It's hard to miss Amy Schumer.
With multiple seasons of her own comedy show, and a few big-budget comedy films in her resume,
you can't turn on a TV without seeing her face… or a whole lot more.
She may have made bank as the hilarious and promiscuous girl-next-door, but here’s why
this funny lady isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
Sweatin it
Amy Schumer revealed her sense of entitlement in November 2015 when she was caught playing
the "Do you know who I am?"
card with someone who, well, didn't know who she was.
Page Six reported that the comedienne refused to check into the Upper West Side Equinox
gym, telling staff, quote, "I'm famous!"
A source told Page Six, "She felt entitled to just walk in.
She didn't want to show her key fob and wanted to be able to go in and not be questioned."
It was a short-sighted move for Schumer: the very security methods that irritate her also
keep her safe from creeps or paparazzi who might try to follow her to a workout.
Out of “Formation"
While she was in Hawaii shooting Snatched, Schumer, her co-stars, and crew also put together
a tribute to Beyonce's "Formation" music video.
The tribute featured Schumer in the Beyonce role, as well as cameos by Goldie Hawn, Joan
Cusack, Wanda Sykes, and more.
The main criticism of the video, as articulated by The Frisky writer Ana Defillo, was that
Schumer and co.
basically appropriated a song that was intended as a statement of black female empowerment,
and co-opted it for a bunch of rich, white ladies.
Many on Twitter seemed to agree, utilizing the hashtag “AmySchumerGottaGoParty” to
illustrate their disdain.
Schumer, once again on the defensive, penned a post on Medium.com explaining that not only
did she have Beyonce and Jay Z's approval to shoot the tribute, she wasn't intending
to parody or, quote, "detract any of the meaning from [Beyonce's] video."
But she ended the post with the following statement: "You have every right to feel however
you feel about the video and me but I want you to know I'm not going anywhere.
Use whatever hashtag you like.
My mission is to continue to work as hard as I can to empower women and make them laugh
and feel better and I won't let anything stop me."
According to Defillo, this came off as another "sorry, not sorry" moment, totally missing
the point.
Defillo wrote, "A lot of things are about all women, and that's good!
But some things are, actually, just about Black women.
You can appreciate those things for sure.
But literally remaking them so that they feature you as the centerpiece… it's not good look.
It's maybe the worst look."
So serious
Much of Schumer's standup material, as well as much of the fodder on Inside Amy Schumer
and in Trainwreck, is about her own promiscuity, but when a 17-year-old film critic posted
a photo poking fun at that very same subject, Schumer got her knickers in a knot.
A teenaged Jackson Murphy tweeted, "Spent the night with @amyschumer.
Certainly not the first guy to write that," after he ran into Schumer at the Critics'
Choice Movie Awards.
Schumer saw that tweet and fired back: "I get it.
Cause I'm a whore?
Glad I took a photo with you.
Hi to your dad."
When the teen apologized and deleted the tweet after being harassed by Schumer's fans, she
feigned graciousness, tweeting, "That's really okay honey.
I just remember thinking you and your dad were sweet and it was a bummer to read that."
Holding a grudge
Schumer took several jabs at Jenny McCarthy on Inside Amy Schumer, and she revealed some
of the reasons why, on the Opie with Jim Norton show in 2016.
Schumer described McCarthy as a bully who doesn't support women, saying:
"This past season of the TV show, Season 3, she really wasn't nice to my friend Rachel.
So I was just like, 'Let's just go after Jenny McCarthy all season.”
Claiming McCarthy probably hates her, Schumer continued:
“I'm sure she can be charming when it behooves her, but be nice to other women, especially
other women in this disgusting f**king business, that's all I can say."
This McCarthy-hate may have another root cause: comedian Tammy Pescatelli once called into
McCarthy's SiriusXM radio show to discuss Schumer's alleged joke-stealing.
Pescatelli said,
"Underground, this has been being said for a while…
I brought it out, and the other two women brought it out… and people were going, 'Yes,
thank God you said something…”
She also claims other comedians agreed with her, saying:
“If I told you some of the big-name comedians that called me.
Literally, if I was trying to start something, as she's accused me of in the press, I could
really start it."
It's easy to assume Schumer may have been highly motivated to utilize her own media
platform to retaliate, but regardless, her girl-power, anti-bullying script seems hypocritical.
​Not a fan
When a fan approached Schumer for a selfie while she was touring in Greenville, South
Carolina, she got mad about it, posting on Instagram, "This guy in front of his family
just ran up next to me scared the s–t out of me.
Put a camera in my face.
I asked him to stop and he said, 'No, it's America and we paid for you.'
This was in front of his daughter.
I was saying 'stop' and 'no.'
Great message to your kid.
Yes, legally you are allowed to take a picture of me.
But I was asking you to stop and saying no.
I will not take [pictures] with people anymore and it's because of this dude in Greenville."
However, the fan in question, Leslie Brewer, shared an Instagram video of the incident
that contrasted starkly with Schumer's account, featuring a calm Schumer asking him to delete
a photo.
What's more, a source told Page Six, "She's always hated taking photos with fans, even
before she had a TV show or a movie.
She couldn't be bothered then, and she can't be bothered now."
After catching a lot of flack for her encounter with Brewer, Schumer toned down her rhetoric,
tweeting, "I'll still take pictures with nice people if I choose to, if it’s a good time
for that.
But I don't owe you anything."
"F*** you, Amy!
I believed in you!"
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