Wanda Sykes | 05/14/2009 9:10 am
Wanda Sykes's Wife Gives Birth to Twins, Dennis Miller Defends Her 'Mean' Comedy (Video)
Wanda Sykes and wife Alex are new mothers to bouncing baby twins!
The twins were born April 27. Daughter Olivia Lou weighed in at 6 lbs, 7 oz, and was 19-inches long, reports People, while son Lucas Claude debuted at 7 lbs, 9 oz, and was 20-inches long.
"All are happy and healthy and at home," Sykes’s rep told Us.
Sykes and her wife met in 2006, and married October 25, 2008, in California. Sykes was previously married to David Hall for seven years.
Sykes emceed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last week, at which she roasted Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney and even President Obama and First Lady Michelle. But some of her jokes about 9/11 and waterboarding went a bit too far for some, including the White House.
Comic Dennis Miller, who emceed such an event for the first President Bush, told FOX News’s Bill O’Reilly last night that Sykes was "kind of funny, for a girl" (joke), but defended Sykes’s sense of humor:
It was a joke. And the way I look at Wanda Sykes, man, I thought he was going to bring Reverend Wright in. So Wanda Sykes seems — that seems like a respite from the sturm und drang … I thought Wanda was probably eager to please. I mean, you’re a black comedienne, and you’ve got a black president. I mean, can you imagine how much she needed to make him approve of her? So she went for it, and it looks like it worked. He was laughing his butt off … When she went for the Limbaugh’s kidney failures, you know, she killed it, knocked it out of the park. So I’m sure she’s happy about it.
But O’Reilly, who was at the dinner, insisted that in the last ten minutes, her act "all went south." "She got mean," he said. "The remarks about Limbaugh, about Sarah Palin, Cheney to some extent … were mean. And then they flashed to Obama laughing at the meanness. I don’t think that does him any good there, Dennis."
Watch Miller on "The O’Reilly Factor" below:























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Ugh, with parents like (O’Reilly, Dennis Miller .. fill in the blank with any Republican ) and whoever could stand to be around him, my sympathy is for those poor kids!
Such an easy game to play.
"Such an easy game to play. "
And you’d be right with O’Rielly…don’t know much about Miller, so I don’t have an opinion on him… :P
But so what? Objectionable is objectionable, and pitiable is pitiable. ;)
I thought Sykes was over the top, not funny and lowering herself to Limbaugh’s level.
Congratulations on the children, though.
SJ…it was a great interview…I never miss a Miller/O’Reilly night….those two are so great. So obama’s staff did review the jokes before hand….interesting…..so the 9-11 jokes could have been left out if obama’s staff had some sincere feelings about the tragedy…such as the Air Force One flyover…this only loses more respect towards obamoco!!!
Thank you for posting the interview…it was fun to read since I had watched it previously….great fun!
I am completely and totally offended by what Dennis Miller had to say. How insulting! So because Wanda is Black she wanted to impress her Black President? Really Dennis? So if you were the emcee for George Bush you would really want to impress him because he is White like you?
After the day I am having, I really didn’t need to read this, this has set me off! When will racial ignorance cease.