Amy Schumer
Sign in to saveAmerican comedian and actress (born 1981)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1981-06-01
- Works
- 9
Top works
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (SIGNED BOOK) by Amy Schumer (Includes COA)
- Snatched
- Het meisje met de onderrugtattoo (Dutch Edition)
- GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TA_HB
- Arrival Stories
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Amy Beth Schumer was born in Manhattan and grew up on Long Island, New York. She attended South Side High School and was voted both "Class Clown" and "Teacher's Worst Nightmare" upon graduation in 1999. Schumer graduated from Towson University in 2003 with a degree in theater. She moved to New York City after college, where she studied at the William Esper Studio for two years and worked as a…
Known for
- Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! — Self - Comedian2026
- Kinda Pregnant — Lainy Newton2025
- Unfrosted — Marjorie Post2024
- IF — Gummy Bear (voice)2024
- Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy — Self (archive footage)2024
- Trolls Band Together — Velvet (voice)2023
- Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact — Self2023
- Amy Schumer Presents: Parental Advisory — Self2022
- Bros — Eleanor Roosevelt2022
- Life & Beth — Beth2022
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 23,474
- Total plays
- 235,151
Tags
stand-up comedycomedystand-upstand up comedyhack
Amy Schumer is one of the fastest rising comics on the scene. The former Last Comic Standing finalist has just released Cutting, a Comedy Central Records. It follows her spring 2010 Comedy Central Presents stand up special. On the small screen, she has nabbed a recurring role in the upcoming season of Adult Swim's mocumentary series "Delocated" as well as a spot on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm." She is also playing opposite Parker Posey in indie flick Price Check. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,374x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
· 1997 · cited 19,798x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,678x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
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Key facts
- Born
- Amy Beth Schumer , ( 1981-06-01 ) June 1, 1981 (age 45) , New York City , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Towson University ( BA )
- Political party
- Democrat
- Spouse
- Chris Fischer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2025 )
- Relatives
- Chuck Schumer (second cousin once removed)
- Years active
- 2004–present
- Medium
- Stand-up television film theatre
- Genres
- Observational comedy blue comedy sketch comedy insult comedy satire
- Subjects
- Interpersonal relationships sex everyday life self-deprecation current events pop culture
- Website
- amyschumer .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 June 1981
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Amy
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Upper East Side
- Occupation
- stand-up comedian
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Peabody Awards
- Participant in
- Ice Bucket Challenge
Article
Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. Schumer 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. From 2013 to 2016, she was 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 was 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) earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She then starred in the comedy films Snatched (2017), and I Feel Pretty (2019). She created, produced and starred in the HBO documentary series Expecting Amy (2020), and the Hulu comedy-drama series Life & Beth (2022–2024).
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