Amy Schumer <br />Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981)is an American stand-up comedian, writer, producer, director, and actress. She is the star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, which has been airing on Comedy Central since 2013. <br />She placed fourth on the fifth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing and placed second on Comedy Central's Reality Bites Back. In 2012, she held a recurring role on the Adult Swim series Delocated. Schumer's first lead role in a film was 2015's Trainwreck, which she also wrote. <br />She portrayed a young woman diagnosed with breast cancer in the off-Broadway black comedy Keeping Abreast.She started doing stand-up comedy on June 1, 2004, when she first performed at Gotham Comedy Club.She recorded a Live at Gotham episode for Comedy Central before appearing on Last Comic Standing; she said in August 2012 that she thought of the episode as her "big break.
