Georgetown-bred Whitney Cummings is a rising star in the realm of Dirty-Mouthed But Hot Lady Comics -- more intense than Chelsea Handler and more feminine than Sarah Silverman, declares a fan in Dan Zak's profile -- and she's playing bigger and bigger rooms. But "insecurity is proportional to the size of the venue. With two sitcoms and a talk show in the works, the venue -- and the stakes -- has never been bigger...she now must constantly raise the bar to stay hot." Oh, and don't call her beautiful. "I [bleeping] hate that."
In other news: Sad, soon-to-be-ex-congressmen, evicted from their nice offices, hunker down in sad little cubicles in the Rayburn basement, waiting for their exit papers.