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Whitney Cummings Continues to Demonstrate What Happens When A Comedy Career Slows Down

2 Broke Girls creator and podcast host Whitney Cummings is making headlines for all the wrong reasons, but that’s still better than no press when you don’t have any tour dates until next month.

Right now, the first responders and local governments of Los Angeles County are still trying to control the deadly and destructive wildfires that broke out last week when blistering winds reaching 90 mph rapidly accelerated numerous blazes in areas of Southern California that hadn’t seen rain for eight months. The widespread disaster has already displaced as many as 92,000 Americans, taken 24 lives and destroyed more than 12,000 houses, businesses, schools and other structures as firefighters and local officials continue to work tirelessly to contain the inferno. 

Chevy Chase Would Have Stayed at ‘SNL’ Had Lorne Michaels Said That He Loved Him

Arguably the most dramatic incident in the early days of Saturday Night Live — with the possible exception of the time an elderly host got hammered during the show — was breakout star Chevy Chase’s departure at the end of the first season. 

There have been multiple theories floated as to why exactly Chase left the hit show when it was in its infancy, a decision that he later came to regret. The most prominent explanation is that Chase wanted to pursue a film career, which he alluded to when he facetiously told David Letterman in 1980 that he quit SNL in order to “get the big bucks in Hollywood.” But then Chase more seriously explained that the hectic schedule had left him “exhausted,” and he felt as though his time at the show had run its course.

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