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Whitney Cummings

lines on the record: 266
first: 2015-06-27
most recent: 2015-06-27
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Here's your homework assignment. And I was like so annoyed, and it ended up obviously being excellent. Gary Scheingard is phenomenal. So I started giving it to everyone more as an ego, as a congressional.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's super sad, but very funny and not super. It's like a Dystopian satire on the future? And essentially it's like that we all have cell phones sort of embedded in our chests. And as soon as I see you, I can know everything about you, your cholesterol, your genetics, your dad had a stroke. Like I can know your bank account, your credit report. Like essentially we know everything about everyone instantaneously. And it's just very interesting and could happen. And I read that because I had to because a friend of mine who's sort of successful and has everything and had a birthday weekend and you can't get her anything. So her gift, our gift to her was we all had to read the same book, which was so annoying. Don't be friends with rich celebrities.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a great question. I like to pretend that I read fiction and I just don't. So I went through this phase of giving people, because I read one fiction book in the last like three years called Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Steingart, which is phenomenal”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're just like, grow up. And you're like, oh, sorry, let me be clear. Know it's this really cool sort of way that I think, and I'm not saying I'm one of these people, but I think that smart people who have so much therapy and we've so overtherapized, sometimes it's just like keep it simple, bread and butter, another animal just in a cage Yes or no. It's so primal and simple.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's super cool when you stop focusing, they stop focusing. And whenever you lie, they freeze. Because they don't understand why because they just see she's mean something, but she's saying something else and they freeze. So as soon as you're disingenuous or pretend you're not scared and you are, they just freeze and look at you.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was like, what just happened? She's like, You lost your connection to them because you focused on something else. I mean, it was just this, it was like magic almost. It was this amazing, so I just, it's a way to practice being present and connected and having a consistent intention with essentially these sort of animals that are basically a mirror to your psyche.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's about phone. That's Ashley Madison Customer Service. So I'm like, how do you get horses with no rein from one end to the other, right? This is crazy without cajoling them or hitting them. You can't use treats. I can't use any of my, I can't use charm. I can't use humor. I can't use intelligence. I can't use any of the things that I rely on on a daily basis to manipulate and beguile people. And so. Essentially, you have to use your intention. So you let them know we're going to the other end.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To the other, which is probably like half of a football field. I mean, it's big, and you're like, how am I going to hello?”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I went in with the horses. A girlfriend of mine took me for my birthday. And the first thing you do is you pick a horse. There's four horses. They all have various degrees of damage and backgrounds. And she tells you about each one and you choose your horse, which already says everything that she needs to know about you based on the one that you choose. It's like a Rorschach test or something. So that's really interesting. And then the first objective is get the horses from one end to the”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No idea. Tempted to have. We spoke for an hour. I have no clue what my objective is. I don't know what the notes are. I don't know if they liked it. We just blovate to the point of just talking in circles.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We talk way too much so people don't actually understand what we're saying. You know, I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but a lot of times when I'm writing a script or a TV show, I'll get notes from an executive and I'm sure your editors or whatever. be in a meeting for an hour and I'll walk out and I'm like, I have no idea.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And essentially, the whole premise of the documentary is that in order to control something, you have to give it more control. So in order to get power over someone, you have to empower them. People bring these problem horses and they're pulling them and trying to control them. And the first thing he does is give them more reins and give them the opportunity to make the right decision. So you can control something when you give them more control. So that really fascinated me, that documentary and the way that he was able to nonverbally communicate with horses, because we waste so much time trying to verbally communicate with people. And a lot of times we just confuse them. And words are so subjective.