Amy Schumer cries over her struggle with body image issues

This has definitely been the year of Schumer, who just won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for Inside Amy Schumer over such stalwarts as NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

Schumer’s delivery is confident and sometimes coy – her jokes about Oprah and the Obamas push the envelope – and she doesn’t bother with a Letterman-esque meta-commentary on jokes that don’t connect. She added to Shriver, “It is such a gift to be given, to learn how to dress, to feel good about myself, and that’s the gift that we want to give everyone, everywhere”. And she hosted SNL last week. And she emphasizes self-deprecation, assessing correctly that the more she mocks herself, the more she can push the envelope when her stand-up persona says selfish, racist or otherwise frightful things.

This all makes me love Amy Schumer even more!

Schumer then makes a tsunami comparison. “I want to thank Jessi Klein, the head writer, who had a baby, like, 10 seconds ago”, she said. She recently started a mini-feud with “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star Khloé Kardashian, 31, after she said that young women should have better idols that the reality family with her signature sass. It’s mocked in a musical way in “Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup”, which features a boy band singing to Schumer to go natural, before quickly changing their minds after seeing her without foundation and mascara. What she talks about in Live at the Apollo may take the form of self-criticizing and self-awareness, like when she talks about her sex life, her career, or exercising, but the crux of her viewpoint is the battle between the constructs of society and the furious madness of the inner self. She redefined #SquadGoals with her Instagrams featuring Jet Ski rides with Jennifer Lawrence, twerking sessions with Madonna, and private jet rides with her famous comedian friends on the Oddball Comedy Tour. Schumer discusses a few of these issues she’s come across on her recent journey to fame, including the fact that all residents of Los Angeles are too pretty for their own good.

‘I wake up in the morning and I look like Charlize Theron in Monster, ‘ the star joked to the women of her workshop in a quick clip. “I don’t know anyone who works as hard as she does”. No, she’s not bringing audiences a groundbreaking take on feminism – or is it next-wave feminism? – but she is giving a contemporary twist to social hypocrisies and discomforts that still exist. “I don’t care for the hate”.