48 True Things About Whitney Cummings, The Daily Show's New Contributor

Last night The Daily Show debuted its newest contributor, Whitney Cummings, who introduced herself to the audience as a liberal. For our collective reference, I've taken the opportunity to compile a list of true things about her.

1. Whitney Cummings once said she started wearing a seatbelt when she became pregnant three years ago.

2. Whitney Cummings once said she doesn’t know if the moon landing is real and she doesn’t care. 

3. Whitney Cummings believes soy milk causes cancer.

4. Whitney Cummings did not have her infant son vaccinated for Hepatitis B “because you get it from gay sex or dirty needles.”

5. Whitney Cummings once said she doesn’t know if Helen Keller was blind or not.

6. Whitney Cummings believes Covid-19 was “benign.” 

7. Whitney Cummings believes China engineered Covid-19 as a bioweapon.

8. Whitney Cummings believes Covid-19, a Chinese bioweapon, made people “sleepy for a couple weeks and that’s it.”

9. Whitney Cummings believes China manufactures toys designed to interfere with children’s psychological development.

10. Whitney Cummings believes China engineered Covid-19 in order to scare Americans into staying home, having children, and buying Chinese-manufactured toys that will interfere with their children’s psychological development. 

11. In Whitney Cummings believes also, somehow, that Covid-19 is a virus engineered by China “that killed tons of people, broke our economy, broke our brains, let's be honest, then culminated in all of us posting on social media to stop Asian hate.”

12. Whitney Cummings blamed the 2025 California fires on homeless people. 

13. Whitney Cummings suggested that homeless people may have been paid to start the 2025 California fires.

14. Whitney Cummings believes that whereas homeless people “used to be heroes that our country failed,” now there is “a different breed of homeless people” who do meth and act like “zombies.”

15. Whitney Cummings recorded herself roaming Los Angeles with a wooden sword searching for the arsonists who started the fires. 

16. Whitney Cummings once complained that the left no longer cares about free speech: "The left has, to me, in a lot of ways, when it comes to speech, become unrecognizable. Because it used to be the party of free speech, it used to be the party of tolerance… But when it comes to speech, the left wants to silence people in a lot of ways. So I think comedians do find themselves criticizing that part of the left. I do think that in their minds they’re doing it to protect people and to make the world safer."

17. Whitney Cummings continued: "[I]f comedians are scared, we’re in trouble. It’s our job to be fearless. It’s our job to push back and sometimes say things that we don’t mean or say things that we know are wrong and offensive, just to make sure that we’re not turning into some totalitarian country. This whole thing where I only believe in you having free speech if you agree with me, I think that’s a really scary place to be."

18. Whitney Cummings argued last year that Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t a violation of his First Amendment rights because “nobody has free speech at work.”

19. Whitney Cummings accepted a paycheck from the Saudi royal family to headline the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

20. Whitney Cummings said that criticism of comedians who headlined the Riyadh Comedy Festival was “just racism.”

21. Whitney Cummings said in response to criticism of comedians who headlined the Riyadh Comedy Festival: "I don't operate under the idea that every government and their people are the same. But I guess that's like, you think that the people of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi government all share—okay, so you also believe that the Chinese government and the Chinese people are exactly the same.”

22. Whitney Cummings continued: "It took me a second, because when people are going like, 'you're doing something unethical,' I'm like, 'Oh, these must be ethical people, let me listen.' And then you're like, oh no, you're just racist. But these are also, by the way, the same people that would go, 'Trump's not my president, I'm nothing like our government, but other countries are.' Just because you don't believe in comedy, it doesn't mean other people don’t."

23. Whitney Cummings continued: “If they found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.”

24. Whitney Cummings wrote of the public reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder: “If you are happy someone was publicly executed because they don’t share your beliefs congrats you’re the Taliban.”

25. Whitney Cummings said of Charlie Kirk: “He was as close to not a hypocrite as I've seen in a while. Did he lie about stuff? I don’t know. Was he trying out new personalities and personas for social—I truly don’t know. Did he spread lies? I don't know. And by the way, neither do you, because nobody can prove what a lie is.”

26. Whitney Cummings said in 2020 of her friend Jeff Ross, who allegedly groomed and abused a teenage girl: “As comedians, it’s our job to advertise our flaws. We are scumbags. We admit it. We go onstage, say we’re a scumbag and piece of shit, and then when it’s revealed that we did all those things people get mad at us. So when it comes to minors and rape, that’s never acceptable and never OK, but expecting comedians to be perfect? That’s not what we do. We didn’t sign up for that. That was never our job. We advertise our mistakes.”

27. Whitney Cummings worked with alleged child sex abuser Jeff Ross in 2024, on an episode of Funny You Should Ask on CBS.

28. Whitney Cummings said in 2025 that the Epstein coverup does not surprise her because “our whole culture is desensitized to the sexualization of minors.”

