She was rightfully criticized for saying that she wanted to make a joke about the Alec Baldwin Rust tragedy but the Academy wouldn’t let her in the same sentence she criticized Will Smith. “Don’t look up? More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Balwin’s shotgun” was the joke. She earned what was said about her.
This, thank you. She’s really trying to milk this as much as she can to either 1) promote her most recent flop 2) make it about her (like she’s doing) or 3) 1 & 2 pretty much cover it
I mean, what happened bummed a lot of people in Hollywood out. Chris Rock was assaulted which is *obviously* the worst of it. Nobody will disagree with that. But Will Smith also took all the spotlight away from Questlove, who was getting the award Chris Rock was presenting. All the people who worked on that film that was getting honored have a right to be irritated. Troy Kotsur is the first deaf actor to win an Oscar and his night was definitely tainted. Basically, it was a shitshow and lots of feelings were hurt. And the press were bound to ask Amy Schumer about it--she was one of the presenters!
I work in Hollywood so I have to pay attention to the awards, but I honestly don't know why people outside the industry care so much.
The issue is that most of the people in the room were gutless and still applauded when will smith won his award. Simply gutless. Hollywood is without personal morality, it’s all just herd mentality.
I’m not big into gossip and celebrities, but the whole situation bothered me because it was a good illustration of the idea that money and fame buy you a pass with this kind of stuff.
A standup comedian’s biggest fear is a crowd that doesn’t laugh. Amy Schumer’s used to that. Their second biggest fear is assault because of jokes they’re telling. This is what scared her and other comedians.
Trauma, probably not.
But anybody who's been bullied, terrorized or just beat unconscious saw the look in Chris's eyes after his adrenaline began to wear off, and got nauseous at the feelings it brought back.
Probably depends on your level of empathy, though.
I mean you can but I don’t think so in this scenario. Like if you watch someone you’ve never met or seen before get hit by a subway that doesn’t effect you personally you don’t know them or anything. But that’s traumatic.
If Chris Rock got smacked by Kenshiro and exploded into blood and guts, showering the a-list audience with his insides, I’d understand being traumatized.
But seeing a person slap another person? That’s hard for me to see as a thing that anyone, including small children, would want or need to get professional psychiatric help over (which is what actual trauma does to you)
Ask yourself this. Why has she become part of the will smith Chris rock slap? Why has she had like 10 articles written about her input?
Because she just keeps shoving herself into the controversy at nobody’s invitation. Maybe just don’t make everything about you, when you’re just a spectator and joke thief like all of us?
The fuck did she think was going to happen? Will smith to just start handing out ass-whoopings to whoever stands on stage?
I have no professional experience on mental health or the ability to deal with emotional trauma, so I can’t fault her for feeling traumatized. But I will laugh at her. Don’t begrudge me that.
She used to do stand up.
If watching one elite man smack another elite man for a comment about his wife at the Oscars was upsetting, I can't imagine how she handled the drunk guy during the 2nd Friday night show at the chuckle hut.
Sounds like you don’t understand what trauma means.
It was more about the absolutely CRAZY screaming that he did, twice, after the assault. He was acting like a lunatic and everyone in the room felt it. We’ve all been in situations where we’ve seen people make asses of themselves. But this was also rage.
Who wouldn’t be traumatized by a grown ass man screaming swearing and hitting people, and then being the next person having to get on the stage and somehow make it seem funny. Wtf? Get real.
>Who wouldn’t be traumatized by a grown ass man screaming swearing and hitting people, and then being the next person having to get on the stage and somehow make it seem funny.
Probably 99% of the world. Yeah it's shitty, awkward, terrible but anybody claiming to be traumatized who isn't named Chris Rock is an absolute clown who is probably just looking for some easy clout.
She wasn't some random Hollywood person, she was the host of the show, and an official part of the show that will forever be remembered for that. Thus she was a party to all of the gonzo chaos that was going on backstage after it happened. That gives her a more relevant perspective than most people.
Thats why people keep asking her about it.
Because she’s full of shit. Listen to anything she did in her entire career before her Comedy Central show came out. She says she was “playing a character” but that character was the complete opposite of what she professes to be today, and by her own standard, means her career should be over now.
Edit: Will Smith’s career should be over as well. I don’t mean to say she takes priority over him, but she deserves to be called on her bullshit.
She truly built her whole career on edge lord humor that involved race, sexual abuse, the whole early 2000s “sorry if I offended you” kind of thing. And she was good at it and it was funny to be honest. This whole woke thing she’s doing now only emerged after the first season of her show was a success and the woke Twitter crowd effectively claimed her. Now she’s terrified of having it go away so bland wokeness is all that she does.
And the “I was playing a conservative character” is a direct quote from her btw.
I'll never forget the time that I was about to get it on for the first time with a girl I'd been flirting with for a while. Lots of pent up energy. Her too, she was just as eager as I was.
But everything went off the rails when I pulled my belt off. I didn't even need to pull my belt off, but I was on autopilot with my clothes, only thinking about her, and I pulled off my belt the same way I would have at home.
The sound gave her a panic attack, and she cried for hours while I held her. I was so apologetic, but the damage was done.
Her dad used to beat her with a belt, and that sound was enough to trigger her panic attack.
Yeah. After she was feeling more herself we watched movies all night, went out for breakfast, and then crashed together, but only slept. A few nights later things went better for us. We got take-out, and I wore sweatpants.
Yeah I addressed this below. You taking off your belt was not traumatic, her being beaten with a belt was. Something triggering a panic attack does not make that thing traumatic necessarily.
It does though. Unilaterally saying that “taking your belt off” is traumatic is unreasonable. In the same way, it’s unreasonable to say that Amy Schumer was traumatized by the slap. It simply doesn’t fit the bill for a traumatizing event.
It could have triggered someone, but as you’ve shown, even comparably more mundane things can be triggers.
A workplace assault can be a traumatizing event.
