![]() The following month, 2 Broke Girls was cancelled after having run six consecutive seasons. Ĭummings had a supporting role in the 2017 thriller Unforgettable, starring Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson, released in April 2017. Reviews were mixed, suggesting it felt less comedic than her previous stand up performances. Her third hour-long special debuted on HBO in 2016, titled "I'm Your Girlfriend". In June 2014, Cummings released her second hour-long special, I Love You, on Comedy Central. Ĭummings 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. 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, which was cancelled after 11 episodes. The series was canceled after two seasons in May 2013. Whitney, in which Cummings portrayed a semi-fictionalized version of herself, was not well received by critics, and Cummings acknowledges it was a learning curve for her. In 2011, two multi-camera, live-audience sitcoms that Cummings created 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). 2011–present: Television projects and specials, book Whitney Cummings performing live in 2016. She also appeared with Leary on Douchebags and Donuts. In 2010, Cummings went on tour with Denis Leary and the Rescue Me Comedy Tour to promote the show's sixth season. In August 2010, her first one-hour special, titled Whitney Cummings: Money Shot, premiered on Comedy Central. She subsequently appeared as a comedy roaster in the Comedy Central Roasts of Joan Rivers (2009), David Hasselhoff (2010), and Donald Trump (2011). In 2008, she was named one of 12 Rising Stars of Comedy by Entertainment Weekly. 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. She co-starred on The Tony Rock Project and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Made of Honor. In 2008, she appeared in the San Francisco audition for Last Comic Standing, although she did not pass the showcase. In 2007, Variety named her one of 10 Comics to Watch in 2007. Cummings began performing stand-up in 2004. That same year, she starred in the low-budget thriller EMR, which was screened at Cannes. Career 2004–2010: Beginnings Ĭummings moved to Los Angeles after college and worked on Punk'd on MTV in 2004. She graduated magna cum laude in 2004 with a degree in Communications, and initially aspired to a career as a journalist. ![]() During this time, she worked as a department store model at local shopping malls. Īfter high school, Cummings enrolled at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() She studied acting at Washington, D.C.'s Studio Theater. During high school, she interned at Washington's NBC-owned television station WRC-TV. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, graduating in 2000. At age 12, she temporarily resided with her aunt in Virginia, and spent summers in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where her father worked as a manager at the Hill Top House Hotel. She has stated that she was raised in a dysfunctional, alcoholic household. Her parents divorced when she was five years old. She has an older half-brother named Kevin and an older sister named Ashley. Whitney Cummings (born September 4, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer, and podcaster.Ĭummings was born on September 4, 1982, in Washington, D.C., to Patti Cummings, a native of Texas and a public relations director of Neiman Marcus at Mazza Gallerie and Eric Lynn Cummings, a lawyer and venture capitalist from West Virginia.
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