Whitney Cumming’s Late Night Show: Canceled

18 Comments

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   JudgyWudgy
   Posted February 14, 2013 at 1:31 pm

   Good. She sucks.

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   Nads
   Posted February 14, 2013 at 1:37 pm

   HA!

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   JimbobJones
   Posted February 14, 2013 at 2:15 pm

   The few times it came on and I saw it (I never intentionally watched it), it seemed to me like a low-rent Chelsea Lately.

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   Melissa
   Posted February 14, 2013 at 2:20 pm

   She’s always Yelling at the TV. Doesn’t she know she’s miked?!

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   chaosbutterfly
   Posted February 14, 2013 at 2:49 pm

   One down, two to go…..she is so annoying and I don’t think she’s funny at all.

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   carol
   Posted February 14, 2013 at 2:53 pm

   I tried this show when I was at a location with dvr. It was painful to watch. I also tried to watch her standup special on Netflix streaming and I could only get through about 15 minutes before I turned it off. Her style of comedy is off somehow. She might have a couple of good one-liners but the way she delivers them and laughs at her own jokes just irks me. She is also always yelling at the camera. It is like she is trying too hard to be one of the guys but still be a hot hipster.

   @JimbobJones – you are spot on, it has the same format (sidekick, round table with other comedians, etc) as Chelsea.

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   Angela
   Posted February 14, 2013 at 9:16 pm

   @ Carol – I tried to watch her standup on Netflix too and couldn’t get through it. So hacky or something. Men are dirty and women like shopping… oh how funny. But not at all.

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   eyediosmio
   Posted February 15, 2013 at 10:01 am

   you know, I like her a lot. I was hoping she would do well, but they stuck her behind that GIGANTIC desk and it really just seemed limiting. On top of that, her bits were always kind of too scripted and her interviews were just really awful. I feel bad, because some of the bits and interviews on teh street were funny, but it was far and few between

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   eyediosmio
   Posted February 15, 2013 at 10:01 am

   Also, why a second Chelsea show? Makes no sense, because it was basically the same thing.

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    2muchbravo
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 3:23 am

    I saw the first show and didn’t think it was bad. Certainly thought it was funnier than her sitcom.
    I don’t find her funny.

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    captain-save-uh-hoe
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 10:06 am

    I don’t watch any of her shows now… but I feel like when I watched her in the past, on roasts and stuff, she was much funnier. Now everything is a canned and cliche joke- for a lot of female comedians (tina fey and amy poehler excluded- they’re the only two that look like they’re having any fun).
    It’s like, now, to be a successful woman comedian for the most part, you gotta drop weight, and be funny by being dry and sarcastic and have a niche for deadpanning – insert chelsea handler here-
    I’m sure they’re both much more funny in real life, but have been forced to adapt a comedic style that the networks think make the most bang for their buck.
    I personally don’t find Chelsea Handler funny at all. I can sit all day long, roll my eyes, make “controversial statements”, and act like I’m hilarious too.
    These overly scripted, round house panels suck. At least pretend there’s some improv in there and you didn’t get your lines an hour before the show.

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    crankyguy
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 10:17 am

    I’ve only seen her on some of the Comedy Channel’s roasts, and there anyway, I thought she was among the most funny. I don’t often laugh out loud, but she made me.

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    Nads
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 10:21 am

    Really well put. I think the roasts have writers, so it’s fail proof. But then again, so do the talk shows-I just think the roasts just have a higher caliber of people writing…

    As for Tina and Amy-they are fantastic. They’re so seasoned and it shows. Comedy is about having fun! Its work, but at the end of the day if the comic looks like they’re havig fun-the audience is typically having fun.

    Couldn’t agree more with your comment.

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    JudgyWudgy
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 12:46 pm

    Comedy’s so relative. I love Chelsea Handler, but @captain I loathe Pitbull and say the same thing about him. I could say the same catchphrases over and over again in every song and never rhyme (or rhyme a word with….the same word) despite being A RAPPER. But he’s insanely popular so apparently it works for some people.

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    captain-save-uh-hoe
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    @judgy- true… i guess my argument could be made for everything ever lol. It just seems like I’m seeing more of a trend of the same type of comedy that female comedians have when it comes to getting the late night shows.. I would love to see Chelsea do stand-up and see what happens… does she and I’ve just missed it? Like I think Kathy Griffin does fantastic stand-up. I’d rather see that than round table scripted jokes any day.

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    Kristy
    Posted February 19, 2013 at 12:21 pm

    I’m a fan of Chelsea Handler, and her standup is so much better than her show. Whitney however reminds me of Kathy Griffin, I like her standup but can’t make it through an episode of her talk show. She just kind of rambles and can’t do an interview to save her life.

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    Tamitha
    Posted February 20, 2013 at 5:50 am

    I like Whtney, and think she’s funny, but I feel like she isn’t the KIND of funny that can carry a show of her own (I mean as a host). She seems to be more likeable and comfortable playing a character. On her talk show, as well as as a guest on Chelsea Lately, I think she just makes me laugh cause she’s kind of a doofus, and seems to be amused by the same things I am, so I dunno. Still a fan, and thinks she’s super-cute in a gawky, dorky kind of way.

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    MatisyahuSerious
    Posted February 20, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    i’ll be sad to see it go – to be clear, i only watched it for onanistic reasons, but i was watching.