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Article: The Crowd in Arsenio's Hall.(Culture; Television)(Arsenio Hall)
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- Newsweek
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- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Joshua Alston
Wanda Sykes was once offered what many comics would call the fantasy job--her own nighttime talk show--but she turned it down. Between stand-up gigs, movie roles, and her part on The New Adventures of Old Christine, she was already keeping a lot of balls in the air. So what's this thing called The Wanda Sykes Show that's debuting this week? A talk show, of course. Sykes says that she changed her mind after the watershed with which we've credited just about everything short of gravity: the election of Barack Obama. "With what's going on politically, I just felt it would be an interesting time to have this kind of platform," Sykes says. What's ...
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