castillo says that house sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an avalanche but squeak we must. larry king now the one and only with the coming of the funny emerged actually when i interned at n.b.c. local in washington d.c. with barbara harrison and i got to read the prompter of like the local stories and you know local news was always like horrific lead in the water kids being kidnapped and i was reading the news to get like a demo reel and i could not stop laughing and i realized i can't be serious comedy is how i process pain i was so worried that if i got healthy i would just be boring i am more boring i can really go and say i'm my life is way more boring i'm not in the same like chaotic concert is still so in the state of adrenaline i think so.

where do you think he handled. it was enjoying him so i think that it. will take kind of any kind of attention i think he thrives on negative attention to. memorize and the favorite show and. he called me and he said you know when. should we bring roseanne back and i was like that's a game changer and i'd be honored to be involved all next on larry king. welcome to larry king special guest is comedian actor writer producer and director whitney cummings whitney of course created and starred in the n.b.c. series with me also the co-creator and co-writer of the c.b.s. comedy hit two broke girls hope popular standup specials available on h.b.o. on comedy central and this summer she made her. debut in the female brain and the. new book. of the law is is available no we would together on the from

her who could forget that i'm trying to every day oh you said about this book i'm not sure what else to say except that you should totally read this if you want to stop being crazy and blue. doing it and you call it a self-help book i hope who was what great was. you know it's interesting you knew me during this time and. many people. in my late twenty's that kind of dawned on me i had an epiphany that i was a little bit crazy and i had kind of a premonition that being crazy it's not cute in your thirty's like you can get away with it in your twenty's you now like everyone wants like rescue you and fix you but like crying in public in your thirty's is not a good look so i went on this journey of going to therapist and reading self-help

books and and all the self-help books kind of bummed me out i was like why can't these be funny and entertaining and why do they all have to make me more depressed than i already am so i really wanted to write the kind of book that i wish had been available to me when i was suffering. from this lays it all out i was diagnosed with something called co-dependence which i didn't know was a real thing it's kind of a word we throw around the codependents co-dependence it's basically. a layman's terms it's i can't tolerate your discomfort i'm really interested in what you think about me. stay in relationships too long you have to please basically you want them to like you you're way more concerned with their feelings than having your own boundaries and your own standards and i stayed in toxic relationships years too long because i didn't want to hurt the other person's feelings and i said you know it's interesting the craziest part is i think that in a sick way being codependent helped my work. a workaholic you know i didn't want to

disappoint anyone the comedian essentially your job is to make people like you want to love you yes no matter what time you don rickles you want to love them yes. he didn't even though he was insulting them of course the motive was i need your love you know every single night every twenty seconds but then the second i got on stage i couldn't turn that off you codependents of low self-esteem and brother so these are the room. to be themselves because they're more concerned with appeasing others and avoiding rejection than with what they want to do are you better no i think i am i did a lot of rewiring a lot of studying of neurology and reading neurology books and going to neurologists and learning that it takes twenty eight days to form a new habit to break an old one and so i went into this really hard core therapy to work on my self-esteem and figure out what my motives were and the decisions that i

was making your dating life that in it's way healthier now i did people i actually like it used to be like if someone wanted to date me it was like i guess we're going to date but now it's mutual consensual you go out of people have this without even knowing it you know it's such a person ish. mindset because i think it's so rewarded socially it kind of presents itself as just being nice everyone just thought i was really nice and charming and outgoing when in reality i was doing things because i felt obligated to and i wanted people to like me which is show what is some of the ways you do to break it . you know i outlined sort of the stuff i did in. therapy which was like a child at work which sounds a little bit creepy creepy and crazy but you essentially reconnect with what a five year old version of yourself would want to do on any given day because adults are like i have to go to work i have to meet this person for lunch i have to the gym i have to go spinning and we have all these obligations whereas our like

source kind of just wants to like eat a nap and hang out and play and i had no concept of play as you changed your act you know it's so interesting because i was so worried that if i got mentally healthy. i wouldn't be as funny because being sick and twisted is funny getting up on stage and broadcasting my mistakes and my bad my bad sexual experiences like that's all i knew how to do so i was so worried that if i got healthy i would just be boring and i am. going to go and say my life is way more boring i'm not in the same like chaotic you know constant state of adrenaline i think so it's you know to me my favorite comedians richard pryor george carlin don rickles all these guys had a vulnerability to them that was just so magnetic and charismatic and i think that i'm finally getting to the point where i have that vulnerability would be to give. i want people to. understand something that i didn't understand before this journey

