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Whitney Cummings (born September 4, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer, investor and podcaster.

Whitney Cummings
Whitney Cummings in 2019
Born	(1982-09-04) September 4, 1982 (age 40) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Medium	Stand-up, television, film
Education	University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Years active	2004–present
Genres	Observational comedy[1]
Subject(s)	Gender differences sexism human sexuality relationships
Website	whitneycummings.com

A native of Washington, DC, Cummings pursued a comedy career in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where she had studied with the intention of becoming a journalist. After beginning standup in 2004, she secured regular appearances as a roundtable guest on Chelsea Lately. She subsequently created, produced, and starred in NBC's Whitney, a sitcom in which she portrayed a semifictionalized version of herself. The series ran for two seasons before being cancelled in 2013. Simultaneously, Cummings created the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, which also began in 2011, and concluded in 2017.

Cummings released her first hour-long standup special, Money Shot, in 2010 on Comedy Central. She followed this with a second standup special for the network, entitled I Love You (2014). Her third special, I'm Your Girlfriend, was released on HBO in 2016, and later delivered as an audio streaming album in 2021. Beginning in 2018, Cummings served as a producer and writer for the ABC revival of Roseanne, but left the project prior to its cancellation. Cummings's fourth special, Can I Touch It?, premiered on Netflix in July 2019.

Early life

Cummings was born on September 4, 1982,[2][3] in Washington, D.C.,[4][5] to Patti Cummings, a native of Texas[6] and a public relations director of Neiman Marcus at Mazza Gallerie;[7][8][5] and Eric Lynn Cummings, a lawyer and venture capitalist. She has an older half-brother named Kevin and an older sister named Ashley.[8][5] Cummings was raised Roman Catholic.[4] Her parents divorced when she was five years old.[5][9][10]

She has stated that she was raised in a dysfunctional, alcoholic household.[11] At age 12, she temporarily resided with her aunt in Virginia.[4] Cummings attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, graduating in 2000.[12] of which she attended with actress Kate Siegel, During high school, she interned at Washington's NBC-owned television station WRC-TV.[5][13][14] She studied acting at Washington, D.C.'s Studio Theater.[15]

After high school, Cummings enrolled at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. During this time, she worked as a department store model at local shopping malls.[4] She graduated magna cum laude in 2004 with a degree in Communications,[13][16] and initially aspired to a career as a journalist.[17]

Career

2004–2010: Beginnings

Cummings moved to Los Angeles after college and worked on Punk'd on MTV in 2004.[7] That same year, she starred in the low-budget thriller EMR, which was screened at Cannes.[18][19] Cummings began performing stand-up in 2004.[20] In 2007, Variety named her one of 10 Comics to Watch in 2007.[15] In 2008, she appeared in the San Francisco audition for Last Comic Standing, although she did not pass the showcase.[20]

She co-starred on The Tony Rock Project and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Made of Honor. Beginning in 2007, Cummings appeared as a regular roundtable guest on the E! series Chelsea Lately, and continued to appear until its conclusion in 2014. In 2008, she was named one of 12 Rising Stars of Comedy by Entertainment Weekly.[21] She subsequently appeared as a comedy roaster in the Comedy Central Roasts of Joan Rivers (2009), David Hasselhoff (2010), and Donald Trump (2011).[5]

In August 2010, her first one-hour special, titled Whitney Cummings: Money Shot, premiered on Comedy Central. In 2010, Cummings went on tour with Denis Leary and the Rescue Me Comedy Tour to promote the show's sixth season. She dated Cameron Fegreus. She also appeared with Leary on Douchebags and Donuts.[22]

2011–present: Television projects and specials, book

In 2011, two multi-camera, live-audience sitcoms that Cummings created[23] were picked up by broadcast networks: 2 Broke Girls (which she co-created and executive produced with Michael Patrick King) and Whitney (which she starred in, executive produced, and created).[24][25] Whitney, in which Cummings portrayed a semi-fictionalized version of herself, was not well received by critics,[26][27][28] and Cummings acknowledges it was a learning curve for her.[29][30][31] The series was canceled after two seasons in May 2013.[32] While still working on the second season of Whitney, Cummings also hosted a talk show, Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, on E! in 2012,[33] which was cancelled after 11 episodes.[34][35]

Cummings later stated that she was overworking herself during this period, and was also in the midst of battling an eating disorder in which she would binge eat followed by compulsive exercise.[36] In June 2014, Cummings released her second hour-long special, I Love You, on Comedy Central.[37]

Her third hour-long special debuted on HBO in 2016, titled "I'm Your Girlfriend".[38] Reviews were mixed, suggesting it felt less comedic than her previous stand up performances.[39]

Cummings had a supporting role in the 2017 thriller Unforgettable, starring Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson, released in April 2017.[40] The following month, 2 Broke Girls was cancelled after having run six consecutive seasons.[41] Cummings made her directorial debut with The Female Brain (2017), an independent comedy film distributed by IFC Films, which Cummings also starred in.[42]

Also in 2017, Cummings published her first book, titled I'm Fine...And Other Lies, a collection of personal stories about her life.[43]