29. Whitney Cummings hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast during his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

30. Whitney Cummings said of criticism that RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine activist: “How do you know? How do you know? This drives me nuts… How do you know, Dale, who works in marketing at Dick's Sporting Goods? How would you know, Amber, who's never read a book in her life? Really? You're gonna shut down this conversation at a party, Taylor, who fell off a Bird scooter last week, high on edibles? So you're the authority on vaccines? “

31. Whitney Cummings said of criticism that RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine activist: “It's just that all of these news organizations are funded by the very corporations he criticizes. So it's all a little fishy if you ask me. It's like, airport sushi-level fishy. So I just feel like who cares. Be honest. Just, let's be honest with ourselves. No one knows anything.”

32. Whitney Cummings once addressed criticism that she used to be pro-vaccine: “People are acting like I was pushing vaccines on people. Is there even any point in addressing this? I was—just google me, dude. Google me. I was doing outdoor shows for a year. I was so against having people be forced to be vaccinated for shows. I was doing shows in parking lots for cars. Honestly, I— whatever toll that took on my mental health was so much worse than any vaccine injury, okay?”

33. Whitney Cummings continued: “And you think I'm pro-vax? I literally stood outside in the cold and the microphone would go into their car…If you don't like me, that's fine. Just don't like me. I'll have more respect for you. Just be like, "I don't like her." Don't be like, "She was pro-vax." Don't make it like that I am a scientist who knew how the vax worked and then tried to give your kids and your—just, you don't like me.”

34. Whitney Cummings spent “nearly half” of her comedy hour Mouthy talking about trans people. 

35. Whitney Cummings said of her comedy hour Mouthy that she wished to approach the topic of trans people from a woman's perspective: “I also found it very weird that it was all men weighing in on it, too, because I was like, they’re taking our trophies. They’re taking our sports. If someone’s going to be mad, it should be us.”

36. Whitney Cummings’s original, feminist take on trans women was that they are not uniquely subjected to violence: “I hope you get your heteronormative dream and find a straight man to marry you and move into a house and get murdered by your husband in 30 years, like the rest of us. Either way, you're getting murdered. Like, that's kind of, you're getting murdered. I'm so sorry you have to find out this way. If he can't have you, no one can.”

37. Whitney Cummings believes conservatives have a better sense of humor than liberals. 

38. Whitney Cummings recently told Joe Rogan: “I rescue pit bulls. It doesn't get any more liberal than me. It doesn't get any more—but the whole idea with being liberal is you had me at, 'We're not racist. Everyone's equal. Diversity.' But then it turns into diversity but not diversity of thought.”

39. Whitney Cummings continued: “So it started to be like, hold on, 'We don't believe in gender, but we need a female president.' You're like, hold on. And then it's like, 'My body, my choice, unless it's a baby that needs a vaccine for Hepatitis B,’ which comes from butt sex and sharing needles. And then 'We believe in climate change and sea is rising, but we live on the coast.' Would you buy a house on the beach if you truly believed that the seas are—you know, 'We believe in recycling,' but why can't you give Andrew Yang another shot?”

40. Whitney Cummings recently said on her podcast: “The left is about equality, but they never push for voting being a holiday. Every leader gets a holiday, Columbus is—they’re obsessed with holidays. Columbus can’t have the holiday, the native tribe gets the holiday, this person should get a holiday, this activist gets a holiday—why not have election day be a holiday? So that people can equally go vote and be represented? But then they’re like, ‘This esoteric leader needs a holiday because they did this thing about minority rights.’ And then voting day comes around on a Tuesday and they’re like, ‘Good luck, losers! Good luck being represented.’”

41. Whitney Cummings continued: “The right is taking books out of schools. Who cares, dude? That’s a states’ rights thing. That is between the parents and the school. Why do you care what books a kid in another state is reading?”

42. Whitney Cummings said in a recent episode of her podcast that journalists are “smear campaign people,” “thought police,” “mean girls who try and humiliate people under the guise of objective journalism,” “professional bullies,” “trolls,” “people that went to college for trolling,” and “nerds,” citing a 2011 column about her by Emily Nussbaum and a post by NPR’s Linda Moore promoting that column the next day.

43. Whitney Cummings said she isn’t concerned about artificial intelligence replacing journalism: "I don't know what AI is going to do, but I do think that AI is not going to trash a 28-year-old girl living her dream or find it unnerving. I just don't know what we're gonna do without all these critics who went to NYU and Dartmouth and Oberlin to study feminism only to spend their career hunting down and trashing other women by using Twitter trolls as sources."

44. Whitney Cummings continued: “Journalists, they created an environment where trashing women publicly is okay because they went to school for it. Since AI is coming along, I just don't know how we are going to destroy the self-esteem of the next generation of female creatives without critics.”

45. Whitney Cummings recently replied to a picture Candace Owens posted of herself with the Holocaust denier Ian Carroll: “BE STILL MY HEART”

46. Whitney Cummings defended Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro: "I'm big on non-intervention until there's a bully that can only be handled with a bigger bully. You know what I mean. I'm into bullying the bully. I think we are delusional about how much evil there is in the world. Okay? Sometimes you gotta fight evil with—sometimes you gotta fight big evil with a little evil."

47. Whitney Cummings said in defense of Trump’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro that the US has “a pretty even track record” in foreign interventions: “For every World War II, there’s a Cuba. For every South Korea, there’s an Iraq, right? For every Vietnam, there’s an Afghanistan. We’re batting 50-50 for intervening.” 

48. Whitney Cummings was not joking.