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Effective, great actor, pathological liar, sociopath, American psychoan. But I found that I was really struggling with not being With saying one thing and meaning another thing and being apologetic and not being present and not getting the results out of people that I wanted, there was a great documentary called Buck that's about the guy. Yes, it's about the guy that was the horse whisperer.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that's something that maybe people in my field maybe do more than you and what you do, you seem very clear. Good.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And clear with my intention versus when I'm asking someone, because you know a lot of times, and you can't see this if you're listening to this podcast, but I'll say like, no, I'm fine. I'm not mad. I'm obviously mad. I mean, my face, I'm betraying my own face and, you know, humans tend to be manipulative and passive aggressive and say one thing and mean another thing.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think this might interest you because, and I hope that I do justice to it and explain it in a educated enough way to where it doesn't sound ridiculous. But horses are prey animals. So they are incredibly attuned to any kind of threats. I mean, they're constantly scanning for threats, which the human brain does also, and we try to like pretend it's not. But essentially, I mean, constantly, a horse can look at a bobcat and tell if it's hungry or not. I mean, it's fight or flight 101. You know, they can literally read faces. They can read. So when you are around a horse, a horse is codependent, if you will, looking at you and their behavior depends on your behavior. So essentially what you do in equine therapy is it's my goal was to practice being more direct.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think you nailed it. It was a successful attempt. So I don't think you have to wait eight weeks. I think you should go on tonight. You can be my warm-up. What makes me angry? Of course, this riding women talk about it.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but Ornie is very, very funny. And I think that that documentary was a big, What would it be when something is injury to his career? Yeah, I think he would have been really big if it wasn't for that”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Admitting how seriously he takes it Like the nerd in the class who gets a straight A and all the jocks hate, like, who's a loser? Like, it's high school all over again. You know, it's like he makes trying look cool. And then Ornie, you know, I think it's tricky because he just was so angry in that documentary. And I worry a little bit that people were like, oh, that's how all comedians are. You know, but it's a documentary, and if someone thinks that that's their generalization, yeah.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I think in stand up, especially drug addiction and alcoholism is so glamorized, you know, and Jerry's kind of, he does yoga and drinks smoothies and he doesn't drink on stage. You know, he takes it very seriously. Stand up as a job. And I think a lot of people see it more as a hobby because we all really just secretly want to be rock stars but aren't cool enough. But I think there was this generation of comedians, obviously in the 70s and 80s who were all on Coke and Hookers. And now I think the pendulum has kind of swung everyone's like in therapy and drinks drama juice and like vegan. And I think that Jerry in that documentary sort of him.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love it. I love it. I love Jerry. I think his work ethic is really, he just kind of nailed it. I mean, you know about this more than anyone, obviously, but his whole thing is just do the work. There's no shortcuts. There's no... There's a linear relationship and stand up of how much you do it and how good you are. It's super simple, very merit driven. And so I like that. I like his methodical approach. I've learned a lot from him and been inspired by that. And he's also, you know, I think it's good to glamorize health.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In Los Angeles, yes. But I think they put videos on the Laugh Factory website or something and it's comedians, big comedians who are only allowed to do new material. And we will call each other out if I'm like, dude, I know you've been doing that joke and I know you know, you know, because we really try to be vulnerable and go up and do sort of fresh premises. And some of us are.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is a, if you're a comedy nerd in any way, Kevin Nealand does a show at the Laugh Factory on Tuesday nights and it's new material night.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know that's kind of the misery of standup and the joy of stand up is that when you're actually shooting it on TV, you're just showing off at that point. You're not in the trenches. You know, everything works. You've done it anything I do on ShowNight, I've done a hundred times, and I know it works.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he was just sitting there watching TV, and he's like, Oh, yeah, sit down. Like, let's have a conversation. And Paul's like, I don't want to bother you. Like, I 100%. So it's like if I need to do some weird ritual right now, then I got bigger problems, you know? So I think for me, just keeping it very simple. And, you know, if I'm shooting a special, my mom and dad, or they have to come different nights, but we'll come. So I'll like take a picture for that or something that just feels benevolent and connected. And I, you know, I'm very dorky about gratitude and I'll just be grateful and I'll thank the crew and I'll talk to my director and just say thank you and like just really do whatever I have to do to go out there and just like have a good time. I'm not taking myself seriously. I'm not stressed. I'm not in a zone. It's like I know this backwards and forwards at this point. So the only work I have to do is just be relentlessly present. And this sounds so geeky, but I truly have to have a good time. Because my work is already done.