Wanda Sykes
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thinking about you and where do you live?
You know, where do you live?
When they said, hey, Wanda's here out in the parking lot.
Then you started thinking about me.
I'm good about this stuff.
OK, but that your dad's was an army colonel.
And so you grow up and mom a banker.
So you grow up in strict family.
That's what, I mean, that would be the cliche, I guess, is that they'd be strict people.
I mean, I grew up in a strict family.
My dad was like a, you know, academic and scientist and my mom's a lawyer and strict in the sense that one of us going into comedy wasn't maybe their first choice.
You know, but beautiful, lovely people, but real good Catholics, church people.
So I'm just curious if you had that experience.
uh yeah i mean they were you know uh black people in the south so there was always some type of structure and uh they were strict but we had fun we you know they were um my dad would was serious about his job but when he got home he'd take his uniform off and
And also, my dad hustled, man.