The Chris Rock Show

...Wanda Sykes Show" launches at 11 EST tonight on Fox. 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...

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...30 years old. But it didn't take her long to become a familiar face (and voice) in comedy. From starting as a writer and performer on The Chris Rock Show, Sykes has gone to become a reliable supporting player in sitcoms like Curb Your...

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...guested on her show that same afternoon. Both bring with them a strong established following, Sykes as a writer/performer on The Chris Rock Show, her own reality series Wanda at Large, dozens of showcase episodic and film appearances,...

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...Glenn Beck would be like interviewing Forrest Gump. They're not even real people." Her inspirations are Richard Pryor and Moms Mabley. "Everything I learned from 'The Chris Rock Show' (as a performer and writer), I'm bringing to my show."

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...them about my blackness"). Her desire to star in a Fox late-night series grew out of how she missed the show where she got her start: HBO's "Chris Rock Show." "We had a blast on that show," she said, but she hadn't been looking for a talk...

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...troubling. Indeed, what carries this film is Rock. As star and part of the writing team he has surrounded himself with old friends from The Chris Rock Show: writer director Jeff Stilson and writers Chuck Sklar and Lance Crouther. The...

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...in the hair styles of black women. Rock and his team, including writer-director Jeff Stilson from the Emmy award-winning HBO series, "The Chris Rock Show," visit temples in India where poor women's sacrificed locks end up in exported...

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...female Chris Rock, especially considering a few startling similarities in their routines. To be fair, Sykes admits that her time at the "Chris Rock Show" was a big inspiration for her, but the point remains. In the latter half of her...

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...(she'd probably like that analogy). It's quite a sight, really - this package of sound and fury mellowed from the years at "The Chris Rock Show," where she was a writer and sometime performer. There is also some funny material here,...

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...medicine. I want to make people laugh." Yet Rock, a professed Michael Moore fan who worked on the film with the team from his defunct The Chris Rock Show, is proud of his film's reportage, which included a trip to India and interviews...

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