Watch Out! Wanda Sykes Takes On Ken Mehlman, Sarah Palin
BY ON TOP MAGAZINE STAFF
PUBLISHED: AUGUST 31, 2010
The openly lesbian comedian spoke with King about her coming out,
Ken Mehlman's coming out and Sarah Palin, who's increasingly
backing anti-gay candidates and groups.
Ken Mehlman's coming out and Sarah Palin, who's increasingly
backing anti-gay candidates and groups.
Sykes, who announced she's gay in 2008 to protest California's
passage of a gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, said she came out
late in life because she was concerned about how her parents
would react.
passage of a gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, said she came out
late in life because she was concerned about how her parents
would react.
“I have parents who are still alive that's why and you suppress all that,
you bury it to try and fit in,” she told King. “I'm 46, so back then, religion everything else. You weren't exposed to gay people. … I know without
a doubt my family, they love me, we're working on it.”
you bury it to try and fit in,” she told King. “I'm 46, so back then, religion everything else. You weren't exposed to gay people. … I know without
a doubt my family, they love me, we're working on it.”
She wasn't holding anything back when King asked her about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
“She's smart in the way that she's an opportunist but she's not smart
enough to pull it off,” she said, referring to Palin's presidential
aspirations. “All you have to do is just give her enough rope and
she's going to say something stupid.”
enough to pull it off,” she said, referring to Palin's presidential
aspirations. “All you have to do is just give her enough rope and
she's going to say something stupid.”
“He's family, I didn't know,” Sykes said about former RNC chief
Ken Mehlman, who came out gay last week. “Here's this guy,
he says it's taken him like 43 years to be comfortable with himself.
Which I understand, it took me awhile to publicly come out.
But when he was in the Bush administration, they knew he was
gay and he had to sit there and listen to all this anti-gay stuff.”
Ken Mehlman, who came out gay last week. “Here's this guy,
he says it's taken him like 43 years to be comfortable with himself.
Which I understand, it took me awhile to publicly come out.
But when he was in the Bush administration, they knew he was
gay and he had to sit there and listen to all this anti-gay stuff.”
“[Mehlman] probably took so many of those showers that, you know,
rape victims take, they're scrubbing themselves. He probably had
a lot of those kind of showers.”
rape victims take, they're scrubbing themselves. He probably had
a lot of those kind of showers.”
Sykes is the host of The Wanda Sykes Show, which premiered
on Fox in November
on Fox in November
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