Several weeks ago news dropped that Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network was going to air a pair of new Wanda Sykes comedy specials titled HERLARIOUS, on Saturday, July 13 and Saturday, July 20 at 10PM. If successful, we were told that it would be the beginning of several other new comedy projects planned by OWN.
The new show was taped before a live studio audience at Harpo Studios in Chicago, hosted and produced by Sykes and Page Hurwitz’s Push It Productions, with Harpo Studios, and will feature appearances by female stand-ups, including Kym Whitley, Andi Smith, Gloria Bigelow, Marina Franklin, Tracey Ashley,Carmen Lynch and Dominique Witten.In addition to performing new stand up material, Sykes will also feature in a series of comedy shorts that will air during the specials.A sneak peek of at the special has surfaced and is embedded below:
