Intentional or not, it makes sense that the new CBS show, "2 Broke Girls" co-created by Penn alum Whitney Cumming (C'03)  has a Penn reference in it.

After the jump check out an extended preview from the show and see at minute 1:44 why being a graduate of the Wharton Business school doesn't necessarily equate to "being a really fast learner".  : )

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Back in February, a bunch of Penn alumni got their TV pilots ordered up by several TV networks.

After the jump find about BOTH shows from Whitney Cummings (C'03) that got the green light ...and watch a preview!

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If you haven't seen the ads yet, tonight a whole slew of misfits roast Donald Trump (W'68) on Comedy Central (10:30/9:30c).  I'm sure you can safely expect jokes about his hair, his marriages and all of the products he's put his name on.

At first I was a bit surprised Trump was such a good sport, but then I realized this is more great promotion for THIS monumental endeavor of his.

After the jump, check out clips featuring Donald's fellow Penn alum Whitney Cummings (C'03) roasting both Donald and "The Situation", and then Donald himself roasting Snoop Dogg!

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A few months ago we introduced you to Jess Garvey (C'09), DT's "Starter Reality Star".

In the last episode, Jess brought us to her manager's office as they planned for pilot season.

Well since that meeting, Jess has been keeping quite busy!:  She's booked a national commercial, will be starring in a Funny or Die short and auditioned for another successful Penn alum's pilot.

Plus she is pitching her reality show to Project Runway producers!

After the jump, watch Jess's next episode and read a special, somewhat cryptic note from Jess herself.

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Over the past couple of months I wrote a few posts about some alumni who had TV pilots in development with the networks.

Recently, all the networks have been announcing which pilots they've picked up and so far, it looks like 3 separate Penn alumni have TV shows with the big networks.

After the jump, find out who these alumni are and more about their pilots.

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Over the years, I have featured Whitney Cummings (C'03) on DT about her Comedy Central special and the various roasts she's been a part of. Her humor is downright dirty and I love it.

Now she is doing a bunch of notable "A"-list TV projects you should look out for in the coming year.

More after the jump!

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Comedian Whitney Cummings (C'03) is definitely getting around and becoming a Comedy Central favorite.

She roasted Joan Rivers (and it was harsh!) and recently David Hasselhoff (also harsh!).

This weekend, she has her own Comedy Central special airing (8/21, 11:30 pm/10:30c) and I'll let the title of the show, "Money Shot" speak for itself...

Check out her NSFW clip from the show after the jump!

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Last year I did a post about Whitney Cummings (C'03) being one of Entertainment Weekly's "12 Future Stars of Comedy". 

As you'll see in the above preview clip from this Sunday night's Friar's Club Joan Rivers roast, it is apparent why Whitney was given this title!

The video above is hysterical and definitely a not-safe-for-work video ...and Whitney pulls no stops when it comes to Joan's face!





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Another alum just made another Hollywood list.

Stand-Up Whitney Cummings (C'03) just made Entertainment Weekly's Top 12 future stars of comedy.

Per Entertainment Weekly,

"Why We Think She'll Be Big: Behind her model-like smile is a filthy, filthy mouth. The wickedly raunchy comedian — she wrote for the Bob Saget roast — finds time between incessant gigs for films (Made of Honor) and TV (MyNetworkTV's The Tony Rock Project).

Why She Thinks She'll Be Big: ''If I don't, I'm gonna make a sex tape with Aziz [Ansari]. There are no shortcuts, so I tend to be a workaholic. My hobby is my job. I'd be doing it for free. Which I think a lot of us do anyway.''"

Recently, I asked Whitney about which activities at Penn helped put her on the road to becoming a stand-up...

Per Whitney,

"I had a show on the Penn tv station that was a goofy cooking show with a friend of mine. I took Carolyn Marvin's class on the first amendment at Annenberg and it made me want to challenge taboos, and I tend to do that in my work as a stand up -we had a bunch of discussions and classes on Carlin's words you can never say on television-it got me really into carlin, even more so than i already was -that had a huge impact on me-and it made me want to push the envelope in whatever I ended up doing in my life. That class really made me interested in taboos and if you've seen my stand-up [see video above] you know I tend to explore and play with a lot of them. I tend to push the boundaries on network television and dive in to topics that society deems inappropriate - and whenever I deal with censorship it makes me think of that class I took at Penn.

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