Wanda Sykes’ new Netflix special, ‘I’m an Entertainer,’ examines her formative years, grappling with her homosexuality, and the challenges and joys of heading a mixed race family:
Wanda Sykes often revisits her birth state of Virginia when she tours, sometimes staying at the historic Jefferson Hotel in Richmond. One night, after a gig and a few drinks, she returned to her room, sat in bed and watched TV in the dark. That’s when she noticed a mysterious figure seated in a shadowy corner.
“She likes when I talk about her, but there is a line,” Sykes says about writing her wife into the act. “As long as it’s representative of what our relationship is, and as long as I don’t create this, ‘Oh, my wife is awful,’ type thing, she’s happy.” She came out to her family about 20 years ago, well before she went public and married her wife in 2008 — a ceremony her parents refused to attend. “It was rough with them. But once you are loved and it’s like real love, then you don’t really have a problem telling anyone about it. And I think that was my case. We’re good now, but it was really hard.”
Earlier this year, she hosted “The Daily Show” for a week, an experience she savored but a job she wouldn’t want permanently. She’s got too much on her plate. Her company, Push It Productions, just signed a deal with Warner Bros. and she recently wrote and executive produced with one of her idols, comedy legend Mel Brooks, on the Hulu adaptation of his 1981 movie “History of the World: Part I.”
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