I’ve never been a huge fan of Amy Schumer. I did like her move well enough; but never appreciated her stand-up as much as others. Evidently her recent NetFlix show is getting hammered with 1 star reviews. Upon closer inspection it’s being said that a lot of the hate is from alt-right misogynist types.
This isn’t really poll worthy because I don’t care about the numbers as much as the comments so I’ll just throw this out there:
Do you generally like or dislike Amy Schumer’s style of stand-up?
Why or Why Not?
Have you seen her latest NetFlix special?
If so, what were your thoughts on it?
I liked her first stand up show that was on Netflix and I liked TrainWreck. Her latest one, though, called Leather something… I didn’t laugh much. I admire her for owning her figure and proudly being a real woman (although some call her fat, I don’t) but I don’t know why she felt compelled to squeeze herself into that ugly leather pantsuit. She also seemed a bit drunk through the later half of the show, to it’s detriment.
My sister, who is definitely a feminist and loves Amy, really hated this special. Too vulgar for the sake of vulgarity, and the funny suffered. Said she turned it off after 15 minutes.
So I’m sure many of the 3s and even 2s were the legitimate gripes of disappointed fans. But Seven hundred and twenty 1s and 0s (out of 876) most likely isn’t a fair representation of the quality.
they play her stand up material a quite a bit on SiriusXM. I think she’s usually pretty funny.
wouldn’t surprise me, since they’re largely a bunch of insecure guys who get real uncomfortable when a woman talks frankly and explicitly about sex. And she doesn’t back down from them either.
Louis CK goes too crude for me pretty often, which makes me feel super old and middlebrow. Amy Schumer’s sketch comedy hasn’t yet gone too crude for my tastes, but I haven’t watched enough of her standup to know how that compares.
I love Amy Schumer in general but I disliked this latest special so much that I couldn’t even finish it. She was just dialing it in and I agree that she sounds legitimately drunk in it. It isn’t the worst thing in the world but it isn’t up to her normal standards. She should have tried a lot harder. I didn’t rate it anywhere but I would give it a 2 at best if I did.
I’m glad it wasn’t just me! I thought maybe I was getting tired of her type of humor (which I have always enjoyed, and I love Trainwreck); I did not enjoy most of this one. I spent most of it thinking how much better she looks in a cute dress than that outfit!
I generally like her, I love her show, I liked train wreck a lot, I turned the latest special off after about 15 minutes. It was bad. Really bad. Like Amy Schumer doing an Amy Schumer impression. I don’t know what was going on, but it was not good. Maybe she has become too self aware?
I’m glad to read this thread. Now I know not to waste my time on it. I almost watched it last night, but instead watched The Omen. I see I made the right decision.
Liked Amy’s stand-up quite a lot. As does my wife. We saw her live just as she was ‘blowing up’ in terms of popularity so it was at a reasonably small theater and we had 2nd row seats. She was great.
Tried to watch her new special “Something-Leather-Something-Whatever…” it was called the other night on Netflix together. We turned it off in less than 10 minutes. It was stale, vulgar with no apparent purpose, and just bad-not-funny.
Earlier today I came across a comment somewhere that suggested that Amy has had too much success too quickly, and I found myself agreeing with a fair portion of what that writer said.
I enjoyed the first special and other bits of her standup I’d seen, and I really enjoyed her show on CC - there were some brilliant bits in that. I didn’t particularly enjoy Trainwreck, but that movie isn’t really the sort I would have enjoyed, regardless. It was fine, for what it was, but it didn’t have the cleverness that would have raised my opinion of it out of the genre it belongs to.
This special was, to me, horrid. It was very formulaic and clownish - just as you’d expect from a comic who’s doing too much, too quickly, to be really funny and original. The gross-out humor was just gross, and not particularly humorous (and I often really enjoy gross-out humor; Amy’s was just flat).
I know that Amy’s been getting a lot of flack by this weird, angry, misogynistic section of people that often gets labelled alt-right, and that’s too bad, because they’re horrible. It’s also too bad because Amy could maybe become one of the all-time greats, but she needs some feedback right now to get out of the Dane Cook bullshit formula she’s stuck in, and it would be a shame if she were to just dismiss all of the criticism as alt-right crap.
I’ve never liked Schumer for this exact reason. She’s vulger for the sake of being vulger and she is so uber-pro-feminist that I see it more as a marketing ploy to get viewers than her actual thoughts.
IMO she’s a comedian that sits at home and thinks “What can I say that will get me attention” versus “What can I say that would be funny”.
Looking for opinions … the bit about waking up out of a blackout with someone performing oral sex on her was disturbing because it seemed like rape to me. But maybe I don’t know enough about the various stages of drinking to excess? I’m mean I’ve been very drunk and kind of out of it, but I at least vaguely remember the time and it is different from being passed out or asleep.
Does a blackout mean you were awake and coherent at the time but you just don’t remember it later, meaning that period of time is “blacked out” in your memory? Would it possible to give some kind of consent, to make this “joke” less upsetting?
I keep assuring myself it was exaggerated for effect, to make myself feel better!
I am a fan. I loved her show and follow her on social media. I’d pay to see her if she came to town before I saw this Netflix stand-up show.
I turned it off within the first few minutes. It wasn’t funny. That was the problem. It was gross and somewhat disturbing because she didn’t sound like she was joking, she sounded pathetic and sad. Waking up from a blackout drunk to find some guy giving her oral? And she’s okay with it because he’s a real trooper for going there when even on her best day her pussy smells like a barnyard animal. And her movements even seemed exaggerated and maybe already sloppy drunk five minutes in. I don’t know if it got any better but I don’t even care. That’s where I ended it and I don’t recall ever turning off a stand-up comedy show before.
I don’t rate any shows on Netflix but if I did, this would have gotten the lowest rating.
While I agree that much of the hate she gets is probably misogyny based (conscious or not), but I think she is also still recovering from a bout of over-exposure.
It felt like there was a couple-month period where the new season of her show was being advertised out the ass, and there were about 6 click-bait stories a week in the vein of “Amy Schumer TOTALLY DESTROYS internet troll body shamer”
IIRC, she even did a skit about being over exposed.