The Movie's title is "Trainwreck", it's out in July.

June 8, 2015 2:18 PM

Amy Schumer accepts Glamor Magazine's Trailblazer of the Year award (NSFW)
posted by boo_radley (44 comments total)

She has the fearlessness of a comic at the absolute top of their game like late Bill Hicks or Andy Kaufman or Louis CK from a few years ago.
posted by fullerine at 2:46 PM on June 8, 2015 [22 favorites]

That was pretty funny.
posted by Nevin at 2:47 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

But I do work in a coal mine!
posted by chillmost at 2:54 PM on June 8, 2015

Jennifer Saunders' comical doddering as she introduces Schumer is worth a view. Might not've been if it was over 3 and a half minutes, but it's not.
posted by Sunburnt at 3:00 PM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]

I for one was remotely smiling.
posted by bicyclefish at 3:04 PM on June 8, 2015

Jennifer Saunders and Sandi Toksvig should do a Twins 2 movie.
posted by boo_radley at 3:08 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]

Fantastic!!!
posted by greenhornet at 3:32 PM on June 8, 2015

THE WOMAN TALKS LIKE A SAILOR! THAT'S NOT HOT...THAT'S UNNATURAL!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 3:37 PM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]

She talks like people I know!

Really, though, that was funny. It sounded so off the cuff yet well put together.
I am sitting in the office trying not laugh out maniacally out loud.
posted by Seamus at 3:40 PM on June 8, 2015

That "coal miner wiped his brow at the end of a shift" line is gorgeous.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 3:49 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]

It sounded so off the cuff yet well put together

I saw her live back in March (she was fantastic). A lot of this speech came right from her standup act (I specifically remember the bit about her hoping her underwear didn't look like she blew her nose in it from the show we saw).
posted by The Gooch at 3:52 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

She is the role model that my generation of women so desperately needs. I want to grow up to be Amy Schumer. Also, I'm probably 15 years older than her.
posted by batbat at 3:53 PM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]

Seriously though I bet winning this kind of award is, like, underwear mucinex.
posted by boo_radley at 4:01 PM on June 8, 2015

Awesome.
posted by turbid dahlia at 4:12 PM on June 8, 2015

I didn't really know who Amy Schumer was; heard the name, but never seen her. That was thoroughly amusing and charming; I will have to go find some work by her now.
posted by Bovine Love at 4:21 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

I am counting the days until Trainwreck (39, for the record).
posted by Joey Michaels at 4:22 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

I also love that her idea of a spontaneous prank on Kimye on some red carpet was to fall flat on her face, right in front of Kanye and Kim. And then she crawls out of the way, hair in her face, like some sort of feral animal.
posted by angrycat at 4:23 PM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]

…to fall flat on her face, right in front of Kanye and Kim
posted by chrchr at 4:52 PM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]

She would shatter you in half.
posted by GuyZero at 5:11 PM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]

I turned my husband on to her and now he's addicted and I'm watching videos on the sly because I don't want to share.
posted by Peach at 5:11 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

> Jennifer Saunders and Sandi Toksvig should do a Twins 2 movie.

On a recent episode of the podcast "Answer Me This," host Helen Zaltzman mentioned she was doing some kind of BBC News quiz with Sandy Toksvig, whom she doesn't quite look too much like, but on the radio, they could be dead ringers.

So clearly, in the fashion of BBC entertainments past and present, Zaltzman and Toksvig (it almost hurts to read that aloud) would do a few series on radio, and then it would graduate to TV and Saunders could play the televisual part formerly played by Zaltzman.
posted by Sunburnt at 5:37 PM on June 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

I turned my husband on to her and now he's addicted and I'm watching videos on the sly because I don't want to share.

That's so interesting! I do the same thing with my partner for Broad City, and I just found out another friend does this too with her partner. Is this fairly common?

