# Do you find Amy Schumer amusing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496 "2016-04-07T20:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/61 "2016-04-08T15:30:22Z")
I think she is great. Love both her standup and her show. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/62 "2016-04-08T15:31:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yes, she has some amusing bits. About one in five or so of her skits on _Inside Amy Schumer_ I find pretty funny. I don’t seem to be as big a fan of hers as a lot of my friends are – I find a lot of her comedy ham fisted with no subtlety-- but she does make me crack a smile every once in awhile. I’m in the same place. When she gets involved in politics however, including channeling her father’s second cousin, I lose whatever smile I had. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/63 "2016-04-08T15:32:53Z")
Haven’t read any other responses. I think she’s pretty funny about half the time. The other half may isn’t bad either, just not speaking to me directly. I watch her show and specials on TV, I can’t say there’s any comedian much better around right now. She may be a little overexposed at the moment. Comics have to rework their acts periodically and this would be the time for her to lay low for a while and develop some new material. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/64 "2016-04-08T15:49:49Z")
From what I’ve seen of her work (Trainwreck and some sketches) I think she’s hilarious. She’s also filthy, really filthy, and just when I think she’s hit the peak of filthy, she manages to come up with something even more filthy. I likes me some pretty coarse humor now and then, but at some point I have to stop watching and take a break. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/65 "2016-04-08T16:09:45Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > From what I’ve seen of her work (Trainwreck and some sketches) I think she’s hilarious. She’s also filthy, really filthy, and just when I think she’s hit the peak of filthy, she manages to come up with something even more filthy. > > I likes me some pretty coarse humor now and then, but at some point I have to stop watching and take a break. I don’t care for crude humor, but in Amy’s stand-up I think she’s crude just to step out of the bounds of whats expected of a female performer. I don’t think her clothing choice is often flattering, but I think that’s the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/66 "2016-04-08T18:58:23Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > She may be a little overexposed at the moment. Comics have to rework their acts periodically and this would be the time for her to lay low for a while and develop some new material. Well, the new season of her show debuts in a couple weeks. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/67 "2016-04-08T19:08:49Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I think you’re wrong about where Schumer is. She’s not where Silverman is today, but she’s beyond the crass, sexy phase. You really ought to see her skits. There is a whole lot of substance there. > > It’s flat out satire. Satire that often gets a bunch of people up in arms. Hell, just as I was writing this, someone came in to whine about how it was “preachy.” You can’t be preachy without substance. > > I saw the show first, and I think it affects how I view her standup. It’s through the lens of satire–she’s making fun of the women who do those things you describe. And, I think that becomes more clear as you get to her more modern stuff–hence why I said her standup gets better the newer it is. You guys are starting to convince me that I might be missing something. I’m going to dial it back a notch and give her another ear. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/68 "2016-04-08T19:12:45Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Wasn’t she accused of stealing gags from other comedians? Anyway, no, I don’t find her funny at all. Louis CK is funny. Sam Kiniston was funny. In comparison this woman’s stuff is insipid. Yeah but that was mostly bullshit. Some of her sketches were close to things that have been done before but she has a staff of writers on her show. I don’t think you can blame her because someone on her staff watched a MadTV sketch. A couple of the jokes in her stand up were similar to jokes said in decades old Comedy Central specials of other comedians but the humor wasn’t that original and parallel thinking happens. Most of the big comedians came to her defense. Even those that she supposedly stole from mostly came to her defense. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/69 "2016-04-08T19:59:05Z")
Ignore comics who say another comic stole their jokes. Listen to comics who say another comic stole someone else’s jokes because they’re either telling a joke or they’re telling the truth. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/70 "2016-04-08T20:35:12Z")
Haven’t seen much of her standup act, but “Inside Amy Schumer” is one of the smartest, funniest shows I’ve encountered in recent times. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/71 "2016-04-08T22:15:07Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Maybe, but you can certainly be preachy without being funny. And preachy without funny is generally tedious. > > I’ve little opinion on Schumer herself. The couple things I’ve seen with her were somewhere between amusing and forgettable and Trainwreck was okay but also nothing especially memorable. Oh, sure. I didn’t say that. I just meant that preachy doesn’t fit his ideas of her, so he might want to check her out again. I’m glad he is, and I’ll be interested to hear what he thinks. I just find it interesting having two opposite reasons that people dislike her. (And, of course, there’s always the possibility that she works differently in skits because she’s not the only writer. Like how Leno’s own stuff is funny, but the stuff his writers wrote for him usually wasn’t.) ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/72 "2016-04-09T01:31:30Z")
I’ve only seen a few of her sketches online, but everything I’ve seen was funny. I’m assuming that the sketches that get linked to the most (and thus catch my attention) are her better ones and that if I watched her full show I’d be seeing some duds as well. Still, she’s funny enough to at least have several IMHO funny sketches. I don’t think anyone in this thread has mentioned [this one](https://youtu.be/vOIuwNeS-gU), which I especially liked. It’s a fake movie trailer in which Peasant Amy learns she’s the long-lost Princess Amy…and discovers it’s not quite the fairytale she expected. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/73 "2016-04-09T01:46:56Z")
She’s not laugh out loud funny to me. I think I only cracked a smile a couple of times. But her sketch comedy is pretty _true_. In a way that makes it depressing, not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/74 "2016-04-09T01:48:45Z")
I think she is hilarious. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/75 "2016-04-09T04:33:47Z")
Not from what little I’ve seen of her so far. I’m far more of a fan of Iliza Shlesinger. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/76 "2016-04-09T04:55:00Z")
She’s somewhere above average and below good (compared to other professional comedians) for me. I admit I haven’t seen more than a few clips of her stand up stuff, and I haven’t seen her show, so my opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/77 "2016-04-09T05:42:49Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > This is my favorite _Inside Amy Schumer_ sketch, by the way. It’s also from the brilliant 3rd season: [“Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyeTJVU4wVo) I’m bingewatching on Hulu and am still in Season One. Glad to know it gets even better. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/78 "2016-04-09T10:14:26Z")
I find her comedy to be the exact right mix of pure humor plus discomfort that works for me. I also like that it can veer from smart to filthy, or be both somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/79 "2016-04-09T13:55:48Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Not from what little I’ve seen of her so far. I’m far more of a fan of Iliza Shlesinger. Due to the fact that I hear comics being themselves on radio shows and podcasts more than their standup it gives me a different perspective. While being herself Iliza is kind of boring and not very funny. Amy Schumer is incredibly quick and funny while being herself in conversation. That might come from being a Comedy Cellar regular where if you can’t hold your own with other comics you get eaten alive. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496/80 "2016-04-09T14:37:39Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I find her comedy to be the exact right mix of pure humor plus discomfort that works for me. I also like that it can veer from smart to filthy, or be both somehow. Yep. They play a lot of her stand-up on SiriusXM. The parts where she “veers” off in a different direction reminds me of Anthony Jeselnik, but Amy just does that here and ther. Jeselnik makes that his entire schtick, and you pretty much know what’s coming. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-amy-schumer-amusing/751496.md?page=5)