Q&A with Amy Schumer, at the Punchline New Year’s Eve
I tried to set up a phone interview with the esteemed Amy Schumer, a very funny stand-up who finished fourth on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” in 2007 and killed during the Comedy Central roast of Charlie Sheen earlier this year. But we couldn’t work out a time. So I had to settle for a quick email Q&A to promote her two shows Friday and three shows New Year’s Eve at the Punchline. (You can get tickets here.)
Here it is:
Q: I was born in Rockville Centre, where you grew up, but never lived there.(I’m Oyster Bay High School graduate, Class of 1987). Did you luck out by actually getting to grow up there?
Schumer: No. Long Island is a dump.
Q; On the William Esper Studio Alumni website, your name is not included – yet. Where’s the respect?
Schumer: I have two movies this year. A pilot at CBS and Comedy Central. Maybe I blue balled the person who updates the site or maybe they still just think of me as a comic. Either way. It’s cool.
Q: It has now been more than four years since you did “Last Comic Standing.” In retrospect, what was the greatest benefit of doing that show?
Schumer: The tour that followed. It was comedy boot camp. I bombed in 42 cities across our great country. All my worst fears about performing came true. So by the end, I was fearless.
Q: Was there any downside?
Schumer: I probably gained weight. A four-month tour will do that to you.
Q: Who invited you to be on the Charlie Sheen roast?
Schumer: Comedy Central
Q: Did you know Sheen before the roast?
Schumer: Nope. I met him the night before. He had a party for all the roasters. I like him
Q: Your style of humor seemed to work well on a roast. What was your favorite joke you did?
Schumer: The one in said off the cuff. When Mike Tyson was heckling me with that crazy speech impediment I asked “Is his interpreter here?”
Q: Have you seen Steve-O since the roast? [She made a joke about his late friend Ryan Dunn, who got drunk and killed himself in a car accident: “I truly am — no joke — sorry for the loss of your friend Ryan Dunn. I know you must have been thinking it could’ve been me. And I know we were all thinking, 'Why wasn’t it?' ”] Do you think he was really that upset with what you said or was that all blown out of proportion?
Schumer: I have not seen him. I didn’t think it would upset him. The editor chose to cut to him looking really sad. Maybe he was. That wasn’t my intention.
Q: Is doing a New Year’s show any different from doing a show on any other day in your mind?
Schumer: Yes. New Year’s shows have a higher intensity. There’s a real sense of occasion and the energy is amazing. I love performing on NYE. It will be a great time.
Q: Louis C.K. is getting a lot of love lately. What’s your take on his $5 online concert sale that generated more than $1 million in sales? And what do you think of his show “Louie”?
Schumer: I think it’s great. And I think it’s great.
Q: Do you have any Atlanta connections?
Schumer: Not yet
Q: What’s the most annoying question reporters ask you?
Schumer: Is it harder being a girl?
Q: What is the most annoying question I’ve asked you so far? (Perhaps they are one and the same!).
Schumer: The first one. Because it was about you.
IN CONCERT
Amy Schumer
Punchline Comedy Club, 280 Hilderbrand Drive, Atlanta GA 30328 404-252-LAFF
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354 comments Add your comment
Kym
December 28th, 2011
11:38 am
@SexyC but the only Radio I listen to is Kiss 104.1(Tom Joyner) or 102.5(Gospel) or NPR(Real News, Wait Wait quiz show) or WSBRadio..(I like to yell at Sean Hannity on the way home)sometimes V103(if I need a break from yelling at Sean Hannity)
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
11:40 am
Can’t do V103 grates on my nerves….I listen to Bert 100, 98.5, 102.5, 93.3 and 104.7
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
11:40 am
Go figure, ITL breaks into the joint, then leaves here recruits behind to take the fall.
@BF ~ your badge is working.
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
11:41 am
czBrat you okay? Did you get a brown paper bag for that?
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
11:41 am
Thanks Sheriff Blackfoote
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
11:42 am
Oh and Rickey Smiley in the mornings
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
11:43 am
Can’t do V103…I listen to The Bert Show (Q100), Tom Joyner (Kiss 104.1) or Steve Harvey/Michael Baisden (107.5), 94.1 and 98.5 (once they stop with the Christmas music).
czBrat
December 28th, 2011
11:43 am
heart racing. lightheaded. palms sweaty.
don’t like this. not at all.
and i think i just peed my dainties a lil bit.
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
11:44 am
This would be a wonderful thing to do when we’re invaded by the trolls and whiners…just leave home and don’t tell ‘em where we’re going….lol
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
December 28th, 2011
11:45 am
LOL
Here CZ take this hankerchief, I’ve gone through about ten of them laughing so hard.
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
11:46 am
@czB ~ don’t worry, chica. We got your back. We will never name you as an accomplice…just sit in the corner…throw a firecracker comment in every so often.
Fleet footed Dancer(Exiled)
December 28th, 2011
11:46 am
So any of u guys been to the punchline,what kinda of acts do they bring,is it clean or cleaner than Uptown..
i hope it’s not all red neck country comedians from Kentucky Tennessee etc they bring over there
Any brothers/sister comedians.? not sounding racist but just what I’m familiar with
Yknow?
since we talking bout Amy..
