Whitney Cummings Says Her Trump Jokes at Kennedy Center Were Cut From Netflix's Broadcast
Cummings said she had already removed other Trump roasts after Kennedy Center employees warned they could be fired.
- Comedian Whitney Cummings revealed that Netflix cut a joke about President Donald Trump from its broadcast of the 27th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which debuts on the streaming platform today, July 21.
- The Kennedy Center, chaired by Trump, demanded the cut after staffers warned Cummings during rehearsals: "Yeah, we'll get fired if you say that." Fears of legal action drove the decision to remove the joke from the broadcast.
- On stage, Cummings performed the joke: "I actually heard Trump may come tonight, but he couldn't make it. He got caught in sex traffic." Netflix later stated the Kennedy Center held the "contractual right" to edit the set.
- Defending satire's role at the Mark Twain Prize, Cummings said, "This is the only time that you shouldn't get censored because it's about comedians using humor to criticize our elected officials." She praised the staffers as "amazing" despite their constraints.
- Since Trump ousted previous board members and took control, the prize's "fearless" reputation for skewering elected officials faces scrutiny. Cummings noted the staffers were simply protecting their boss amid the venue's leadership changes.
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Comedian’s Trump joke at Kennedy Center show was cut from Netflix special
Whitney Cummings told a few jokes at the expense of President Donald Trump during last month’s Mark Twain Prize for Humor - but a particularly biting one didn’t make it to the broadcast version.
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Whitney Cummings’ ‘Sex Traffic’ Joke About Donald Trump Pulled From Netflix Telecast
Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images Whitney Cummings revealed why one of her sharpest Donald Trump jokes never appeared in Netflix’s broadcast of Bill Maher’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony. The comedian later clarified that Netflix wasn’t responsible for removing the punchline. The joke quickly made headlines after audience members shared details from the live event. Cummings later explained why it disappeared from the televised version.…
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