Wanda Sykes is currently in the middle of a year-long stand-up tour. Her “Please and Thank You” jaunt across the US is her first tour in six years.
The first dates took place in spring and early summer. The next set of dates commence on September 14 in Connecticut. The funny lady first came to attention when she won a Primetime Emmy as a writer for The Chris Rock Show in 1999.
She quickly became a star in her own right. She’s also one of the most high-profile lesbians in the entertainment industry, after coming out in 2008 as California mulled Proposition 8.
Wanda felt strongly about Proposition 8 for personal reasons. She revealed to the crowd at a same-sex marriage rally in Nevada that she’d got married herself just a few weeks earlier to her wife, Alex.