Whitney Cummings

Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham

Ashley Graham

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ashley Graham sits down with the hilarious Whitney Cummings! Whitney is a comedian, actress, writer, director, producer, show-runner, author, and most recently — host of the Good For You podcast.

Her latest comedy special Can I Touch It? debuted on Netflix this summer featuring a life-sized robot clone of Cummings.

In this episode, we talk about comedy, codependency and so much more.

HOST: Ashley Graham
GUEST: Whitney Cummings
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ashley Graham, Penni Thow, Scooter Braun
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Michael D. Ratner, Scott Ratner, Miranda Sherman
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Kelsey McWilliams, Ava Coleman, Kfir Goldberg, Elias Tanner
DIRECTED BY: Michael D. Ratner
WRITER: Ava Coleman
LINE PRODUCER: Ben Shafer
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Ilyssa Walker
RESEARCHER: Shahnaz Mahmud
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER: Natasha Janardan
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Lars Lindstrom
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Francesca Maldonado
1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Coleen Chan
EDITORS: Shandor Garrison, Sarah-Rose Meredith
MAIN TITLE THEME BY: Johannes Raassina, Lefteris Ioannou
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Ben Shafer
SOUND MIXER: Icemen Audio
TITLE THEME PRODUCER: Johannes Raassina
PRODUCTION SOUND: Blake Christian
DATA MANAGEMENT: Rachel Slott
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Susie Bijan, Naomi Montes, Dalton Short
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION SUPPORT: Jennifer Spottz
PRODUCED BY: Pretty Big Deal Productions, OBB Picture & OBB Sound
SPECIAL THANKS: Mina White, IMG Models

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by my go-to stop for all things makeup Revlon.
0:09.8	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Graham and this is Pretty Big Deal where confidence is key.
0:15.6	Every episode I get to pick the brains of brilliant, inspiring, honest, new and old friends
0:21.6	who are a pretty big deal.
0:31.0	Today we are talking to the hilarious Whitney Cummings. Whitney is a comedian, actress, writer,
0:38.0	director, producer, showrunner, author and most recently, podcaster. In this episode we talk
0:45.0	about comedy, codependency and so much more. Thanks for coming on my show with me. This is so
0:52.0	great. I can't believe you're so beautiful. You're so pretty. I thank you. Do people always screw
0:57.0	up when they talk about how pretty you are? Well, I almost said you're almost pretty
1:00.6	in person but then I was like, I don't know. Oh no, you want to hear what you guys. You're just
1:03.7	as beautiful in person. No, not that. First of all, thank you. You're welcome. I always get,
1:08.2	oh you're not as big as I thought you were. Right. What do you get? I get, don't listen to them.
1:15.1	They're just jealous. And I'm like, who's them? Who? Because people are talking shit about you. Yeah.
1:21.6	You don't listen to the haters. What haters? Oh, okay. It just cost me all this
1:26.6	thing. People with, that's the worst thing ever. Or they'll just come up to me and start talking
1:31.4	shit about my own friends. They'll be like, they'll name a female comedian. I don't even think so
1:35.4	and so it's funny. And I'm like, she's my friend. They're like, we don't all hate each other.
1:39.4	Or they'll just start insulting my friends or, you know, stuff like that. Oh, yeah. I think you're
1:43.9	hilarious. Don't you listen to them. Oh my god. It's like about your character and your job. And
1:48.9	I do have a theory though that whenever someone comes up to you in public, the first two things they
1:53.3	say are compliment. The third thing is always an insult. Get out after the second thing. Oh,
1:58.0	give me an example. I love you. You're so gorgeous. You're not as big in person. Or whatever
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