Whitney Cummings
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Whitney Cummings (born September 4, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster.
Her credits include one comedy album, four stand-up specials, three Comedy Central Roasts, and three television series in which she has appeared in numerous film, producer, director, and actress roles. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where she had hoped to become a reporter, Cummings pursued a comedy career in Los Angeles.
Since starting off as a stand-up in 2004, she has had regular appearances on Chelsea Lately as a roundtable guest.
She created, produced, and starred in NBC's Whitney, a sitcom in which she played a semi-fictionalized version of herself.
The series lasted for two seasons before being cancelled in 2011.
Simultaneously, Cummings produced the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, which debuted in 2011 and ended in 2017. In 2010, Cummings released Money Shot, her first hour-long stand-up special on Comedy Central.
I Love You (2014), she followed this with a second stand-up special for the network.
I'm Your Girlfriend, her third special, was released on HBO in 2016.
Beginning in 2018, Cummings worked as a producer and writer for Roseanne's ABC revival, but the project was postponed until its cancellation.
Can I Touch It?, Cummings' fourth special, premiered on Netflix in July 2019.
Early life
Patti Cummings, a Texas native and a public relations manager with Neiman Marcus Mazza Gallerie, and venture capitalist Eric Lynn Cummings were born on September 4, 1982, in Washington, D.C., and Patti Cummings, a lawyer and venture capitalist. Kevin, her older brother, and Ashley, her older sister. Cummings was raised Roman Catholic. When she was five years old, her parents divorced.
She has argued that she was raised in a dysfunctional, alcoholic household. She lived in Virginia for a short time until age 12. Cummings attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, graduating in 2000. She interned at WRC-TV, the NBC-owned television station in Washington, during high school. She studied at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Cummings came from high school and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She served as a department store model at local shopping malls during this period. She earned her diploma in Communications in 2004 and aspired to a career as a journalist and started wishing for a career as a journalist.
Career
After college, Cummings returned to Los Angeles and worked on Punk'd on MTV in 2004. She appeared in the low-budget thriller EMR, which was screened in Cannes the same year. Cummings first appeared on stage in 2004. Variety named her one of the Top Ten Comics to Watch in 2007. She appeared in the San Francisco audition for Last Comic Standing in 2008, but she did not pass through the exhibit.
Made of Honor, a co-star on The Tony Rock Project, and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Made of Honor. Cummings debuted on the E! Network in 2007 as a regular roundtable visitor. Chelsea Lately's series came to an end in 2014 and did not appear again until its conclusion. Entertainment Weekly named her one of the 12 Rising Stars of Comedy in 2008. She then appeared as a comedy roaster in Joan Rivers' Comedy Central Roasts (2009), David Hasselhoff (2010), and Donald Trump (2011).
Whitney Cummings: Money Shot, her first one-hour special, premiered on Comedy Central in August 2010. To promote the show's sixth season, Cummings went on tour with Denis Leary and the Rescue Me Comedy Tour in 2010. Cameron Fegreus was dated by her mother. She appeared on Douchebags and Donuts with Leary.
Two multi-camera, live-audience sitcoms created by Cummings were picked up by broadcast networks in 2011: 2 Broke Girls (which she co-created and executive produced with Michael Patrick King) and Whitney (which she starred in, executive produced, and created). Whitney, which was depicted as a semi-fictionalized version of herself, was not well received by commentators, and Cummings admits it was a learning curve for her. In May 2013, the show was cancelled after two seasons. While still working on Whitney's second season, Cummings hosted Love You Mean It with Whitney Cummings. In 2012, the show was cancelled after 11 episodes.
Cummings later stated that she was overworking herself during this time, and that she was also struggling with an eating disorder in which she would binge eat followed by compulsive exercise. I Love You, Cummings' second hour-long special on Comedy Central in June 2014.
"I'm Your Girlfriend" was the first hour-long special on HBO in 2016. Reviews were mixed, with some commenting that it seemed less comedic than her previous stand-up performances.
Cummings appeared in the 2017 thriller Unfortable, starring Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson, which was released in April 2017. After having played for six seasons in a row, 2 Broke Girls were suspended the next month. Cummings made her directorial debut with The Female Brain (2017), an independent comedy film distributed by IFC Films, in which Cummings appeared.
Cummings also published I'm Fine...And Other Lies, a collection of personal tales about her life, in 2017.
Cummings served as one of the head writers, executive producer, and overseer of day-to-day operation of ABC's revival of Roseanne. However, Cummings left the show after its actress, Roseanne Barr, made a series of instigating, racially charged jokes on her Twitter account, which culminated in the series's cancellation.
Can I Touch It? is her fourth hour of special Can I Touch It? On Netflix, July 30, 2019. The special features a robot that Cummings custom made to look just like her; at the end of the game, she takes this robot out.
Cummings launched Good for You, her first podcast on November 5, 2019. Dan Levy, actor/producer, was her first guest. Former assistant and fellow comedian Benton Ray co-hosted Good for You, attracting a diverse range of guests, ranging from politicians and comedians to actors and journalists.
In Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans, Cummings has a chapter giving tips.