Wanda Sykes, personal hero of mine, headlined the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday. We can get Wanda in the White House, but when will we get Pootie Tang into a Washington, D.C. Blockbuster store? I’m still waiting.

“There was never a nipple portrait of Lincoln, I’m sorry.”

“I tell my kids: If two cars pull up, and one of them has a stranger, and the other one has Dick Cheney, you get in the one with the stranger.”

Wanda Sykes, whom I love, came out last year, meaning I have a shot with her! Sykes performed at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2009 Los Angeles Gala and Hero Awards on Saturday. For those of us who missed it, I Should Be Laughing compiled Sykes‘ best material:

On being an in-demand activist:

I’m busy! Gay, gay, gay all the time. I didn’t know it was gonna be thus much work! Geez! Every day, ‘This is something gay, can you do this?’ I’ll be there! …And I keep saying gay. I haven’t got all the correct terminology down. So many women come up to me, hard-core lesbians: “Wanda! You gotta stop saying gay! You’re a lesbian!…you’re not gay! Men are gay! You’re a lesbian, you’re a woman!” I’m like calm down dyke I just started this!

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The wonderful Wanda Sykes—who forever won a place in my heart with her turn in the 2001 Louis C.K. tour-de-force “Pootie Tang“—administers a non-sexist, feminist smack-down to McCain/Palin on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Enjoy: