What did Amy Schumer do to get all this media push?

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Her stand up has improved a lot over the years, she went from being a hack comedian to paying her dues in the clubs. Whether you find her funny or not she's a true comic now, just way overexposed being just about the only women doing it big, and with the feminist angle. Fail to see how her CC show is funny though.
 

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She's basically Sarah Silverman 2.0...over-hyped and over-exposed because she's a woman who is "edgy".
I said this verbatim to a co-worker yesterday lol.

I finally saw some episodes of her Comedy Central show, it was actually funny but nothing mind blowing.
 
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All these websites, blogs, cable news networks, and stuff like Today / Good Morning America constantly talk about this chick. To be honest I don't even really know who she is other than seeing her on those reports they constantly do on her. Is this chick like mad talented or something or did her backers pay off the right people?

Maybe because she looks like a the average white woman they're pushing her so hard to create a hero for them?
I actually think she's funny. Her show and stand-up are very impressive to me
 

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Comedy Central has been trying to make her a star for years now since she was getting put in those roasts & shyt. .

Pretty accurate for the most part. Comedy Central seems to be behind a lot of her push, but at the same time, she's actually not too bad. She's been able to prove she can hold her own with a show unlike Whitney Cummings.

She's basically Sarah Silverman 2.0...except funnier

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This is typical of the kind of racial comedy she performs:
 

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I think female comedians rely on sex jokes way too much...

From Schumer to Mo'Nique...
Whitney's stand ups were genuinely abhorrent. It's like she recognized she was in the same lane as Schumer and tried to be relatively proper about her style of telling sex jokes.
 

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Out of the three women's named thrown around this thread, Whitney Cummings is the worst, as in she is a truly bad comedian.

Silverman I don't like, but I wouldn't call her a bad comic.

Schmuer I don't like and tried to get into her stand-up, but she's the best of the three by a bit of a distance.

Another comic who is way more popular (not very, but somewhat) than her comedy dictates is Iliza Shlesinger. I've watched both her specials and I just can't. Same with Chris D'elia, can't stand dude.

If I had to have a list of simply "female comcis" Maria Bamford is by far my favorite; granted, not for everyone, but I think she's weird and absolutely hilarious.

Maria Bamford & Chelsea Peretti >
 

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Pretty accurate for the most part. Comedy Central seems to be behind a lot of her push, but at the same time, she's actually not too bad. She's been able to prove she can hold her own with a show unlike Whitney Cummings.



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truth i think Whitney Cummings was their "golden ticket"..they put the whole machine behind her and it flopped...she even had 2 shows going on at once at one point and i bet 0 of them exist right now. Amy def kept a profile and stuck around thru all of that.
 
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