Her distinctive voice and delivery definitely comes through producing some laugh-out-loud moments. It's hard to fault the book for some of its now-dated material and references but it certainly cut into the humor of some sections.

I had bought this at a used book sale a few months ago, and grabbed it for something lighthearted as a needed pick me up last week. What I didn't realize when I bought the book is that it was written 13 years ago, so before Wanda Sykes, whom I will always have a soft spot for, as a fellow Arundel High School alumnus, was openly gay, and when The Apprentice was actually a hit show/ Donald Trump was not a world leader (vomit, seriously, vomit), and when it was still not considered completely politically incorrect to use the word retarded. So reading the book was very weird, in a time warp-y sort of way. Adding to that bizarre backdrop, is that Sykes didn't actually write much about her life in this book- I was thinking it would be more memoir, and less chunks of stand up routines. Alas, it was mostly her random ramblings on various topics, that would have been timely in 2004, but today seem just so, so wrong and strange, and not really that funny. That said, the last two chapters did make me laugh out loud a couple of times, so I can't say I hated the book- it was just a very strange read, overall. Now I have to find out if she's written anything else, so I feel like I'm giving her a fair shot as a writer, since I love her as a comic. Only two stars for this one, though, perhaps if I'd read it a decade ago, it would have been a higher rating.

Wanda Sykes is a badass.

If you need a book for the back of your toilet, this is the book you should get.

I enjoyed this book and it made me laugh out loud quite a few times! It is outdated now, though. Bush isn't the President, she's lesbian, she's married and she has kids... All subjects that were very contradictory in this book written a decade ago. I can't wait to read her next book!

funny, funny, funny. I wonder if she has another one?

I like Wanda. I read this in 2018. Proabably a mistake.

This book reads like a transcript of a stand-up routine you might hear by Sykes, which is awesome if you think she's hilarious. Which I do. She comes across as very feministy, but not wretchidly, lack-of-humorously-so (Sorry, I'm just saying..). Example:

One show, I did a benefit for a feminist organziation....So it's all feminsts. Gloria Steinem is sitting right up front. I walked out and said, "Look here, I can't stay around here too long with you broads because I gotta get home and cook my man a nice hot dinner. Plus, he likes his blow job by nine forty-five." I though it was funny. They didn't. They didn't find anything funny. I thought, Oh Lord, I made these women mad. I stepped over the line. I continued. "Ladies, calm down. I'm just joking. He likes a blow job anytime."

Hahaha. <3

Oh, and this book was written before she "outed" herself. Which is obvious as she keeps referring to her marriage to a man/relationships with men, etc. Which is fine, it's not like I expected a bunch of hints about her at-the-time-secret-gayness. (Other than her chapter about gay marriage in which she expresses exactly my thoughts on the subject, basically: WHY DO YOU CARE if gay people get married, straight people? How does it affect you?). I was just like, okay, enough with the heterosexual nonsense. I'm just saying. She should write another book. A GAYER book. I'm reading a lot of gay books lately, hm. It's been pretty faaabulous.

A lot of what makes Wanda Sykes so hysterical is her great delivery, and that's sorely lacking here - I would have enjoyed it more as an audio book. But I LOVE me some Wanda!

Oh yes she did.

Well, Wanda said it, so I read it. Well, actually she wrote it,and let's face it, some of this material just ain't making it alone on paper, without full delivery via Queen Wanda's crabby-ass voice. And a few bits are starting to get a little dated (published 2005). But it's still funnier than hell, uncensored, and very Wanda.

Like I said, not all comedians are funny on paper. Wanda is hilarious. She had me laughing out loud on every other page and I could hear her voice as if she was narrating it. A funny book if you're not too concerned with political correctness.