Can Only Lesbians Be Talk Show Hosts?
– Don’t Get Me Started! All one has to do is catch one episode of The Graham Norton Show on BBC America to know that a gay man can not only host a talk show successfully but can innovate the entire genre. However when Comedy Central bought his show to the states for one season success eluded him and he went back to Britain. Was he too gay? Was it that he let his guests drink? What was it that made him not as successful as the lesbian Americans? And then one has to ask just how successful the lesbians are at the moment. While no one can deny that Ellen DeGeneres has found a whole new career in her talk show style of friendly, never a bad word about anyone, let’s just dance approach I can tell you that as much as I love Wanda Sykes as a comedian (and have for years) I can’t get through a single episode of her Saturday night talk show. Not only does Wanda Sykes seem uncomfortable in her surroundings, she does not help herself out with her dull sidekicks. One a comedian I guess who finds h
