Whitney

NBC has had mostly good tidings for fans of its comedies so far, renewing 30 Rock and Community, and now it's also given additional seasons to Parks and Recreation, Whitney, and Up All Night. However, we've also got some cancellation news to report: Are You There, Chelsea, Awake, Bent, and Best Friends Forever have all gotten the ax. All four shows were midseason entrants, and I'm not terribly surprised to see them go. In the meantime, I plan on celebrating the Parks and Recreation news (especially since it's also getting a full 22-episode order) the same way the gang gave it up for Leslie's election victory on the season finale.

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Back in February, we asked Chris D'Elia, the hot and hilarious boyfriend on NBC's Whitney, to answer your dating questions. Chris's answers were direct, helpful, and funny. "Don't wear flip flops." "If a guy's talking to you, he's interested." And skip the perfume on a first date because "a smell is a big thing. Pheromones. Don't cover that." Today, BuzzSugar chatted with Whitney Cummings, the show's creator and star and one of our favorite funny women out there. She revealed that while the show started with Chris and Whitney's characters as a happily unmarried modern couple, they might get engaged on the season finale. Apparently Alex, played by Chris, is going to propose.

Today Whitney also weighed in on her costar Chris's advice-giving abilities and her love for our site and all of our reader questions and advice. Here's what Whitney said:

Your costar Chris D'Elia took our readers' relationship questions, and his advice was so spot-on. So I have to know if he ever gives you dating advice?
Whitney Cummings: I think dating advice from Chris is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. He's such a moron. Why? No, no! And by the way, TrèsSugar is one of my favorite websites, I'm on it constantly. I'm like tweeting with them, I'm obsessed with that website. I'm not kidding, I go on that site a lot to think of ideas for the show because you guys have such great like, "how to know your relationship's crumbling" or whatever. I'm always on that site. I love it.

You should comment!
WC: It's like, on my home screen. It's on my, what's that bar, you know the bar, with all your sites? (A bookmark?) It's a bookmark! It's one of my home sites, on my slab or whatever.

But back to Chris. We loved his advice.
WC: [Chris] is an idiot but he is so smart and so lovely and so sensitive. But he's also a dude; that's why I was so attracted to him — I wrote the part for him, for him to be the boyfriend of the show. Because you don't see a lot of MEN on TV anymore. He's like, a real man, he's a dude. So much of what's great about him is when I'm running circles around him, and he's like, "OK." He just is like, a guy. His energy's so great.

For more from Whitney, check out Buzz's full interview.

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NBC's comedy Whitney initially revolved around its main characters being happily unmarried, but when I chatted with series creator and star Whitney Cummings, she spilled that we may be seeing Whitney and Alex getting engaged. She also talked about the recent breakup of Lily and Neal and how that will affect Whitney's attitude, along with some funny insights into her working relationship with her onscreen boyfriend, played by the very wise Chris D'Elia.

BuzzSugar: Neal and Lily's breakup surprised me; was it always planned to break them up?
Whitney Cummings: Well, I think I always planned for them to break up, and I think throughout the season we saw them very gradually and incrementally showing their differences and incompatibilities. We saw that Lily didn't get along with Neal's mother because Neal's mother wanted him to date an Indian girl, so she tried to do all these things where she was Indian. They ended up sort of making up at the end of the episode, but in the "Game Night" episode they were playing games and they weren't in sync, and weren't on the same wavelength and arguing, so they've been sort of always having some discourse throughout the season. We've tried to lay it in very subtly, and then when they started dealing with their wedding arrangements, that's when it really hit the fan — when he asked about getting a prenup. To me, I always envisioned this because I have seen so many cases where I see a perfectly happy couple who are together three, four years, don't fight, [but] as soon as they get engaged, all these problems start, you know? It's planning the wedding, and where are we going to get married, and who are the guests, and how much are we going to spend? And then this perfectly happy couple is fighting constantly, and that always was kind of sad to me. So that's what I always wanted to do with them [Lily and Neal].

