Amy Schumer Plans to Help Clinton Campaign
Speaking with The New Yorker’s David Remick, Amy Schumer revealed that she plans to be involved in Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “Love her!” she told Remick. “She’s struggling with millennials right now, which is who she should be cleaning up with.” She’s only met the former First Lady and Presidential Candidate once, but she’s ready to do anything they need to help get Hillary to the Oval Office.
Schumer sat down with Remick for the first half of Episode Two of the New Yorker Radio Hour, and admitted that her newfound fame has changed her. She said she has an agenda now. “I used to play a character, really, kind of a deranged white rich party girl, maybe Republican. I don’t know. But I do have an agenda now,” she says. “To make people laugh and feel better.”
She explained that she wouldn’t do any of her old jokes now because as a comedian, she’s always moving on. But she also said that she’s moving on because her audience has changed. “I have a bigger audience now and its more- people are looking to me and I have become in some ways a role model and I have more responsibility. But I didn’t then.” But all of that relates to her own sensibilities, Schumer doesn’t seem concerned about the PC police. “It’s such a gotcha society but i feel the minute I really am worried about that, and I don’t say something I think is really funny, you’re dead in the water.”
The attacks last summer calling her a racist didn’t concern her, or hurt her feelings. “The punch of that is supposed to be that its a horrible thing to say and that’s why we’re laughing.” she explained. She later added, “if someone doesn’t get what I’m doing or misinterprets it for truth if I say something really ignorant and it’s clear I’m making a joke about a person who would say that, then that’s not someone I would ever want to have a conversation with or want them in my audience.”
Remick also asked her why she turned down a gig as host of the The Daily Show, and she said that it came down to not wanting to be stuck in the same job, and the same building for the next half a decade. She’s more interested in doing things that scare her, and she’s hoping to be on camera less and less. Schumer said she’d like to directing bigger things, and maybe go back to doing plays, and being dramatic. And stand up stays in the picture as well, and she’s already working on her next special, which will be different from the special she just released on HBO. “It’s different because I’m different.”
You can listen to Episode Two of the New Yorker Radio Hour at wnyc.org.
