Comedian Whitney Cummings fired up her TikTok this week to share her cheeky take on Justin Baloni and Blake Lively’s legal drama.
Lively sued Baldoni last week, accusing him of sexually harassing her and fostering a toxic work environment on the set of their movie It Ends With Us, in which he both directed her and acted with her. He has staunchly denied the allegations.
In her complaint, Lively claimed Baldoni worked to tarnish her reputation with a team that included his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis PR expert Melissa Nathan, who previously worked with Johnny Depp. Abel has denied waging a ‘smear campaign.’
The case has elicited a torrent of commentary since news of it broke last weekend – and now, Cummings has thrown her hat into the ring.
She posted a TikTok video roasting Baldoni, mocking his ‘charity energy’ and slamming his public feminism as a ploy to ‘get laid.’
Cummings, 42, joked: ‘Why do I feel like in Justin Baldoni’s Notes app apology he’s gonna blame internalized misogyny, being too sensitive and being in ketosis?’
Comedian Whitney Cummings (pictured) fired up her TikTok this week to share her cheeky take on Justin Baloni and Blake Lively’s legal drama
She took aim at his looks, showing pictures that were taken of him when he sported long, curly dark hair and a lush beard.
Cummings called him the ‘Criss Angel of Burning Man’ and vamping: ‘I am calling his agent on Monday and asking how many times Justin has subtly requested to play Jesus in a movie. I bet it’s like 12.’
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His feminist activism came in for particular scorn, especially his support for the movement to ‘normalize breastfeeding.’
‘I don’t like when guys, especially symmetrical ones, try to get points for being like a feminist or like an ally. When guys fight for women’s rights, it’s how they get laid,’ the Good Mourning Actress said.
‘Feminist men always have the same causes,’ she remarked, barely able to contain her hilarity: ‘free the nipple and normalize breastfeeding. “I just, women, I think your breasts should be able to be out.”‘
She wondered aloud: ‘Does this guy have a charity? I feel he has big like charity energy, like a women’s equality charity energy. If I was a bad person, what’s the first thing I would do? Start a charity.’
Cummings found an online bio of Baldoni that noted his support for ‘childhood cancer charities,’ and joked: ‘Number one way to get laid? Support childhood cancer.’
She marveled: ‘Are Hollywood people allowed to just donate and participate without telling a publicist?’ quipping that the donations come with an agreement ‘that says if I donate to your charity you have to disclose it to everybody so that when I go to Coachella this year I get all the chicks with tattoos that say: “Breed.”‘
Lively sued Baldoni last week, accusing him of sexually harassing her and fostering a toxic work environment on the set of their movie It Ends With Us
Baldoni, pictured in 2019 with his wife Emily at the Jumanji: The Next Level premiere, has staunchly denied the claims in Lively’s lawsuit
Cummings, 42, joked: ‘Why do I feel like in Justin Baldoni ‘s Notes app apology he’s gonna blame internalized misogyny, being too sensitive and being in ketosis?’
Grinning, she said: ‘Justin Baldoni is the kind of guy who’s like: “I’m gonna go to the Slutwalk to advocate for these sluts that are being shamed, and if I see one slut that’s being shamed, I will invite her to my house that is a safe space for her to be a slut.”‘
She joked that he was the sort of person who would complain about having jet-lag from a trip to England that took place two months prior.
‘Justin Baldoni is totally the guy who’s like: “You look so much prettier without makeup – unless you’re starring in the movie that I’m directing, in which case you need to wear caulk, grout, shellac, be in makeup for two and a half hours,”‘ she said.
In the caption, Cummings wrote: ‘Roast of Justin Baldoni – didn’t intend for that but I Googled him and here we are. Also I’m sure Blake Lively was whatever in some junkets fine but I honestly could have said all this before that movie even got made.’
During the run-up to the release of It Ends With Us, Lively repeatedly went viral as social media users slammed her ‘mean girl’ behavior in interviews – a trend she now insists was the result of an ‘astroturfing’ campaign waged by Baldoni’s PR team.
Since news of Lively’s lawsuit broke on Saturday, Baldoni’s career has imploded, as he was dropped by his agency William Morris Endeavor.
Liz Plank, one of the co-hosts of Baldoni’s Man Enough podcast that billed itself as a space for ‘positive masculinity,’ announced she was quitting the show.
Lively, who is married to Deadpool lead Ryan Reynolds and who is close friends with pop superstar Taylor Swift, has seen former colleagues rally around her.
Her It Ends With Us co-stars Brandon Sklenar and Jenny Slate have spoken out to support her, as has Colleen Hoover, author of the novel on which the film is based.