Buzz: So will that give Whitney more fuel for her antimarriage stance?
WC: In fact, the show has a really great, fulfilling arc to it this year. In the pilot you sort of see me saying "marriage is not for me, I come from a lot of divorce, I do not want to get married, that's when the problems start." And in the finale, you will see me at a complete 180 degrees from that. Because throughout the series, we've shown me incrementally grow and get more into the idea of marriage and by the finale . . . you'll have to see, won't you?

Buzz: I saw a spoilery picture where it looks like Alex is proposing . . .
WC: [Joking] Or did he fall? Maybe I was knighting him? Maybe we were doing an African dance class, I don't know. But yes, Alex does propose to me. It's a two-part finale, so he proposes, and then in the finale . . . you'll just have to see what happens.

To find out whether Whitney says yes to Alex, just keep reading.

Last night on Whitney, Whit gets a fake sand push-up bra from work and shows off her new busty figure to boyfriend Alex (played by comedian Chris D'Elia). At first the pair joke about the new look and have a little fun with it in the bedroom, but after Alex makes it clear he really likes the fake boobs, Whitney starts to get self-conscious about her small chest. When she asks him to explain, Alex makes the huge mistake of saying he likes the curvy look because it's "like being with a different woman" and that "sometimes you get sick of the same body."

While Alex fails miserably (and hilariously) at getting his point across, can you relate to wanting something new and different from your partner? And is it natural to want your man to mix things up with his look or personality, or a bad sign about the relationship? Watch the funny clip now and share your experiences in the comments!

If you're feeling a Valentine's Day sugar hangover from too much chocolate and sweet talk, NBC's Whitney (Wednesday, 8/7c) is just the cure with its amusing and relatable take on modern dating. On this week's episode, we learn how Whitney and her live-in boyfriend Alex first met back in 2008 and we have an exclusive preview just for you. Who knew Alex was so familiar with the pick-up artist tactics from The Game? I guess they worked on Whitney!

If you watch Whitney, you know Chris D'Elia as Whit's shaggy-haired, live-in boyfriend Alex, a web entrepreneur who's either driving Whit crazy or making her laugh (and sometimes both). And if you follow Chris on Twitter, you know the stand-up comedian can be quite entertaining in 140 characters or less. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Chris is going to answer our readers' dating and relationship questions. You can ask Chris for his take on Valentine's Day gifts men will actually like, creative ways to enjoy the day if you're single, or for advice on dating, love, and everything else awkward and amusing about male and female relationships. We'll be taking your questions today and sending them to Chris. Just ask away in the comments and stay tuned for the answers next week!

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Good news for fans of NBC's new comedies: the network has just ordered full seasons of Whitney and Up All Night. I'm not surprised that Will Arnett and Christina Applegate's new sitcom got picked up, since it's been getting decent ratings and good buzz, though I wasn't expecting Whitney Cummings's show to get the green light so quickly. Have you been watching Up All Night and/or Whitney?

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Comedian Whitney Cummings has a lot going on this Fall — not only is she a writer and creator of CBS's new series 2 Broke Girls, but she also stars in NBC sitcom Whitney. To wit, NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt introduced her as "TV's It girl," and the funny lady talked about how she's dividing up her schedule. She joked her way through the Whitney TCA panel as she, her fellow cast members, and showrunners talked about the new comedy, which focuses on the happily unmarried couple of Cummings's character and her boyfriend, Alex, played by Chris D'Elia.

• As to what part of the character Whitney is like the real Whitney, executive producer Betsy Thomas praised Cummings's experience as a stand-up comedian; her "very funny observations on the things that we take for granted" are worked in to the character. Additionally, Thomas called Cummings "a ball of energy" and said that sometimes she can take things to the extreme, like the way the character of Whitney dresses up in a nurse costume when she thinks she and her boyfriend aren't having enough sex.
• For the role of Whitney's boyfriend, Alex, Cummings said she wrote the show with D'Elia in mind. They had known each other for years because he was a fellow stand-up comedian. Because of that, D'Elia said they have a shorthand that most actors don't have, while Cummings gushed over her costar, joking that D'Elia is "the most talented young comedian working . . . besides me." Regarding the dynamic between Whitney and Alex, Cummings said it would be "more like the Lucy-and-Desi relationship" of I Love Lucy.

Keep reading to get more scoop from the Whitney TCA panel.