Wanda Sykes: Limbaugh Had It Coming; Still Loves Prez Who Opposes Same-Sex Marriage

At this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Wanda Sykes labeled Rush Limbaugh a terrorist and “joked” about her desire to see his kidneys fail. Not only does she not regret wishing the talk show host dead, in an interview with Metro Weekly (via: NewsBusters) she says in so many words that Limbaugh started it:

METRO WEEKLY: Do you ever worry about stepping out of bounds, about doing a joke that’s gone too far?

SYKES:I don’t worry about it. My barometer is that I don’t want to be mean spirited – just to attack someone for the sake of doing it. If you started it, I have a right to go after you. If you did something, I can go after you. But I want it to be about what you did and not just a personal attack or something.

MW: Which is where Rush Limbaugh comes in. You leveled several vicious – and I would agree in his case completely earned – jokes in his direction at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. You got some flak in the press for it. Looking back, do you regret saying those things about Limbaugh? (more…)

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Tags: "teabagging", gay marriage, Obama, teabaggers, Wanda Sykes
Posted Aug 22nd 2009 at 1:07 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 20989073 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/08/22/wanda-sykes-limbaugh-had-it-coming-still-loves-prez-who-opposes-same-sex-marriage/Wanda+Sykes%3A+Limbaugh+Had+It+Coming%3B+Still+Loves+Prez+Who+Opposes+Same-Sex+Marriage2009-08-22+20%3A07%3A56John+Nolte

Lonewolf Diaries: Republicans Need to Grow a Sense of Humor

Yes, you’ve read correctly. To all of you GOP types playing the “offended” card on a daily basis… Prepare to have your feelings hurt, because according to my carefully calculated research… Republicans need to shut up and laugh a little.

Never has the GOP’s lack of funnybone been on sharper display than the last 5 months. For a party that claims to “shun political correctness,” we’ve certainly done a good job of embracing it. Over the past 150 days there have been three “media-worthy” politically incorrect moments related to this administration and Republicans have managed to jump on each one of them for political gain. All to no avail. Let us examine:

Exhibit A

Barack Obama’s Special Olympics comment on Leno. – On air, President B. Hussein Obama made a self-deprecating joke in regards to his bowling abilities. He made the implication that he was so bad at bowling that his skill level resembled that of a mentally challenged athlete. Twas a surprisingly funny, off-handed moment for a generally very unfunny president.

Republicans, however, decided to act as though they were appalled by this and ran with the “you can’t make fun of retards” theme. (I’m paraphrasing here of course, but you get the picture.) I believe that somewhere in the middle, Sarah Palin and her son Trigg were tied into the whole fiasco. The media took little notice and sharp comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert managed to successfully lampoon Conservatives for being humorless old bags. That’s one for you, Democrats… (more…)

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Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Bristol Palin, Colbert, David Letterman, jon stewart
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 5:58 pm in Featured Story, Lone Wolf Diaries | 16289015 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/06/16/lonewolf-diaries-hey-republicans-grow-a-sense-of-humor/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Republicans+Need+to+Grow+a+Sense+of+Humor2009-06-17+00%3A58%3A34Steven+Crowder

‘NewsBusted’ 5/22/09 — Fake News from the Right

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama, military tribunals, Dick Cheney, C.I.A., budget deficits, robot surgery, Nancy Pelosi, Congress, CraigsList, illegal immigrants, Michelle Obama, Maxim magazine, Wanda Sykes, Mia Farrow, and Kirstie Alley.

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Tags: budget deficits, CIA, Congress, Craigslist, Dick Cheney
Posted May 22nd 2009 at 6:55 pm in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 141446No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/05/22/newsbusted%e2%80%99-52209-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%27NewsBusted%E2%80%99+5%2F22%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-05-23+01%3A55%3A57NewsBusters

‘The Dark Pelosi’ (With Waterboarding!)

Sure this one’s been a long time coming, and with everything that’s been going on, how could I NOT make a video about the twitchy old bird. It isn’t enough that she’d been undermining our administration for years, now she’s got to come out and play the “victim” card. Poor Nancy, skunked again! Come on ma’am, it’s getting old.

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Note: I know the video gets a little personal, but thanks to Wanda Sykes… That is a concern of mine no longer!

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Tags: CIA, enhanced interrogation, gitmo, Nancy Pelos, torture
Posted May 21st 2009 at 6:19 pm in Political Humor, Video | 140750One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/05/21/the-dark-pelosi-with-waterboarding/%27The+Dark+Pelosi%27+%28With+Waterboarding%21%292009-05-22+01%3A19%3A05Steven+Crowder

David Axelrod, Rasputin of the Magic Kingdom

Senior Obama advisor David Axelrod made the news recently with his comment on NPR’s ‘The Hot Seat’, when he offhandedly remarked that ‘Miss California’ was one of three names considered for President Obama’s new dog, Bo. The remark was met with uproarious laughter by NPR’s Regressive live audience. Then again, the intellectual retards of the Left will laugh at most anything that grossly insults anyone to the right of Stalin, like second graders instinctively laughing at farts.

