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"Meet the It Girl of fall TV: Whitney Cummings, a 29-year-old comedian and writer who made a name for herself on late-night talk shows like Chelsea Lately and by skewering David Hasselhoff and Donald Trump on popular Comedy Central roasts. Now, as cocreator of 2 Broke Girls on CBS and creator and star of Whitney on NBC, she&amp;amp;#8217;s got two different shows on two different networks. That&amp;amp;#8217;s the equivalent of winning American Idol and The Voice in the same year! Glamour asked Sex and the City writer and director Michael Patrick King, Cummings&amp;amp;#8217; 2 Broke Girls cocreator, to chat with her about life and comedy. Michael Patrick King: I know you&amp;amp;#8217;re a fan of a little show called Sex and the City&amp;amp;#8230;so are you a Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte or Samantha? Whitney Cummings: I&amp;amp;#8217;m a Carrie &amp;amp;#8216;cause she gets the most screen time! I&amp;amp;#8217;m joking. Hmm, I feel like each of them is a facet of my personality. I&amp;amp;#8217;m probably a Samantha, sexually, and then a Miranda, organizing-wise. Michael Patrick King: A Samantha! Impressive. What are you hoping to bring to the audience with your new shows? Whitney Cummings: OK, this has nothing to do with you, Michael, I swear, but most of my instincts as a writer come from watching Sex and the City in terms of how everything should be real and honest, and that characters should talk how people actually talk. And I think that women should be allowed to be funny and witty and quick&amp;amp;#8212;because in real life, they are. Michael Patrick King: What&amp;amp;#8217;s the hardest thing about being a woman in comedy? Whitney Cummings: That people have misconceptions about me. I do tons of roasts for Comedy Central in which I&amp;amp;#8217;m basically bashing the person who&amp;amp;#8217;s being roasted. So if you see me onstage, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll probably assume I&amp;amp;#8217;m mean and tough. But I&amp;amp;#8217;m actually very sensitive and vulnerable. That toughness is something I developed to avoid pain and avoid letting people in. Michael Patrick King: What relaxes you? Whitney Cummings: Quiet. I used to live in chaos, and now I have a quiet home, and that relaxes me a lot. That, and those little mandarin candles that I have in my office everywhere. Dress, Giambattista Valli; earrings, Vhernier; rings, Bulgari; shoes, Jimmy Choo."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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