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
December 28th, 2011
11:47 am
LOL…..@Cely
Then they won’t have a place whine.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
December 28th, 2011
11:48 am
to whine…….LOL
Fleet footed Dancer(Exiled)
December 28th, 2011
11:48 am
CzB,12:43?
U prego?
Lawd Jesus!
Fleet footed Dancer(Exiled)
December 28th, 2011
11:49 am
1143
SexyCool - OA
December 28th, 2011
11:50 am
Most Christmas music just grates on my nerves. It’s way too frantic or too sappy.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
December 28th, 2011
11:51 am
I’m gon be waist deep in trouble, breaking and entering, impersonating an officer of the law. I’ts all good with the ladies and Exile.
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
11:51 am
Hey Blackfoote – Exactly…we’ll just slip away. Let ‘em wonder….lol
Kym
December 28th, 2011
11:53 am
@Czbrat if you want you can be the one who talks about how much you like Amy Schumer..(now off to investigate Amy Schumer on Youtube)
SexyCool - OA
December 28th, 2011
11:55 am
I guess I will finally watch the Charlie Sheen Roast since they say she “killed” during it.
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
11:57 am
@Rodney Ho ~ we will be invading your blog from now on…try not to remember our names (lol).
@BF ~ you see the power of women…
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
December 28th, 2011
12:00 pm
And Mr. Ho, when you see Wise Diva tell her she owes you one. Occupy Blog has settled in begining today…….LOL
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
12:01 pm
The Punchline has decent comediennes. After all these decades, I’m so surprised Uptown Comedy Club hasn’t re-located or spent $$ on the club itself.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
December 28th, 2011
12:01 pm
Leggs y’all something else, I’m still wiping tears away.
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:02 pm
Welllll, I hate to leave WD with the whiners and trolls…maybe they can go co-op
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Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:02 pm
“they” being WD and Rodney Ho
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:03 pm
Anybody near downtown? I’m thinking about a Varsity run.
czBrat
December 28th, 2011
12:04 pm
* slow, deep breaths. try to act natural. *
i haven’t made it to the punchline or uptown comedy yet, but we did check out a few standups at kat’s cafe a couple months ago. serious potty-mouth performers though. only guy that had me lmao was a walgreen’s pharmacist; got up there and told us all about the wacky folk he treats on a daily basis.
Leggs, just promise me you guys won’t dash when we get busted and leave my stunned azz behind. blubbering and crying like a damn fool.
Blackfoote: The Real Blackfoote
December 28th, 2011
12:16 pm
Cely:
You must be at or near the Earnst & Young Corp. I made Varsity style hot dogs and hamburgers over the weekend. Grilled dogs and burgers of course, and it seem like the whole neighborhood came out.
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
12:18 pm
@czB ~ don’t worry, I’ll scoop you up and carry you on my back if and when we need to make a mad dash out this camp…
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
I can see Ernst & Young out of the window from where I’m sitting. Dern it you should have brought some in Monday. A change from holiday food would have been welcoming.
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
Blackfoote – When I do my walks, I usually walk that way, past Ernst & Young.
czBrat
December 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
I made Varsity style hot dogs and hamburgers over the weekend
does that mean they tasted like they’d been rolled in dirt?
awww, leggs. you’re the sweetness!
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
12:20 pm
@Celisea ~ I’m not downtown but order me an orange slushie (or whatever it’s called).
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
LOL czBrat…I love the Varsity. I only want it though every blue moon
czBrat
December 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
ooops. don’t mind me, celisea. enjoy your lunch!
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
Frosted Orange…gotcha Leggs
czBrat…that was funny
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
“does that mean they tasted like they’d been rolled in dirt?”
YOU ARE CRUEL
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:22 pm
Unless Rodney is a turn coat, which I don’t think so, I think we’re safe and can relax. I don’t know though if he’ll let us invade everyday…lol
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
What say you Rodney Ho? Our normal place/home here of late is experiencing “technical difficulties”….we might come in and the doors locked for a day or get kicked out if we try and hang around overnight from the previous day’s blog.
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
Awwww, love those Frosted Oranges….wish I had one right now. Been here 32 years and have eaten at The Varsity 3x.
Into the Light
December 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
Alright, I’m back…..
You know you’ve had too much holiday food when…..Wendy’s chili tastes like manna from heaven!
SexyCool - OA
December 28th, 2011
12:25 pm
TheDude asked me Monday night if I wanted him to bring me something from The Varsity. I wondered if he’d been invaded by The Bodysnatchers.
Into the Light
December 28th, 2011
12:25 pm
@Leggs: Once every 10 years, that sounds about right. I LOVE the Varsity, but it takes awhile to recover, you know?
Into the Light
December 28th, 2011
12:29 pm
I wondered if he’d been invaded by The Bodysnatchers
I usually ask that AFTER eating there.
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:29 pm
Mmmm mmmm good…a varsity hotdog (half) order of fries and a diet coke
That’s what I want. Just gotta make myself get up and walk down there. If I sit too much longer, I’m heading to the cafe downstairs.
Leggs
December 28th, 2011
12:30 pm
Good one, SexyC! I definitely feel you.
Celisea
December 28th, 2011
12:30 pm
I usually eat the Varsity about every 3 or 4 months. I will confess…I had it about 2 weeks ago. I was hating to take that last bite.