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For instance, Sunday’s new episode is a roast of Cummings herself. Turning the barbecue spit are comedians and personalities you may not usually see on late-night roast specials that sometimes solely showcase comedy from white, cis, straight guys. There’s trans comic Robin Tran, Cumming’s buddy and fellow comic Dan Levy, RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen, and several other others stepping as much as the mic to rib Cummings.
In this unique clip, Bob the Drag Queen takes on rumors about Cumming’s beauty work that she could or could not have had achieved, her competitors with fellow acerbic girls comedians to take Joan Rivers’ crown, and her supposed willingness to drop a dime on Bob if the jokes are unhealthy. This is a roast, in any case. Nothing is off-limits.
Watch the clip beneath:
Cummings informed The Daily Beast’s Obsessed that she sees Whitney Cummings Presents as a possibility to discover a platform for experimental, subversive comedy that may nonetheless push boundaries—and take accountability—with out instantly shedding a income stream.
“Comedians, right now, are struggling to find a place to showcase their comedy and push the limits creatively,” Cummings mentioned. “YouTube demonetizes if you say certain words without knowing the context, Instagram takes you out of the algorithms for reasons we can’t even figure out, and Comedy Central has disappeared. So when OnlyFans came to me about doing content for them on OnlyFans TV I jumped at the opportunity.
“It was a no-brainer to work with a company that’s already given more money to women than any studio or network in Hollywood,” Cummings continued. “In creating the series, we wanted to bring back the healing tradition of the comedy roasts and the cathartic shame-releasing-ego-death they bring, and show, ‘See we can all laugh at ourselves and our mistakes, instead of canceling people for a mistake they made 20 years ago.’”
Laughing at your individual previous is a part of this episode’s overarching theme, contemplating that even Amanda Knox is showing as a particular visitor within the present. Yes, that Amanda Knox, who takes the stage within the trailer for the special, to announce that she’s there to roast Cummings as “her last hour of community service.” This really may be the very first superstar roast with worldwide implications.
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