Good For You with Whitney Cummings: The Roast of 2025

Episode 323 – December 27, 2025
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A sharp, satirical “roast” of the absurdities, cultural moments, and collective neuroses that defined 2025, led by comedian Whitney Cummings, with recurring banter from her producer Pat. Whitney skewers everything—celebrity, politics, history, influencers, and more—with her signature blend of sarcasm, personal anecdotes, and self-aware comedy.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Backstage Banter: Behind the Scenes with Whitney and Pat

• Whitney and Pat open with playful banter about the chaos of working together, Pat’s role as Whitney’s handler, and the parade of social media managers contacting Pat to get Whitney to check her phone ([00:52]–[06:37]).
  • Memorable moment: Whitney jokes about choreographing increasingly convoluted ways to get Pat’s attention, and hints at the constant swirl of requests in a high-profile comic’s life.
  • Quote:
    “You could ask me, truly anything, and I would never ask you, like, ‘hey, so all the naked photos of you in your iPhone, could you just AirDrop me?’ I’d be like, fine. What?” —Pat ([04:17])

2. Tour Announcements and Setting Up the Roast

• Whitney breezes through her upcoming 2025 tour dates with absurd side-comments, puns, and threats to whoever hid a football player’s helmet at a game ([06:37]–[07:59]).

3. A Roasting Recap of 2025: News, Pop Culture, and Everything in Between

• The heart of the episode—Whitney’s “Roast of 2025”—is a barrage of zingers and commentary on the year’s biggest talking points ([07:59]–[19:54]).
  • TikTok Drama and Algorithm Reality
    • Whitney laments the near-loss of TikTok and society’s addiction to sensational violence on social, while noting that the only real change is we now assume all news is fake.
    • Custom algorithms are now everyone’s personal “reality filter.”
    • Quote:
      “2025 was the year our algorithms gave every one of us our own custom reality. Some people bought tickets to see Avril Lavigne in concert and others thought she’d been dead for 10 years.” —Whitney ([08:49])
  • America’s Division and the End Times
    • The running joke: “America is more divided than ever… unless you count the Civil War.”
    • Darkly comedic take on New York, major cities, and world unrest.
  • Epstein Files and Elite Crime
    • Skewers the delayed release of the Epstein list, pokes at elite incompetence, and calls out double standards in punishment.
    • Quote:
      “Hundreds of powerful creeps involved, and the only person who’s been punished so far is the woman… It’s like, they’re like, we all know that she was the brains of the operation. As long as she’s locked up, we know that it’s over. Because guys can’t really operate without getting caught.” —Whitney ([11:13])
  • Surveillance and “Too Much Speech”
    • Whitney notes the paradox of a year obsessed with surveillance, and the exhaustion at the sheer amount of “free speech” online.
    • Quote:
      “You get what you pay for. I think I speak for everyone when I say this was the year we were all like, where’s the two, $3 speech? Like, is there a luxury package where I can only get speech that’s somewhat coherent?” —Whitney ([12:30])
  • Ukraine War Attention Span
    • Social attention spans shift overnight; jokes about Zelensky’s height and how media narratives change based on optics.
    • Quote:
      “We never should have seen Zelensky next to other men. It just made us all feel like catfish. We’ve been texting this guy for five years. He shows up like, you said you were five-ten.” —Whitney ([13:57])
  • Personal Life Satire
    • Whitney interjects with wedding planning woes, exhaustion, and “mom brain,” keeping things personal and self-deprecating ([15:47]).

4. Trump, Classified Files, and Political Absurdities

• A fast-talking run through Trump’s latest moves, the bizarre release of files on MLK and Amelia Earhart, and Elon Musk joining the White House ([20:53]–[24:00]).
  • Quote:
    “Why is our president only interested in things he learned about in the first grade? Next year, Trump releasing the files on Pluto and Quicksand.” —Pat ([20:53])
  • The joke about AI influencers: AI now only looks “real” because real influencers have become so fake.

5. Escalating Absurdity: News, Hoaxes, and Viral Videos

• Everything is either ridiculously fake or frighteningly real; the only “trustworthy” news is Ring camera footage.
• Satirical PSA: If you believe viral videos of “animal odd couples,” you probably didn’t grow up outside—a theme of urban gullibility ([24:09]).

6. The Year in Celebrity, Influencers & Cringe Culture

• 2025 is officially “the year of cringe” and the try-hard economy:
  • 50% of kids now want to be influencers.
  • Success and authenticity are mocked, and former A-list celebrities are forced into embarrassing new podcast appearances to stay relevant.
  • “Cringe is currency”; public humiliation rituals are the new status symbols.
  • Quote:
    “We are in a try-hard economy where attention is more valuable than money. So to call someone cringe honestly is just a defense to justify why you’re not building an MLM douche business on TikTok.” —Whitney ([35:24])

7. Movies, Aliens, and the Escape into Entertainment

• Even the year’s movies are a disaster: Celebrities can’t win; the “Wicked” press tour starts feeling like an introduction to alien invasion.
• Jokes about terminology shifts from UFO → UAP → UFC—aliens seamlessly integrated into culture ([39:10]).

8. The Meaningless Whirl of the News Cycle

• Summary and meta-reflection: Everything in 2025 blends together; no one remembers the news from week to week.
  • Quote:
    “2025 was like a giant hangover after an election year where we all couldn’t recall what happened and everything was a blackout—not as blacked out as the faces in the Epstein files… but way to go, guys, protect those creeps.” —Whitney ([41:15])
• Unclear what was real: “To half of you, this will be voracious journalism. To the other half of you, I think the earth is flat.”

9. Memorable Quotes & Running Gags

• “America is like the Titanic. Mostly because ice has split it in half.” ([09:40])
• “I do think the real reason [the Ukraine war got less attention] is that Zelensky met with Trump in person and… everyone found out that Zelensky’s short… It made us feel like we’ve been catfished.” ([13:45])
• “We tell girls shoot for the moon… but don’t actually go to space, you idiot.” ([34:00])
• “Being a celebrity in Hollywood has always been weird. …You have to literally get on your knees, but now a bunch of people… have to go on ‘Call Her Daddy.’” ([40:00])

Important Segments & Timestamps

• 00:52–06:37: Hilarious behind-the-scenes chatter between Whitney and Pat
• 07:59–19:54: The formal “Roast of 2025”—major events, culture, internet, news
• 20:53–24:00: Trump, Musk, AI influencers, and government absurdity
• 24:09–29:03: Social media, viral hoaxes, and influencer culture
• 35:20–39:10: Movies, celebrities, and integrating aliens into pop culture
• 41:15–42:32: Reflection on the indistinguishable haze of 2025 news and events

Tone & Style

• Whitney’s signature rapid-fire, sarcastic, and self-referential comedy.
• Mix of sharp social commentary, exaggerated hypothetical scenarios, and satirical one-liners.
• Pat’s deadpan interjections provide comic relief and highlight the absurdity.

For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is a whirlwind tour through 2025’s chaos, delivered as a blend of stand-up, news parody, and slice-of-life podcast comedy. It skewers the year’s trends, news cycles, and the blurred line between reality and manufactured outrage—without ever feeling preachy. Whitney’s “roast” lampoons the exhaustion and surrealism of the modern information age, pokes at influencer folly, and offers genuine laughs at society’s collective existential crisis.

If you want a cathartic, comedic exorcism of the past year’s nonsense and a reminder not to take it all too seriously, this episode is for you.