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There’s a moment in the beginning of I’m Your Girlfriend, the new hour stand-up special from Whitney Cummings (and her first for HBO), in which she stops to examine the audience members in the front row for her taping. “I’m shooting my HBO special. No big deal. This has been …
Whitney Cummings is getting back in front of the cameras by 2016, inking a new deal with HBO for a stand-up comedy special to film this fall and a sitcom pilot based on Maureen Dowd’s book, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Marty Callner will direct the Cummings stand-up special …
At the beginning of 2013, stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings had three different shows on TV at the same time. Cummings starred in an NBC sitcom bearing her name, Whitney, that she created, produced and wrote for, fronted a weekly talk-show for E!, Love You, Mean It, and co-created and executive produced another …
Chris D’Elia, on the East Coast performing headlining dates at Carolines, swung by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to do a stand-up set and offer his impressions of drunk girls, and how they’re different from drunk guys. A drunk girl, as impersonated by D’Elia, starts off sounding a little bit …
Not much longer than a week after NBC said this… “Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week — plus we will have both comedies in our back pocket if we need to make any schedule …
People really do win in NBC’s “Stand-Up for Diversity” showcase showdown! Tone Bell, who as part of his victory in last year’s diversity contest secured a one-year talent holding deal with NBC Universal, has been cast as a regular character in the second season of Whitney, which airs on the …
The incoming group of NBC executives this year knew they were inheriting a tough situation, with the Peacock Network in fourth place in the ratings (and maybe even worse at times if you include the Spanish-language networks) and no reason to see that changing in Fall 2011. But by early …
NBC announced today it had ordered full-season commitments for new sitcoms Whitney and Up All Night, leaving the fate of fellow rookie Free Agents up in the air (it airs a new episode Wednesday night, so if you want to support it, then you should watch it!). So what timeslot …
It’s been more than curious to watch the backlash from the comedy community and “comedy nerds” against Whitney Cummings and her new NBC sitcom, Whitney, which debuted last night to an audience of about 6.7 million viewers. Reaction from TV critics has run the gamut from loved it to really …
