Whitney Cummings

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Cummings is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and host of the popular podcast Good for You. In 2011, at the age of 29, Cummings created two sitcoms which were both picked up to series: Whitney, which she starred in as well, and the Emmy-nominated series 2 Broke Girls. She has since written and starred in numerous TV shows and films. Cummings regularly sells out her nationwide comedy tours, and she just released her fifth comedy special, Whitney Cummings: JOKES. In this episode, Whitney and Rick sit down to discuss the art of comedy, creativity, trauma, healing, and much more. Cummings shares her thoughts and questions after reading The Creative Act. ------- Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra Get a free box of Dry Roasted Namibian Sea Salt Macadamias + 20% off Your Order With Code TETRA Use code TETRA for 20% off at checkout. ------- LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Get a free LMNT Sample Pack with your order.

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:02.0	Tetracket
0:05.0	Tetracket
0:10.0	Music, painting, you just go art, art, art.
0:25.4	And then you see comedy, and people go, eh, art, art, art,
0:28.6	art, craft, is it?
0:31.1	But I feel so grateful that you're also someone who is so versed in comedy and so obsessed with comedy
0:36.5	that I feel like I can actually call it an art around
0:38.5	you when I don't feel like I can really do that with other people.
0:41.4	It absolutely is a, it's a magnificent art.
0:45.0	When did you start getting, I mean, I imagine you've always been a fan of comedy.
0:50.1	Like, you know, everyone's heard you talk about music.
0:52.0	Not a lot of people have heard you talk about comedy, and I'm just fascinated.
0:55.2	Comedy's always been a big part of my life, starting with my second love of recorded things was comedy.
1:04.3	So when I was really little, it was The Beatles.
1:06.2	But then before I started listening to Hard Rock, I'd only listen to comedy albums for years. Do you remember the first one?
1:12.6	I don't remember the first one, but I remember, like, loving George Carlin.
1:16.6	There was one was called AM and FM. One was called Class Clown. Those were the classics.
1:21.6	I also had one from before that, but I don't remember what it was called.
1:24.6	And it was, he hadn't yet found his hippie voice.
1:28.7	He was sort of the straighter comedian in his earlier work.
1:31.9	I think you mean he hadn't discovered cocaine yet.
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