Amy Schumer
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The comedian follows sleeper hit Trainwreck with role in a mother-daughter comedy about a holiday that goes wrong
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The comedian has criticized those who voted for the Republican candidate as ‘weak’ and says she is ‘furious’ with the result
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Schumer recently said she is not trying to be likable, but you wouldn’t guess it from this book. Such memoirs are pitched as feminist statements, but of what kind?
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The comedian’s trademark honesty shines through in these hilarious, moving vignettes about life, love and her early years
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There was an outpouring of emotional candour from standups at the Edinburgh festival, but Schumer skilfully keeps her anxieties at a safe distance
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The fabulously filthy standup has plenty to say about gun control and the Kardashians too
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She may be negotiating the move from everygirl to A-lister, but Schumer is truly at home on stage, hilarious on pills, guns – and even the odd heckler
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He’s guested on Broad City and starred with Amy Schumer – and the comic has also struggled with depression, now material for his brutally raw standup show, which he’s about to take to Edinburgh
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With a new book out and Inside Amy Schumer ruling the comedy world, the show’s head writer often seems as though she’s hate-watching her own experiences, then laughing at their cringeworthy absurdity
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Comedian, actor and advocate of gun control has reportedly modified her new action comedy in wake of nightclub attack
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She was a little-known comedian until a catalogue of tragedies changed her life. The cult favourite talks sellout shows, being let down by famous friends and life after breasts
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Nicky Hornby brings Nina Stibbe’s book to life; the deadpan US cartoon crosses the Atlantic; and the QI elves front their own panel show
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From 90s hair-spiration in Seinfeld to the president in Veep, snogging Bryan Cranston and tackling industry sexism, she plays the Hollywood game perfectly
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Last year Schumer soared to the top of comedy’s firmament – and while the fourth season of her sketch show is funny, so far it doesn’t quite hit the mark
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Leibovitz photographed the Nobel Peace prize winner in her classroom in Birmingham for a new exhibition, which opened in San Francisco on Tuesday
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While Amy Schumer’s ribald comedy ultimately turned conservative, this flawed yet forward-thinking alternative refuses to force family values on women
Topics
- Comedy (Culture)
- Comedy (Stage)
- Comedy (Film)
- Television
- Donald Trump
- Autobiography and memoir
- Comedy (Television & radio)
- Edinburgh festival 2016
- Toys
- Trainwreck
- Rape and sexual assault
- Edinburgh festival
- Film adaptations
- US television
- Hillary Clinton
- US elections 2016
- Broad City
- Veep
- Sofie Hagen
- Caitlyn Jenner
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