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The Gist: After presenting two comedy roasts on the OnlyFans TV platform (one of Bert Kreischer, as well as one of herself), Cummings now has debuted the first major stand-up comedy special on the platform. It’s her sixth overall, having written and performed two for Comedy Central, one for HBO and two for Netflix.

Filmed at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood while she was seven months pregnant, Cummings has not only babies on her brain, but also jokes deconstructing the trendy nature of debates over trans women, drag queens, and the idea that anything is joke-worthy, at least for a professional comedian.

What Comedy Specials Will It Remind You Of?: Certainly there are more than a few other women in comedy performing their specials whilst pregnant in recent years to compare this to, among them Ali Wong (Baby Cobra), Amy Schumer (Growing), and Jena Friedman (Ladykiller). It’s fertile ground for observational comedy, obviously.

Memorable Jokes: An opening salvo about how pregnancy means having to stop smoking weed isn’t funny because it’s true as much for Cummings; rather it allows her to indulge in some very sharable crowd work interactions early on, finding out why some of her audience members no longer toke up. There’s also a young married couple sitting front row center who distract Cummings later in the performance, but she eventually works it to her advantage in a callback.

The term “geriatric” for any pregnancy after age 35 baffles her, since she’s glad she waited until she was 40 and cannot fathom why women would become mothers before they’re fully mature themselves.

If you’re looking for references to other comedians, she’s got those, too, specifically for two big men in comedy that lots of men look up to in Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan. So, about trans women in sports. The closet joke she herself has to that topic is a modification of the gender identity trope, claiming that poor people grow up in “whatever gender your older sibling was” thanks to hand-me-downs, and since Cummings wore hockey jerseys to school as a kid, “I identified as a goalie.”

On Chappelle, she jokes: “If you’re upset about what Dave Chappelle said about trans women, wait ’til you hear what he has been saying about women for the past 30 years” As for Rogan, she later wonders if so many men have become nerdy about becoming jocks just in case they cross paths with the podcasting giant.

So yeah, it’s tough out there for a woman’s survival, no matter how she gets there. But Cummings wonders why it’s mostly men focused on trans women in sports when there aren’t that many of them and the men don’t have a stake in the outcome. She suspects it might be because men think of everything in sports terms and teams, and a trans woman to them is a traitor who defected to the other team and is spilling all of their secrets. She brings it full circle by qualifying herself. “I’m allowed to joke about this. I’m a female comedian. It’s the same as being in the WNBA,” Cummings jokes. “People don’t want to see us, either.”

Our Take: In the opening seconds of her special, we see Cummings preparing backstage and worrying about losing her voice on the day she’s filming, only to voice something that seems to respond to previous criticism of her comedy stylings. “Maybe it’s better that way, so I’m not too yelly on stage,” she says.

Cummings has had a reputation for being mouthy onstage, but not in the overtly orally sexual way that one might expect to find on OnlyFans. It’s simpler and more literal than that. She’s a comedian who’s long been known as opinionated and not afraid to be loud about it.

Which makes a different moment captured backstage (as seen in the trailer) even more fitting, where Cummings goes over her notes, reading aloud: “Weed, geriatric, dickhead, crypto. Setlist or suicide note?” Clearly the former. But in recent years, comedians have made hay over the idea that they might be committing career suicide by merely doing their jobs in telling jokes. It’s only true for bad comedians. As Cummings points out, comedians can make great jokes about anything, whereas people with office jobs are the ones truly at risk for saying the wrong thing. She hopefully has put that self-indulgent myth of comedy to rest, as well as some of the most tired tried-but-true hack jokes from men about trans people, which as she also notes, only seems to focus on the trans women. Male comedians seem just fine with trans men for some reason. So telling.

Our Call: STREAM IT. For all of the nerves Cummings gives off in her backstage scenes (which she directed herself), this might be her most focused special yet. And if you’ve been waiting for a seemingly legitimate reason to tell your friends or co-workers you’re watching something on OnlyFans and missed the opportunities Cummings previously provided with her two comedy roasts, then now’s your chance to check out OF.TV.

Sean L. McCarthy works the comedy beat. He also podcasts half-hour episodes with comedians revealing origin stories: The Comic’s Comic Presents Last Things First.