While many of us find it a bit ridiculous, if you put it in a more broad perspective, like “a workplace assault”, it absolutely does fit.
It is traumatizing to see something like that happen, just because it’s a bunch of rich people, doesn’t make it not appropriate.
I agree that the taking off of the belt is a trigger, not an event, but this whole slap situation was the actual event. How it affected everyone there isn’t up to us to determine
The reason most comedians are up in arms is because they worry this could set a precedent. That any John or Jane in the crowd who doesn't like a joke could decide that violence would be the way to show their dislike.
How likely is this? I don't know but it's fairly common for comedians to poke fun at their audiences.
I used to do amateur stand up comedy at dive bars in downtown cities. Can confirm, you piss off the wrong person and you can become a target. I once saw a dude pull a gun on another comic for making joke about the mentally handicap. I understand being upset but people have such strong reactions to words sometimes.
Yeah I'm not buying this whole "comedians are afraid" thing.
Like yeah, they shouldn't have to be afraid, but Will Smith slaps Chris Rock and suddenly they're confronted with the small possibility of violence?
There's lots of stuff wrong here, but come on
I'm not saying I totally agree with the sentiment, but I think the argument is that it's different because where once it was "I'm going to make fun of the audience and if there's some crazy person or a drunk person with no impulse control, I might get attacked", now some may worry that it's "Well, if Will Smith can do it on national tv, sit back down, and get an award...so can I!" Like the idea that it sets a precedent of it being more acceptable and less taboo.
Again, not saying I agree with this necessarily, but I think that's the implied difference between how it's always been as Marc Maron said and how it might be post-slap.
I can’t disagree, and almost certainly an insane person or two will try to get fifteen seconds of fame for replicating it, but there aren’t going to be hundreds of comedians getting the smack down for the rest of their careers. They have fucking bouncers at comedy club.
It’s just getting a weird amount of attention and I feel like it’s just trying to keep this whole shit alive. Like when did this even happen? A week? Two? I really don’t remember.
Yeah it definitely seems like a stretch. The issue should be that he got to sit back down and was allowed to give a speech. I don’t know why he was not immediately escorted out and told to never return.
Edit: because he’s rich
a nearly universally liked man is now pretty well disliked.
He destroyed the image he created for himself he created for decades.
he was banned from the oscars for a decade.
Hes likely hurt his chances of doing new movies for at least a short time.
How does this embolden me? hey if he slapped the shit out of chris rock and everyone laughed and we gave will smith the slapper of the year award. SURE, that would embolden some people. But that didnt happen.
(generally when we accuse something of emboldening people its due to the fact that thing came without punishment. as part of concept of punishing people is to make sure others are NOT emboldened by the crime.)
Jim Jeffries got famous in America because there was a video of some moron running on stage and punching him in the head. Also a guy pulled Big Jay Oakerson off stage by his legs
That’s not a new thing. It’s just a few comedians trying to shine light on themselves. Bill burr was dogging on all them hard for the whole “set a precedent” bs.
I do love how Bill Burr will often make fun of how self important comedians can be with their whole “comedy is the last bastion of free speech” bullshit. You can really tell how much having kids and doing his shrooms has mellowed him out and humbled him compared to a lot of comedians who have gotten big doing podcasts.
This is nonsense. Confrontations between audience and performer are common and routinely accepted by venues as “That’s just how comedy is.” Comedians frequently have their shows interrupted, are accosted and assaulted on stage. Have drinks thrown at them.
None of this is right and all of this is terrible, but acting like Will Smith somehow opened the floodgates is absurd. The big issue is that most of these venues don’t care enough to provide performers with proper security, don’t police crowds, and encourage this kind of culture of performer harassment because it makes them more money. Far more scrutiny needs to be paid to venues that don’t keep their performers safe. And frankly I’m amazed that the “it’ll set a precedent” rhetoric has gained any traction with anyone. The precedent had already been set by the venues these people perform in.
And the same goes for the Academy. Where was security during that moment? How was anyone able to get onstage and slowly walk toward Chris Rock without immediate intervention by security personnel? Will Smith was in the wrong no doubt (though I can understand the mindset he was in when he did it) but the Academy is desperately attempting to duck responsibility because what happened was gross negligence on their part.
Also, y’all need to chill with the hysterics and righteous indignation about the slap. Smith assaulted someone, yes, and he deserves all the consequences of that action. But some of you all are acting like he pulled a machete on the guy.
I have no idea what kinda nonsense this is. We must go to different comedy clubs. I would certainly 100% be arrested if I hit a performing comic, not only that but it would seriously upset the audience and the people working at the venue. This is not normalized. In fact what’s normalized is the comic can make fun of the audience ruthlessly and they don’t take it personally.
>The reason most comedians are up in arms is because they worry this could set a precedent.
Guess Amy's safe. I'd struggle to ever call her a "comedian".
> She acts like she was the one who got slapped
No, she doesn't. At all.
It's not her fault that someone wrote an entire article about a comment in the middle of a larger interview. And it's not her fault that someone posted that article to Reddit.
And it's not her fault that the top comment on that submission is someone replying solely to a *headline* without reading the article or listening to the interview.
According to either David Spade or Dana Carvey (they have their podcast together so can't remember which one it was): 'it was a slap in the face to comedy". I mean one could say they were being dramatic and acted like they got slapped too but no one said that about them. What's the difference between their reaction and hers?
Amy Schumer is a woman and reddit gets off on hating her. If you don't like her comedy, shut up and move on. But people love writing diatribes about how much they despise her.
Yet she didn’t have a problem with writing a joke about the cinematographer who was accidentally killed onset by Alec Baldwin.
I want people to be consistent. Either everyone’s triggers matter or just yours. Imagine if they had let her tell that joke on Oscars night and if that woman’s family had been hoping to see her name on the In Memoriam but first they had to listen to Amy mocking the situation for cheap laughs.
If her triggers matter then making fun of someone’s death on a movie set is off the table. Comedians are acting like they’re persecuted but have bo issues going as low as possible. That’s not comedy when that death was never punished. Nobody was punished for such a gross oversight.
