Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWhitney Cummings is bringing the jokes. “Whitney Cummings: Jokes,” the comedian’s fifth special — and her first self-funded one — will premiere July 26 on Netflix.Cummings described this stand-up special as “more nostalgic and emotionally cozy: no politics, no lecturing, no self- indulgence.”“As media is getting more and more fractured, I like the challenge of going, ‘How do I appeal to everybody?’” Cummings told Variety. “I’m still interested in what unites all of us and what we all have in common.
Comedians, we’re so masochistic. The idea of trying to find something we can all agree on right now is probably a psychotic mission.
But just with how acrimonious everything feels, how apocalyptic the vibe feels online, you only get the news that you want to see, you only see the opinions that you’ve signed up to follow… On my podcast I’m very interested in the incendiary and splitting hairs on the more flammable topics.
But when it comes to a special, you got to sell what you promised to sell: ‘I still expect this to make me laugh.’” Cummings filmed “Whitney Cummings: Jokes” at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, N.J.
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