Talk:Wanda Sykes

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Humor

The article states: Much of her humor comes from her delivery and timing

I think this is is an unusual statment. Comedians would argue the essence of stand-up humor is delivery and timing. Dubkiller 10:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Majored in English?

Question: When she went to college, what did she major in? Did she switch majors before she graduated?

Answer: She majored in Marketing at Hampton University. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree.

Possible racial profiling issue

Why is it that all American actors when they are of black ancestry are usually referred as "African American"?

Why is that when actors are Jewish, Italian, French or any other ascendance (always of Caucasian race) are labelled only as just "American"?

Is that a subtle way to say that U.S.A. is composed of "Americans" (any white, of course) and some "African American" (same as "beware: is American BUT a black american")?

- Are you claiming that being black has no effect on a person's identity? Also, last time I checked, Jon Stewart is a "Jewish American" on Wikipedia. I've seen plenty of notes like that about white people.

Wow, talk about having a chip on your shoulder. The talk page for an article about Wanda Sykes is not the place to sling accusations of racial profiling. You could try Category:African Americans, but then i guess you'd see Category:Filipino Americans, Category:Jewish Americans, Category:Scots-Irish Americans, Category:Bulgarian Americans, and hundreds of others, and realize you were talking out of your ass. Moe Aboulkheir 22:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um, probably because they generally self-select into the category of 'African American'?

NSA

Didn't she work at the National Security Agency? That's probably worth adding if someone can verify.

Either way Wanda is FAWKEN funny01:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)hope.

Answer: Yes - she confirms in many written interviews - as well as in the Q & A section of her Seattle DVD that she did work at the National Security Agency. She was a procurement officer. The information has been added to her biography.

Brenda Sykes

Is Wanda related to Brenda Sykes (who appeared in the film Mandingo)? -Grammaticus Repairo 22:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, she is officially gay

Yes, she is officially gay, it's true, there is no need to remove it from the article or ask about it one hundred times over. JayKeaton (talk) 13:32, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but I can question how it is phrased! "Officially homosexual"? What? Did she have it notarized by the Secretary of Sexuality? SterlingNorth (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fortunately, somebody already rephrased that bit from the article before I got to this... SterlingNorth (talk) 20:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lets just say there has been strong speculation of it for a while now, but now speculation is over because it is fact. It is officially true, instead of just rumors. 219.90.163.163 (talk) 13:41, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The key point related to the insertions and removals I've been seeing is that hasn't suddenly become one of the primary features responsible for her notability. It isn't any more appropriate to mention it in introductory sentences than it is to identify Noah Wyle as a Jewish actor or Benjamin Bratt as a Peruvian-American actor. If it's worth mentioning later on in the article, fine. In this case, it probably is because Sykes came out in a newsworthy way. —Largo Plazo (talk) 14:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was still a poorly chosen word. A better way to have phrased it would have been to say "she has confirmed that she is gay". Phrased as "she is now officially a homosexual", it sounded like she was sworn in as gay after passing a gayness test and getting a certificate. SterlingNorth (talk) 23:33, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many articles say things like "English actor" in the lead. And no she hasn't only just now received her gayness certificate, don't be so silly. She would have received that years ago at her first secret gay agenda meeting. JayKeaton (talk) 19:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]