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then sometimes something super normal because I think I'm, you know, I'm a strong believer in this. Everybody is. I'm not special because I believe proven science, but it's very Pavlovian. So it's like, if all of a sudden I'm doing something I've never done before a show, then it's going to feel weird. So before I go on stage at the comedy store tonight on any given night, I'm looking at Instagram. I'm on Twitter. I'm texting. So I'll do something just kind of that I always do before I go on stage because if you put too much pressure on it, like this is a different show. I'm doing the same thing I've been doing the last four months.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good question Ah I'm usually managing or practicing wardrobe malfunctions. Practicing like Janet Jackson, like nipple exposure. Yeah, I'll walk through sort of my most extreme movements with my wardrobe to make sure, you know, like, you know what I mean? It's, what's it called? Like catastrophe troubleshooting, essentially, you know. I'll just close my eyes and meditate.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll kind of lie in bed. I'll take a nap. I'll eat. And that's pretty much it. And then I have to get there at four for hair and makeup, and I'll meditate twice 20 minutes in the morning, 20 minutes before the show.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Recording is an actual performance. I got it. So I'll record all of my hours when I'm in the clubs on a voicemo on my iPhone, and then I'll label them. This was good at this point. I did this new chunk of this. I'll be really specific about which one is which. The one that I feel should be the one that's recorded. I will go for a run and listen to it in my iPod pad, pad, phone, Samsung, sidekick.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like the hour that I'm planning on doing essentially, like the script, it's like going over a script, I have it recorded, and I'll go for a run probably. Got it. And with it in my ear.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One person clap shot. Oh, shit. Yeah, exactly. But if you get a theater, you get sort of this false sense of bravado and false sense of success. Whereas when you're in a club, like people are drinking and they're eating. You know, it's like you're up against more. So I like to practice in clubs. And so when the day actually comes, I will, I have two dogs. I will send them with the dog people so that they're not in the house for those two days because they'll wake me up early or they'll, you know, whatever, even though they provide me with a lot of emotional support, just avoiding any curveballs. And I'll wake up. I'll do my normal routine. I'll probably listen to the set a couple times, even though I know it in inside and out just more because I know I'm neurotic.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So in the two hours, okay. So I am right now touring to get ready for my HBO special, which I'm shooting in August. So every other weekend, I'm on the road in clubs. I like to perform in small spaces to really ascertain if things are working and seeing people's faces. Because you can In a theater, you can get an applause break. When you're up close and you see someone, you can't fake laughter. You can't fake about laughter.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like if someone throws something new, you got to change your combination or whatever it is. You have to be relentlessly present and flexible and detached from your plan. So it's make a plan and then be ready to completely.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think the only time you really get in trouble is when you attach yourself to a script and aren't flexible. So, if you're like go off on a thing of, oh, you know who I am, you read my, someone heckles you, I've read your book and are right, and then you're like, so I was at the supermarket today. And if you can't respond in a conversational, present way, it's like boxing.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, here's the thing you're already naturally funny and you're smart. So you're going to be fine because you're going to, I mean, pending any.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just mean like when you're like chomping at the bit You know, I kind of deprive myself. It's almost like starving yourself before a meal. You know, like I kind of like sit in my hotel room all day, I just do work. I don't talk on the phone so that I'm super amped to talk. So I would say like don't go out to dinner first. Don't go to lunch. Hang out, watch TV.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then the day of when I do an hour at night or when I do two hours a night, when I'm doing getting ready for my hour, I don't leave my hotel room and I don't talk all day, which is like I try not to talk on the phone. I try not to just deplete too much of my energy so that I'm super excited to get on stage and talk so that I almost am like,”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I say that first minute is kind of what counts the most. So doing three spots a night for eight weeks and recording your sets and listening to them, not only to sort of get it into your memory, but also to see what's really getting laughed. Sometimes we hear that we're bombing when we're actually getting laughs or we hear that laughs are smaller. It's just important to listen to it back objectively later when you're not sort of in the. Sort of deer headlights. Yes.