Amy Schumer on finding self confidence

[LongTimeListener]

Except she did a lot more than make fun of Trump. She lambasted his supporters, some of which were in her audience.
HUGE difference between mocking a candidate and mocking his voters (your audience).

You can't possibly believe this is going to be a bad thing.

Trump voters deserve to be mocked.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

It doesn't really compare to the Dixie Chicks at all. The Dixie Chicks lost country radio and corporate sponsors at a time when Bush still had good approval ratings. Schumer isn't going to ever lose Comedy Central, HBO, Universal or anybody important to her for mocking Trump supporters. It's not like they are cancelling late night talk shows left and right.

 

[bigpern23]

Heading the way of the Dixie Chicks?
200 folks walked out of her show after she dissed Trump and a pulled a few of his supporters out of the audience to question them.

Obviously, she plays to a little different crowd/fan base than the Dixie Chicks, but this is likely not going to be good for her career.

I have a friend who was at that show. She was not kicked out, but she went on a Facebook rant about it. I'm not positive if she's a Trump supporter (she leans GOP, but Trump is a different animal altogether), or if she was just upset that Schumer wasn't particularly funny and used her time to talk more about politics than to crack jokes.

Her FB screed focused on the latter, but I'm not ruling out the former.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Trump voters deserve to be mocked.

It's our civic duty.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This woman is quickly becoming the female Dane Cook.

 

[Chef2]

This woman is quickly becoming the female Dane Cook.

This isn't any kind of good at all, because the male Dane Cook needs to be taken out and have the **** beat out of him.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Let's see:

Very quick ascension in a business where it is rare - check
Very large and passionate fanbase who lap up everything you do - check
Selling out arenas despite having a C-plus act at best - check
Accusations of joke thievery - check
Overexposure like a mother - check
Signs of a downward spiral though act - check

 

[TyWebb]

Heading the way of the Dixie Chicks?
200 folks walked out of her show after she dissed Trump and a pulled a few of his supporters out of the audience to question them.

Obviously, she plays to a little different crowd/fan base than the Dixie Chicks, but this is likely not going to be good for her career.

Is this in reference to her show in Atlanta on Saturday? I was at that show and did see a large number of people walking out when she started getting political. She attempted to bring a Trump supporter on stage who was yelling at her but he wouldn't budge. I saw another rather drunk and loud heckler (I'm assuming he was heckling about Trump) get escorted out.

I am by no means a Trump supporter, but I do think she made a mistake by stereotyping all Trump supporters as gun-toting redneck racists during her show. If you are geniuinely trying to bring people to your side, that tact is only going to make people dig their heels in even harder, especially in the deep south. And that can be said about both sides of this election. It just does nothing to help actual political discourse, if that is in fact what she wants to have.

But back to Schumer: She did say that she knew doing that and going political was going to likely cost her fans and that she didn't give a ****, and I believe her. She has a stage and that is how she has decided to use it. There will be enough people leftover that will be fans of hers that she will be fine. She may not be able to sell out Phillips Arena anymore, but she will still have a career.

 

[TyWebb]

Is this in reference to her show in Atlanta on Saturday? I was at that show and did see a large number of people walking out when she started getting political. She attempted to bring a Trump supporter on stage who was yelling at her but he wouldn't budge. I saw another rather drunk and loud heckler (I'm assuming he was heckling about Trump) get escorted out.

I am by no means a Trump supporter, but I do think she made a mistake by stereotyping all Trump supporters as gun-toting redneck racists during her show. If you are geniuinely trying to bring people to your side, that tact is only going to make people dig their heels in even harder, especially in the deep south. And that can be said about both sides of this election. It just does nothing to help actual political discourse, if that is in fact what she wants to have.

But back to Schumer: She did say that she knew doing that and going political was going to likely cost her fans and that she didn't give a ****, and I believe her. She has a stage and that is how she has decided to use it. There will be enough people leftover that will be fans of hers that she will be fine. She may not be able to sell out Phillips Arena anymore, but she will still have a career.

I see from a few headlines this is likely about her show in Tampa. Sounds a lot like what she did in Atlanta, but with a slightly bigger reaction.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

People just don't like performers bringing politics into it from either side. Hank Williams Jr. played here recently. Some friends complained about all his political talk from the stage, and he leans way the hell away from Amy Schumer.

Both will be fine.

 

[TyWebb]

People just don't like performers bringing politics into it from either side. Hank Williams Jr. played here recently. Some friends complained about all his political talk from the stage, and he leans way the hell away from Amy Schumer.

Both will be fine.

