Whitney Cummings was born on September 4,1982 and is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, director, producer, and podcaster.
19 Facts About Whitney Cummings
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Whitney Cummings has an older half-brother named Kevin and an older sister named Ashley.
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Whitney Cummings's parents divorced when she was five years old.
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Whitney Cummings has stated that she was raised in a dysfunctional, alcoholic household.
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Whitney Cummings attended St Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, graduating in 2000.
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Whitney Cummings moved to Los Angeles after college and worked on Punk'd on MTV in 2004.
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Whitney Cummings co-starred on The Tony Rock Project and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy Made of Honor.
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Whitney Cummings subsequently appeared as a comedy roaster in the Comedy Central Roasts of Joan Rivers, David Hasselhoff, and Donald Trump.
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In 2010, Whitney Cummings went on tour with Denis Leary and the Rescue Me Comedy Tour to promote the show's sixth season.
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In 2011, two multi-camera, live-audience sitcoms that Cummings created were picked up by broadcast networks: 2 Broke Girls and Whitney.
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Whitney, in which Cummings portrayed a semi-fictionalized version of herself, was not well received by critics, and Cummings acknowledges it was a learning curve for her.
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Whitney Cummings later stated that she was overworking herself during this period, and was in the midst of battling an eating disorder in which she would binge eat followed by compulsive exercise.
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In June 2014, Whitney Cummings released her second hour-long special, I Love You, on Comedy Central.
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Whitney Cummings had a supporting role in the 2017 thriller Unforgettable, starring Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson, released in April 2017.
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Whitney Cummings made her directorial debut with The Female Brain, an independent comedy film distributed by IFC Films, which Whitney Cummings starred in.
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Also in 2017, Whitney Cummings published her first book, titled I'm Fine.
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On November 5,2019, Whitney Cummings launched her first podcast entitled Good for You.
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Whitney Cummings has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
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Whitney Cummings has described her comedic influences, beginning with Paul Reiser, whom she said, "made these hysterical, brilliant commentary about the most mundane things and open it up to a hysterical world".