Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer is an American stand-up comedian and actress who also works as a writer, producer, and director, and she began performing comedy in the early 2000s. She placed fourth on the fifth season of Last Comic Standing in 2007 and created, co-wrote, and starred in the Comedy Central sketch series Inside Amy Schumer, which ran from 2013 to 2016 and won a Peabody Award and an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015. She wrote and starred in Trainwreck (2015), earning a Golden Globe nomination, and later appeared in Snatched (2017) and I Feel Pretty (2018). Her Broadway debut came in Steve Martin's Meteor Shower, which brought a Tony nomination. She also received Grammy nominations for her comedy album Live at the Apollo and for narrating her memoir. She created and starred in the series Life & Beth, which ran from 2022 to 2024, and directed the special Emergency Contact (2023).