Whitney Cummings Gets a Sex Robot

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stand-up comedian and writer Whitney Cummings is here to talk about her brand new special ‘Can I Touch It?’ streaming right now on Netflix. Whitney explains why she decided to feature a sex robot version of herself in the special and breaks down her career as TV showrunner, from her debut on Whitney’ to the ‘Roseanne’ reboot that went down in flames last year to an exciting new pilot for Amazon that takes on PC college students.

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0:00.0	Lots gone on in the past year.
0:02.0	I don't know if you noticed,
0:03.0	but people started caring about sexual harassment
0:05.0	all of a sudden.
0:06.0	I want you guys to know, I get it.
0:07.0	Of course you want to touch women.
0:09.0	They're impossible to resist.
0:10.0	I relate to your frustration
0:12.0	because sometimes I will see a service dog
0:15.0	at the airport.
0:16.0	Because I'm gonna pet that fucking dog.
0:18.0	I mean, it's a dog.
0:19.0	It obviously wants it. pet that fucking dog. I mean, it's a dog. It obviously wants it with that adorable little.
0:22.4	But I can see its butthole.
0:24.1	If that's not asking for it, I don't know what is.
0:28.5	Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh.
0:30.9	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:33.3	My guest on this week's show is the very funny Whitney Cummings.
0:37.1	Whitney is an incredible stand-up comic.
0:39.3	She's a writer.
0:40.1	She's a showrunner.
0:41.1	And it was so fun to talk to her about all of her work.
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