The hilarious and beautiful Whitney Cummings gave CNN viewers, and hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, a roast to remember during the cable news channel’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast.
Cummings was invited onto the program, which culminates with the famous ball drop at midnight, to “Roast 2024.” The former creator and star of the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls has made a name for herself over the years at the Comedy Central Roasts of Joan Rivers, David Hasselhoff, and even president-elect Donald Trump.
Unfortunately for Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen they appeared oblivious as to what a roast entails, something that a professional like Cummings schooled them and the shocked CNN producers during the uncensored broadcast.
The six-minute roast included references to drones over the Eastern seaboard, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Joe Biden’s health, Kamala Harris’ endorsements from Big Pharma, dead White House chefs, Boy Scouts of America swallowing the trans agenda, and even Trump’s would-be assassin’s “scrubbed” apartment—a reference to Rep. Eli Crane’s revelation that the Trump shooter’s home was suspiciously scrubbed clean like a “medical lab” and no silverware or trash had been found.
“Kamala was forced on us so hard, you’d think she was patented by Pfizer,” Cummings quipped to a clearly gloomy Andy and Anderson with a rainy Times Square in the background.
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While CNN’s silver-haired boy toys seemed rather daft to the sharp-tongued comic’s highlights and lowlights of 2024, viewers on social media have been sharing and retweeting the hilarious viral clip. In fact, the attention from the Times Square comedy has even allowed Cummings to add more stand-up dates to her highly anticipated 2025 tour.
Of course there has been predictable left wing backlash over her performance. Woke establishment media outlets like the Daily Beast have labeled her set as being full of “conspiracy theories.” CNN’s Anderson Cooper stated “he only got about half the references.” While other left wing journos have “scrubbed” the set entirely from coverage, following the left mantra of “if you ignore it, it will go away.”
“A lot of what I talked about on CNN last night regarding our brains breaking was inspired by touring the country and trying to “do my own research” in terms of people’s realities without judgement,” she wrote on X after receiving backlash for some of her content on CNN.
What’s the deal with the mainstream media?
According to one stand-up comic, who spoke to GWU! on the condition of anonymity, “The reality is that since 2020 the majority of society has been living in a comedy bubble. The bubble consists of staged corporate comedy like SNL and late-night talk shows, where comedians have dumbed down the line of what is acceptable to joke about and more importantly …. what isn’t.”
The New York comic, who had a major hit sitcom in the 90s and has gone on to be an inspiration for comics like Cummings, added: “Great comedy has always played good cop/bad cop on hot-button issues. Historically, the comic mocked the ruling class, but in the last few years that has somehow become flipped into towing the ruling class line, look at Stephen Colbert. Thankfully,” he adds from his home in Manhattan, “Cummings did the opposite and kept comedy to its truest form.”
Our observational truth teller adds that the confusion, of course, is that Cummings is not a left or right politician and is a joke teller, which was why she was on the program to begin with. “Just like if one went to her stand-up show, they could laugh or not laugh, get up and leave or even heckle her if they don’t like what she’s saying, which is what some did on so-called social media. I mean, what’s so social about it? Come on!”
A recipe for the perfect roast
Aside from The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, which was streamed on Netflix May 2024, the “roast” has become a forgotten late-night cable art form that has dropped from the mainstream consciousness, likely for its tendency to offend and sometimes bring forward a truth that people don’t want to think about says our anonymously anti-woke comic.
“Comics can’t be in a myopic bubble, so to stay based I’m always touring – last year I probed the audience to figure out where everyone was mentally…a big inspo for the CNN roast,” Cummings tweeted.
On CNN, Cummings had all the right ingredients for the “perfect roast” explains our Emmy award-winning comic. “She made people laugh, feel uncomfortable, and questioned authority.”
Following the Daily Beast’s smear article, Cummings wrote: “@thedailybeast what did I say that’s a conspiracy theory?”
Cummings accurately roasted 2024 and cooked all those who went along with the unhealthy slop it contained. “And that, smiles our jubilant jokester “is something we should all be looking forward to 2025.”