which is that it's ok to have flaws and to make mistakes and that the way we were conditioned as children can change the way that the world has been socially constructed for us we can rewrite that it's only about the female brain will. when i was in my late twenty's and had decided or realize like i feel very crazy why am i always crying and men had no problem telling me i was crazy and psycho and all that stuff and i was like what is all this can't all be me and i read this book called the female brain by lou in prison diane and it was all about how our brains are wired and how her basically primal brain sabotage our modern day relationships you know jealousy it's like that served a very important purpose in tribal times you know it was i had to keep you so the own you i own you in such a day there were lions and we didn't have alarm systems and door locks on doors in grocery stores so it was like our survival was very ten us so i needed to keep you

to help me care for this child in a coma doing movies so i basically was reading and i felt so much relief of like ok a lot of my life is choice and i can fix a lot of things but a lot of this is our rep telling in. brain and these neural chemicals that are being released explains so much adrenaline and cortisol and my mental is activated and gave me a tremendous amount of patience and compassion for myself and for the people i dated because we both seem to agree that the other person was crazy and it was like directing i do like directing it's very tiring but i had an amazing cast and you know but i am going to take a little bit of a break mystery and stand up. and dennis my favorite because it's the most connected you can be to people i like instant feedback a movie make a movie have to wait a year to find out what people think of it stand up is joke you laugh or you don't see a movie reading a book same with reading a book i got to wait

a year to see if people like this. cool creative writing two broke girls. cancel it has been six years which is i think a long time and you know way more about this and i do but there's all this politics of people owning shows and so many people are watching shows on computers now and you know so i don't even really know what i did to work i think it worked because we talked about money at a time where lots of t.v. shows were basically just about a bunch of rich people who didn't have financial problems and these were girls in their twenty's who were dealing with the minutia of paying bills and getting by and they want to start a business and i think people really lucked into that because you know i was watching the shows about girls in their twenty's and all they cared about was if the guy was going to text them back and i was like that's not how my girlfriends are they all want to start businesses and write books and get blogs you know women are delaying marriage and they're delaying you know having kids let's talk about

girls who have ambitions of a lockdown you recently tweeted. a big. breakup with. mr trump you know every morning i look at the news and i just. very overwhelmed to get addicted you know those relationships that you can't get enough but you know you have to get out and that's i just feel every time i turn on the news i feel hopeless and helpless and adrenalized and we were two of his roast or how do you think he handled it that night he laughed but i'm ever so. he was really enjoying it really. enjoying him so he said leave i get paid a million dollars for which is how he sees the world just business deal business deal i think that he will take kind of any kind of attention i think he thrives on negative attention to i think as long as i don't think he's discriminates against the kind of attention i mean we were saying this is things about him and his pain

as sorry i don't want to say any bad words and the the flacid nature of it i mean what we were talking about was insane and i i think we would have left or just never done it i think his ego is so strong and acts as a shield against any negative information so but it is a little bit about his presidency scare you. i mean i think so many people are focused on him i'm more concerned about the state our country is in that so many people thought it was a good idea to vote for him i'm more concerned with that i'm more concerned about the millions of people who said yes to him and how much pain and fear they must be end to think that this is a good idea or you know more than any one about television networks about what they're reading and what they believe. that's really what scares me the most the gaslighting and the like. i like roasts more when i was in my twenty's and

a little more shut down emotionally i mean now that i have taken off the armor and all of the survival mechanisms i developed as a child and i am i allowed myself to feel more it's harder for me washington d.c. you know. that's right i do know that i lived in mclean you know it well i lived in potomac maryland coal hole look at us. you know it's interesting everybody thinks that i come from money can buy a little there you may claim they're pretty fancy but we lived we did not live in a very fancy area we were evicted many times that was it did not fit in with you for the day he worked in finance it's unclear i try to ask a lot of questions there's a lot of vagaries to me no i was very serious as a kid i had to be the adult very young i was the youngest in the chaotic environment i was always the one cooking dinner and packing lunches and getting ready for school and doing the laundry so i had to be

