Amy Schumer is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing in 2007. Since 2013, she has been the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, for which she received a Peabody Award and for which Schumer has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015.
Schumer wrote and made her film debut in a starring role in Trainwreck (2015), for which she received nominations for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She published a memoir in 2016, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, which held the top position on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for two weeks. The same year, she was nominated for two Grammy Awards: for Best Comedy Album for Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, and Best Spoken Word Album for The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. In 2018, she starred in the comedy film I Feel Pretty and garnered a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination for her Broadway debut in Meteor Shower.
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>> My name is Amy Schumer and I am a standup comedian and an actress. >> I get up and I meditate. That's the first thing I do before I log onto the inter webs and then I e-mail some people back and I look at my calendar and I go to do this and then either come to film something or I, like I'm either filming something or I am not during the day and if I'm not I'm like a girl, I'll go to yoga or something and get lunch with a friend. Yeah days when I'm not working are pretty sweet. I kind of take it easy, do a lot of writing, and then usually don't have to work until night and then I have some shows. I run around and do a bunch of shows at night. So I tried standup and I was kind of good at it, like I had a little bit of an edge. I did theater before so I didn't have to get over stage fright and then just kept getting on stage as much as possible because doing it is the only thing that makes you better. You could be the best writer in the world, but if you don't have that stage presence, also that're building then it's kind of worthless. So I got better as a comic and continued studying acting after college and also from doing plays and just being cast in a couple small productions, just learning these past couple years. A couple walk-on roles and just small parts on TV shows and now that's been building it's a kind of bigger roles and some cool movies.
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