Whitney Cummings in a scene from her 2019 Netflix comedy special "Can I Touch It?"David Giesbrecht | Netflix
Ali Wong filmed her Netflix comedy special “Don Wong” at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank last year.
Now comedian Whitney Cummings is using New Jersey crowds as the backdrop for her upcoming special.
Cummings is set to film her fifth comedy special, “Touch Me” at NJPAC in Newark.
A description of the show says that it aims to “destigmatize and celebrate the importance of being together again after over months of isolation.”
“Over the past year, I’ve had a lot of time to drink but also to work on ways to connect with comedy fans through my podcast and social media, and even though we’ve all been so far away from each other, I feel closer than ever to the people who follow me,” Cummings, 39, said in a statement. “I went from putting out a well-polished hour comedy special every couple years to sharing my personal life daily and frankly, secrets I shouldn’t even tell my therapist. I’m thrilled to be back in venues with comedy fans and get every other disease besides COVID.”
The four shows are taping Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14 (7 and 9:30 p.m. each night) at NJPAC’s Victoria Theater.
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Cummings, creator and star of the NBC comedy series “Whitney,” which aired from 2011 to 2013, also co-created the CBS sitcom “2 Broke Girls,” which ran for six seasons until 2017, and hosts the podcast “Good For You.” She is currently on her Touch Me comedy tour. Her most recent comedy special — “Can I Touch It?” — premiered on Netflix in 2019. That special was filmed in her hometown of Washington, D.C.
Ticketholders at the NJPAC shows are asked to wear “an outfit similar to what they would wear on a fun Friday night dinner date with (a) significant other.” On the chopping block: logos, shorts, flip flops, hats and “wild patterns.”
Further guidance says “any disruptions or heckling will lead to immediate removal from show.”
Tickets for Whitney Cummings are $39 and available at njpac.org, 888-466-5722 or the box office at 1 Center St. in Newark.
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