Whitney Cummings on ‘The View’ — Comic takes intention at FBI Kash Patel

Whitney Cummings is utilizing her guest-hosting stint on “The View” to wade into politics.

The comic and actress, 43, laid into FBI Director Kash Patel in the course of the Monday, March 30 broadcast, poking enjoyable at studies that his private emails had been hacked.

“I mean, if Kash wanted his emails not to get released, he should have just CC’ed Jeffrey Epstein on them,” Cummings quipped in the course of the present, referring to a cache of emails which have been redacted or but to be launched from the property of late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. The joke received a hearty chuckle from the viewers and a observe of approval from co-hosts Sunny Hostin, who mentioned “correct,” and Whoopi Goldberg, who added, “well said.”

Cummings is one among a number of visitor hosts slated to assist fill in for sequence common Alyssa Farah Griffin, who welcomed a child earlier this 12 months. ABC has not but introduced when Griffin, the present’s present conservative commentator and former Trump White House staffer, will return from maternity depart.

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Cummings will seem on “The View” for the total week, becoming a member of Goldberg, Hostin, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, and Ana Navarro. Previous guest-panelists embrace Savannah Chrisley and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Cummings, a stand-up comedian recognized for the sitcom “2 Broke Girls” and her look at a number of Comedy Central roasts, has courted controversy in recent times for her participation in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival, which was critiqued by some over the nation’s strict censorship guidelines, and for a joke some perceived as transphobic.

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“The View” airs on ABC at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. CT on weekdays and streams on Hulu.