Whitney Cummings Says Sabrina Carpenter 'The Conners' Rejection Was A Blessing

Whitney Cummings says rejecting Sabrina Carpenter from "The Conners" was the best thing that could have happened to the pop star.

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00:00I saw that Sabrina Carpenter could have been on the Connors, you know, your show

00:09and you're a showrunner on there. How did that actually go down because I

00:13know she didn't end up getting the role.

00:18I mean, not because she couldn't do it. Sabrina Carpenter, I'm such a big fan. I've been such a big fan for so long.

00:25And when she came in to audition for the Roseanne reboot to play Darlene's daughter, she was amazing, but

00:33we needed like a little more like darkness.

00:37And she just is like, she like radiates light. She came in and like blinded us with her.

00:45It just, it didn't feel... It didn't work. It didn't work.

00:49It's like, I mean, I don't have to tell you part of the reason, you know, so many of us in Hollywood

00:54develop drug addictions is because you don't get jobs you deserve for reasons out of your control.

00:59So she came in and it was just like, it was also so clear that she was Sabrina Carpenter.

01:04It was like, what are you doing here? Get out of here.

01:07Like, you know, she was already touring. She was already selling out, you know, arenas and stuff like that.

01:12You know, so it's one of those things where rejection really is God's protection.

01:17And I would like to take credit for...

01:20Does she owe you a thank you?

01:22I feel like I deserve commission on her touring.

01:26If we had said yes, which I really wanted to, I was like, we'll make it work.

01:31We'll put freckles on her. We'll do something.

01:33You know, we'll make it so she can't sleep, so she has a darker energy or something.

01:38And because she'd still be on that show right now.

01:41Right, right. And it was just like a full-time situation.

01:44And not touring. Yeah, she would still be on the Conners right now.

01:47And she escaped the Roseanne tweet drama too.

01:50Yeah, she would have been in the...

01:53Yeah, we would have been, hey, hey, what you think about Roseanne's tweet?

01:56Her whole life, her number one Google search would be Roseanne Brace's tweet.

02:00So she dodged a million bullets.

02:03How about some free tickets? How about some free tickets?

02:05How about it?

02:06How about some, like, I don't know.

02:09Receipts? I don't know.

02:11Hey, give her a call, Sabrina.

02:12I feel like the people that say no to you are way more important in your career than the people that say yes sometimes.

02:18She just had a big breakup. It's, like, public.

02:20Any advice?

02:22You've probably been through a couple.

02:23Block them.

02:24Block them.

02:25Block a bitch.

02:26Block a bitch.

02:27Hey, thank you so much. You're the best.