Yeah, I Said It
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4.6 • 11 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Emmy Award–winning comedian Wanda Sykes shares her whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny insights on marriage, politics, sports, and more in her debut book.
As a stand-up comic, sitcom star, and sports commentator, Wanda Sykes has reduced people to tears of laughter. Now, in her first book, she offers her uncensored best that proves why she has garnered a dedicated fan base around the world. In Yeah, I Said It, she channels her sharp wit into funny bits on the truth as she sees it from the halls of government in Washington, DC, to the red carpets and boardrooms of Hollywood, and beyond. Imbued with her razor-sharp voice, these essays showcase Sykes’s sidesplitting candor and her trademark brand of comedy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Humor books by popular comedians are a tricky proposition reading the routines can rarely compete with watching the performance and Sykes's gathering of jokes and rants suffers from its medium. Her introduction, in which she claims that she's only writing the book for the money, could be either clever sarcasm or amusing defiance ("let's face it, right now, I'm on fire; did you see Pooty Tang?"), for example but it's funnier as the former. The rest of the material short takes on Clinton's affair, vanity license plates, Martha Stewart, love, and professional sports is mixed. Good lines can get lost on stale topics: there are jokes about last year's California recall election and complaints (recently rendered moot) that no one had seen the 9/11 Commission's findings. Time-tested race relations jokes include suggestions that a black man could never steal as much money as a white executive, because "here are just not that many liquor stores in the country," while observational humor includes the likes of "n ugly man with a six-figure salary becomes 'kinda cute' to most women," and "o some women, marriage is really the wedding." Sykes's irreverence can be refreshing, but some of her jokes need that same energy.
