Comedian Wanda Sykes - who wowed America with her monologue at the Washington Correspondent's Dinner earlier this year - has a new talk show. "The Wanda Sykes Show" will be on Fox starting November 7th.
Her website carried this statement:
I’m married, so this was a great excuse to get out of the house on a Saturday night,” said Sykes. When asked about returning to FOX, she added, “Yes, my relationship with FOX hasn’t been the best, but if Rihanna can go back to Chris Brown, I can go back to FOX. Oprah tried to talk me out of it, but I think FOX has changed.”
Wanda Sykes and her wife, Alex
Fox's show website explains...
A new weekly late-night series, THE WANDA SYKES SHOW will feature Sykes' personal take on the events of the week punctuated by field pieces and produced comedy segments. Everything from news, politics, sports and pop culture will get examined from a point of view not currently offered on television.
Oh, boy. This is gonna be interesting.
Wanda's last show, called "Wanda at Large" was canceled after it was moved to the "death time" of Friday nights. Sykes charges that Fox lied to her, stating that another time slot would be found if Friday didn't work. But apparently all that's in the past as Sykes' "Q-rating is apparently on the rise over the last two years, even if it has come from pissing off certain segments of the political landscape.
What got Sykes into trouble with conservatives at the Correspondent's Dinner was this series of statements about Rush Limbaugh:
"Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails, so you're saying, 'I hope America fails,' you're like, 'I don't care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq.' He just wants the country to fail. To me, that's treason,"
Frankly,I agree with her. We let a guy like Rush Limbaugh collect a contract valued at around $400 million for making statements that are against any American success that President Obama has something to do with, which is essentially rooting against one's own country!
More of Sykes from the Washington Correspondent's Dinner, where she's cracking on Rush:
"He's not saying anything differently than what Usama bin Laden is saying," she continued, before addressing the guest of honor, President Obama. "You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because 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 good waterboarding, that's what he needs."
If you missed her performance, here it is, courtesy of C-SPAN and YouTube.com:
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