Whitney Cummings: Jokes

Has Whitney decided to start channeling Nikki Glaser? Let's face it: Raunchy, low-brow comedy has become so common as to become tedious. I have no problem with raunchy, but when it is delivered without a grain of clever, it's just boring. Whitney can do better. This was a groan and a yawn.

This has got to be the least entertaining special of hers I've seen. It seemed like her and the audience weren't connecting, and it threw the whole routine off to the point that she had to explain the punchline of a lot of her jokes. Normally they film something like this a few times over a few nights or weeks and then put out the best version of it. IDK what happened here, seemed like they just did one rough take and that was it.

Still a fan, her other specials have all been good.

On a more serious note, Whitney has talked about her body insecurities and been open about that being the reason for her plastic surgery. It's clear that she struggles with body insecurity issues and has a hard time with relationships because of it. While there is no shame in any of that, it's clear that these feelings are the basis for a lot of her jokes and it turns into a lot of material that's sorta of blaming and bashing men in a way that feels more spiteful than funny. It feels more like she's going through a list of things that bother her, or things that she's struggles with, and pointing blame more so than trying to be funny. I think she lost her focus on this one. In her last special she talked about this stuff without making it an attack and I think that serves as a good example of how she struggled to thread the needle here.

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.

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.

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.