I agree. I didn't expect her to go so hard on politics. It was the worst part of an otherwise enjoyable show for me, and that includes the part when she went at length about how her vagina smells like a farm animal.

And if I'm being honest, it will likely deter me from seeing her live in the future. But I'm still a fan.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I agree. I didn't expect her to go so hard on politics. It was the worst part of an otherwise enjoyable show for me, and that includes the part when she went at length about how her vagina smells like a farm animal.

Trump won't be grabbing it.

 

[Buck]

I think there are expectations about material.
Schumer's rise to success wasn't based on political humor. I've never seen her live, but the stand-up and sketch material I've seen her do on TV was not political material.
I believe all topics are open in comedy and humor. I don't believe in taboos.
Performers should do the material they want to do, but the audience is not obligated to like it.
If I went to a Schumer performance and she did political material, I probably wouldn't like it. I really don't like political stand-up, and I wouldn't expect it from her.

If you go see Lewis Black or Bill Maher, you should expect it.

She'll be fine. She might lose some audience if she wants to do political stand-up, but that doesn't mean she won't work.
Just like the Dixie Chicks. They're not shopping with EBT cards just because they lost some of their audience.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Carlin could pull it off because he was a brilliant writer and thinker. He also had a point.
Same with Lewis Black and Maher, and Dennis Miller on the other side of the political spectrum. You may not agree with their line of thinking, but they are thinking.
Inviting audience members on stage to ask them why they like Trump is cheap. You're waiting for the dumb "tells it like it is/Make Murrica great/Ahh Hates Hillery!" line so you can sit back and collect an easy laugh without putting in any work.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Carlin could pull it off because he was a brilliant writer and thinker. He also had a point.
Same with Lewis Black and Maher, and Dennis Miller on the other side of the political spectrum. You may not agree with their line of thinking, but they are thinking.
Inviting audience members on stage to ask them why they like Trump is cheap. You're waiting for the dumb "tells it like it is/Make Murrica great/Ahh Hates Hillery!" line so you can sit back and collect an easy laugh without putting in any work.

And even that can be funny, but it's already been done on about a dozen talk shows. That's the main reason I'd stay away from Trump stuff in standup. The jokes are too obvious and done to death already.

 

[TyWebb]

Carlin could pull it off because he was a brilliant writer and thinker. He also had a point.
Same with Lewis Black and Maher, and Dennis Miller on the other side of the political spectrum. You may not agree with their line of thinking, but they are thinking.
Inviting audience members on stage to ask them why they like Trump is cheap. You're waiting for the dumb "tells it like it is/Make Murrica great/Ahh Hates Hillery!" line so you can sit back and collect an easy laugh without putting in any work.

From the show I went to, it did seem like she genuinely wanted to hear what the guy had to say. Now, she may have been anticipating the dumb lines you mentioned, but she approached it as "let's be open to discussion and other sides." Now, that could have just been all part of the set up or actual sincerity, only she knows for sure. But it came less across as "Let's Pick On The Trumpster" than you might think.

That said, as I mentioned before, she didn't refrain from hitting all the redneck republican stereotypes at other points in the show.

 

[MisterCreosote]

From the show I went to, it did seem like she genuinely wanted to hear what the guy had to say. Now, she may have been anticipating the dumb lines you mentioned, but she approached it as "let's be open to discussion and other sides."

That sounds incredibly pointless and unfunny to me.

 

[TyWebb]

That sounds incredibly pointless and unfunny to me.

Oh, I definitely agree. When she invited the guy on stage, I immediately put my head in my hands and said to my girlfriend "I'm not sure I want to see this." If she were going to be genuine, it wasn't going to be funny. If she were going to make fun of the guy, it was just going to seem mean.

There was definitely a car-wreck, spectacle feel to the whole thing, so in that way it was at least interesting. But it also ground any momentum she had during the show to a halt. Instead of a sea of laughter, there was an uneasy tension in the arena.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

We already have shows where we poll random goobers about their opinions on things. And many of them are on free TV and I don't have to pay for a ticket and parking my car. I have no issue with her talking politics in her act, you just damn sure better write it, fix it on stage and make sure it's solid. Lewis Black's done it for 20 years. Carlin did it for 40. But it sounds like she just put her show in park to shill for a political candidate from what I've read. That's unacceptable. People paid to be entertained. This is basically me going to a Pitt game and having the halftime show be Hillary. I didn't pay to see it and I'm damn sure not watching it.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I see from a few headlines this is likely about her show in Tampa. Sounds a lot like what she did in Atlanta, but with a slightly bigger reaction.

The stuff I first saw was related to Atlanta show.
Then she did Tampa, with more of the same.

It's her career, fine whatever ....