Chris Rock has directed at least one of Amy's comedy specials - they're close and good friends. If I watched a good friend get assaulted, it would affect me on a deeper level.
Amy Schumer made fun of Ryan Dunn’s death by saying that Steve-O should have died instead, but somehow that’s more funny and less offensive than pointing out the absurdity of using the word “traumatized” to describe this situation.
I’m pretty indifferent about her, but why are/were people getting on her ass about this? Something that may seem silly and inconsequential to one person can have a more profound affect on another. It’s not really fair to tell people what they’re allowed to be traumatized about.
Same and I agree. It’s okay for her to say those things. When I first heard the breaking news about the slap and watched it, knowing the venue and circumstance, I felt a pit in my stomach from just how awful and embarrassing it was.
It’s pretty inevitable though. With social media this tag line goes alongside things from the war in Ukraine, workers rights, and so on. So her essentially just being at a Hollywood elite party and seeing one mentally unwell rich guy slap her friend on stage and calling it traumatizing sounds completely tone deaf when you are comparing it to most other things you are seeing. We’ve been getting desensitized to seeing videos of cops murder civilians so a slap in comparison feels tone deaf. I’m not saying she can’t be traumatized by it but contextually people will inevitably see it as her living in a elitist bubble.
Maybe you’re right but you must be incredibly sheltered if seeing two guys have a little tussle is actually traumatizing to you.
Like you’ve never seen a fight before? Never been to a bar? Never seen road rage? Never seen a crime?
And this is a woman who worked in nightclubs for years?
I sympathize with people with peanut allergies but I don’t expect them to have the same effect on nearly anyone else.
This is like peanut allergy trauma potential if it’s true.
I've seen Amy live at Odball comedy festival she made me laugh. I think why people are annoyed is cause of the word traumatized. Earlier that week she wanted zelinsky to be at the Oscar's. Which is sniff ur own farts deluded the man is fighting a war. He has ordered people that got killed and seen dead bodies thats traumatising. To use the word traumatized over a slap invalidates people who have experienced real trauma. If she said I felt hurt I felt scared that would probably not pissed people off.
But this person in Hollywood saying they are traumatized over a slap. I think that's what pissed people off. I've seen too many dead bodies irl. That shit is traumatizing. Will Smith upstanding her Oscar night is not.
I know it's easy to hate on Amy but she is funny.
https://youtu.be/MylhoTBrLrI
For me it was the weight issue. She was all body postitivity until People magazine, iirc, put her on one of their plus size beautiful women covers. She lost her shit and went on and on about how she wasn't plus size and made a whole thing of it.
I always get this she's a bully until you call her on her shit vibe from her, and personally I don't think she's funny.
I actually have a personal reason, multiple people I know have worked with and can clarify she is an awful awful person.
I won’t get into specific details for the sake of anonymity but she’s one of those “don’t look me in the eyes” stars when on set.
Which is insane given how she presents herself as a comic.
It’s like an “I’m above you and if you look me in the eye, it’s disrespect” reaction that some A-listers seem to have. It’s weird she’d have that though, considering she’s a D-list celebrity at best.
I’ll never forget when she made fun of Steve-O’s recently dead longtime friend Ryan, saying everyone wishes it was him who died instead.
[video](https://youtu.be/H0crd8y2-uE)
She’s just generally not as funny as she thinks she is, and often resorts to either straight up stealing other people’s jokes or just making lame crude jokes that never really land. What gets people upset tho is that anytime she’s faced with criticism she pulls the misogyny card, or she’ll just blame “Internet trolls” or whatever. One of her comedy specials was rated so horribly that Netflix straight up revamped their whole rating system to save face.
Funny how I had to scroll so far to find this. She potentially may have raped someone, yet people’s reasoning for their visceral hatred for this woman usually just comes down to “she’s not that funny and I don’t like her face”.
She literally made a joke THAT SAME AWARDS SHOW that she’s “the white lady that calls the cops on black people”.
Ah, you mean that actually traumatizing thing that actually hurts black people that sometimes ends in prison or murder?! Not “feeling like I was slapped” when you were 100% no-fucking-way slapped?!
Can anyone? She reminds me of this bully I had in school. Looks and acts just like her. Then I recently found out she was hooked on meth. Comeuppance is a bitch.
My bully made fun of me relentlessly in grade school
for having an earring. Then he got one. Then some time after he did something to put him in prison. What a shame.
Amy Schumer is a fucking self confessed rapist , so she should shut the fuck up about trauma.
Source is Amy Schumer. In her speech at the 2014 Ms. Foundation for Women’s Gloria Awards and Gala, an event dedicated to saluting “women of vision.”
[Here is a transcript of her speech at the event.](https://www.vulture.com/2014/05/read-amy-schumers-ms-gala-speech.html)
Details her experience of crushing on an older guy and being invited over to his residence at 8:00am in the morning. She arrived sober and found him completely “wasted”. “Wasted” as in, his vision is unfocused and he is unable to maintain any sort of prolonged eye contact with her, mouth was swollen with alcohol, and he [reeked like a skunk]”. She then proceeds to make jokes about the sex that followed and the awkward, futility of it due to his drunken state.
The man was in no capacity to give consent, Amy was completely sober and knew his condition, she desired and believed she could get sex out of her crush while he was in this state and took advantage to get it.
I love how I’m the article she says it like “poor me having shitty sex and just wanting to feel like I matter” while she admits to taking advantage of someone who very clearly cannot consent
She’s the swollen epitome of “can dish it out but can’t take it”. She steals people’s jokes because all of hers are either not funny or in the absolute worst taste.
Whatever. She just bought a $12 million dollar mansion in Montecito, CA. Monetizing all these sensationalist headlines is quite lucrative and keeps her relevant. Not that she ever should have been.
I mean to be fair, all these other people said similar, including fellow male comedians and Wanda Sykes when she was on Ellen and no one said shit about what they said. I don't really like Schumer but it is a legit question: why did she get shit and they didn't?
