Okay, so here’s the thing, Mr. President. Don’t ever use vernacular in your professional political setting that you use with your children. It makes you sound stupid. In fact, I daresay the phrase “wee-weed up” might be more ridiculous sounding than anything your predecessor ever uttered (although that might simply be because we expected stupidity from him and so the shock was always tempered with a general “What else did you expect” attitude).

However, I must admit to a new appreciation of this ridiculous phrase after Saturday evening. I think that was the closest at this point in my life that I have ever come to public incontinence, and it’s all Wanda Sykes’s fault. She was in town this weekend for her “I’ma Be Me” tour, and we were lucky enough to catch her Saturday night gig.

I love Wanda Sykes. I’ve been a huge fan ever since seeing her “Sick and Tired” special on HBO. This was even better. She is quite possibly one of the funniest comedians out there right now. In fact, I daresay I would place her up there with one of my all-time favorite comedians, Brett Butler, as being comparably intelligent, satirical, raunchy, and real.

The other thing about her is that she spans such an incredibly diverse cross-section of the population. Normally, I hate to use the word “diverse,” because, to quote Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Seems more and more, when something is called diverse, it just means there aren’t any White people there. You know, because we suck up the diversity with our bland Whiteness.

This time, though, it was a combination of all races, ages, genders, orientations, religions, and personality types. It was awesome, especially when you looked around and saw all of these different people from so many different paths laughing uncontrollably, together, at this incredibly hilarious woman. Now that’s something worth getting all “wee-weed up” about.

Wanda Sykes is teh awesome.