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Taking place over seven days and five boroughs and featuring two hundred comedians, the prestigious New York Comedy Festival is back for another year of laughter, and boy is it just in time! From good old-fashioned stand-up comedy to podcasts, panels and more, there's something everyone will get a chuckle from! Don't miss the outspoken and iconic Wanda Sykes at the Beacon Theatre on November 12!
Sykes earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named her as one of the 25 funniest people in America. She is well known for her role as Barbara Baran on The New Adventures of Old Christine and for her appearances on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In November 2009 The Wanda Sykes Show, her own late-night talk show, premiered on Fox, airing Saturday nights and ended April 2010.
Sykes is also a keen LGBT rights activist and married her French wife partner Alex in 2008, with whom she has two children. In 2004 she authored "Yeah, I Said It", a humorous collection of essays touching on life, family, and current events.
y to podcasts, panels and more, there's something everyone will get a chuckle from! Don't miss the outspoken and iconic Wanda Sykes at the Beacon Theatre on November 12!