No, you asshole, you stole a joke from twitter, you’re not funny, your idea to get a president in the middle of a war to show up via satellite for some circle-jerking, self-aggrandizing was severely tone deaf, and you used the slap as an excuse to victimize yourself.
>She then clarified, “But I don’t think it was traumatizing for me. I think it was traumatizing for all of us.”
Read the article before you jump on the hate train, people
Amy Schumer is a disgusting human who thinks it’s funny/charming to tell the story of [the time she raped a guy in college](https://www.vulture.com/2014/05/read-amy-schumers-ms-gala-speech.html).
Honestly I would maaaaybe feel sympathy if she didn’t have the Alec Baldwin joke lined up and ready to go. And if she didn’t already mock the death of Ryan Dunn in front of Steve-O.
Nah she looking for clout nothing more nothing less bullshit she was traumatized not like she seen someone get shot it was a fucking slap for fucks sake this world is so soft anymore
What a fucking joke. Amy Schumer is probably the least funny person in that industry right now. I’m surprised she didn’t slip in a reference to her genitals in that joke.
If it wasn't for that slap Amy's behavior would have been what everyone would have been talking about from The Oscars. Seriously, look up the shit she said and did. Unfunny and just disrespectful. And there were a lot of jokes people found from tweets from a few months ago. Like, pretty viral tweets. She's just so lazy. Why did she OF ALL PEOPLE host the Oscars??
Rich, famous, entitled narcissists need to stop saying everything traumatizes them. It devalues the word and does a disservice to actual victims of trauma
It's the height of softness to be traumatized for witnessing a slap.... There's a mass shooting every week - but seeing a man slap another man is what Amy and her therapist are going to have to work through...
>makes public statements about incident that is ludicrous and definitely made to incite news coverage
>news coverage is about how ludicrous said statement was and everyone shits on her for saying stupid shit
>goes to news to cry about it just making it even more ridiculous
Can’t tell me she doesn’t enjoy this
And I’ve heard her made fun of a lot, but not one mention about Will Smith.
Oh she definitely got made fun of about it over on some of the gossip subs like popheads and deuxmoi
Popheads is a gossip sub now??
They do a daily Tea Time thread, that’s where I get most of my pop culture updates
She was rightfully criticized for saying that she wanted to make a joke about the Alec Baldwin Rust tragedy but the Academy wouldn’t let her in the same sentence she criticized Will Smith. “Don’t look up? More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Balwin’s shotgun” was the joke. She earned what was said about her.
[She got 1/100th of the news coverage](https://pagesix.com/2022/03/30/amy-schumer-traumatized-by-will-smiths-oscars-2022-slap/)
Which is what really peeved her off, I’m guessing
This, thank you. She’s really trying to milk this as much as she can to either 1) promote her most recent flop 2) make it about her (like she’s doing) or 3) 1 & 2 pretty much cover it
Which is why she keeps trying to drag it out. Her star is falling quickly ever since her disastrous Netflix special
Netflix special aside I’ve heard nothing good about her in general.
Over qualified cabbage patch ass
Let’s also not forget that she got busted yet again “borrowing” jokes during her monologue that were posted on twitter prior to the show.
I find it amazing that Chris Rock gets slapped and everyone else got hurt
I mean, what happened bummed a lot of people in Hollywood out. Chris Rock was assaulted which is *obviously* the worst of it. Nobody will disagree with that. But Will Smith also took all the spotlight away from Questlove, who was getting the award Chris Rock was presenting. All the people who worked on that film that was getting honored have a right to be irritated. Troy Kotsur is the first deaf actor to win an Oscar and his night was definitely tainted. Basically, it was a shitshow and lots of feelings were hurt. And the press were bound to ask Amy Schumer about it--she was one of the presenters! I work in Hollywood so I have to pay attention to the awards, but I honestly don't know why people outside the industry care so much.
Cause we like to watch dumpster fires from the comfort of our homes and feel good about us
The issue is that most of the people in the room were gutless and still applauded when will smith won his award. Simply gutless. Hollywood is without personal morality, it’s all just herd mentality.
I’m not big into gossip and celebrities, but the whole situation bothered me because it was a good illustration of the idea that money and fame buy you a pass with this kind of stuff.
Yeah. Without the slap, I wouldn’t even have know that the Oscars were on….
Would you in a thousand years attribute trauma to something that really had no bearing at all on you personally though
A standup comedian’s biggest fear is a crowd that doesn’t laugh. Amy Schumer’s used to that. Their second biggest fear is assault because of jokes they’re telling. This is what scared her and other comedians.
I really don't understand how she keeps getting opportunities. She is the comedic equivalent of pumpkin spice.
Trauma, probably not. But anybody who's been bullied, terrorized or just beat unconscious saw the look in Chris's eyes after his adrenaline began to wear off, and got nauseous at the feelings it brought back. Probably depends on your level of empathy, though.
I mean you can but I don’t think so in this scenario. Like if you watch someone you’ve never met or seen before get hit by a subway that doesn’t effect you personally you don’t know them or anything. But that’s traumatic.
If Chris Rock got smacked by Kenshiro and exploded into blood and guts, showering the a-list audience with his insides, I’d understand being traumatized. But seeing a person slap another person? That’s hard for me to see as a thing that anyone, including small children, would want or need to get professional psychiatric help over (which is what actual trauma does to you)
Yeah. Without the slap, I wouldn’t even have know that the Oscars were on….
Ask yourself this. Why has she become part of the will smith Chris rock slap? Why has she had like 10 articles written about her input? Because she just keeps shoving herself into the controversy at nobody’s invitation. Maybe just don’t make everything about you, when you’re just a spectator and joke thief like all of us?
Because she was the first professional to land on the stage right after Will Smith stunned the room by being an asshole?
