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Wanda Sykes

"I'm really funny now."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."

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Wanda Sykes
"It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes."

First

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Wanda Sykes
"A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh."

Nothing

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Wanda Sykes
"I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy."

Love

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Wanda Sykes
"But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking."

Men

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Wanda Sykes
"I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me."

People

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Wanda Sykes
"I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up."

Work

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Wanda Sykes
"If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too."

Work

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Wanda Sykes
"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."

Being

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Wanda Sykes
"Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal."

People

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Wanda Sykes
"I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom."

Freedom

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