issue. A marketing major and former National Security Agency employee turned stand-up comic, Sykes honed her skill during five years on Chris Rock's nighttime talk-variety show for HBO. So when Fox started looking for...

In this article: Wanda Sykes, Barack Obama, AIDS, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Rock, Mother's Day, White House Correspondents Association, Karl Rove, and Hillary Clinton

...like, a week in advance. [We'll have] stuff that happened that week." Sykes will stay on CBS' "The New Adventures of the Old Christine" and tape an HBO special Aug. 21-22. She will make an appearance on the final season of "Curb Your...

In this article: Wanda Sykes, Chi McBride, Pushing Daisies, Kevin Reilly, Comedy Central, Matt Groening, Larry David, and Curb Your Enthusiasm

...busy acting in two TV series as well as frequent movie roles, was resistant. "I started on 'The Chris Rock Show' on HBO, and I had a blast doing that," said Sykes. "We were on HBO and we could say and do what we wanted, and I missed that. But...

In this article: Wanda Sykes, Mo'Nique, George Lopez, Barack Obama, and The Chris Rock Show

...all-time standups. She served as a correspondent for HBO 's Inside the NFL, hosted Comedy Central's popular show Premium Blend, and voiced a recurring character named Gladys on Comedy Central's puppet show Crank Yankers. She also had a...

In this article: Wanda Sykes, National Security Agency, Comedy Central, Barack Obama, Proposition 8, Emmy, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Inside the NFL

...says that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid in that state. But she will talk about her family life, as she did in her HBO special that aired last month. Sykes says she hadn't planned to come out. She and her wife were legally...

In this article: Wanda Sykes, Las Vegas, Proposition 8, White House Correspondents' Association, Snowboarding, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Barack Obama, and The New Adventures of Old Christine