Whitney Cummings is back with a new comedy series, Whitney Cummings Presents, which is set to air on OFTV, the free streaming service of OnlyFans. Cummings, a seasoned stand-up comedian, has been in the industry for almost two decades, but she believes that recent years have seen comedians under too much pressure to be perfect. She feels that everyone needs to remember that comedians are just there to provide entertainment and not to be put on pedestals.
Cummings says she was excited to take her comedy to OFTV, a platform mostly known for its porn, to feel uncensored by humans or an algorithm. In the new series, she plans to lead roasts with fellow comedians, testing the first amendment.
Whitney Cummings Presents is not meant to be like the Comedy Central roasts of celebrities that Cummings appeared on in the 2010s. Instead, the show is designed to be like the Friars Club roasts, where comedians jokingly roast each other, the way families do.
The show will also have some different rules based on Cummings’ “more maternal” approach. Her approach to the roast is to make sure that no one ever gets hurt, and it never feels mean. For instance, there will be no jokes about women being old if they’re 40, or jokes about comics being pedophiles or rapists if they’re not, as that’s not funny.
Cummings herself is the roastee in a Whitney Cummings Presents episode, with Bob the Drag Queen, Dan Levy, and Amanda Knox among her roasters. Cummings finds it amusing that long-overdue roasts of RuPaul, Tom Hanks, or even Mark Wahlberg would make for hilarious episodes.
Whitney Cummings Presents is set to premiere on OFTV on April 1, with the roast of Bert Kreischer.
