Whitney Cummings arrives at the premiere of “Shotgun Wedding” at TCL Chinese Theatre in 2023 in Los Angeles.
Comedian Whitney Cummings on Wednesday shared the jokes she cut from her CNN New Year’s set, including one seemingly at the expense of transgender people.
“Another 2024 CNN joke I cut for time: Shania Twain’s on the show tonight. Reminds me of this year’s Paris Olympic theme: ‘Man! I feel like a Woman,’” Cummings posted on X , the former Twitter, referencing Twain’s late-’90s hit.
Cummings wrote that she cut the joke because she “didnt know if [Twain] was going to go before or after me or if she would even do that song.”
Some people on X praised Cummings’ joke, while others questioned what exactly it meant.
“Is the joke just… trans people,” one person wrote .
“if you have to resort to this sort of transphobia in your comedy, you are announcing to the world that you are so desperately unfunny and your creative well is entirely dried up,” another person wrote .
The 2024 Olympics were accompanied by a firestorm of public transphobia , much of it directed at Algerian female boxer Imane Khelif, who is not trans .