Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It?

Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It?

Whitney Cummings: Can I Touch It?

This whole "special" sounded like the rant of that bitter girlfriend that your partner always has in their friend-group who also thinks she is funny. There is nothing new, refreshing or original about anything she is talking about in this "special". In short this was just a monolog about all the bad men she has or has had in her life, or her misconstrued view of men in general and plain complaining in general. That can of course be funny when done in a funny way, but when there is nothing new, original or interesting about it, it just seems bitter, sad and you can't but wonder about her as a human being making the choices she does that leads to all this complaining about men feeling sad for her. It also ads another level to it all when you see how promiscuous she is on SoMe and the web, so it all just comes across as hypocritical and pathetic and a shot at surfing on the "meToo" wave that started with Weinstein. In general she also doesn't have any of the charm or charisma that real top comedians have, so the whole "special" just has a weird vibe of a hyperactive woman playing the victim, complaining about her life and "struggles". I guess it all just doesn't seem real, and more like a comedy grift, and that is never good. She actually reminds me of Joe Rogans "comedy", and that is not a compliment. I guess I would have a different take if I was a woman, as I have the feeling she is trying her best to play to women.

All I've known about Whitney Cummings was her involvement in that atrocious "2 Broke Girls" show, where virtually every single joke was set up in the most torturous, unnatural way and delivered a punchline that wasn't even remotely worth the terrible writing necessary to set it up. But her name caught my eye on Netflix, so I decided to check out what her standup was like. On the whole, it was much more natural than her comic writing in the scripted comedy. It flowed fairly well, and was actually pretty funny sometimes. I had no real complaints about her standup, and while the whole men and women, women and men, ain't it funny? sort of comedy isn't exactly blazing new comic trails, I enjoyed it. As a guy, I found it funny even if I didn't necessarily relate to a large chunk of it because my life experiences haven't been the same. being able to find universal strands of humor is really what comedy should aspire too, after all. My only problem was that after 20 minutes or so, I was just desperately looking for some variety of topic and theme. So I turned it off and came back the next day. I lasted another 20 minutes before deciding to take a break and finish it the next day. Even though, as I said, I generally enjoyed her comedy and found her reasonably funny, it's not really a good thing that someone needs three days to get through an hour-long special. I'll check out some of her other stuff when I get a chance, just to see if the narrow scope of her comedy routine is typical or just a fluke.

She is right. She is also boring. Maybe the timing is not right, maybe it's something else. Maybe she is just getting old and Burning Man is not breeder friendly enough.

I am really big fan of Whitney and I really couldn't wait to watch this show, but it was really boring. I couldn't believe that someone funny like her is telling so stupid jokes. I hope next one is better.

I feel stupid for reading a bunch of negative reviews and thinking that maybe Whitney wasn't funny anymore. She's never been world class, but she was always pretty good. Nothing has changed. Dear IMDB, how many times do I have to ask for a snowflake filter dammit

Whitney is getting better all the time. I give this special 8/10......or 4 Brendan Schaub's 'You'd be Surprised', out of 10.

Maybe I'm too stupid for this show, but I couldn't tell when she was serious, and when she was joking. Eventually I got bored and turned it off, when about 15 minutes remained of the program. She sure seem to have had some horrible experiences with men. But it was just sad, the funny twists and punchline was rarely delivered, which made it feel like a life story rather than a stand-up show. Bad writing maybe, or maybe I just don't find it funny how bad some men apparantly act.