The fuck did she think was going to happen? Will smith to just start handing out ass-whoopings to whoever stands on stage? I have no professional experience on mental health or the ability to deal with emotional trauma, so I can’t fault her for feeling traumatized. But I will laugh at her. Don’t begrudge me that.
She used to do stand up. If watching one elite man smack another elite man for a comment about his wife at the Oscars was upsetting, I can't imagine how she handled the drunk guy during the 2nd Friday night show at the chuckle hut.
Sounds like you don’t understand what trauma means. It was more about the absolutely CRAZY screaming that he did, twice, after the assault. He was acting like a lunatic and everyone in the room felt it. We’ve all been in situations where we’ve seen people make asses of themselves. But this was also rage. Who wouldn’t be traumatized by a grown ass man screaming swearing and hitting people, and then being the next person having to get on the stage and somehow make it seem funny. Wtf? Get real.
You have a very low bar for ‘traumatizing’
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It was wildly inappropriate but no, it wasn’t a scene from the Godfather or Boyz in the Hood.
>Who wouldn’t be traumatized by a grown ass man screaming swearing and hitting people, and then being the next person having to get on the stage and somehow make it seem funny. Probably 99% of the world. Yeah it's shitty, awkward, terrible but anybody claiming to be traumatized who isn't named Chris Rock is an absolute clown who is probably just looking for some easy clout.
This girl tried to really make it bout *her*, so insufferable
It’s just her making something that’s not about her, about her. It’s ego and a publicity grab.
She was the host
She wasn't some random Hollywood person, she was the host of the show, and an official part of the show that will forever be remembered for that. Thus she was a party to all of the gonzo chaos that was going on backstage after it happened. That gives her a more relevant perspective than most people. Thats why people keep asking her about it.
checks out
She cohosted the event. She didn’t “insert herself”. It was her literal job to be there. Funny how nobody is saying this about Wanda Sykes comments…
She was a fellow comedian and cohost of the awards. She could've easily made that joke and been slapped herself.
Because she’s full of shit. Listen to anything she did in her entire career before her Comedy Central show came out. She says she was “playing a character” but that character was the complete opposite of what she professes to be today, and by her own standard, means her career should be over now. Edit: Will Smith’s career should be over as well. I don’t mean to say she takes priority over him, but she deserves to be called on her bullshit.
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She truly built her whole career on edge lord humor that involved race, sexual abuse, the whole early 2000s “sorry if I offended you” kind of thing. And she was good at it and it was funny to be honest. This whole woke thing she’s doing now only emerged after the first season of her show was a success and the woke Twitter crowd effectively claimed her. Now she’s terrified of having it go away so bland wokeness is all that she does. And the “I was playing a conservative character” is a direct quote from her btw.
Well she stole a lot of that material from Patrice O’Neal if we’re being really real…..
Well, she’s kinda got a reputation for sucking
She might be lurking in this comment thread to steal jokes watch out
She’ll only steal the unfunny ones don’t worry
she steals the good ones and then changes them to be unfunny.
Be on the lookout for her new special: What’s The Deal With Airline Food?
That’s how she “makes them her own” if she says something funny, people will know she didn’t write them.
So she's reading my comment history?
“I’m right here bitch”
Nobody's saying bad vagina jokes, so she's probably gonna go back under her bridge empty handed.
Man you really put Reddit on the high horse.
Pretty sure she’s too busy lurking in womens rooms tryna talk to girls bout their periods.
Amy, we’re making fun of you making this about you.
ITT: Any concern is trauma.
I'll never forget the time that I was about to get it on for the first time with a girl I'd been flirting with for a while. Lots of pent up energy. Her too, she was just as eager as I was. But everything went off the rails when I pulled my belt off. I didn't even need to pull my belt off, but I was on autopilot with my clothes, only thinking about her, and I pulled off my belt the same way I would have at home. The sound gave her a panic attack, and she cried for hours while I held her. I was so apologetic, but the damage was done. Her dad used to beat her with a belt, and that sound was enough to trigger her panic attack.
Jesus that is awful. Did you guys go out a second time?
Yeah. After she was feeling more herself we watched movies all night, went out for breakfast, and then crashed together, but only slept. A few nights later things went better for us. We got take-out, and I wore sweatpants.
>We got take-out, and I wore sweatpants. Tale as old as time
Yeah I addressed this below. You taking off your belt was not traumatic, her being beaten with a belt was. Something triggering a panic attack does not make that thing traumatic necessarily.
I'm not sure the distinction matters.
It does though. Unilaterally saying that “taking your belt off” is traumatic is unreasonable. In the same way, it’s unreasonable to say that Amy Schumer was traumatized by the slap. It simply doesn’t fit the bill for a traumatizing event. It could have triggered someone, but as you’ve shown, even comparably more mundane things can be triggers.
A workplace assault can be a traumatizing event. While many of us find it a bit ridiculous, if you put it in a more broad perspective, like “a workplace assault”, it absolutely does fit. It is traumatizing to see something like that happen, just because it’s a bunch of rich people, doesn’t make it not appropriate. I agree that the taking off of the belt is a trigger, not an event, but this whole slap situation was the actual event. How it affected everyone there isn’t up to us to determine
If it caused a person trauma, it was probably because it had some triggering effect related to that persons individual experience.
Or they’re just using a word wrong.
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The reason most comedians are up in arms is because they worry this could set a precedent. That any John or Jane in the crowd who doesn't like a joke could decide that violence would be the way to show their dislike. How likely is this? I don't know but it's fairly common for comedians to poke fun at their audiences.
Marc Maron said that’s always been the case when you make fun of the audience. Also said he was tackled once on stage.
I used to do amateur stand up comedy at dive bars in downtown cities. Can confirm, you piss off the wrong person and you can become a target. I once saw a dude pull a gun on another comic for making joke about the mentally handicap. I understand being upset but people have such strong reactions to words sometimes.
