Wanda Sykes credits Ellen DeGeneres for helping her come out to her parents: "You made a big difference"

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"You know how you're just iconic and the whole community appreciates you," Sykes said on today's The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "You took the blow, man. You were the first one to really be out, out like that and it helped so many of us. It normalized things. It just helped with my parents having a hard time to deal with it all. And then their friends coming up to them and saying, 'We love Ellen and we love when Wanda is on Ellen.' It makes a difference, you made a big difference."