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Schumer gets it

Amy Schumer was interviewed in the Pocono Record, on the occasion of the LCS Tour hitting the Caesars location in that stubby Pennsylvania mountain range.

When asked how hard it is to be a woman in standup comedy, she replied:

I actually think I’ve gotten more opportunities because I’m a woman. It’s still hard, but it’s hard to be any minority comedian. And actually, it’s just as hard to be a middle-aged, white comedian. I have friends who get told all the time they can’t get on stage because the club already has too many white stand-ups.

This is a 180-degree turn from her Episode 10 statement, for which we took her to task.

Schumer is unashamedly flogging this female sympathy vote thing– “Women have to be twice as funny to get half the credit.” Either she believes it… or she’s cynically pandering to get the female/eunuch vote. Either way, it’s revolting.