Amy Schumer No ‘Trainwreck’


Amy Schumer has fast become known for her quick and biting wit, her insanely popular show Inside Amy Schumer, and her pointed, hilarious interviews. However, much as the comedian may point her comedic lens on a wide range of topics – some of them sexual – she is, by no means, a Trainwreck herself.

Schumer has, most recently, teamed with her father’s cousin, Senator Charles Schumer, to call for tougher gun laws in the wake of the Lafayette theater shootings that saw two women killed and nine injured. In an interview with Jon Stewart, she told the departing The Daily Show host that she was “legit heartbroken” over the news of the shootings, which occurred during a screening of her film, Trainwreck. Schumer was in tears at the morning news conference, which was billed to the media as Schumer & Schumer: Enough Is Enough.

“Unless something is done and done soon, dangerous people will continue to get their hands on guns – we know what can happen when they do,” Schumer said during the news conference. The Schumers announced a bill that would reward states submitting records to a federal background check system. The background check system would focus on felons, domestic abusers, and the mentally ill. Under the proposed bill, states not submitting those records would be penalized.

Many were surprised at the tweet Amy Schumer sent to Sarah Clements, the daughter of a Sandy Hook massacre survivor, and Schumer’s fans were quick to realize Schumer was planning on helping in the gun control fight. Clements urged Schumer to fight for stricter gun control laws in the wake of the July 23 shooting. “I’m on it,” Schumer told the daughter. “You’ll see.” The news conference where the proposed bill was announced saw Schumer in tears as she urged support for the bill.

In Clements’ letter, she notes that she sees Schumer as this “generation’s epitome of what it means to be a strong, powerful, self-aware champion for the experiences and truths of being a woman and an American today.” Clements also noted that Schumer was talented at addressing “uncomfortable truths” in today’s world. All of this is pretty powerful stuff for someone who has done routines like “Tipsy Talk” and videos with Amber Rose and Method Man saluting the female behind like “Milk Milk Lemonade.”

It seems that Amy Schumer is quite aware of the influence she now wields. In an interview with her Trainwreck director Judd Apatow with Vanity Fair, she said she does “feel more of a weight about the message that [she’s] sending because [she knows] what it’s like to be on the other end of that and [she doesn’t] want to be in denial about what success means—and like how many people [she’s] reaching now. [She wants] to make people feel better.”

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