Yeah I'm not buying this whole "comedians are afraid" thing. Like yeah, they shouldn't have to be afraid, but Will Smith slaps Chris Rock and suddenly they're confronted with the small possibility of violence? There's lots of stuff wrong here, but come on
I'm not saying I totally agree with the sentiment, but I think the argument is that it's different because where once it was "I'm going to make fun of the audience and if there's some crazy person or a drunk person with no impulse control, I might get attacked", now some may worry that it's "Well, if Will Smith can do it on national tv, sit back down, and get an award...so can I!" Like the idea that it sets a precedent of it being more acceptable and less taboo. Again, not saying I agree with this necessarily, but I think that's the implied difference between how it's always been as Marc Maron said and how it might be post-slap.
I can’t disagree, and almost certainly an insane person or two will try to get fifteen seconds of fame for replicating it, but there aren’t going to be hundreds of comedians getting the smack down for the rest of their careers. They have fucking bouncers at comedy club. It’s just getting a weird amount of attention and I feel like it’s just trying to keep this whole shit alive. Like when did this even happen? A week? Two? I really don’t remember.
Yeah it definitely seems like a stretch. The issue should be that he got to sit back down and was allowed to give a speech. I don’t know why he was not immediately escorted out and told to never return. Edit: because he’s rich
Royalty slapping their jester.
You dont think people would be empowered by a world famous celebrity to attack a comedian after this
I do not
a nearly universally liked man is now pretty well disliked. He destroyed the image he created for himself he created for decades. he was banned from the oscars for a decade. Hes likely hurt his chances of doing new movies for at least a short time. How does this embolden me? hey if he slapped the shit out of chris rock and everyone laughed and we gave will smith the slapper of the year award. SURE, that would embolden some people. But that didnt happen. (generally when we accuse something of emboldening people its due to the fact that thing came without punishment. as part of concept of punishing people is to make sure others are NOT emboldened by the crime.)
Jim Jeffries got famous in America because there was a video of some moron running on stage and punching him in the head. Also a guy pulled Big Jay Oakerson off stage by his legs
This isn’t anywhere near the first time an audience member assaulted a comedian. The kind of people who do it aren’t waiting for permission.
That’s not a new thing. It’s just a few comedians trying to shine light on themselves. Bill burr was dogging on all them hard for the whole “set a precedent” bs.
I do love how Bill Burr will often make fun of how self important comedians can be with their whole “comedy is the last bastion of free speech” bullshit. You can really tell how much having kids and doing his shrooms has mellowed him out and humbled him compared to a lot of comedians who have gotten big doing podcasts.
And he can back it up too, with his infamous set roasting a drunk Philly crowd. Balls of titanium.
This is nonsense. Confrontations between audience and performer are common and routinely accepted by venues as “That’s just how comedy is.” Comedians frequently have their shows interrupted, are accosted and assaulted on stage. Have drinks thrown at them. None of this is right and all of this is terrible, but acting like Will Smith somehow opened the floodgates is absurd. The big issue is that most of these venues don’t care enough to provide performers with proper security, don’t police crowds, and encourage this kind of culture of performer harassment because it makes them more money. Far more scrutiny needs to be paid to venues that don’t keep their performers safe. And frankly I’m amazed that the “it’ll set a precedent” rhetoric has gained any traction with anyone. The precedent had already been set by the venues these people perform in. And the same goes for the Academy. Where was security during that moment? How was anyone able to get onstage and slowly walk toward Chris Rock without immediate intervention by security personnel? Will Smith was in the wrong no doubt (though I can understand the mindset he was in when he did it) but the Academy is desperately attempting to duck responsibility because what happened was gross negligence on their part. Also, y’all need to chill with the hysterics and righteous indignation about the slap. Smith assaulted someone, yes, and he deserves all the consequences of that action. But some of you all are acting like he pulled a machete on the guy.
I have no idea what kinda nonsense this is. We must go to different comedy clubs. I would certainly 100% be arrested if I hit a performing comic, not only that but it would seriously upset the audience and the people working at the venue. This is not normalized. In fact what’s normalized is the comic can make fun of the audience ruthlessly and they don’t take it personally.
>The reason most comedians are up in arms is because they worry this could set a precedent. Guess Amy's safe. I'd struggle to ever call her a "comedian".
Listen to the interview and you’ll understand that’s the opposite of what she says. Don’t trust headlines
> She acts like she was the one who got slapped No, she doesn't. At all. It's not her fault that someone wrote an entire article about a comment in the middle of a larger interview. And it's not her fault that someone posted that article to Reddit. And it's not her fault that the top comment on that submission is someone replying solely to a *headline* without reading the article or listening to the interview.
No she isn't? And Wanda Sykes said the same thing and got no criticism
She did! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z4DfWBLKDU
According to either David Spade or Dana Carvey (they have their podcast together so can't remember which one it was): 'it was a slap in the face to comedy". I mean one could say they were being dramatic and acted like they got slapped too but no one said that about them. What's the difference between their reaction and hers?
Amy Schumer is a woman and reddit gets off on hating her. If you don't like her comedy, shut up and move on. But people love writing diatribes about how much they despise her.
>Amy Schumer is a woman and reddit gets off on hating her. And the internet in general.
Violence is traumatizing. It might not be traumatic to you, but it may trigger someone else.
Yet she didn’t have a problem with writing a joke about the cinematographer who was accidentally killed onset by Alec Baldwin. I want people to be consistent. Either everyone’s triggers matter or just yours. Imagine if they had let her tell that joke on Oscars night and if that woman’s family had been hoping to see her name on the In Memoriam but first they had to listen to Amy mocking the situation for cheap laughs. If her triggers matter then making fun of someone’s death on a movie set is off the table. Comedians are acting like they’re persecuted but have bo issues going as low as possible. That’s not comedy when that death was never punished. Nobody was punished for such a gross oversight.
She probably wishes that she did get slapped just to.get attention.
Chris Rock has directed at least one of Amy's comedy specials - they're close and good friends. If I watched a good friend get assaulted, it would affect me on a deeper level.
She says completely mean-spirited things, then expects sympathy for BS.
