Wanda rocks ass. you know, i just read what i could of Ellen DeGenere's bk,( forget the title, and forget the bk...)and it simply wasn't funny. reading Wanda directly after, well...really no comparison. the main difference is: she, Wanda, is FUNNY. (sorry, Ellen...but different strokes. and i was shocked i say shocked to read that people didn't think margaret cho is funny! these people must be dead. a looong time.
even if you're dead u know her and she's funny! so, maybe if u r still dead since the 14th century and non reincarnated, to you she isn't funny. ok.)
A wonderful book to read, as i did, after a long day's work and you just need to curl up with a girlfriend who makes you laugh, and relax.
Enjoy.
"APPROVAL RATING--During the early part of his term Bush enjoyed a 70% approval rating. the majority of us were satisfied with the job that he was doing. which makes sense to me, because he pretty much did everything i expected him to do. the economy is in the toilet. we're at war and everything's on fire. he's met all my expectations. he's right on target in my book.
we have such low expectations of the president. we let Bush get away with stuff, lying and poor grammar. i think there are quite a few Americans who just feel like no matter what he does we gotta get behind him. you don't pick on the slow kid.you don't do that. you don't boo at the Special Olympics. it's not nice. they're all winners. it's like when you don't say anything when the retarded kid eats his ice cream with a fork. you just let them enjoy their ice cream."

As expected, this book is fall of your chair funny...I love Wanda!

Thanks to Sylvia, I now possess an autographed photo of Wanda Sykes. It reads as follows: "Mark, don't blame the alcohol! [heart shape] Wanda" This was a reference to her recent appearance on Jay Leno during which she berated the media for honoring boy-hunting congressman Mark Foley's booze escape clause (you remember Foleygate, don't you?). "Mark Foley is giving alcohol a bad name!" she said.

Anyway, I've had a maddening crush on Wanda Sykes ever since I saw her amazing performance in Pootie Tang. Even when she does her hair up all crimpy and posh, or when she wanders around the set of the awful Monster in Law with drink in hand, my eyes well up with tears of laughter and devotion.

This book is very funny. It isn't the usual stand-up transcript like you got with  Rock This! or  Sein-Language -- Wanda includes lots of sidesplitting original written material here. Including an eloquent defense of the fake orgasm from a basic time-management perspective.

I absolutely love this book! Sykes is so funny, and so blunt. I relate with this book a lot. If you spend a lot of time criticizing society and the people, and things in your surroundings, this is definitely a book for you. The sarcasm and straightforwardness is the highlight of the book. The topics that Sykes talks about are things you see on a daily basis, but nobody ever has the nerve to actually say out loud. She talks about all the things from president Bush to obesity and famous rappers. You might even be surprised with some of the things she says; they kind of catch you off guard at times, and they would definitely offend some people with strong personalities. I enjoy the "smart-ass" remarks that she has, because as I read it it made me think of things that I have thought about and said the same things. I think it is the vulgarity in the book that made me enjoy it even more, because it is how I would say these things.

Laugh out loud funny. You hear her voice saying all of it, which makes it even funnier.



Be careful about reading this book in public, I think it's inspired a poster of me somewhere in my City.

"The CRAZY Lady of xxxxxTown!"

Because I kept laughing out loud.



I laughed at the Hairdressers. I smacked the table at Starbucks. I snorted in the Library. I hooted while sitting at Sonic downing a burger. (oh by the way, there is a rather hilarious bit on McDonald's in the book)



Its not a book I would have traditionally chosen, but it was featured in a "Comedic" books display at the library. I was hooked just by reading the opening ( her first bit about writing a book...pretty darn funny)!



Just be warned, this is NOT an Autobiography. It's a book of comedic bits. So if reading 2-4 paragraph snippets is not your thing, you may want to skip it.

n  n    Yeah, I Said Itn  n

n  I Picked Up This Book Because:n I am a fan of the author’s comedy.

n  Media Type:n Digital
n  Source:n Scribd
n  Dates Read:n 11/21/20 - 12/1220
n  Stars:n 3


n  The Story:n

I’m sure if I had read this when it was published in 2004 it would have been a 5 star gut buster, however, this book has not aged well in the 16 years since publication. That being said it was still funny. Some of the things she presented observations on, especially with politics, have not changed and that is laughable and sad. Some of the things she spoke of are no longer acceptable in our changing society and that happens with this kind of book. Comics speak on the taboo/controversial so it’s not out of the realm of what the book could be today.

So all that is to say I had some laughs, I cringed a little and I didn’t hate it.

This book was funny, but I love Wanda Sykes stand up. If you are a fan of her standup you'll like the book. If not, you probably won't like the book because the joke/story telling is very similar.

i laugh out loud when i'm reading this book on the train. this lady cracks me up. i brought the book along to brunch and made my friend read it and she cracked up within a second of reading. this book is like the portable version of comic view.

I probably would've died laughing if I had listened the audiobook. I kept hearing Wanda say certain things throughout the book in her distinctive voice. It was very stream-of-consciousness. Or a comedy show. Very random. I thought it was going to be a memoir/autobiography but it's not really. A few personal anecdotes but mostly just Sykes' opinions on the "hot button" issues of 2003. Amusing but nothing special.

I love Wanda. This book read exactly like she does her standup. Normally I wouldn't give this kind of book 4 stars but I laughed so many times & finished in 2 sittings.

This is from 2004 & yet still relevant; she talks about what it's like with a moron in the White House-little did we all know what 2016 would bring. She suggests a trap door under the voting booth-you vote for an idiot & down ya go!

When she said her mother used to play dead just to get her to shut up as a little kid...hilarious.

I didn't get through it.

I love Wanda Sykes and her humor. Unfortunately, I waited too long to read this book. This book was published in 2004. It's now 2023. It would have been more enjoyable, relevant, and humorous 20 years ago. A lot of the topics are now outdated, such as current events (e.g., 9/11, President Bush) or the stories about celebrities that have since passed away (e.g., Prince, Whitney Houston). Or, most of all, Wanda's sexuality. Wanda talks about dating men, being married to a man (but divorced), and gay men/women in the third person. In 2008, Wanda came out, so reading about her dating men felt...weird.

I have to admit that it look me longer to read the book than normal. Why? Because in my head, I was reading it slower...in Wanda's voice. I couldn't help it. The book was definitely all her (except for the parts where she had a friend write a couple of stories, which weren't very funny and felt like odd placement). I tried to force myself to read like I normally read at a faster pace, but Wanda's voice kept popping into my head, slowly me down so she could read the book to me in her husky voice.

Although I didn't laugh much during my reading (er, Wanda's reading) of the book, I did laugh out loud a couple of times. Still, I wish I had read it sooner. Maybe she's due for another one? I saw her in person last year on her comedy tour, and she was hilarious.