Beginning in 2018, Cummings served as one of the head writers, an executive producer, and overseer of day-to-day production of the revival of the comedy series Roseanne, for ABC.[44][45] Cummings left the show, however, after its star, Roseanne Barr, made a series of inflammatory, racially charged jokes on her Twitter account, which subsequently resulted in the series' cancellation.[46]

Her fourth hour-long special, Can I Touch It?, was released on July 30, 2019 on Netflix.[47][48] This special features a robot that Cummings had custom made to look exactly like her, and she brings this robot out at the end of the special.[49]

On November 5, 2019, Cummings launched her first podcast entitled Good for You. Her first guest was actor/producer Dan Levy. Good for You is co-hosted by former assistant and fellow comedian Benton Ray, and features a wide variety of guests, ranging from politicians and comedians to actors and journalists.[50]

Cummings has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

Influences

Cummings has described her comedic influences, beginning with Paul Reiser, whom she said, "made these hysterical, brilliant commentary about the most mundane things and open it up to a hysterical world".[51] Other important influences for her were George Carlin, who she says challenged her to "question everything".[52] Later influences were Dave Attell ("a legend now but he's very edgy"), Lenny Bruce, and Bill Hicks.[51]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2004	EMR	CyberBunnyLilly		[53]
2006	Hooked	Vanessa	Short film
2006	Life is Short	Natalie	Short film
2007	Come to the Net	Whitney	Short film
2007	7–10 Split	Whitney the Waitress
2008	Grizzly Park	Tiffany Stone
2008	Made of Honor	Stephanie		[54]
2009	Why Men Go Gay in L.A.	Sarah
2010	In Fidelity	Cindy	Short film
2010	Successful Alcoholics		Short film
2012	3,2,1... Frankie Go Boom	Claudia
2015	The Wedding Ringer	Holly Munk
2015	The Ridiculous 6	Susannah
2017	Unforgettable	Ali		[40]
2017	The Female Brain	Julia Brizendine	Also writer and director	[42]
2020	The Opening Act	Brooke Bailey		[55]
2021	Tacoma FD	Courtney
2021	How It Ends	Mandy		[56]
2022	Studio 666	Samantha
2022	Good Mourning	Maxine

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2005	Half and Half	Woman	1 episode
2006	Fire Guys	Ponytails Pi	1 episode
2006	Trapped in TV Guide	Series regular	Unknown episodes
2006	What About Brian	Sally	1 episode	[54]
2007	Tell Me You Love Me	Louise	3 episodes	[54]
2008	Turbo Dates	Sandy	1 episode
2008–2009	The Tony Rock Project	Sketch Performer	4 episodes	[54]
2009	House	Courtney	Episode: "Here Kitty"	[54]
2011–2013	Whitney	Whitney	38 episodes, also creator, writer, and executive producer	[54]
2011–2017	2 Broke Girls		138 episodes, creator, writer, and executive producer
2011	Dave's Old Porn	Guest host	1 episode
2012–2013	Love You, Mean It	Host	11 episodes, also executive producer
2014	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Herself	1 episode
2015	Maron	Herself	2 episodes	[54]
2015	The Jim Gaffigan Show	Herself	1 episode
2015–2016	Undateable	Charlotte	5 episodes	[54]
2016	Workaholics	Juliette	1 episode
2018	Crashing	Herself	1 episode
2021	The Masked Dancer	Herself (guest panelist)	1 episode	[57]
2021	The Wendy Williams Show	Herself	Guest host	[58]

Comedy specials

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2010	Money Shot	Premiered on Comedy Central	[59]
2014	I Love You		[60]
2016	I'm Your Girlfriend	Premiered on HBO	[61]
2019	Can I Touch It?	Premiered on Netflix	[62]
2022	Jokes		[63]

Bibliography

• I'm Fine... And Other Lies. New York: Penguin. 2017. ISBN 978-0-735-21262-6.

References

External links

• Official website
• Whitney Cummings on Instagram
• Whitney Cummings on Twitter
• Whitney Cummings at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Whitney Cummings

Whitney Cummings (* 4. September 1982 in Washington, D.C.) ist eine US-amerikanische Komikerin, Schauspielerin, Drehbuchautorin und Produzentin. Bekannt wurde sie als ein Teil der MTV-Serie Punk’d und als Ideengeberin für die Sitcoms Whitney und 2 Broke Girls.

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- [en] Whitney Cummings

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[es] Whitney Cummings

Whitney Ann Cummings (Georgetown, Washington D. C.; 4 de septiembre de 1982)[1] es una actriz y comediante estadounidense. Es más conocida por ser la creadora de la serie de televisión Whitney y por ser una de las creadoras de la popular serie de humor Dos chicas sin blanca. En 2017, Cummings se convirtió en productora ejecutiva y guionista de la serie Roseanne.

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[ru] Каммингс, Уитни

Уитни Каммингс (англ. Whitney Cummings, род. 4 сентября 1982 года) — американская комедиантка, актриса, сценаристка, продюсер и режиссёр. Создатель и производитель ситкомов «Две девицы на мели» и «Уитни», в котором она также играет главную роль[2][3]. Каммингс также известна как участница комедийного шоу «Подстава» (англ. «Punk'd») на канале MTV, где она выступала в 2004 году.

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