I had a really hard time articulating to him why I didn't really want to share it with him and wanted to watch it by myself first. I feel like I just want to have my own reaction to it without having to deal with his reactions. I'm still not very sure how to articulate it well.
posted by dialetheia at 6:21 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]

Since a big fraction of her schtick is that she ain't glamorous this is kind of like giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
posted by bukvich at 6:24 PM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]

I guess you could be a little nonplussed if you've never seen Amy Schumer before. In that case, do yourself the favor of checking out some of her "other stuff" -- her Comedy Central show is excellent on an average week but standouts from this year are the "Football Town Nights" bit and the "12 Angry Men" episode (the Sorkin-inspired "The Food Room" from last year was also pretty great). You'd get a better sense of what she does by watching a whole episode of Inside Amy Schumer (not counting "12 Angry Men", which *was* a whole episode and *will* win some kind of award) than just a few clips, though, because you'll see a little bit of standup and an interview or two.
posted by uosuaq at 6:25 PM on June 8, 2015 [5 favorites]

I'd never heard the phrase "catch a dick". Is that common? Or is that a Schumerism?
posted by Thorzdad at 6:25 PM on June 8, 2015

Is that common? Or is that a Schumerism?

I think it's a comic riff on some men's often used phrase "get a piece".
Brava :)
posted by AGameOfMoans at 6:36 PM on June 8, 2015

I thought "catch a dick" sounded like hip hop, so I searched Rap Genius and found the phrase in this 1998 track by Showbiz & A.G.
posted by foobaz at 6:42 PM on June 8, 2015

She's Chuck Shumer's (D-NY) cousin.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:48 PM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]

Do rich people have black shit or something? Not sure I get it.
posted by ODiV at 6:52 PM on June 8, 2015

wut
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:14 PM on June 8, 2015 [3 favorites]

Do rich people have black shit or something? Not sure I get it.

I do believe that you have slightly missed the point of the joke.
posted by Dip Flash at 8:54 PM on June 8, 2015

That is pretty much what I just said, yes.
posted by ODiV at 8:58 PM on June 8, 2015 [2 favorites]

Do rich people have black shit or something? Not sure I get it.

I am really confused. Where does that question come from? Honestly
posted by special agent conrad uno at 9:19 PM on June 8, 2015

Sorry, it's in reference to the "...and don't look disgusted guys because your underwear looks like a coal miner wiped their brow at the end of a shift," line which as best I can figure is a joke about guys having skidmarks, but I wasn't sure so i came here to ask. Didn't mean to be enigmatic or anything.
posted by ODiV at 9:25 PM on June 8, 2015

I'm so impressed with Amy Schumer. Especially her more feminist stuff. I wish I could write for that show.

Heck, even my mom wants to watch Trainwreck, I found out today.
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:13 PM on June 8, 2015

Yes, she's amazing. Her recent appearance on Ellen had me in tears.
posted by ODiV at 10:40 PM on June 8, 2015 [10 favorites]

Coal miners, MetaFilter to the rescue. I mean really -- it's diet.

Was she expected to do a traditional thanks thing but just went for some rando jokes instead?

They're not really random. They're all more or less in the vein of women in the industry, body image, and social pressure (e.g. from magazines like Glamour), all topics very much in her wheelhouse. She has probably lost a little weight since her show debuted but being a normal-weight woman in a skinny-female-celebrity-template society is a running theme of hers. Sisterhood is part of it, calling out the men who are nonplussed by the situation of sitting (maybe with a female companion) while she riffs about metaphorical cum or arguably real shit is just the way she rolls. And getting her publicist to flee in terror? All part of the same theme tune.

A lot of that is in her recent viral hit from the sketch show, Last Fuckable Day -- which brilliantly skewers Hollywood sexism as well as a number of tangents. This is MY top recco for learning more about her comedy.

I don't actually wholly enjoy her show (well, the bit I've watched); I find a lot of the sketches ineptly paced and unfunnily awkward. But I enjoy her stand-up, some of the woman-on-the-street stuff, and most of her one-on-one interviews. I think her S1 stuff was like her stand-up, using sex and a bit of shock at what's coming out of a woman's (gasp!) mouth to get into deeper issues, which she seems to be exploring per what I've seen of S3. A route previously followed by many male comics, of course. But she's rejecting being relegated to the "guy's chick" ghetto of female standup.

Interesting that one of her writing partners -- and an associate producer on Trainwreck -- is her sister, Kim Caramele (whom she mentioned in the speech), a school psychologist in a Chicago suburb.

