Actually, I remember Obama's speeches better than the comedians. I had completely forgotten about Larry Wilmore, Wanda Sykes and even Seth Meyers (who is the whole damn reason we have Trump!).

Obama killed it.... easily the best orator of the past few decades (for US presidents).

I wish this clip included the original scene where Larry delivers the line that so upsets Wanda Sykes, heh. Anyway... is the "assman" reference to "Seinfeld" a little too precious and self-indulgent to really work here?

Wanda Sykes wanna be

That's a shame. I really like Wanda Sykes.

Well, if I had any respect for Wanda Sykes before, it's certainly gone now.

Before I saw this I never had any respect for Wanda Sykes because I never really knew her. Now I can say with certainty after hearing her opinions that I never will.

Not only is Wanda Sykes not funny shes also an idiot(IMO). Her and Jay are perfect for each other.

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Maybe idiot is a bit harsh. What do i know. Ive always found her highly annoying.

"Jesse made me cry."

The Kool-Aid works

...Frikkin' love Wanda Sykes!

I would love this man if for no other reason than he hates Wanda Sykes.

But that's only a small part of the splendiferous puddin' pop that is Bill Cosby.

its Wanda Sykes

Sure this was good, but I'm holding out for Wanda Sykes and Jack Black's rendition.

Sure, it's called enlightenment, it's called progress, it's called ... universal fucking brotherhood. These are bad things? OMG if you don't treat black people differently you're a racist.

Law is for homos and history's for homos. There's just people and as we've covered, some of them are a problem. You're really trivialising the real criminals when you start accusing anybody who uses words you don't like of racism.

This is probably the most offensive thing anybody's said in this thread so far, but sorry here it comes: you're just like Wanda Sykes.

>> ^NetRunner:
To you, society should be such that white people can walk up to black people they don't know, call them a nigger, and have both people know and understand the meaning and history of the term, and yet not get upset about it?
You're seriously bent.

Ahh, but messenger just said 'successful' comedians. I wasn't vouching as to whether I find them funny (Wanda Sykes for instance I really don't like)... and on the attractiveness front I know many who do find Want attractive. So they were just examples.

For the most part I don't like any comedian who has 'a bit'... as in, they have a particular thing that they do their comedy about, be it that they're a woman, or of different ethnic decent, or are short or fat etc. etc. The truly great comedians just tell stories... and those stories are hilarious.

In their prime, Robin Williams and Billy Connolly were superb examples of this. Connolly especially with his ability to go off on a seemingly random set of tangents for a long, long time (making you laugh hysterically all the while), and yet coming back to his original point after it all, long after you might expect him to have forgotten where he started.

They both have lost their edge these days (probably that issue of once you have money and comfort and power you loose the connection with the 'working man' comedy that you began with... or something). I find Ross Noble to be one of the best at doing this style these days. (I had tickets to see him a couple of weeks back with my wife.... and then my son kinda got his arm broken on the trampoline thanks to me so we missed out... doh)

If a woman comedian can do the same, or can just tell jokes that span a wide gamut of topics. One of my favourites at present is Kitty Flanagan.

@spoco2

Different strokes I guess, but I don't find wanda sykes attractive at all, and I personally really don't find Sarah Silverman that funny.

It's not a sex thing for me, I just don't like their styles of comedy. I hate Elvira kurt, the lesbian bit has been played to death and it's quite stale now, I don't like the women who (like the video says) think they're a minority, but there are female comedians who DO make me laugh.

I watch just for laughs regularily (Montreal comedy festival, there's many sifts of comedians doing their just for laughs set on the sift) and Most of the women that are on it are (to me) moderately attractive if nothing else, AND funny. Mary Ellen Hooper, for example. I'd provide more but there aren't a lot of videos of it on youtube.

But, who knows. Maybe I'm the weird one.

>> ^messenger:

Every successful female comedian I can think of is a ditz (lack of mental power), a lesbian (no threat to women, not an option for men), or doesn't have sexual attractiveness: Ellen Degeneres, Roseanne Barr, Rosie O'Donnell, Joan Rivers. None of these women hold any sexual power over men, so women can safely laugh at them too.


Except... Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, and a slew of ones I can think of here in Australia, but you wouldn't know over there...

I think it just comes down to them being funny... There really aren't anywhere near as many good female comedians as male, but also think about your circle of friends and the 'funny ones'... I bet they're almost always male.

And, as said on this clip, a lot of women do the shtick about 'being a woman'... compared to GOOD comedians who have no 'topic' to their comedy, but range over everything.