“The Wanda Sykes Show” premieres tonight, taking over the 11pm slot once occupied by Fox’s Saturday Night Live competitor, MadTV. One reason to root for Sykes: unlike other late night shows, she has four women on her writing staff. [NYTimes]
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So, Questlove, drummer of The Roots, decided to post a picture of a curious sign at the NBC cafeteria. It was advertising fried chicken and collard greens as part of a Black History Month menu. It went viral. And now…Questlove just wants everyone to chill out. As they should. This thing went too far at any number of points. Like1. When Leslie Calhoun, the chef at NBC who feeds him every day, was terrified into being quoted as terrified by the [...]
Gawker.TV, Community gets sexually charged, Wanda Sykes is not happy with NBC’s Black History Month lunch menu, Wallace Shawn gets to the root of Jon Stewart’s daddy issues, football for the ladies, and a contestant on Millionaire insults Meredith Vieira.Wanda Sykes Reacts to NBC’s Offensive Black History Month MenuNBC made yet another blunder yesterday when The Roots’ ?uestlove posted a photo to his twitter of the network’s lunch menu created [...]
Perhaps you have heard about the hilarious NBC Black History Month menu? Fried chicken, collard greens, corn bread, etc. etc. What a convenient night for Wanda Sykes to be on the Jay Leno Show!The Root’s ?uestlove revealed today via Twitter that the NBC cafeteria had made the rather unfortunate choice of serving stereotypical black people food in honor of Black History Month. The chef who set the menu—who is black—didn’t understand [...]
Perhaps you have heard about the hilarious NBC Black History Month menu? Fried chicken, collard greens, corn bred, etc. etc. What a convenient night for Wand Sykes to be on the Jay Leno Show!”I’m scared to know what they were having for dessert,” said Sykes. “I hope they at least took it off the rind.”Jay Leno = very uncomfortable! Good job, Wanda Sykes. Via [...]
ABC has repeats of Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, and CastleCBS has NFL playoffsFox has a repeat followed by a new episode of Cops and is new with America’s Most Wanted and Wanda Sykes ShowNBC has repeats of Mercy, Law & Order, and Law & Order: SVUE! has You’ve Got MailMTV has repeats of Real World and Jersey ShoreVH1 has The Karate KidLate-night highlights include Sigourney Weaver and The Ting Tings on a new episode of Saturday Night [...]
In this week’s compilation of pop culture crap, Wanda Sykes creates a Sarah Palin pop-up book, Tyra makes another half-assed attempt to be Oprah, and a mom gets a job growing marijuana. 1.) Wanda Sykes’ Sarah Palin pop-up book 2.) Tyra’s “big” holiday give-away show First of all, she doesn’t even give the presents to everyone in the audience, just one audience member per gift. Secondly, she sounds more like she’s on the street corner trying [...]
In this week’s compilation of pop culture crap, Wanda Sykes creates a Sarah Palin pop-up book, Tyra makes another half-assed attempt to be Oprah, and a mom gets a job growing marijuana.1.) Wanda Sykes’ Sarah Palin pop-up book2.) Tyra’s “big” holiday give-away showFirst of all, she doesn’t even give the presents to everyone in the audience, just one audience member per gift. Secondly, she sounds more like she’s on the street corner trying to sell [...]
Today at Gawker.TV, A&E’s Hoarders discovers the ultimate cat lady, a Spanish Lost, clues your relationship is over, and late night hosts joke at Tiger Woods expense, while the Chinese animate his car crash for the world to see. George Lopez and Wanda Sykes Make the Same Exact Racist Joke about Tiger Woods George Lopez and Wanda Sykes are both minority comedians hosting new late night shows. They both promised to bring something new to late [...]
Adam Lambert and Wanda Sykes are among Out’s 100 – a group of 100 gay men, lesbians, transgender people and allies – in the magazine’s upcoming December 2009 issue.The 27-year-old Idol alum was named the Breakout Star, while Wanda took home Entertainer of the Year. Here’s what Adam had to share with Out…On sexuality: To some people, me being sexual is really offensive because Im gay. Theyre like, Hes being really gay. And [...]
It’s not the stocking stuffer Disney hoped for. After spending $180 million on the biggest 3D picture to date, looks like the Iger family might have to make make due with Hyundai’s instead of Maserati’s under their tree this year. “Moviegoers Stingy With Scrooge” is how boxofficemojo described a lower than hoped for $31 million opening for ‘ CG-animated 3D adaptation of the Dickens classic. Both Mojo and the LA Times point out that Zemickis last [...]
