Whitney Cummings - Wikipedia. Whitney Cummings. Birth name. Whitney Ann Cummings. Born(1. 98. 2- 0. September 4, 1. 98. Georgetown, Washington, D. C., United States.
Directed by Angela Bassett. With Yaya DaCosta, Arlen Escarpeta, Yolonda Ross, Suzzanne Douglas. A chronicle of Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent.
Medium. Stand- up, television, film. Nationality. American. Alma mater. University of Pennsylvania. Years active. 20. Genres. Observational comedy, insult comedy, blue comedy.
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Subject(s)Gender differences, sexism, human sexuality, relationships. Notable works and roles. Punk'd. The Tony Rock Project. Comedy Central Roasts. Made of Honor. Chelsea Lately. Broke Girls. Whitney.
Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings. Websitewhitneycummings. Whitney Ann Cummings (born September 4, 1.
American comedian and actress. She is known as the creator and star of the NBC sitcom Whitney, as well as the co- creator of the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls. Early life[edit]Cummings was born and raised in Georgetown, Washington, D.
C.[2] Her mother is Patti Cummings, a former public relations director at Neiman Marcus at Mazza Gallerie.[3][4][2] Her parents divorced when she was 5 years old.[2][5][6] She has an older half- brother named Kevin Cummings, and an older sister, Ashley Cummings.[4][2]She went to high school at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac, Maryland, graduating in 2. She interned at Washington's NBC- owned television station WRC- TV as a journalist.[2][8][9] She studied acting at Washington, D. C.’s Studio Theater.[1.
Cummings graduated from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude in 2. Communications.[8][1.
Cummings moved to Los Angeles after college and worked on Punk'd on MTV in 2. EMR, which was screened at Cannes.[1. Stand- up[edit]She began performing stand- up in 2. In 2. 00. 7, Variety named Cummings one of 1. Comics to Watch in 2.
In 2. 00. 8, Cummings appeared in the San Francisco audition for Last Comic Standing, although she did not pass the showcase. She performed on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, and Last Call with Carson Daly.[citation needed]She co- starred on The Tony Rock Project and appeared in the 2. Made of Honor. She has also made several appearances on the E! Chelsea Lately on its round table. She hosted the 2. Sundance Film Festival Dailies.[1. She was named one of 1.
Rising Stars of Comedy by Entertainment Weekly in 2. Her television appearances have included Comedians of Chelsea Lately, Live Nude Comedy (which she created, starred and wrote for), The Very bad Show, tru. TV Presents: World's Dumbest.., and the Comedy Central Roasts of Joan Rivers, David Hasselhoff, and Donald Trump.[2] She released her debut stand- up album, Emotional Ninja. In August 2. 01. 0, her first one- hour special, titled Whitney Cummings: Money Shot, premiered on Comedy Central. In 2. 01. 0 Cummings went on tour with Denis Leary and the Rescue Me Comedy Tour to promote the show's sixth season. She also appeared with Leary on Douchebags and Donuts.[1.
In June 2. 01. 4, Cummings did her second hour- long special, I Love You, on Comedy Central.[1. Television[edit]In 2. Cummings created[1. Broke Girls (which Cummings co- created and executive produced with Michael Patrick King) and Whitney (which Cummings starred in, executive produced, and created).[1.
Whitney was not received well by critics,[2. Cummings acknowledges it was a learning curve for her.[2. Broke Girls ran for six seasons and was cancelled in May of 2. Whitney lasted only two seasons, and was cancelled in May 2. Cummings had a talk show, Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings on E!
She appeared for several episodes in Season 3 of Undateable. Influences[edit]Cummings has described her comedic influences, beginning with Paul Reiser, who she said "made these hysterical, brilliant commentary about the most mundane things and open it up to a hysterical world."[3. Other important influences for her were George Carlin, Bill Cosby—whose show she says she watched regularly "because so much of that was based on his stand up..". Later influences were Dave Attell—"a legend now but he’s very edgy", Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks.[3. Filmography[edit]Television[edit]Short films[edit]Year. Title. Role. 20. 06.
Hooked. Vanessa. 20. Life Is Short. Natalie. Come to the Net. Whitney. Successful Alcoholics. In Fidelity. Cindy. Comedy specials[edit]Year.
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