why I love Wanda Sykes, let me count the ways

she says things like this:


and this:


it killed me when she said that "my wife is French, I like to say she's French because that sounds nicer than White." LOL!

and this:


this whole skit in particular can substitute for years of reading queer theory, in particular one of the best and most influential books on me, Epistemology of the Closet by the late great Eve K. Sedgewick. I would love to teach that book and show this video.

oh, and she drops the f-bomb every five and a half seconds, she tells it like it is, and she is out of the closet