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Wanda Sykes on Rush Limbaugh
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There was a shift in the dominant paradigm with children's suicides. It touched the hearts of moms.
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Wanda is funny. And a far, far better defender of America than the fucking Right Wing can ever hope to be, them with their crocodile tears, high dudgeon and manufactured false outrage.
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Maybe she actually got the gig because she's a black lesbian. That's a couple checkboxes right there. Hard to imagine a casting director loving her grating, nasally voice to sell laundry detergent.
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@9, you're bonkers - she's got a totally unique voice people have come to love, and one parents have come to know very well through her voice work in the big-budget cartoon movies their kids watch over and over.
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On a related note, I love those new JCPenney commercials with Ellen. It kind of makes me want to shop at JCPenney...so I guess they're working. Time will tell. But she's funny, charming, and pretty in them (just as on her show), so they're fun to watch.
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Dan, the recent staging of "8" is a way bigger blow in the culture wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUG8F9uV…
This was webcast live a couple of days ago. It is Dustin Lance Black's dramatic condensing of the Prop 8 trial [Perry V Schwarzenegger]. The Court room dialogue is all from the transcripts.
The all star cast: Takei, Clooney, Sheen, Bacon, Reilly, Pitt, and Jane Lynch as Maggie Gallagher.
John C. Reilly as Blankenhorn and George Takei as Dr. Tam are fucking hillarious. If you haven't followed the trial you will not believe that they didn't make this shit up!
If everyone in America watched this right now, we would have marriage equality tomorrow.
If you haven't seen it, spend the 1.5 hours. You will luagh and cry and you will know that America really is getting it. Please watch it and get everyone you know to watch it.
This was webcast live a couple of days ago. It is Dustin Lance Black's dramatic condensing of the Prop 8 trial [Perry V Schwarzenegger]. The Court room dialogue is all from the transcripts.
The all star cast: Takei, Clooney, Sheen, Bacon, Reilly, Pitt, and Jane Lynch as Maggie Gallagher.
John C. Reilly as Blankenhorn and George Takei as Dr. Tam are fucking hillarious. If you haven't followed the trial you will not believe that they didn't make this shit up!
If everyone in America watched this right now, we would have marriage equality tomorrow.
If you haven't seen it, spend the 1.5 hours. You will luagh and cry and you will know that America really is getting it. Please watch it and get everyone you know to watch it.
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@2(Vince), that is a very interesting observation. You may well be right. This may well be one of the things that made gays stop being 'that weird lifestyle' and finally become 'people who bleed like everybody else'.
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@13: I saw those JC Penney commercials with Ellen on the night of the Academy Awards, and while they didn't make me want to shop at Penney's (my childhood has forever made that an impossibility), I thought that that they and she were hilarious. And I've always thought she was absolutely beautiful.
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@14 I agree, the play had both the unintentional hilarity of bigots hanging themselves with their own words coupled with the intentional hilarity of wonderful actors diving in fully to flesh out the transcripts of the haters' testimonies in all their deluded and confused glory. It was a historical comedy made of the real court testimony: moving and deeply funny.
And is Jane Lynch not just completely amazing as a spittle-flecked hatemonger? It's like Glee's vicious cheerleading coach got rabies on screen. Priceless.
And is Jane Lynch not just completely amazing as a spittle-flecked hatemonger? It's like Glee's vicious cheerleading coach got rabies on screen. Priceless.
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I loooooooove Wanda Sykes!!!!!!! She's so smart and funny. Her standup dvd's are hilarious. Glad she's still getting mainstream work in spite of being controversial.
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