“…It’s usually our job to comment on and confront, and all of a sudden, comedians started becoming like the enemy,” the “Whitney” star told Page Six.
It’s a revamped roast format in which Cummings will interview fellow comedians — including Dan Levy and Bob the Drag Queen — to provide a behind-the-scenes look at what’s involved in crafting gags.
The “Whitney” star explained her reasoning behind the show, saying she “would like to create a space where comedians don’t have to be scared anymore.Her solution to stop the abuse: create a safe space for comedians to roast each other.Cummings sees this as a time for comedy to “evolve” and thinks it’s the perfect time to bring roasts back.
“In my opinion, they started getting racist, actually homophobic” which she partly blames on the decision to roast non-comedians.Nonetheless, The veteran stand-up comic has no issue with the show being streamed through OnlyFans. “My thing is always follow the sex workers,” she said. “That’s what comedians have always done. We’ve always been hand in hand with sex workers. Stand-up in America really started in strip clubs and you know comics are kind of emotional sex workers.”
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