Whitney Cummings let free on CNN’s New 12 months’s Eve Dwell particular on Tuesday night time (December 31) as she poked enjoyable at hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, roasted 2024, and mocked the community’s rankings.
The comic wasted no time with the jibes as she joined Cohen and Cooper to ring within the new yr. She began by referencing Cooper’s former New 12 months’s Eve Dwell co-host, Kathy Griffin, who was dropped by the community in 2017 after she posed for a publicity photograph of her holding up an effigy of Donald Trump‘s severed head.
“Was that thunder?” Cummings requested as she joined the co-hosts in New York Metropolis’s Instances Sq.. “Are you positive? I believed it was Kathy Griffin screaming at you from the road. Are you positive? I believe she’s cursing.”
Cummings went on to advertise her 2025 tour, the place she stated she is “enjoying greater and greater venues.” She then made a dig at CNN’s rankings, saying, “I believed being a mother would imply that much less folks need to come see me. I’m now enjoying, like, 3000-seat theaters, which is concerning the viewership of CNN today.”
The Undateable alum then roasted 2024, saying the yr “must be held accountable for its habits. That’s what white girls do now. We level out different issues which might be poisonous as a result of we don’t get irony.”
She added that folks acted “so poorly” in 2024 that “we began being wistful about murderers,” pointing to folks’s fascination with the Menendez brothers, suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione, and Gypsy-Rose Blanchard (“as a result of murdering your mother is so brat”).
“This was the yr nothing made sense,” Cummings continued. “Fertility was down, gross sales of child oil was up, white supremacy teams reached report highs… it acquired so dangerous Ariana Grande turned white once more.”
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“Issues acquired so bleak we began watching the WNBA,” she added. “And we additionally began watching older girls in films. Demi Moore was in a film referred to as The Substance, which exhibits that Hollywood’s prepared for a lady in her 50s to star in a film so long as a scorching 28-year-old wears a leotard for many of it.”
She went on to say this was the yr “everybody hated watching the Joker,” including, “However when you do take pleasure in watching males descend into madness, in a few hours, you get to look at Andy Cohen do the countdown.”
Cummings then turned her consideration to the 2024 presidential election, saying, “The Democrats couldn’t maintain a main as a result of they had been too busy holding a physique upright.”
“Am I nonetheless rolling, or are we off?” she requested, shocked that CNN was permitting her to maintain going.
“It was wonderful that the pro-choice occasion didn’t give their voters one when it got here to the presidential candidate,” she continued. “Kamala was compelled on us so exhausting you’d assume she was patented by Pfizer.”
Cummings did say there have been just a few issues in 2024 that introduced folks collectively, joking, “All of us agreed we’d moderately see J-Lo in a poisonous relationship than in live performance. All of us agreed that the federal government completely is aware of what drones are and aren’t telling us. They’re nonetheless up, and we do not know what’s behind them? I imply, they’re nonetheless up within the sky, so I assume we will rule out that they had been made by Boeing.”
“Are we nonetheless rolling? That is wild,” Cummings stated as Cohen and Cooper appeared on awkwardly from the aspect. “Boy Scouts of America, they renamed themselves Scouting America. who else modified their identify? Sean Combs. Simply saying… let’s be taught one thing in 2025.”
“I can’t consider you guys are nonetheless letting me go. That is wonderful. I really like CNN. Please cease me, Andy, or I’ll simply preserve going,” Cummings ended her roast as Cohen wished her a cheerful new yr.
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