Happy Birthday to Wanda Sykes!

This talented and very funny woman turned 46 years old today.

Wanda Sykes has been successful for a long time now but has never been a bigger star than she is right now with her own late night show on FOX on Saturday, a terrific role on the CBS sitcom New Adventures of Old Christine, and all kinds of invites to do things like hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Wanda came out publicly at a anti-Prop. 8 rally in the fall of 2008 and has become such a treasure to the LGBT community. I chatted with Wanda at that HRC dinner and asked how her life had changed since coming out in such a public way.

“I still feel like me, maybe a little free, a little more liberated – more fired up. It’s great,” she said.

Happy Birthday Wanda!!!