NBC’s “Whitney” and CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” : The New Yorker

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:26 +0000

The problem is that “Whitney” is a terrible show, though in ways that resonate with our culture’s debates about women and humor. Like so many comedians on TV, Cummings plays an off-brand version of herself, an acerbic photographer with a live-in boyfriend. She resists pressure to marry; she and her dude bicker over household habits; they party with friends at a local night club. But, while Cummings is lacerating and deadpan, her fictional avatar reminds me less of Roseanne, or even of Silverman, than of someone much older: Lucille Ball.

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NBC’s “Whitney” and CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” : The New Yorker