Amy Schumer made her network debut in 2007 when she placed third in on NBC's Last Comic Standing and later co-starred on an episode of 30 Rock.
But her career really took off with Inside Amy Schumer, launched on Comedy Central in April 2013, which has won countless award including an Emmy and the Peabody Award.
Her film Trainwreck, which she wrote and starred in dominated the summer comedy box office in 2015 And her one-hour comedy special of the same year, Live at the Apollo, was directed by Chris Rock and was HBO’s most watched Saturday night comedy special debut since 2009.
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Amy Schumer: I got death threats over Oscars joke
'The secret service reached out to me'
Amy Schumer has revealed that got death threats over a skit she performed at the Oscars.
The comedian did a sketch in which she was contemptuous of Kirsten Dunst, dismissing her as just a seat-filler as she chatted to her husband Jesse Plemons.
But although the exchanged was planned, viewers thought the stand-up was being so rude that she deserved to be threatened.
‘I did a bit with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons that was completely orchestrated beforehand' she told Howard Stern on his radio show.
‘The joke was that I was pretending I thought she was a seat filler. And we all worked that out together. I got death threats…the secret service reached out to me.’
Stern interrupted: ‘Wait, I’m not understanding. Why did you get death threats?’
‘They were like, "Who do you think you are to disrespect Kirsten Dunst like that?"
She added that both the secret service and the Los Angeles police told her the threats were serious.
And she added: ‘I actually did reach out to people I was going to joke about before to make sure it was OK with them because I’ve been burned too many times. I didn’t want the camera to cut to somebody looking sad.’
Apparently Chris Rock did not run through the same checks…
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