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All night to do that, you know, sometimes three minutes, sometimes whatever. And your first minute is going to make or break you for the most part if you're doing a short set. So doing a three minute set is enough practice because that first minute is the key. Because as soon as you get, it's like your first impression of anything. If you get on stage and you have power and you have status, It doesn't really matter after that. But if you go on stage apologetic and scared and codependent Even the best materials in a bomb.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I got shanked a couple times. I got maced. But no, in LA, I mean, and this was the time of MySpace. So it was the time when there was all these, you know, shows at restaurants and bowling alleys and laundromats and people would just do these sort of shows everywhere. And I would say, can I get on? And you just had to constantly hustle and your myspacing all day to get spots and then driving around all day.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I started, I was go on stage three times. So you're driving to three different things Three different clubs. You're driving to a club, to a coffee house, to a bowling alley. When I first started for the first three years, I was doing bowling alleys, parking lots, sushi restaurants.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But just so you know, over the eight weeks, I'm having them go up every night, whether they're bombing or not, three spots a night, at least. Five.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, Louis CK, I think now that he's gotten so successful. And so exalted and lauded, it's like he's almost like, you know, just a different guy he was 10 years ago. He has less anger and he's able to come from a different perspective. So I also think it's important to not become a parody of yourself and to be able to be flexible. Yeah.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, he's also, I mean, it's interesting because comedians are also human beings who grow and change. So, you know, a lot of people say Matt Howard Stern in the 90s, he was much angrier because he was in a bad marriage. And now he's in a great marriage and he's much happier, you know? So it's also, you know, I think you have to be very flexible in your stand-up. So my first hour, I mean, I was 26 or something, so I wasn't even a person yet. But I was very like, I thought I was right about everything. And, you know, in your 20s, you think you know everything. And, you know, I was like loud and, you know, and then my second special, I had sort of life had kicked my ass a little bit and I was more humble and I was more like, I don't know anything. And, you know, my next specialist sort of, I'm in even more. So all of my specials are just, it's a different person in each one, you know. So.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Scenarios to avoid them, which is so cool to me. So I always say that comedy is like a very delicate combination of positive thinking and incredibly negative thinking because, you know, you take The toilet thing, and then you times it times a million, and you go to its worst extreme. What's the worst possible thing that could happen? The catastrophe, and then you make it a joke.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's actually whereas I think most, and it's interesting, I remember you, I listened to one of your podcast episodes where you talked about Negative thinking There's positive thinking, but then I'm going to botch it and plagiarize it horribly, but the power of negative thinking to prevent or something, it's almost like common.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That does not mean I have a boyfriend. Let's be clear. There you go, whatever it is I know you're not monogamous. That's what they say on the message board. I did some research.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, you know, you can't stand your ex-boyfriend and your ex-girlfriend and she's posting photos on Facebook and anything that pisses you off”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just cultivate. Cultivate when you cultivate your voice, figure out what interests you. So, what I would first do is figure out what pisses you off. So people's limitations piss you off, the airport bathrooms piss you off. What pisses you off? Because I always say comedy is for the most part just an obsession with injustice. And that's what we get on stage and talk, unless you're Dimitri Martin or Mitch Edberg and you're sort of doing those sort of one-liner sort of more playful, surreal jokes. So what pisses you off? And, you know, Louise CK says, if you think about something more than three times a week, you have to write about it. Yeah, what's haunting you? What's plaguing you? What's pissing you off? What do you spend most of your time thinking about anyway?”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Potential exercises is, you know, I remember when I first started, I would like go around my house and be like, trash can, what's funny about a trash can? I think the best way to do it is to, which also helps to, what's the word when you I'm making weird fond.”
2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT