Whitney Cummings

Also known as: Whit, Whitney

Born September 4, 1982, in Washington, D.C., Whitney Cummings graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication in 2004. Initially aspiring to journalism, she interned at NBC's WRC-TV before moving to Los Angeles to pursue comedy. She began performing stand-up in 2004 and was named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch in 2007. Cummings broke into television as a writer and performer on MTV's Punk'd and became a regular roundtable guest on Chelsea Lately from 2007 to 2014. She gained prominence through Comedy Central Roasts of Joan Rivers (2009), David Hasselhoff (2010), and Donald Trump (2011), and released her first Comedy Central special, Money Shot, in 2010. Her second special, I Love You, followed in 2014. In 2011, Cummings achieved unprecedented success by having two sitcoms premiere simultaneously on major networks -- NBC's Whitney, in which she starred as a semi-fictionalized version of herself, and CBS's 2 Broke Girls, which she co-created with Michael Patrick King. While Whitney was canceled after two seasons in 2013, 2 Broke Girls ran for six successful seasons until 2017. She also briefly hosted the E! talk show Love You, Mean It in 2012 and served as a head writer and executive producer on the 2018 revival of Roseanne before leaving prior to its cancellation. As a stand-up comedian, Cummings has released six specials: Money Shot (2010, Comedy Central), I Love You (2014, Comedy Central), I'm Your Girlfriend (2016, HBO), Can I Touch It? (2019, Netflix -- featuring a robot replica of herself), Jokes (2022, Netflix), a

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