Whitney Cummings Continues to Demonstrate What Happens When A Comedy Career Slows Down
2 Broke Girls creator and podcast host Whitney Cummings is making headlines for all the wrong reasons, but that’s still better than no press when you don’t have any tour dates until next month.
Right now, the first responders and local governments of Los Angeles County are still trying to control the deadly and destructive wildfires that broke out last week when blistering winds reaching 90 mph rapidly accelerated numerous blazes in areas of Southern California that hadn’t seen rain for eight months. The widespread disaster has already displaced as many as 92,000 Americans, taken 24 lives and destroyed more than 12,000 houses, businesses, schools and other structures as firefighters and local officials continue to work tirelessly to contain the inferno.
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While fire investigators have yet to determine what exactly sparked the numerous fires, the extreme weather and exceedingly dry conditions leave no doubt as to how the wildfires grew so immense, deadly and destructive — that is, unless you’re a C-tier Talk Tuah guest who dropped your last two stand-up specials on OnlyFans.
The last few days of Cummings’ feed has everything you could ever expect from a washed-up comedian rebranding as a conservative conspiracy theorist: She’s shitting on Los Angeles and California despite the fact that she lives there, she’s using a natural disaster to baselessly demonize the homeless instead of even considering how climate change could have exacerbated the extreme weather conditions and she’s complaining about DEI hires and woke lesbian firefighters by calling out women by name whom she believes shouldn’t be working their current life-saving jobs.
Cummings just needs to plug some shady supplement and throw in an insane anti-immigrant take on these tunnels to perfect her “Joe Rogan please have me back on your show” publicity stunt.
It goes without saying that none of Cummings’ claims about homeless people starting the fires by pouring gasoline into the sewer system or woke lesbians slowing the work of the first responders have any basis in reported facts, but truth is never the point when a medium-talent who recently slid off all mainstream platforms starts trying to steer online discourse over current events. “The amount of people I have seen waking up is really uplifting to me,” reads the top comment on Cummings' TikTok post where she essentially doxxed the firefighters who are currently working to save her family and her home from the blazes.
"Take a note from Tom Segura and Joe Rogan, and move to Texas baby," another alt-right supporter advised.
An ex-fan lamented of Cummings’ current career arc, “Damn. You’re falling into the anus of the internet. I thought you were a smart one.”
It’s despicable to see a comedian who is struggling to book gigs besides her own podcast capitalize on a massive tragedy that’s currently unfolding in her community by spreading disinformation, hate and Elon-Musk-level punchlines, but it’s not entirely unexpected. Cummings has been careening further and further to the right the longer Netflix has avoided her calls.
Unfortunately for Cummings, this heel turn is short-sighted — after the right bans all the porn websites, who will produce her specials?