Whitney Cummings: Money Shot

I was really looking forward to watching this stand up show with Whitney Cummings. She's one of my favourite guests on the "round table" on Chelsea Lately, and I was hoping that her humour would translate into a decent stand up act. Unfortunately I was wrong.

Like many comedians today, her style is observational, commenting on the world around her, and on her own life. Unfortunately, she seems to have based her observations on watching other comedians, as there was very little I hadn't heard elsewhere - and better - before. She covers all the bases of modern stand up routines, talking about the differences between men and women, dating rituals, role play and of course sex. It's just a shame that she talks in vast generalisations, and although she occasionally adds a new punchline here or there, or gives things a little twist, frankly it wasn't enough.

Things didn't really pick up until about the last 10 minutes or so. That's not to say that they were actually good, they were just the best 10 minutes of the whole show.

As a sign of how much I didn't enjoy this show, I stopped it at least 5 times - not just to go and get something to drink, for example, but to go and do other things, only to return a few hours later to try to make it through to the end.

One final point is her delivery. She practically screeches her way through the whole show. I had to turn the volume down.

If you haven't seen a stand up show in the past decade then you might enjoy this. Otherwise, give it a miss.

Shrill, predictable, and cute, Whitney Cummings: Money Shot bored me until I checked out about 2/3 of the way through. Stand-up can lose its freshness with time, and as this show is 10 years old, I'd say that's part of the problem. On the laugh meter, I think I chuckled once. Her observational comedy is supposed to elicit laughs by being frank about women's bodies, sex and relationships. I think the vampire dating part was perhaps the most original, even though in 2020 vampires are passe, thankfully. Yes, this is a review done way past release, but I have HBO's comedy channel on in the background while I do repetitive tasks, so I'll keep them coming. Calling her shrill isn't meant at all as sexist, she actually has a monotone of too loud.

Another reviewer wrote "she seems to have based her observations on watching other comedians, as there was very little I hadn't heard elsewhere - and better - before." I cannot disagree with this.

I did not really know much about Whitney Cummings going in to this, but by the time it was over, I just felt dead inside. I got zero laughs out of this. She not only seems to have nothing really clever to say, but many of her comments seem way off (like she is not on the same plane of existence as the rest of the world).

She seems to be directing her comedy towards women and against men. That is not a good idea, and will not get her many fans. There is a stereotype in stand-up comedy that women are not funny (with a few minor exceptions)... Cummings does not help break this stereotype.

Whitney Cummings stars in this one woman show and, as it runs on Comedy Central, talks for about forty minutes. She tackles most of the standard subjects of modern comedy: relationships, sex, the unreality of expectations and, of course, dealing with men.

While I would not put on this show if any young children were present -- mostly for use of language inappropriate for youngsters, same as for most male comics these days -- it's a very good show. Ms. Cummings stalks back and forth on stage with a lot of energy and, if at the start of the show she panders a bit to her mostly female audience, her observations are spot on and funny and well delivered. Highly recommended.

I saw this on Netflix and was really excited about watching it. I'd seen Whitney Cummings on a roast a while back and she was really funny, and I've always wanted to see her stand up routine. Now I wish I hadn't.

First off, there is very little to recommend this special. In this she's just not that funny at all, and at times is more annoying than anything else. Most of her jokes are so generic that they just fall flat, and the rest don't quite make sense. At one point she makes a joke about how she looks like a 10-year-old boy, and how anyone who would be attracted to her must be a pedophile. This joke failed on so many levels that I won't even bother going into it here. Just go to her IMDb page and decide for yourself if her description of herself is even remotely fitting. In order for self-deprecating humor to work there has to be an element of truth to the joke. OK, she doesn't have large breasts. So that automatically equals 10-year-old boy? Not so much. Feels more like she's fishing for compliments.

Then there are jokes that are just lame. She went on and on about how men like sports. And not in a funny, unique way. She literally said "You men really like sports!" like it was the wittiest and most insightful thing a comedian had ever said. She then makes a few jokes off of that, none of which stand out because of how bland they are, and at one point actually says "Am I right ladies?" Seriously?

She also makes jokes about how great it would be to date a vampire, but like others, rather than going somewhere funny they just fall flat. That's her whole special; premise that sounds promising, build up, punchline that either doesn't make sense or is so horribly delivered that the joke just dies. Do this for about an hour and you have Money Shot.

Do yourself a favor and skip this crap.