Amy Schumer Tackles the Criticism Behind Her Stand-Up Comedy Head On


Amy Schumer is at the top of her game right now — both professionally and romantically — and her red-hot cover for Vanity Fair's May issue is just the latest icing on the cake. Aside from being in the fourth season of her hit show, Inside Amy Schumer, she also has an adorable boyfriend that we just can't get enough of. In the magazine's new issue, Amy talks about how she's managing to keep it all together during this high time in her life. See what she had to say below, and then check out the hilarious things she revealed about her BFF Jennifer Lawrence.

  • On how she still finds time to do fun things: "I love all the things that I'm doing, but that all my time is accounted for? I'm not Joan Rivers, where I'm like, 'A full calendar is happiness.' I would love to do nothing, like waking up and not knowing what you're going to do that day. The other day I was so overwhelmed, I left work an hour early and I just went and watched Labyrinth on my sister's couch."
  • On how she always wanted to be a performer: "As soon as I could make expressions, I was trying to make my parents laugh."
  • On the criticism behind her stand-up comedy jokes: "People feel how they're going to feel. I was just kind of like, 'I'm a comic. Like, can we just skip this thing where I become famous and then you guys look to burn me at the stake for something? Is there any way we can skip that?'"
  • On the devastating theater shooting during a showing of her movie Trainwreck: "I was by myself in a hotel, and I was just like, 'I wish I never wrote that movie.' I just felt helpless and stupid."