Entertainment Weekly Story Marks Amy Schumer’s Tipping Point

Everyone’s getting into the Amy Schumer business.  Last night Conan, today the cover of Entertainment Weekly, and this Sunday you can see her host the MTV Movie Awards.  Season Three of Inside Amy Schumer –which may be the best written sketch show on television– starts up next week, and the debut date for Trainwreck, the Judd Apatow directed film starring Amy and written by Amy, is just around the corner.  We’ve heard nothing but great things, and we literally can’t wait to see it.  There’s no longer any doubt, as we predicted earlier this year, Amy Schumer is going to be a big star, and she’s going mainstream.

The EW article nails it.  Amy Schumer is America’s next big comedy star.

In the article she talks about a particularly difficult time growing up, when her father was diagnosed with MS, his business went bankrupt, they had to move to Long Island and her parents split.  “It was Hunger Games,” says Schumer. “I was like, ‘I’ll take it from here.’ I tried to make everything okay by making everyone laugh about how horrible things were. It kept us alive.”

The EW article also recounts how she and director Judd Apatow connected after he heard her in 2012 on The Howard Stern Show.  After they met, she wrote a “high concept” script that he still hopes to develop, but for her first film, he sent her back to the drawing board, and she wrote “Trainwreck.”

You can read more about Amy’s childhood, development as a comedian, and what she has planned next at EW.com or grab the magazine on newsstands. And then sit back and watch Amy take over America.

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