a precocious and went to. the funny emerged actually when i interned at n.b.c. local news in washington d.c. with barbara harrison and i know you do and i got to read the prompter of like the local stories and you know local news is always like horrific lead in the water kids being kidnapped and i was reading the news to get like a do. mo real and i can start making jokes about really horrific things because that's how communities all over yeah and all these horrible news stories were coming up and i could not stop laughing and i realized i can't be serious comedy is how i process pain it into fourteen minutes of fires kidnappings local people car chases horrific and then i will be got to move in for news of the war and and they like to tease you they'll be like the lead in you're killing your children i will let you know after the break after i did have children i needed to and yeah poison right. now it's all breaking news and then they have learned some things are

being rescued it's everything is breaking news everything is breaking and i think we're just so desensitized to what's actually importance i don't i look to the news and i just i mean no one i'm sorry i'm so overwhelmed it's like a video game which this breaking news when we were children who will step into the if you only knew how to seat close watch out about her executive producing duties on the reboot of roseanne breaking news stay with us. all the feel we go through. every. period. and you get it on the old world. according to just.

come along for the. mark twain said it's easier to fool people than to. for that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed fake new fees paid for by corporate interests they beat you down until you relieve their fairy tales well here's a story for it's called the big and it's full fat. analyze

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crazy idea. there's this kid who makes hummus and you donate money and it helps his homeless spend less time you were star struck. i know the answer to this because it just happened who was that. this aware that it is he was star struck i was star struck no but i remember being like this is the person i was he an actor. comedian president who. started started by our president maybe of the give it will go on there's a compliment the other got. mitzi shore told me that i reminded her of roseanne barr when i first saw me perform well yeah she was and was a great scam but phenomenal still is weird his job via the head weirdest job i ever had i used to do focus groups where i would test out products and i used to pretend

that i had clinical depression to do clinical trials to make money in college favor advice. marijuana. something you wish you were better at everything. self-esteem strangers didn't encounter i had a girl come up to me the other day. and she said to me hey my phone is charging so can you take a picture for me and just email it to me she just a friend yeah i just had missed out working for her was a luxury you can't live without. rescue horses something you long believed to be true and real was worse and. that all adults have it together told me something people don't know about you. i feel like i reveal everything about myself you don't remember who. was awful. you

know what this is what it was the costume designer for. i met the costume designer you were there and i was like oh my god hi how are you so like i'm going to get that you're executive producer of the eight at the showed them yeah as it started we started writing we've been writing for three months and we start shooting in a couple weeks it's going to be a. network a.b.c. . the original run tom warner and i had worked together who was you know tom i'm sure well and we did a pilot together at h.b.o. and when all this trump stuff started happening we were talking and i always said to him roseanne was my favorite show and he just he called me and he said you know when trump got to like to bring roseanne back and i was like that's a game changer i'd be honored to be involved in a good many good men. laurie metcalf he did but we're going to scratch the last season yes he will be there all the original original baccy everyone so it is going

to be the season the kitchen and everything same seeing wild same house same everything is true in that we'll have to tune in to find out but what i will say is that we are putting a working class family on television the kind that changed the course of history forever very childlike to work with. rizana is so unbelievably smart boy with smart incisive and it's so funny because i think i would have been starstruck by her i had met her a couple times in comedy clubs but she comes in the writers' room and she's just like chime in and has a brilliant stories we did some additions. she was in the auditions and we were crying i mean shaking crying laughing so hard she was going run for president she was she ran and she ran you know she ran as she did. she so and john goodman alpert you know tell me something tell me john goodman is one of the best actors a law hands down hands down at the close of his build maybe we don't think of it

that i grew up with john goodman basically thinking he was my dad fantasizing about it i remember i grew up with not a lot of money in potomac maryland and that was the first show that i ever saw them paying bills and having paper cups and a couch and i was like oh my god that's what my life is like and it gave me so much comfort as a child and so very regularly i start crying in the writers' room when i'm writing jokes for dan what is the show call rules. and the six episodes will say they are going to do an hour half an hour we're going to half an hour multi-cam the same way it was we're trying to replicate the look exactly we don't know yet next year we're going to do it right and not rushed we have some social media questions. that cooley did two thousand and three on twitter would you consider stopping with the vagina joke. oh my. you know i thought i kind of did.

