Print Version - Click here to return to the normal view. Print it!

Wanda Sykes at the WHCD

Here’s Rich Leiby’s account of the White House Correspondents Dinner in today’s Washington Post.

The mistress of ceremonies for the evening was Wanda Sykes, an actress and comedian who grew up locally and got her start doing stand-up while moonlighting from her day job as a procurement officer at the National Security Agency.

“It’s funny to me that [photographers] have never caught you smoking,” Sykes told the president, “but they always catch you with your shirt off. I know you’re into this transparency thing, but I don’t need to see your nipples.”

That’s Richard N. Leiby III, former editor from the Temple University News (the same organ that The Male Half toiled for briefly).