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Wanda Sykes

May 2023

  • ‘I want the trans community to know that I’m with them’ … Wanda Sykes.

    ‘Only God can say – That’s enough’: Wanda Sykes, the uncancellable standup superstar

    She ditched life as a government agent to become a comedian, one so fearless she even has a ‘tampon lasso’. The comic legend discusses cancelled men, coming out – and calling out Roseanne

January 2023

  • Wanda Sykes on the Daily Show: “Letting Trump back on Facebook is crazy. You’re just asking for trouble.”

    Wanda Sykes on Trump’s Facebook return: ‘Like letting Hannibal Lecter babysit your most delicious child’

  • Jimmy Kimmel on Mike Pence’s classified documents: “Really throwing Republicans for a loop. They’re running around in circles trying to claim that what Biden did is worse than what Mike Pence did.”

    Kimmel on Pence documents: ‘Really throwing Republicans for a loop’

  • Jimmy Kimmel on classified documents: “Mike Pence has them too now! This is unbelievable. It’s an epidemic.”

    Jimmy Kimmel on Mike Pence’s classified documents: ‘It’s an epidemic’

  • Stephen Colbert on White House classified documents: “How could American be $31 trillion in debt and yet apparently no one in executive branch has ever purchased a shredder?”

    Colbert on classified documents: ‘No one in executive branch has ever purchased a shredder?’

August 2022

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Wanda Sykes: will we be laughing to You’ve Been Snooped On?

    Rebecca Nicholson
    The comedian has her work cut out as host of Amazon’s Ring Nation, which sounds more ominous than entertaining

March 2022

  • Amy Schumer at the 94th annual Academy Awards.

    ‘Did I miss anything?’: the best quotes of the 2022 Oscars

  • ‘Cheaper than hiring one man’ … Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall host the 2022 Oscars.

    Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall take on race, sexism and Hollywood in Oscars opening speech

December 2019

  • It’s monstrous, it’s ridiculous, it’s showbiz ... Catherine Cohen.

    Best culture 2019
    Top 10 comedy shows of 2019

    A double dose of Stewart Lee, Hannah Gadsby’s follow-up to Nanette and London Hughes’ uproarious blue humour tickled the comedy circuit this year

November 2018

  • Wanda Sykes

    The G2 interview
    Wanda Sykes on why she had to quit Roseanne – but still has empathy for its star

    When Roseanne Barr wrote a racist tweet, the comedian walked off the show – and 90 minutes later it was cancelled. She talks about the furore, coming out and being booed by Trump fans

January 2013

  • Barack Obama reacts to the comedy of Wanda Sykes

    Comedy Gold: Wanda Sykes – Sick and Tired

    Leo Benedictus: Straight-talking US comedian who's as funny attacking opponents of gay marriage as she is bawling out a 'racist' dolphin
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