Like she did get dramatically better over time -- which you'd hope anyone would -- and as usual much of that was "tightening" the material
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But it was really clear that in chasing the big laugh lines her more rambly/personal/sincere stuff got stripped down
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And the bits became more "effective" by jumping straight to "Hey guys so this is what's weird about giving blowjobs" etc
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She became very good at reading the room and giving ppl what they wanted, which their signaling wasn't subtle about at all really
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And her comedy is still really not to my taste but imo it's such a clear cut case of "Don't hate the player hate the game"
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If anything it was watching her oldest, objectively not-that-great sets that made me let go of my hater attitude toward Cummings as a person
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Bc it's very hard for me as someone who's been on a stage before not to empathize w nervous-energy jitters and sweat
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And you could straight up see how Young Whitney channeled that into shock humor sex jokes and see the dissipation of fear when they landed
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So, yeah, if you put all your energy into hating the player and not the game I don't think you get better female comics, just fewer ones
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It's like I don't even disagree w Schlesinger's point exactly but phrasing it as "Ugh you dumb hacks all sound the same" was really bad
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I mean I don't even know that that'd be a helpful way to critique hacky white guy comedians and I despise hacky white guys with a fiery hate
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It's like "While I hate that this man has very predictable thoughts about his bitchy ex, I hate more that you keep booking him
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It's like if you want to hate on somebody hate on someone closer to the top. Hell hate on Whitney Cummings or Chelsea Handler or whoever
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