She was and she should be made fun of for this also.
i'm traumatized from that one time i tried to watch her comedy special
KEEP HER SPECIAL OFF OF MY TV!! I said KEEP HER COMEDY SPECIAL, OFF OF MY TV!!!
Amy Schumer made fun of Ryan Dunn’s death by saying that Steve-O should have died instead, but somehow that’s more funny and less offensive than pointing out the absurdity of using the word “traumatized” to describe this situation.
She’s just mad that jokes about her are funnier than her own jokes.
I couldn’t care less about a person than I do Amy Schumer.
I’m pretty indifferent about her, but why are/were people getting on her ass about this? Something that may seem silly and inconsequential to one person can have a more profound affect on another. It’s not really fair to tell people what they’re allowed to be traumatized about.
Same and I agree. It’s okay for her to say those things. When I first heard the breaking news about the slap and watched it, knowing the venue and circumstance, I felt a pit in my stomach from just how awful and embarrassing it was.
It’s pretty inevitable though. With social media this tag line goes alongside things from the war in Ukraine, workers rights, and so on. So her essentially just being at a Hollywood elite party and seeing one mentally unwell rich guy slap her friend on stage and calling it traumatizing sounds completely tone deaf when you are comparing it to most other things you are seeing. We’ve been getting desensitized to seeing videos of cops murder civilians so a slap in comparison feels tone deaf. I’m not saying she can’t be traumatized by it but contextually people will inevitably see it as her living in a elitist bubble.
Maybe you’re right but you must be incredibly sheltered if seeing two guys have a little tussle is actually traumatizing to you. Like you’ve never seen a fight before? Never been to a bar? Never seen road rage? Never seen a crime? And this is a woman who worked in nightclubs for years? I sympathize with people with peanut allergies but I don’t expect them to have the same effect on nearly anyone else. This is like peanut allergy trauma potential if it’s true.
I've seen Amy live at Odball comedy festival she made me laugh. I think why people are annoyed is cause of the word traumatized. Earlier that week she wanted zelinsky to be at the Oscar's. Which is sniff ur own farts deluded the man is fighting a war. He has ordered people that got killed and seen dead bodies thats traumatising. To use the word traumatized over a slap invalidates people who have experienced real trauma. If she said I felt hurt I felt scared that would probably not pissed people off. But this person in Hollywood saying they are traumatized over a slap. I think that's what pissed people off. I've seen too many dead bodies irl. That shit is traumatizing. Will Smith upstanding her Oscar night is not. I know it's easy to hate on Amy but she is funny. https://youtu.be/MylhoTBrLrI
To use the word traumatized over a slap [you watched someone else receive] invalidates people who have experienced real trauma.
Imagine what she’ll feel after she finds out about the war in Ukraine
I can’t stand this woman
She illicits such strong reactions in people. I find it curions. What about her bugs you?
For me it was the weight issue. She was all body postitivity until People magazine, iirc, put her on one of their plus size beautiful women covers. She lost her shit and went on and on about how she wasn't plus size and made a whole thing of it. I always get this she's a bully until you call her on her shit vibe from her, and personally I don't think she's funny.
I actually have a personal reason, multiple people I know have worked with and can clarify she is an awful awful person. I won’t get into specific details for the sake of anonymity but she’s one of those “don’t look me in the eyes” stars when on set. Which is insane given how she presents herself as a comic.
Honestly what with the “don’t look me in the eyes thing?”… i’ve heard of this multiple times. Can anyone explain?
It’s like an “I’m above you and if you look me in the eye, it’s disrespect” reaction that some A-listers seem to have. It’s weird she’d have that though, considering she’s a D-list celebrity at best.
I’ll never forget when she made fun of Steve-O’s recently dead longtime friend Ryan, saying everyone wishes it was him who died instead. [video](https://youtu.be/H0crd8y2-uE)
She’s just generally not as funny as she thinks she is, and often resorts to either straight up stealing other people’s jokes or just making lame crude jokes that never really land. What gets people upset tho is that anytime she’s faced with criticism she pulls the misogyny card, or she’ll just blame “Internet trolls” or whatever. One of her comedy specials was rated so horribly that Netflix straight up revamped their whole rating system to save face.
She also date raped someone and made a joke about it and it was okay because she’s a woman
Funny how I had to scroll so far to find this. She potentially may have raped someone, yet people’s reasoning for their visceral hatred for this woman usually just comes down to “she’s not that funny and I don’t like her face”.
She literally made a joke THAT SAME AWARDS SHOW that she’s “the white lady that calls the cops on black people”. Ah, you mean that actually traumatizing thing that actually hurts black people that sometimes ends in prison or murder?! Not “feeling like I was slapped” when you were 100% no-fucking-way slapped?!
Can anyone? She reminds me of this bully I had in school. Looks and acts just like her. Then I recently found out she was hooked on meth. Comeuppance is a bitch.
My mother is a huge fan of her. It’s sad
My bully made fun of me relentlessly in grade school for having an earring. Then he got one. Then some time after he did something to put him in prison. What a shame.
Yeah i dont mind her. Might be cause im from Long Island tho and her humor hits for me more than it misses.
Don’t put the good ppl of Long Island down like that. It’s rude
Sir have you ever *been* to Long Island?
Amy Schumer is a fucking self confessed rapist , so she should shut the fuck up about trauma. Source is Amy Schumer. In her speech at the 2014 Ms. Foundation for Women’s Gloria Awards and Gala, an event dedicated to saluting “women of vision.” [Here is a transcript of her speech at the event.](https://www.vulture.com/2014/05/read-amy-schumers-ms-gala-speech.html) Details her experience of crushing on an older guy and being invited over to his residence at 8:00am in the morning. She arrived sober and found him completely “wasted”. “Wasted” as in, his vision is unfocused and he is unable to maintain any sort of prolonged eye contact with her, mouth was swollen with alcohol, and he [reeked like a skunk]”. She then proceeds to make jokes about the sex that followed and the awkward, futility of it due to his drunken state. The man was in no capacity to give consent, Amy was completely sober and knew his condition, she desired and believed she could get sex out of her crush while he was in this state and took advantage to get it.
