'Whitney' on NBC HD - Page 2

It was not quite as bad as I expected. Might as well watch a few more episodes. No denying she looks good in a nurse outfit.

Whitney and New Girl.

Which, if either, will survive.

What are Vegas odds?

Pretty face, but her body is nothing remotely special. She herself points out her pancake butt and flat chest. It's her voice that grates on me the most.

My wife and I both really liked it. Laughed a lot. Not sure why so many people are upset about live audience/laugh tracks.

Cummings acknowledged that some people may find the audience "jarring" as no other sitcoms on NBC are currently filmed that way, but pointed out that previous hits like Cheers, Roseanne, Seinfeld and Friends were shot in front of a crowd.

Lots of shows have studio audiences laughing and are not as obnoxious as the laughter on Whitney. It invariably just exploded out of silence, even for bits that were not all that funny. After years of witty comedies that don't feel they need to film in front of an an audience in order to alert home viewers as to what is funny... I just can't handle augmented laughter any more.

I too cannot understand why people like or don't like laugh tracks. For me if the material is funny I like it, if not I don't. The laugh tracks don't add to, or detract from, the shows in any way for me. I thought the show was pretty funny.

I saw Whitney's Money shot stand up and there were times where the crowd laughed, but I didn't find it THAT funny. It's awkward that way as much as a laugh track can be...

Whitney will live or die by the strength of her supporting cast. I think she is funnier than Ray Romano, but that show had a great collection of supporting actors.

I watched the show and thought it started off terribly. It got a lot better when she got in the sexy nurses' outfit.

I'll give it another episode or two to make up mind about it.

That's a great point... Ray Romano had some very seasoned and experienced actors as well as some other talented newcomers.

Aside from the guest-appearance by the actress playing Whitney's mother, I'm not sure anyone else on the show has any cred... and the guy playing her boyfriend, I swear sometimes it felt like he was reading cue cards or something the way he was delivering his lines.

Maybe it's because I am not a Whitney Cummings fan at all- but I thought this show was just horrid. The laughter that is supposedly real, seems canned and the acting was bad. I don't see it lasting long. It is bad to segue from the Office to that.

I like it how they start off saying taped in front of a live audience Would that be VHS for Umatic I didn't think things were taped anymore? Remindes me of All in the family where they start out saying video taped in front of a live audience, and believe me from the picture quality of my commercial DVDs they DO look like it was Umatic quality
Anyway I really disliked the laughing, I mean it was at everything, although after the first few minutes I was kind of able to ignore it.
While I agree Whitney doesn't have the classic body I did enjoy the nurse scene you'd think she would have changed or at least kept her jacket buttoned during the hospital visit though....oh that's right, they wanted more excuses to show Whitney's unclassic body
I've setup a season pass, we'll see how it goes

Digital video cameras record to tape... so if they shoot Whitney with a digital video camera, it might very well be taped...


Jacket buttoned makes sense... but when your boyfriend is laying unconscious on your floor, you probably don't feel like you have time to change clothes before getting him to the hospital. "Sorry you suffered brain damage, honey, but I had to change clothes."

That is, I think, the reason that so many of these types of shows fail--nobody realizes that it's the supporting cast, rather than the headline comedian, that carries the show.

That was the secret to Seinfeld's success, and it's surprising that so few have picked up on it since. But I think it's pretty clear watching this pilot that the goal for Whitney was to produce a show on as small a budget as possible.

Well, I vastly preferred Whitney to New Girl. NG had 1 minute of funny monologue during the 'snap' exchange in the begining, and then it was awful. It was a throwback to the worst of 70s sitcoms.

correct! look at parks and rec. not till they developed the characters and personlities of the supporting cast did they show take off, although the great masses still don't know that this is the funniest sitcom on tv.

The second episode of Whitney is much better than the first. Watched it on Yahoo.

Much better episode tonight.

Still waiting for it to be funny.

Much better episode tonight.

Agreed. And the laugh track seemed dialed down a ways as well.

watched for the first time last night and only got half way through when i turned it off. it's not funny, and even if they perform before a live audience, that audience is being prompted to laugh at everything, whether it is remotely funny or not.

my guess is this show dies.

when does 30 rock come back? they can put 30 rock into whitney;s slot

If I turn my "male" off it's funny. If I have my "male" on this was @#$%ing horrible...

I'm out! the second episode was unbearable and I don't see it getting much better. Now put Whitney in another nurse outfit and I might be back

I'm out too, but I must say there is no outfit they could put her in they could make me watch. Yuck.

If they make a new Popeye film, they've got their Olive Oil...

I bailed 7 minutes into the second episode. I know "filmed before a live audience" but I swear they are juicing the laughter. Whatever the case it's just unbearable. It's a shame too because I hate to bail on what I consider an attractive woman.

I'm hanging with the show but I agree with the horrendous pacing and laugh tracks I am seeing on these sitcoms including this one, New Girl and 2 Broke Girls. The networks don't trust that people can figure out what is funny or not and when to laugh -- you need a guide or other people to tell you what is funny. And then you need every second line to be a come back or smartass remark that is supposed to be funny. I still like Whitney and see it as an updated I Love Lucy sort of deal. The characters seem to be mostly good hearted and the situations are (perhaps unfortunately for me) in the realm of possibility.

+1. That's about how long I lasted. No MÃ*s.

I've only watched the 1st episode, and I actually liked it mostly, but that is the loudest laugh track I've ever heard. Not only loud, but loud @ things that weren't even jokes. At one point a girl says to a guy, "Oh you're with the loud girl?" and he says "Yeah, Whitney" and there is an explosion of laughter of the likes I have never heard. Ummm, THAT WASN'T EVEN A JOKE!!!!!! I thought maybe I needed to adjust my speaker levels but since everyone else noticed it too I guess I'm okay.

2nd episode was about as bad as TV gets. And was a constant reminder as to why comedies with laugh tracks have no business being recorded by my DVR.

The comment about Olive Oil is spot on.