CNN’s New 12 months’s Eve present is often a blast, and whereas final yr individuals have been speaking about John Mayer in Tokyo with cats, it seems to be like comic Whitney Cummings would be the scorching subject across the water cooler this week. As we kick off the 2025 TV schedule, Cummings did not maintain again, throwing out a roast that referred to as out CNN’s ratings–literally whereas she was on the community.
Apparently, Andy Cohen calling out Ryan Seacrest is not the spiciest factor that may occur on the CNN New 12 months’s Eve broadcast, which has a protracted historical past of going off the rails sooner or later annually. Whitney Cummings was part of the published and even did a “Roast of 2024,” however it’s attainable the community and the present’s producers did not count on her to take a jab at its viewership. This is what she mentioned (by way of @CNViolations):
I’m taking part in greater and greater venues now. I believed being a mother would imply that much less individuals would wish to come see me. I’m now taking part in like 3,000 seat theaters, which is concerning the viewership of CNN as of late. Not this present although. All eyes are on this present!
That is a sick burn to CNN, and even worse, she made it on an evening when their viewership is probably going a lot larger than it often is. Whereas I am guessing producers and executives on the community weren’t precisely thrilled with the remark, Cummings was invited to the celebration to behave as a roast comedian. However, even when anybody was mildly upset on the community concerning the remark, they needed to count on she’d take a shot or two at them, given her job as a comic.
Actually, CNN ought to be used to one of these snark from its on-air personalities. Whether or not it was Andy Cohen calling out an X consumer in 2022 or Don Lemon making an inappropriate remark about Kathy Griffin means again in 2016, this program has a historical past of dicey feedback that usually would not fly on the air.
That being mentioned, I am positive her jab stung no less than a bit bit. Each MSNBC and CNN have had numerous struggles since election night time. The Washington Publish not too long ago did a whole write-up on the community’s scores points, and Yahoo not too long ago ran a narrative calling out the community’s scores points and predicting attainable layoffs.
Happily, a bit sting is not the worst factor on this planet. It appears everyone seems to be within the vacation spirit and a bit extra forgiving in the case of New 12 months’s Eve. I imply, if Roy Woods Jr. might get away with making a joke about former anchor Don Lemon’s firing (by way of Mediaite), then I’d say that jokes about scores and the like are going to slip beneath the radar as compared.
That mentioned, the bar is about for 2025’s New 12 months’s Eve occasion later this yr, so perhaps Whitney Cummings can up the ante if she’s invited again subsequent yr. I do know that I might like to see her again, as this system is all the time higher with a number of comedians blended in.
CinemaBlend is ringing within the new yr by maintaining a tally of all of the exhibits returning to tv with new episodes and retaining an eye fixed out for upcoming 2025 films on the way in which as effectively. Moreover, we’ll see if CNN and Cummings enter a feud after her feedback or if this was only a foolish comment taken because the roast joke it was meant to be.