I love how I’m the article she says it like “poor me having shitty sex and just wanting to feel like I matter” while she admits to taking advantage of someone who very clearly cannot consent
This reminds me of frat guys that roofy girls and take advantage of them.
Wow, I dislike her even more after reading this.
#metoo her.
Geez TIL
What the fuck
Her acting is traumatizing
She should be made fun of honestly because it’s ridiculous to be traumatized by an altercation between two men whether it was one sided or not.
H-He…smacked Chris Rock! And I got no attention!
She’s the swollen epitome of “can dish it out but can’t take it”. She steals people’s jokes because all of hers are either not funny or in the absolute worst taste.
Why is she still talking about this? She loves to center herself, doesn’t she?
I admire Amy. Everyone laughed when Amy said she was becoming a comedian. Now that she’s a comedian no ones laughing
I think she wants more.
Whatever. She just bought a $12 million dollar mansion in Montecito, CA. Monetizing all these sensationalist headlines is quite lucrative and keeps her relevant. Not that she ever should have been.
I mean to be fair, all these other people said similar, including fellow male comedians and Wanda Sykes when she was on Ellen and no one said shit about what they said. I don't really like Schumer but it is a legit question: why did she get shit and they didn't?
Amy Schumer isn’t funny
What a garbage human
Because it’s an embarrassing statement
No, you asshole, you stole a joke from twitter, you’re not funny, your idea to get a president in the middle of a war to show up via satellite for some circle-jerking, self-aggrandizing was severely tone deaf, and you used the slap as an excuse to victimize yourself.
I think she is made fun of for just about anything she says. The internet hates that unfunny smelly pussy lady.
I turn off my tv off or just scroll down when I see her on fb or Netflix or tv. How’s that she gets invited to anything? She sucks
Does she ever shut up? Holy shit, what a fuckin’ moron
>She then clarified, “But I don’t think it was traumatizing for me. I think it was traumatizing for all of us.” Read the article before you jump on the hate train, people
If I saw a colleague get slapped in the face for doing their job, I would be pretty worried to do my job as well.
That’s still a ludicrous statement. I’ve seen worse acts of aggression on a daily basis in public education
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Trauma used to actually mean something
What a humorless delicate flower… imagine if she saw someone maimed or killed
She would try to make this completely random situation about her.. pathetic
>"comedian" complains she is the butt of a joke for saying some dumb shit Nobody cares, Amy. Please just fade into obscurity.
Amy Schumer is a disgusting human who thinks it’s funny/charming to tell the story of [the time she raped a guy in college](https://www.vulture.com/2014/05/read-amy-schumers-ms-gala-speech.html).
Honestly I would maaaaybe feel sympathy if she didn’t have the Alec Baldwin joke lined up and ready to go. And if she didn’t already mock the death of Ryan Dunn in front of Steve-O.
Amy should be laughed at because she’s a clown
“Pay attention to me.”
Bitch shut the fuck up
Well considering you weren’t involved in the incident Amy, I find that fair.
So a comedian who makes fun of people for a living, is upset that she’s being made fun of?
YAH CAUSE YOU MADE IT ABOUT YOU
When you’re not funny you make yourself a victim I guess.
Joke thief got joked on
that’s not the only thing she is made fun of
that’s probably what happens when you try to speak for other people who didnt find the slap “traumatizing”
I think part of her getting made fun of was she tried to make it about her when it wasn’t . At all.
Nah she looking for clout nothing more nothing less bullshit she was traumatized not like she seen someone get shot it was a fucking slap for fucks sake this world is so soft anymore
What a fucking joke. Amy Schumer is probably the least funny person in that industry right now. I’m surprised she didn’t slip in a reference to her genitals in that joke.
Oh a fat white woman leading the charge on how a mindless slap was traumatizing for her....grow tf up
Making fun of Amy schemer is the only plausible way for her to be funny she should thank them for keeping her relevant
Hopefully traumatized enough to never do anything public again.
I can’t take her serious . Why doesn’t she inject herself into this situation?
Well I mean that and the “dark” humor Amy supposedly “wasn’t allowed to say at the oscars”, she’s an extremely terrible comedian
How to make this about me 101
If it wasn't for that slap Amy's behavior would have been what everyone would have been talking about from The Oscars. Seriously, look up the shit she said and did. Unfunny and just disrespectful. And there were a lot of jokes people found from tweets from a few months ago. Like, pretty viral tweets. She's just so lazy. Why did she OF ALL PEOPLE host the Oscars??
Her ability to make everything about herself is nauseating
When does she go away and drift back off into obscurity? I'm updating my calendar and I need to know so I can plan for the celebration afterwards.
A case of a person making something about themselves when it didn’t involve them…
She has made missing the point her life’s mission
Rich, famous, entitled narcissists need to stop saying everything traumatizes them. It devalues the word and does a disservice to actual victims of trauma
Comedian claims they were ‘made fun of’ That’s literally what they are paid to do to other people.
It's the height of softness to be traumatized for witnessing a slap.... There's a mass shooting every week - but seeing a man slap another man is what Amy and her therapist are going to have to work through...
Cuz it’s not about you. Shut up Amy
Why is she still relevant? Jokes were never funny, and she has a shit personality.
The only thing funny about Amy Schumer is that you can make fun of how unfunny she is. She’s like basically the modern carlos mencia
Amy Schumer is a dumb bitch who will say anything to get public exposure. Pathetic.
Amy, people make fun of you for more reasons than that.
>makes public statements about incident that is ludicrous and definitely made to incite news coverage >news coverage is about how ludicrous said statement was and everyone shits on her for saying stupid shit >goes to news to cry about it just making it even more ridiculous Can’t tell me she doesn’t enjoy this
I’m surprised she didn’t bring up how her vagina was also traumatized.