President Obama — David Axelrod

You know. Like Wanda Sykes, Sandra Bernhard and the Teabag-loving MSM.

As to Mr. Axelrod’s crude and lame attempt at insulting humor that should be beneath the dignity of any presidential advisor, I can only conclude that he made that derogatory comment about Carrie Prejean because Miss California shares his boss’s negative attitude  toward gay marriage. (more…)

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Tags: ACLU, Anthony Romero, assassination chic, Barack Obama, Carrie Prejean
Posted May 21st 2009 at 8:10 am in Politics | 137038One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/05/21/david-axelrod-rasputin-of-the-magic-kingdom/David+Axelrod%2C+Rasputin+of+the+Magic+Kingdom2009-05-21+15%3A10%3A30John+T.+Simpson

News Media: Stop Digging

The first rule of getting out of a hole you have dug yourself into is to stop digging.  But at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday, they handed out shovels at the door.

Let’s review the state of American journalism.  Newspapers are teetering on the edge of collapse, with a savvy investor sooner scooping up a handful of Chrysler common stock then pumping cash into the Boston Globe.  The New York Times’ stock is so toxic it can only be stored inside the Yucca Mountain repository, and I can’t drive by the Los Angeles Times building without some laid-off lifestyle columnist offering to wash my windshield for a buck.  Some newspapers have gone entirely on-line, making them not even newspapers at all.  (more…)

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Tags: Boston Globe, CBS News, Dan rather, Los Angeles Times, media
Posted May 18th 2009 at 6:39 am in Media Criticism, News | 1315103 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/05/18/news-media-stop-digging/News+Media%3A+Stop+Digging2009-05-18+13%3A39%3A26Kurt+Schlichter

A Toilet Economics Tutorial, Wanda’s Toilet Humor, and Perez Hilton’s Hate Speech

Since the economy is in the crapper, I figured I’d use a crapper to demonstrate why!

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Tags: Barack Obama, Carrie Prejean, Perez Hilton, sarah palin, Wanda Sykes
Posted May 16th 2009 at 1:27 pm in Political Humor, Video | 136214One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/arachel/2009/05/16/toilet-tutorial/A+Toilet+Economics+Tutorial%2C+Wanda%27s+Toilet+Humor%2C+and+Perez+Hilton%27s+Hate+Speech2009-05-16+20%3A27%3A07Alfonzo+Rachel

I Guess You Had To Be There: The Barack Obama Celebrity Roast

(Thundering tympanies, swirling spotlights)

Announcer

Live! From the fabulous Turtle Bay Ballroom at United Nations Headquarters, it’s the Rat Pack of Evil All-Star International Celebrity Roast of President Barack Obama!

(orchestra fanfare: ‘Make ‘Em Laugh’)

With Pyongyang funnyman Kim Jong-Il! Borscht Belt headliner Vlady Putin! Queen of Mean Liz Windsor! Saudi Sheik of Schtick King Abdullah! Beijing jokeslinger Hu Jintao! Wacky al Qaeda Caveman Ayman al-Zawahiri! Nick ‘the Knife’ Sarkozy! Sassy Wanda Sykes! South-of-the-border slapstick team Hugo Chavez and the Castro Brothers! Taliban Madman Mullah Omar! Jon Stewart! Lovable Libyan lush Muammar al-Ghadaffi! Grovelin’ Guvner Gordy Brown! Bashar “The Chin” al-Assad! The Hamas Fattah Dancers! And starring your Master of Ceremonies — that suntan man with a plan from Iran — that Persian with a nuclear perversion — Sheckyyyyyy Ahmedinejad!

(applause)

Shecky Ahmedinejad

Okay, okay, pipe down. Let’s get this thing over with, this straitjacket is a rental and my magic carpet is double-parked on East 43rd. Mohamed H. Prophet, will you get a load of the evil on the stage tonight? I haven’t seen this many bombs since Janeane Garofalo played the American Legion convention. (more…)

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Tags: "without preconditions", Ahmedinejad, al qaeda, American Legion, Andy Kauffman
Posted May 13th 2009 at 5:57 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Political Humor, Politics, Religion | 1346345 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/05/13/i-guess-you-had-to-be-there-the-barack-obama-celebrity-roast/I+Guess+You+Had+To+Be+There%3A+The+Barack+Obama+Celebrity+Roast2009-05-14+00%3A57%3A28Iowahawk

Defending Wanda — Kind Of

So why is it, that a joke about kidney failure is funny, but a joke about two bullets in an elevator needs an apology? Even though both punch lines suggest death, in the two bullet scenario the victim is a Democrat. Suggesting the Death of a Democrat is a far more serious matter. (I’m also not sure why TWO bullets would be necessary, although my Mom hunted alligators once, and claims that smaller brained animals can withstand more headshots.)

