Whitney Cummings of the female comedian du jour with a show on NBC at a show on CBS.
That’s the set-up. The punchline is that both are equally terrible and you should be ashamed of yourself if you’re watching. Hundreds of thousands of ads for Whitney, NBC’s new late-night abortion, have popped up on street-corners and buses — and if you enjoyed those, you’ll probably enjoy their new gamble following The Office. The humor would have been dated in 1991 — that’s how bad this, but it didn’t necessarily do that badly following The Office and scoring a pretty hefty and impressive time audience for its timeslot — but what should be discussed is how god-awful and terrible the writing was. How one white couple on the verge of being married was presented as the most bizarre idea in the history of ideas — far beyond anything else. Or that her significant other is a dope who managed to sell an Internet company and she worked as a photographer, and are CONSTANTLY FALLING DOWN. Photographer, ostensibly because the occupation and the comedian had been taken by much better shows like Louis and Seinfeld.
Laughs were had only by the people who went to the taping — it’s getting trashed in the reviews, and most major newspapers and the blogosphere, where everybody is saying the same things resoundingly.
Things like I can’t believe that she’s not forty, who did her nose job, and why do they hate her, and was this written by monkeys?
Close. It was written by Dan Levy
Comments
Von Flue Choke
October 13th, 2011 - 2:36:09 PM
Whitney is memorable for being the worst show ever made. How this show made it to television is a miracle.
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