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.

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.

Whitney Cummings is hilarious. Her comedy is observational and right on . This special focuses on the relationship between men and women and is very insightful. A LOT of her jokes are related to her specifically and at her own expense. Still, they are very funny.

I do think a lot of this material has been on other specials.

I love her stand up.

I was uncomfortable watching this. She honestly nails some points, but she then often will counter her comedy to not offend the men she is trying to insult. She plays on every stereotype about men and women in current culture, sex party bridal showers to morning wood. I wanted to enjoy it, but I stopped it about halfway through. These jokes were funny about 15 years ago when they were first told, but society has advanced too much for this to be accurate/funny.

I personally started to hate her voice, nails on a chalkboard. If you get a chance to watch it, do so, but it wasn't for me. You can always stop it too.

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.