Spurred by an anonymously posted video that compared stand-up sets from Pescatelli, Kathleen Madigan, Wendy Liebman and the late Patrice O’Neal to bits from Schumer’s Comedy Central sketch show, “Inside Amy Schumer”, Pescatelli and a handful of other comics had targeted the rising star on Twitter in a tangled, since-deleted thread of Schumer-shaming.
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In her interview with Jim, Amy said: “I’m getting accused of stealing jokes and I wanted to come and talk to you about it and clear my name because I would never ever do that and never have”.
‘I was the last to the party and I drank the most and was the loudest.
Fans of Amy Schumer might be experiencing deja vu now that the comedian is denying accusations that she steals jokes, because she defended herself against similar claims three months ago.
“It went too far, and for that, I’m super apologetic”.
She Tweeted: ‘On my life, I have never and would never steal a joke, ‘ before reiterating on Sirius XM’s Jim Norton Advice Show: ‘I just would never do that. “If we call her on”, Pescatelli reportedly tweeted.
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The jokes in question were part of the closing segment of her HBO special “Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo”, in which Schumer lists a series of imagined sex moves, like the Abraham Lincoln and the Houdini. She also said she will “literally going to take a polygraph test and put it on my show this season”. I think it’s just hard to see someone doing well. I think we really do like to build people up, and we root for them and when they are succeeding. “I think that Tammy is trying to get something going, I don’t know …” Tammy also agreed that Amy had “every right to be mad”. “I probably should have just stayed out of it and kept my mouth shut”, she added. Pescatelli blames the similarity on “parallel thinking”, or two people coming up with the same idea separately. I don’t even take it personally.
