DECEMBER – AMY SCHUMER
Amy
Schumer is a stand-up comic and actress whose signature is really,
really off-color language and jokes and skits having to do with
sex—graphically described and often more or less grotesque sex.
She
arrives at a feminist position—the place where self-worth is proclaimed
and men's posturing and arrogance are deflated—by exposing herself in a
way that would be considered cruel if someone else did it to her. One of
the most lauded episodes of Inside Amy Schumer, her award-winning
series on the television cable channel Comedy Central, is a parody of
the classic film Twelve Angry Men.
In 'Twelve Angry Men Inside Amy
Schumer,' an all-male jury heatedly debates if Schumer is 'hot enough'
to have her own TV show. Her perceived physical and temperamental
shortcomings are ruthlessly dissected. Schumer turns jokes that could be
too broad into deftly subversive, and very funny, commentary. In 2015
she took on long-form comedy with a feature film, Trainwreck, which she
wrote and stars in.
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