(As for the film's prospects, I just wish Paul Feig were more like Edgar Wright as a comedy director.) Oh, and I'm looking forward to her collaboration with (well, rewrite of by Amy and Kim) Katie Dippold (Parks & Rec, The Heat, and now Ghostbusters) for her next project.
posted by dhartung at 1:04 AM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

I first saw her on the dais at some Comedy Central roasts and I've been a fan ever since. Inside Amy Schumer is a fantastic show and her skits are consistently a good mix of social commentary and being flat-out funny.
She's a perfect embodiment of Peter Ustinov's old adage that "Comedy is just a funny way of being serious."
posted by rocket88 at 7:24 AM on June 9, 2015 [2 favorites]

She's a perfect embodiment of Peter Ustinov's old adage that "Comedy is just a funny way of being serious."

That really is one of her strengths. I like her skits because they are simultaneously absurd and brutally honest. The one where she is bad at sexting really gets me when she writes "Tell me I'm safe in my apartment" and then deletes it. Gut-punch.
posted by a fiendish thingy at 8:01 AM on June 9, 2015

I feel like I just want to have my own reaction to it without having to deal with his reactions. I'm still not very sure how to articulate it well.

My husband, as he gets older, has reverted into habits of mind that were probably there all along. He likes some humor that is unreflectively anti-female. He loves Amy Schumer, and thinks she's a genius, but some of his affection is because she hits on many of the same targets as the other comedy he likes, so when I watch her stuff with him, I suffer from double vision. Sometimes when he laughs the loudest, I find myself wondering whether I should be laughing or not. She's a heck of a lot easier to watch when he's not there.
posted by Peach at 12:22 PM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

I never watch Amy Schumer with my wife. I can't imagine her not enjoying it and I have had it on when she is in the room but she didn't respond to it, at least not in the way I did.
It would not surprise me in the slightest to find out that she is watching it when I am gone.
And I wouldn't be offended in the slightest.
I think Schumer touches on some issues that seem to be ignored in today's pop culture. I am sure that my response as a (admittedly, sometimes crass and immature) male will be different from her response and that she might want room to respond without me being there.
BUT, I never really thought about her possibly watching it while I'm gone. Now I wonder.
Man, MetaFilter, making me examine shit again. Thanks!
posted by Seamus at 12:56 PM on June 9, 2015

In terms of standup, I am a little surprised that Sarah Silverman has left room for slightly paler and more generic versions of herself in her wake, seemingly by virtue of their being 12 years younger. But I'm looking forward to checking out Amy Schumer's sketch comedy pieces. If Jennifer Saunders is a fan, I'm there.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 3:34 PM on June 9, 2015

The Silverman / Schumer comparison is an interesting one, but I'm not entirely sure how accurate it is. I mean, I can see sort of a distant relationship between them, but Silverman's thing has been, in my experience of her through her stand-up specials and her TV series, to start a bit out feeling like it is honest yet funny, and then have it take such a sharp left turn that at first your brain just goes along with it and then you're shocked at what you just believed.

Or something like that.

Schumer isn't doing that kind of thing, really. I haven't seen too much of her material taking a sudden absurdist, even surrealist sharp twist designed to shock or morally outrage while also making you laugh. Her stuff is very linear, and is much more directly pointed than most of Silverman's material.
posted by hippybear at 1:45 AM on June 10, 2015

She has probably lost a little weight since her show debuted but being a normal-weight woman in a skinny-female-celebrity-template society is a running theme of hers.

I think she looks about the same, with perhaps some standard human weight variation. Her first season had a lot of standup clips of her in a very form-fitting dress but recent stuff has seemed to be more comfortable with just letting her dress like a human.

Inside Amy Schumer is a fantastic show and her skits are consistently a good mix of social commentary and being flat-out funny.

I think Schumer deserves a lot of praise but we should also not forget that a show like this is an ensemble enterprise and IAS benefits from having a lot of really brilliant writers working on it at various points. Tig Notaro, for example, a funny stand-up in her own right (unless you're Taylor Dayne). Or Tami Sagher who also has written for Broad City.
posted by phearlez at 9:16 AM on June 10, 2015 [1 favorite]