Whitney Cummings: Jokes

I prefer the old Whitney where she would only yell the punchline - so that we knew where the funny was. It was like her own personal version of an applause sign and a laugh track. But now, she starts out yelling and mugging. Sadly, comedy specials seem to be rife with this now: Iliza Schlessinger, Kevin Hart, etc. Some people like to refer to them as being 'high energy' but it's just exhausting and it seems to be a tool and a tactic to use when the material isn't really there. This is what Robin Williams did for years and everybody was fooled by it. But go back and watch it now and you'll realize it was all a smokescreen. You're better off watching the latest Bill Burr special. Or Tig Notaro's last special.

What in the hell did I just watch? I mean, the Andrew Schulz special was bad, but compared to this it was a masterpiece.

This mid-40 comedian (sorry, 39 of course *cough*) should have her picture under "physical comedy", what once was an okay roast comic and surely here and there a funny one, turned into a gymnast, except the gymnast is out of breath after every interpretation of a joke.

She thinks weird faces and movements, plus presenting the V constantly, equals funny. First part is just sex jokes, really bad ones. She is into old people, then suddenly she is into young guys. For the sake of comedy.

The second half is about stuff you did as a kid. Wild, right? Remember all the dangerous stuff we did as a kid? Wow. I remember *clap clap clap* But there is no joke.

Gringo Papi is the standard for the worst comedy special out there. But at least it was just 30 minutes. This is Whitney Cummings' 5th special, she should be good at this. Or just better than Schaub. But apparently she confused this one with a podcast. I didn't laugh once, I can at least laugh at Brendan Schaub ironically. This is worse.

I think Whitney tried to appeal to what she believed was the current comedy scene. This special is evidence of comedians being too distant from reality. Nothing in here is relatable to most people. The acting out is what children do when they can't get attention by using their intelligence.

Zero stars. I don't know what else to say. She isn't funny and this isn't comedy. This might have been the worst "comedy" special I've ever seen. Filler.

Whitney Cummings is an extremely talented comedian and she is back with a new special. I feel like she tries harder in this special than I've ever seen but produces less laughs. She has great stage presence normally - and here I thought she was just going over the top too many times for cheap laughs, and not clever laughs like I have seen her do before. So most of the comedy falls into Amy Schumer territory which is not good unless you are 16. However this is not a train wreck like Amy Schumer (pun intended). It's worth a watch but you won't laugh out loud much.