WANDA SYKES is a favorite recurring guest on HBO’s Emmy Award–winning series Curb Your Enthusiasm, and lends her distinctive comedic perspective to HBO’s Inside the NFL as a field correspondent. She earned an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Special for The Chris Rock Show. Wanda starred in her own Fox TV sitcom in 2003, Wanda at Large, and performed her own television comedy special, Tongue Untied. In 1999 she received the American Comedy Award for Outstanding Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and raised in Maryland, Sykes lives in Los Angeles.