NCS’s New Year’s Eve broadcast is famend for its campy chaos, and this 12 months’s present was no exception, from Ralph Fiennes performing 2024’s much-viral “demure” meme to the DJ Diplo confirming he was excessive whereas on-air. But even with all that in thoughts, the evening took an sudden flip when comic Whitney Cummings’ conspiracy theory-filled “roast of the year” left hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen speechless.
“I think after what I’m about to do I’m probably going to be in a huddle with a bunch of lawyers,” Cummings, the creator of 2 Broke Girls, warned earlier than the set.
Cummings started with jokes concerning the Menendez brothers, the WNBA, Hunter Biden and the way crypto is “astrology for men,” traces which garnered some laughs from Cooper and Cohen. Less amusing, for Cooper particularly, was a quip about NCS’s tanking viewership. And it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the pair have been left alternating between moments of awkward laughter and stoic shock.
“Kamala was forced on us so hard, you’d think she was patented by Pfizer,” Cummings mentioned in a single significantly pointed punchline, earlier than noting, “Oh no. Andy just gave me a very scary look.” (Cohen denied this was the case.)
Cummings completed her set by firing off some wacky conspiracy theories: Of course there was a second for drones—“I mean, they’re still up there in the sky so I guess we can rule out that they were made by Boeing”—in addition to doubtful shout-outs to Disney’s funding, lifeless White House cooks, the Boy Scouts of America and even Trump shooter Thomas Crooks’ (allegedly) lacking silverware.
“I can’t believe you guys are still letting me go. This is amazing,” she mentioned as she completed. She later posted on X that she had sped by means of her previous few traces as a result of she was “running out of time (and scared).”
Cummings repeatedly mentioned throughout her monologue that she was frightened that NCS would finish the printed or minimize away to safer content material. Though that didn’t occur, her set wasn’t included in NCS’s New Year’s Eve protection highlight reel.
“I only understood like half the references,” Cooper mentioned in closing.
For extra, hearken to Whitney Cummings on The Last Laugh podcast.