Amy Schumer is a brilliant comedian, and she recently got the recognition she deserves when she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for Inside Amy Schumer . In tears as she accepted her award, her first thank you went to her head writer Jessi Klein. Zimbio reports Amy Schumer’s speech revealed Klein saved her from doing the wrong kind of show.
“First of all, I want to thank Jessi Klein, the head writer, who had a baby, like, ten seconds ago. I almost made a stupid sex talk show that nobody wanted, and she got drunk and told me that I had to follow my dreams and make my dream show.”
The fun didn’t end when Amy Schumer went back to her hotel room, where her good friend Jennifer Lawrence had a big surprise waiting for her. It didn’t take Amy long to post on Instagram a photo of her standing in the middle of her balloon-filled room, Emmy in hand.
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As People reported, Amy was shocked , but then warned friends of Jennifer from telling her their hotel room number.
“Never tell Jennifer L your room number.”
However, if you ask actor Jake Gyllenhaal, he might say never let Amy Schumer stay at your apartment. Jake was recently a guest of Stephen Colbert’s on The Late Show , and according to Entertainment Weekly , while he was on the show, he asked Amy what happened with the cake.
“Hey princess, what’s going on?”
Of course, Stephen Colbert brought out the remaining half of the cake, the part Amy Schumer didn’t eat. Jake Gyllenhaal took a bite and so did Stephen. This cake really gets around.
As for Amy Schumer’s big win, it is a small win for women at the Emmy Awards. Unfortunately, only 25 percent of the nominations for writer, director, producer, and editor at the Emmys are women. Indiewire reports that Julie Burton, President of the Women’s Media Center , feels that having more women in the industry is important when half their audience are women.
“These are key behind-the-scenes roles, and the men and women in these? roles have the power to decide and mold what the story is, who is in the story, and how the story is told. This is crucial to making sure women’s experiences, perspectives, voices, and images are part of any story.”
Go Amy Schumer! You are making a difference!
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