Thursday, August 13, 2015

US comedian Amy Schumer – superhero of gender struggle – Süddeutsche.de

She is mercilessly – and is admired for. Now the American comedian Amy Schumer has made a film. An encounter.



Milk Milk Lemonade “, she sings and crepes something too tempting her lips – facial expressions on the border between media reality and embarrassment This is it, the grotesque, perceptive comedy world of Amy Schumer, the funniest woman in America milk and lemonade are among a sketch, a hip-hop video clip with a lot of.. . Popowackeln “Around the corner there is fudge”, as the song goes initially harmless further, an American nursery rhyme But Schumer has its theme long on winding:.. the fetishization of the female buttock in the rap culture And no one can today such macho fantasies convincing, . dramatic and witty expose when she The butt is in Schumer again to the place “where the poop comes out” toilet humor and feminism -. when you go together

“I’ve been ten years on. fastest rising comedy Shooting Star. “

This and many other sketches from their comedy show” Inside Amy Schumer “can be found on Youtube. Especially is her first feature film, the romantic comedy “Dating Queen” started, for she has not only taken over the lead role, but also wrote the screenplay. For them, Judd Apatow, Hollywood’s most important comedy director and producer of the past decade, for the first time filmed a foreign script.

The idolized by the Left comedian Jon Stewart they courted as a successor for his satirical program ” The Daily Show “. And not a day passes without the blonde makes the angel’s face, and the Outrageous Humor for excitement: Approximately when they ironically against Kanye West and Kim Kardashian poses on the red carpet or on the cover of a men’s magazine in sexy pose on the finger of the Star -Wars robot C-3PO sucks

She started with stand-up comedy in 2003 New York clubs. Today she is 34 years old and is located in the chic, way too cool a hotel conference room in Berlin while glowing there on the Potsdamer Platz, the concrete in the heat. “I am already a decade of the fastest rising comedy Shooting Star”, she jokes. In fact, it has been for the studied actress a long way to her first film: About a talent show he led to supporting roles, and finally in 2013 to her own TV show at channel Comedy Central

It is in Germany. Interviews to the theatrical release of “Dating Queen” to give. And so all you will not shake the feeling that they, usually so nasty, dirty jokes tears, also VIP hype and false glamor, a bit out of place in this air-conditioned world among pressmen, under pressure, a 35 to extol -Millionen Dollar Movie.

How much of the real Amy Schumer is in their stage and film role?

Still smiling Schumer, and it actually looks honest and not only professionally. That Judd Apatow has taken a seat beside her, makes things easier. The two jokes and punchlines play to him. How much of the real Amy Schumer is in their stage and film role – this smart, slightly obscene Single Woman

“I’d say my comedy is about 34 percent autobiographical,” she answers?. Apatow her falls into the word: “She thinks every time a different number from.” – “True,” Schumer admits, “but no matter how much only is true, I can, to empathize in everything make these characters, the self-destructive dating behavior, the alcohol and the struggle for self-esteem, that I know of. my former self from college times. “



Trailer for “Dating Queen” monogamy is unrealistic

Watch the trailer for “Dating Queen” with Amy Schumer here.

(Video: Universal Pictures )

In “Dating Queen” makes them a more or less classic New York single woman. As editor of a men’s magazine drinks and smokes pot a lot, has with chance acquaintances sex and fear of relationships. The film follows the rules of romantic comedy, but he takes all gender stereotypes with pointed gags on.

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