Whitney Cummings

Whitney Cummings

Whitney Cummings is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer, writer, director, and podcaster. Her credits include one comedy album, four stand-ups specials, three Comedy Central Roasts, and numerous television series. Cummings co-starred on The Tony Rock Project and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Made of Honor.

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Summary Whitney CummingsWhitney Cummings is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer, writer, director, and podcaster. Her credits include one comedy album, four stand-ups specials, three Comedy Central Roasts, and numerous television series. Cummings was born on September 4, 1982, in Washington, D. C. Her parents divorced when she was five years old. She has stated that she was raised in a dysfunctional, alcoholic household. Cummings graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 with a degree in Communications. Cummings moved to Los Angeles after college and worked on Punk’d on MTV in 2004. In 2007, Variety named her one of 10 Comics to Watch in 2007.

She co-starred on The Tony Rock Project and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Made of Honor. Cummings appeared as a regular roundtable guest on the E! series Chelsea Lately, and continued to appear until its conclusion in 2014. Cummings created, produced, and starred in NBC’s Whitney, a sitcom in which she portrayed a semi-fictionalized 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 served as a producer and writer for the ABC revival of Roseanne, but left the project prior to its cancellation.