Whitney Cummings Talks Comedy, Pigs, & Bad Dates On 'This Is Paris'

On this episode of This Is Paris, Paris Hilton and her co-host Hunter sit down for a hilarious and refreshingly candid conversation with actress and comedian Whitney Cummings. Everything from feminism and fertility treatments to misogyny in comedy to teacup pigs and exotic animals are covered with plentiful laughs and a lot of heart. And of course, Whitney has to answer Paris’s “seven sliving questions,” like who she would bring to a desert island (“Lizzo”), her worst date (it involves a suspiciously out-of-the-way restaurant, the Sundance Film Festival, and a big scene at a Rite Aid valet), and the craziest rumor she’s ever heard about herself (“That I dated Lenny Kravitz,” she says immediately, “but I’d like this rumor to keep going”).

They discuss the recent “reckoning” many comedians are coming to with regard to jokes they made in the past about Paris, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan, and Whitney talks a lot about how hard it can be to be the only woman in the room, trying to keep your own position and feeling powerless to speak up. She remembers doing a nude scene in a movie that was supposed to be on a closed set, but there were 40 people there – including the studio and network executives, who ostensibly should have been protecting her. “So now I have to be the bummer on set, or the diva, or the over sensitive woman, or the hysterical woman,” she says, just to get what was promised to her in the first place. “I think that this business conditions you to believe that you’re so lucky when you get any opportunity and you have to be on your best behavior all the time….it’s such a culture of enabling silence.” 

Fortunately, in her opinion, the ship has sailed on sexist, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic jokes because “as a society, we’ve moved on. Nobody thinks this is funny,” she says. “America – for the most part – is going, ‘We don’t like this,’ and they’re not watching anymore. So that’s exciting that they’re seeing it’s a bad business decision.” Plus, the time Jason Bateman helped her with an IVF shot, her rescue pigs, why she let Amanda Knox stay with her (“Every time I tripped around her she’d go, ‘Please don’t die around me,’” Whitney laughs), and a great moment when Whitney confesses that her childhood celebrity crush was Eddie Furlong, only to discover that he’s Paris’s ex-boyfriend; hear the entire hilarious conversation on this episode of This Is Paris.

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