She told that story in her book also, so I suspect it’s true. She didn’t tell the whole story in the show, though. In her book she also told a story of finding some guy really cute so she agreed to have some fun with him in his car… upon finishing, he kicked her out of the car and drove off, when upon she realized that he was a cab driver. In her book she does talk about getting drunk a LOT.
Yes. It’s not the same as passed out. You are awake, talking, etc., but you can’t remember it later. But people can generally tell you’re really drunk.
Concidence – She refers to guys saying “where do you want me to come?” in this special. I hadn’t really heard that before and then I was giving **Girls **another chance last night and Ep 2 has her creepy boyfriend saying this very thing.
I hadn’t heard about the ratings-rigging, but as soon as she started talking about guns I knew she’d attract abuse. I didn’t like it either, and I’m not exactly a gun nut— the “jokes” just weren’t funny.
I thought it was a mediocre special, and especially disappointing after the quality of her TV show took a dive in its last season. I liked the previous seasons and her earlier specials, but it seems like she’s running out of material.
Maybe after she goes deaf.
I’m sure Paste magazine is nothing but the altiest of rights, but it has evidence and I’m willing to believe they didn’t fake the videos. More fool I, I suppose.
I generally like her and while I liked this special, I didn’t LOVE it. I gave it 4 rounding up from… maybe 3.75. While I agree with her thoughts on guns, it felt clunky and didn’t fit.
I think with her she’s kind of funnier as a mess, but as she’s getting successful and isn’t super young any more, being a mess isn’t quite as funny or accurate.
Amy Shumer has been on my radar for a long time. I’ve listened to Jim Norton on his various radio shows for many years. She was his opener and he brought her on the air long before she became a household name. I’ve considered myself a fan for a while. I’m pretty sure my opinion isn’t coming from a position of misogyny. I stopped watching the special about 10 minutes in. It just wasn’t funny or entertaining in any way. I have no doubt many reviews are from trolls but I would give it a 1 star review as well.
I assume you’re joking about *Paste *magazine (I subscribed to it over a decade ago, when it came out in print and came delivered in a plastic bag with a music sampler CD). In any case, I didn’t find that very convincing; and if she were going to steal jokes, I’d think she’d want to steal better ones.
I dislike how people automatically assume people down-voting her special are trolls simply doing it because they’re misogynist-racist alt-righters and not because people genuinely feel she’s just a terrible person in general.
Amy pretty much throws everyone under the bus in her larger pursuit of glory much to the annoyance of some of her former fans. She calls all Trump supporters idiots and misogynists and yet half the people she openly associates with are Trump supporters. One of her best friends she thanks in her specials is a cop who was fired from the force for being racist as all hell and still says awful things about women. She strikes me as a massive hypocrite who hides being the feminist banner when it’s convenient for her image.
It doesn’t really matter why they’re doing it. If they’re not “down-voting” the special for having watched it and not liked it, they’re messing things up. By being reactionary like that, they only come across as haters, and haters are the people you ignore.
I’m also rather suspicious of the things you’ve said, since I know at least one of those things has been dealt with–Schumer did a huge apology thing for her past racism. I’m also not really into that whole “guilt by association” thing. She could be one of those Trump haters who refuses to be mean to the Trump supporters in her life.
In short, nothing you said really gives me a good reason that a lot of people would hate her. The misogyny really does. That’s not to say any one individual hates her only for bad reasons, but, in aggregate, I would guess it’s mostly the misogyny fueling this sort of thing.
Yes, this. And now Netflix is getting rid of star ratings, with some wondering if this deal is part of the reason why. First hater trolls helped scuttle the IMDb message boards, now this. “It’s why we can’t have nice things.” 
Seriously? That really pisses me off. When I first got the service years back when it was only a DVD by mail thing, I rated hundreds of movies, partially to inform suggestions I might like but also just as sort of a badge of honor thing (not that watching a lot of movies is a great accomplishment, but still). At some point they made it really difficult, if not impossible, to even see how many ratings you have done, which also pissed me off (probably have several thousand now). But I still liked doing it, because it gave me a feeling of minor accomplishment to rate something after watching it, plus I do think it had some effect on suggestions, did it not?
Definitely. They do say they will still keep your old star ratings to guide suggestions, but it sounds like they are going to go more based on what people actually watch.
I found that the best indication of whether I’d like something was the difference between the average rating and my predicted rating. Some inaccessible indie might have an average rating of 2.7 and predicted rating for me of 3.4. Another mainstream movie might have an average rating of 4.2 and predicted for me of 3.8. That first one, I’m going to like better pretty much every time.
As with the death of IMDb message boards, we’re seeing the death knell of the long tail. I spent so much time rating movies, to where I could really count on their predicted ratings to “know me”. But I don’t use Netflix the way most people do, and they don’t care about atypical users any more, it would seem. I don’t think I’ve ever, ever played a movie or show because it popped up after I watched something else. I read about something, then I go to Netflix to type into the search box to see whether they think I’ll like it (or love it).
(Mark my words: next we’ll see that search box eliminated as well. Bleah.)
Other sites will fill the gap, but you can bet there will be multiple sites, and they’ll eventually sort according to preference, including politics.
By that I mean, there will be some sites for people of one group, and others for people of other groups, not due to any planning (probably) but simply because some sites will be “colonized” by members of a specific group first, and so that group will drive the consensus, and the people in the out-group will, as opposed to trying to fight a losing battle, find someplace else to be.
Netflix was a central location for everyone to vote, which meant its voting could theoretically reflect a broad consensus. This segregation, if it happens, will echo-chamber that.
I was black out drunk once in my life. It was pretty scary. Later when I asked our designated driver how I was he told me I was the most normal one of the bunch.
Are you talking about Club Soda Kenny? If so you don’t know him and you don’t know the story at all. I also don’t think she hides behind any banner. She is a feminist. That doesn’t mean she has to fit into a particular mold and she doesn’t. It doesn’t mean she has to be PC all the time and she isn’t. She’s a comic. That’s not a bad thing.
I used to love her work. But, now she’s become such an activist, I can’t stand her. It reminds me of Rosie O’Donnell, who was once America’s sweetheart, before she completely melted down over Bush. I think it’s sad, really. Her comedy used to be reality based, now it’s just socially conscious BS.
I don’t know. I’ll admit, I turned it off due to lack of comedy pretty quick, so maybe it became all WOKE later, but the special mostly seemed to be about how much she likes drinking, how drunk she is right now you guys, and how awesome oral sex and how men who perform it on her when she’s really drunk are heroes is especially since her vagina smells like a barnyard animal. Not super socially conscious stuff. And delivered badly.
I would have liked it more if it was so political as some are implying.
Yep, her talking about her machine-gun diarrhea alternating with her boyfriend’s projectile vomiting was illuminating and politically quite astute.
Yeah I never got to the political stuff. She seemed to be coasting in this special. She’s a girl but she’s raunchy! We get it. Her abilities, style and material hasn’t grown at all. I was put off by the leather premise too. She said every comic needed a special where they wore leather. That conjured up images of Pryor and Murphy. Pryor and Murphy wore leather and made iconic concert films that changed the shape of comedy. She is no Richard Pryor or even Eddie Murphy.