but not just because they're vagina doubts any of thing where every time i talk about sex i always try to have some subtext that it's about power it's about what's going on in our culture or it's about fear about feminism sexism something so i never like to do a gratuitous vagina joke. but the funny. some of them are mean you've seen a couple in their day there's always a little bit of humor around sex because it's so uncomfortable and where we're most vulnerable and i don't want to stay away from that. olu trudy on twitter do you believe in reincarnation and if so what era of history do you feel a strong connection with what an amazing question and i am kind of obsessed with the one nine hundred twenty s. . yes i don't know why some time is precious i sort of some during twenty the roaring twenty's mae west flop are addressing that issue and yes that's my d.c.

that's. the poll yes that's my bet those are my people who believe in the rooms and that's my vibe at the moment i'm a i'm a pretty big science person but is there proof on reincarnation i don't think so you know ok drilling on facebook what was it like working with chris. chris is unbelievable chris played my boyfriend in my t.v. show on n.b.c. i wrote the part for him with him in mind we were to open mike hers at the comedy store and i said to him hey wrote a t.v. show he's incredibly talented. and just comic genius and i fought really hard for him and working with what he's like family to me and that felt very safe and and i always felt held by him and also when you do a show with a live audience you want comedians in there so he really just you know lights up in front of an audience at the java arena on twitter wants to know are you free. i'm

not i'm sorry i'm doing a stand up tour but you can come to my. school is there not do you dying to write for oh great question t.j. you know rozanne bar and john goodman are. pretty good and laurie metcalf big fan of laurie metcalf and i get to write those the matola on facebook would comedies you should do you what oh great question i really like a show called it's always sunny in philadelphia i love those guys and it's just the perfect blend of silly and you know how do you explain this i've got to watch them because. it was on at nine o'clock every night on c.n.n. seinfeld seinfeld unbelievable seinfeld not only is it i believe it gets better when you go back and watch it again watch it again how is it getting funnier it's insane i watched his new special it was brilliant he's just and i listen to him on an interview recently geragos said he was never good at any of the cast helped him

something else that was so interesting that he said he had that role on the show no hugging you know like there's no emotion this is just for comedy we're not going to let somebody comedies now they try to be funny and then they want to have a poignant moment at the end and then they want to learn a lesson his whole thing was no hugging and no learning i'm just going to make you laugh which everything gave together and you say i'm going to stay in my lane and just be funny that shows so brilliant and i also love the larry sanders show i still watch it. you know still watch and he was wonderful and the comeback was phenomenal with lisa kudrow nancy sands on the larry king blog our hands on will you be for the reboot rozerem pretty hands on i'm running it are producing it with first helford who did the original with a bunch of the original writers on roseanne so i'm sort of like the new person in the fan who's going to do that. nine seasons this is going to be the tenth season of roseanne why n.c.c. is also asked why is hollywood so fixated on the reboot of late you know i think

that there are so many new shows out and there's so many people you're expected to fall in love with you now you know all these new characters all these new actors i think there's just something nice about nostalgia right now we have this person in office who every day is throwing you curve balls at us and i think there's something really warm and cozy about from the your face is that we now i think we're all just craving a warm comfortable place right now we knew you would like. depended too so. hope you like me i love you and i don't want you to read doesn't get better because i want you to stay codependent with so that we could be crazy to get. things to buy give me should have to have her new book find another law is available low as always you can find me on twitter at kings things i'll see you next time.

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ratings and salutation is cowardly is a term i rarely use hawk watchers but sadly i can think of no better word to use when describing the actions of president donald j. trump and his now broken promise to release all of the long suppressed j.f.k. assassination files earlier this week president from boldly tweeted the long anticipated release of the j.f.k. files will take place tomorrow so interesting. hearing this kind of gusto for transparency lifted the hopes for many of us who have long sought to know the truth behind one of the biggest course changing events in modern history but then came the october twenty sixth deadline and while president trump to his credit.