I’m not mad about Wanda Sykes recent diatribe against Rush Limbaugh and other Republicans. Today, you expect this kind of nonsense at the Correspondent’s Dinners. It is modern tradition to spare no mercy for the attendees. Being an edgy comic myself, I often find that the meat is much sweeter when it’s closer to the bone.  Edge comedy means that you are trying to land that punch line so close to the precipice of good taste that it is very likely to fall over. On more than one occasion I have personally felt the plummet after I misjudged where the line stopped. (more…)

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Tags: comedy, Obama, Paul Wellstone, same sex marriage, Wanda Sykes
Posted May 11th 2009 at 3:22 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 1324025 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/05/11/defending-wanda/Defending+Wanda+--+Kind+Of2009-05-11+22%3A22%3A03Tim+Slagle

Daily Gut: Wanda Sykes

So the White House Correspondents Dinner came and went, and once again your charming host was not invited. No matter – I had other plans – that pint of Ben and Jerry’s wasn’t going to climb into bed and eat itself, as I quietly sob to the final season of Men in Trees (I had pressed my paisley shorty robe for just the occasion).

Anyway, it appears the press is making much of Wanda Sykes – which is hilarious, because she performed the way you’d expect her to perform. And that makes me think that these reports of outrage were written before the outrage actually registered. I mean – the room was packed with reporters, and Sykes made jokes about conservatives. The stories about angry conservatives are like a model airplane kit – all the parts were there, just glue them together. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Maher, Gay humor, gay marriage, Obama, Rush Limbaugh
Posted May 11th 2009 at 2:03 pm in Daily Gut | 1323942 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/05/11/daily-gut-wanda-sykes/Daily+Gut%3A+Wanda+Sykes2009-05-11+21%3A03%3A34Greg+Gutfeld

Note to Wanda: Obama and Limbaugh Agree on Same-Sex Marriage

Wanda Sykes has decided to be the latest celebrity to cross the line from comedy into hate speech. Her refusal to let other leftists have all the fun without any social consequences has led her to embrace Ideological Bigotry.

At the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Ms. Sykes decided to lob verbal grenades at Rush Limbaugh. The leftist ideological bigots that make up much of the mainstream media will offer pathetic and predictable defenses. Inevitable choruses of “she was just making jokes,” and “Rush can dish it out, but he can’t take it” will try to drown out the truth.

This cannot be allowed to happen. (more…)

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Tags: Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Wanda Sykes, White House Correspondents' Dinner
Posted May 11th 2009 at 10:07 am in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Politics | 1316626 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/05/11/wanda-sykes-may-her-vocal-chords-fail/Note+to+Wanda%3A+Obama+and+Limbaugh+Agree+on+Same-Sex+Marriage2009-05-11+17%3A07%3A03Eric+Golub

Grading the Comedian in Chief

Barack Obama is getting ready for his next career. The other night in he was the opening act for comedian Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents dinner. Soon he could be featuring at Funny Bones across America. It was interesting to watch a room full for allegedly unbiased journalists cheer for the President. It was obvious that their enthusiasm was not for the semi-flat jokes at times but for the underlying left wing politics.

The economy must be worse that the administration is letting on. I saw Warren Buffet and Richard Belzer in the house. Who are they writing for these days? In both the President’s and Wanda’s sets there seemed to be a lack of jokes about the administration. Since I have a few years of experience at stand-up and teaching comedy writing at undisclosed locations I thought might give a review of his work and offer some suggestions. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, comedy writing, Richard Belzer, Wanda Sykes, Warren Buffet
Posted May 11th 2009 at 8:34 am in Political Humor, Politics | 131698One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/05/11/barack-the-obamidian/Grading+the+Comedian+in+Chief2009-05-11+15%3A34%3A37Jeffrey+Jena

Wanda Sykes’ Gutless Performance

Hollywood’s favorite phrase is “speaking truth to power.”  It charts just above “She/he is the love of my life,” “Though we’re not together anymore, we’ll remain good friends,” and “Hey, where did I leave my underwear?”

Hollywood slings around the phrase “speaking truth to power” as if it were cocaine at a Sean Penn movie premiere party.  And they particularly love slinging it around at the time of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

A couple years ago, Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central was the beneficiary of the “speaking truth to power” Hollywood press machine.  He headlined the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, and laid ‘em in the aisles with brilliant lines like, “Over the last five years, you people were so good-over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn’t want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. … And then you write, Oh, they’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!”  (more…)

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Tags: cheney, Limbaugh, michelle obama, Obama, sarah palin
Posted May 11th 2009 at 4:41 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics | 13156215 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/05/11/wanda-sykes-gutless-performance/Wanda+Sykes%27+Gutless+Performance2009-05-11+11%3A41%3A23Ben+Shapiro