Amy Schumer
Smiles sweetly while detailing the absolute worst version of herself.
7 specials · 2010–2023
Start with Live at the Apollo, the most honored (2015 · 61 min · HBO)
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Amy Schumer works at half-speed. She will walk onto a theater stage, hold the microphone near her chest, and look out at the crowd with the wide, innocent smile of a sorority rush chair. Then she describes a bodily fluid, a romantic humiliation, or a completely selfish act in that same cheerful, unhurried cadence. The rhythm relies entirely on misdirection. She builds a premise where she appears to be the wronged party, only to drop a punchline that reveals she was the villain the whole time.
Specials
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Amy Schumer Presents: Parental Advisory with Jaye McBride, Ron Funches & 4 more
A quick-moving showcase of family-centric stand-up from the Hollywood Palladium.
Netflix · 57 min
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Explicit raunch and Hollywood self-deprecation in a tight leather bodysuit.
Netflix · 57 min
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A casual, dirty hour about the humiliating mechanics of dating.
Comedy Central · 61 min
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An early network half-hour recorded before the fame hit.
Comedy Central · 21 min
On stage
She is in a fascinating phase of her career. After a massive peak in the mid-2010s that included a sketch show, arena tours, and movies, the inevitable backlash followed. Instead of retreating, she just kept getting older on stage. She no longer tries to win over the internet. She plays to the millennial audiences who aged alongside her, trading blackout drinking stories for jokes about marriage, motherhood, and major surgery.
Her writing is sharpest when she leans into the physical reality of having a body. She will detail her ailments or dissect a bad sexual encounter with zero vanity, daring the room to look away. Sometimes, she relies a bit too much on the audience’s shock, pausing after a filthy line to let their disbelief do the work of a second joke. But when she tightens the screws on a story, refusing to let herself off the hook for her own bad behavior, she proves why she outlasted her own overexposure. She lets herself look terrible, and she never rushes the delivery.
Turning points
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First Stand-Up Set at Gotham Comedy Club
Amy Schumer began performing stand-up comedy on June 1, 2004, at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City.
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Fourth-Place Finish on Last Comic Standing
Schumer advanced to the finals of NBC's Last Comic Standing season five, finishing in fourth place and raising her national profile.
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Grammy Nomination for Live at the Apollo
Her HBO special album Live at the Apollo received a nomination for Best Comedy Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
At a glance
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Keith Robinson
Keith Robinson co-hosts Schumer's comedy podcast 'Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith', sharing a conversational, raw comedic dynamic.
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Bridget Everett
Bridget Everett is a frequent collaborator and podcast co-host with Schumer on '3 Girls, 1 Keith', sharing an uninhibited, candid comedic voice.
Podcasts
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Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith · host
Amy Schumer and friends Bridget Everett, Rachel Feinstein, and Keith Robinson dish about their lives, pop culture, politics, and stand-up comedy.
Also on screen
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
- Price Check
- 2013–2016
- Inside Amy Schumer
- Trainwreck
- Snatched
A clip to start with
A clip of Amy Schumer