Whitney Cummings

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About

Whitney Cummings is an American standup comedian, actor, writer and producer.

History

Whitney Cummings' comedy career began in 2004 as a standup comic. Over the next decade, she became known as one of the most popular and successful comics in America.

In 2011, Cummings created two multi-camera situational comedies: Whitney, which also starred Cummings, and 2 Broke Girls, which ran for six seasons.^[1]

Extortion Attempt

On August 12th, 2019, Cummings tweeted, ^[2] "In April I accidentally posted an insta story that showed nipple. Once I realized, I deleted. The people who took screen grabs are trying to get money from me, some said they have offers to sell them, some are asking for money to not post the photo."

She followed the post by tweeting the photograph and tweeting,^[3] "They all must think I’m way more famous than I am, but they also must think I’m way more easily intimidated than I am. If anyone is gonna make money or likes off my nipple, it’s gonna be me. So here it all is, you foolish dorks." The tweet received more than 194,000 likes and 9,200 retweets (shown below).

Following the post, friends and supporters of Cummings posted "embarrassing" photographs of themselves in support. She tweeted^[4] a photograph of fellow comedian Chris Delia in his underwear with the capton, "Real friends send you their embarrassing pix when you're embarrassing pix come out. Thank you @chrisdelia for humiliating yourself to make me feel better." The tweet received more than 23,000 likes and 500 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

Several media outlets covered the story, including BuzzFeed, ^[5] eBaum's World, ^[6] NBC,^[7] The Daily Dot ^[8] and more.