Whitney Cummings Returns! — And Gets ‘Mouthy’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Whitney Cummings likes to think of herself as a comedy “martyr,” one of many modern comedians who are willing to “sacrifice themselves just to make sure the First Amendment is still intact.” She believes so strongly in her right to say whatever she wants on stage that she left Comedy Central, HBO and Netflix behind to put out her latest uncensored stand-up special on Only Fans TV. In this new episode, Cummings talks very openly about the state of comedy as she sees it in 2023 and why she decided to embrace the “safe-for-work” arm of the popular porn platform to produce a series of celebrity roasts and now her sixth special, ‘Mouthy.’ The comedian also discusses why trans jokes comprise nearly half of the new hour, how her perspective on the divisive issue differs from male comics like Dave Chappelle, why she was willing to apologize to one trans audience member who was offended by her material, that time she may have gone too far in front of an audience of Saudi businessmen and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and we are back. |
| 0:11.3 | It has been, admittedly, a long time since we've put out new episodes of this show. |
| 0:16.5 | During that time, my family welcomed our second kid. |
| 0:19.8 | The writers and actors strikes shut down |
| 0:22.2 | Hollywood and are now thankfully resolved. And something called Barbenheimer happened. I don't |
| 0:27.3 | know, I wasn't really paying attention. Anyway, I am so grateful to all of the listeners who |
| 0:32.2 | stuck with us over these past several months, along with those who discovered us while we were |
| 0:36.7 | putting out archive |
| 0:37.5 | episodes with this year's Emmy nominees. And for anyone who is joining us today for the first time |
| 0:42.8 | to hear my second conversation with a comedian who I first sat down with on this podcast back |
| 0:47.6 | in the summer of 2019, Whitney Cummings. Back then, Whitney was here to talk about her Netflix special, Can I Touch It? Which was |
| 0:55.9 | one of the first stand-up hours to really examine the early days of the Me Too movement. |
| 1:01.3 | Four years later, Whitney has a new special called Mouthi, which premieres today on a very |
| 1:06.1 | different streaming service, OnlyFans TV. It's on that, quote, safer work arm of the prominent porn |
| 1:12.9 | platform that Whitney has also been picking up the celebrity roast mantle from Comedy Central, |
| 1:17.8 | first with the roast of her friend and fellow comic Bert Kreischer, and more recently one in which |
| 1:22.4 | she made herself the primary target. Here's a clip from Mouthi, in which the pregnant comedian talks about why it's probably |
| 1:29.2 | a good thing she waited so long to have a baby. |
| 1:33.4 | The crazy thing is that when you're 35 as a woman, they start calling your pregnancy |
| 1:37.5 | geriatric, which is so messed up. |
| 1:40.4 | I had this 70-year-old male doctor tell me I was having a geriatric pregnancy. |
| 1:44.1 | I was like, oh, I'm so sorry |
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