Is it possible to simply laugh TOO much? I wondered that tonight about an hour into Wanda Sykes stand-up concert at Peabody Opera House. She was talking about one of her two children. She said that her son was born with an abnormally large head. Large to the point of being too heavy for his body. If he leans it too far to one side, his whole body tips in that direction. "When he enters a room, I'm not always sure he wanted to be there..." This ten minute segment about this child's head had tears running down my face and snorting....actually snorting. Wanda Sykes took the stage for 90 minutes and there wasn't a moment in an hour and a half that I wasn't smiling. The woman is funny. Just naturally funny without trying. Her description of Black People experiencing turbulence in an airplane caused the woman behind me to say out loud "I just peed a little". Her views on Republicans...."They need a hug and a lollipop". And when discussing the capture of Osama Bin Laden...."Isn't it interesting that we finally got him only AFTER 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' ended!!" And she then acted out a group of gay Navy Seals entering the compound to find Osama. This was a brilliant evening that was highlighted by my first visit to the new Peabody Opera House. St Louis is fortunate to have this new performance space. Beautiful, spacious, but strangely intimate at the same time. Wanda Sykes was a perfect first of hopefully many visits to the Peabody!
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