About Whitney Cummings
Whitney Cummings is a stand-up comedian, actress, producer, writer, director, and podcaster. A native of Washington, D.C., Cummings pursued a comedy career in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. After beginning standup in 2004, she secured regular appearances as a roundtable guest on Chelsea Lately. She created, produced, and starred in NBC's Whitney, a sitcom in which she portrayed a semi-fictionalized version of herself. Cummings also created the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, which also began in 2011, and concluded in 2017. Cummings released her first hour-long standup special, Money Shot, in 2010 on Comedy Central.