Receive Weekly Email and Text Message Updates:
Sign up for latest info on concerts, dining, promotions and more!
Go!

Most Popular

National Features >

  • City Pages

    Michele Bachmann, Unmuzzled

    You don't need to read Sarah Palin's book to hear the ravings of a mad woman.

    By Matt Snyders

  • Miami New Times

    Pimp Daddy

    The rise and fall of a chubby sex-cult leader.

    By Natalie O'Neill

  • Riverfront Times

    Babe 'n' Arms

    Tom was a hot-tempered cross-dresser with a garage full of guns--and then he became Rachel.

    By Nicholas Phillips

Yeah, She Said It

Share

  • rss

By Merritt Martin

Published on February 23, 2006

As funny as we all often think we are, there's no way in hell that we'd have enough quality material to comprise a stand-up routine. Unless, maybe, we ventured into what stand-up queen Wanda Sykes calls a "goldmine": our current administration. "This administration has given us so much. [They] should get an award," Wanda Sykes says, explaining that her stand-up includes personal experiences, day-to-day life and, of course, current events. "C'mon, I didn't think it would get any better than 'Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.' I really didn't think that they were gonna be able to top that," Sykes goes on. "I thought that was it. But then Cheney goes and shoots a 78-year-old man in the head. It's hilarious. It's just genius. He's accidentally shooting his friends, you know, and we have him around the nukes? C'mon!" Hmm, we like her thinking—astute, accessible and flat-out, balls-out funny...now if only Team White House could learn those first two qualities. See her perform 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday at the Addison Improv, 4980 Belt Line Road. Tickets are $30. Call 972-404-8501 or visit improvclubs.com.
Fri., Feb. 24, 8:30 & 10:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 25, 7 & 9 p.m.