Wanda Sykes To Host 2 All-Female Summer Comedy Specials On Oprah Winfrey’s OWN

EXCLUSIVE: Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious will air Saturday, July 13 and Saturday, July 20 at 10 PM on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. The one-hour original comedy specials will be hosted and produced by Sykes and Page Hurwitz’s Push It Prods., in conjunction with Harpo Studios. The shows will be taped in front of a live studio audience at Harpo Studios in Chicago, the former home of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Scheduled to appear are emerging female stand-ups Andi Smith, Gloria Bigelow, Marina Franklin, Tracey Ashley, Carmen Lynch and Dominique Witten. Kym Whitley from OWN’s Raising Whitley is among those scheduled for a guest appearance. Sykes also will appear with her guests in a series of comedy shorts that will air throughout each hour. Sykes, Hurwitz and Harpo’s Jill Barancik executive produce. Longtime Sykes collaborators Lance Crouther (Wanda At Large) and Alyson Fouse (The Wanda Sykes Show) are writers on the project. Sykes hosted and produced her own late-night talk show The Wanda Sykes Show on Fox. She also co-created/executive produced and toplined the Fox comedy series Wanda At Large. Sykes has done three stand up specials; Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied for Comedy Central and two HBO specials Wanda Sykes; Sick And Tired and I’ma Be Me, both of which were nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards.

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