Wanda Sykes is appearing at Ruth Eckard Hall 1111 North McMullen Booth Road Clearwater, FL 33759 Thursday, Jun 4, 2009 08:00 PM

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The comedian was  featured at a past White House
Correspondents’ Dinner. She took shots at Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and
former VP candidate Sarah Palin. She speculated that Limbaugh was
actually the 20th hijacker on 9/11, derided Hannity for not living up
to his pledge to be waterboarded for the troops, and made a fabulous
off-color joke about Sarah Palin pulling out at the last minute.

Sykes became the first African-American woman and the first openly
gay person to ever perform jokes at the White House Correspondents’
Dinner. Sykes was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Her father served as a US Army colonel employed at the Pentagon, and her mother worked as a banker. She attended Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland, and went on to graduate from Hampton University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing. After college, her first job was as a procurement officer with the National Security Agency (NSA),^[2] where she worked for five years.Sykes began her stand-up career at a Coors Light Super Talent
Showcase in Washington, DC, where she performed for the first time in
front of a live audience.^[4] She continued to hone her talents at local venues while at the NSA until 1992, when she moved to New York City. Her first big break came when opening for Chris Rock at Caroline’s Comedy Club. In 1997, she joined the writing team on The Chris Rock Show and also made many appearances on the show.^[4] The writing team was nominated for four Emmys, and in 1999 won for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Special. Since that time, she has appeared in such films as Pootie Tang and on TV shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 2003, she starred in her own short-lived Fox network sitcom, Wanda at Large. The same year, Sykes appeared in an hour-long Comedy Central special, Tongue Untied. That network also ranked her #70 on its list of the 100 greatest 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 short-lived show on Comedy Central called Wanda Does It.

In addition to her film and television work, she is also an author. She wrote Yeah, I Said It, a book of humorous observations on various topics, published in September 2004.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Sykes

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