Overview
Amy Schumer took the American stand-up comedy scene by storm with her provocative, biting humor after finishing fourth on NBC's Last Comic Standing. Her success came after years on the stage at obscure New York nightclubs and exhausting tours. Uniquely caustic and sharp-tongued, her irreverent and scatological humor has reinvented open-mic comedy. In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, which has been a number-one New York Times bestseller, Schumer's collection of vignettes detail her ascent to fame, full of challenges and setbacks, but also key moments in her life. She tells of her relationship with her manipulative and unstable mother, her father's sudden degenerative illness, her relationships—with lovers, but also with stuffed animals, her children (food, or perhaps wine), and phobias (gyms, strong and silent types). Schumer has starred in movies like Snatched, I Feel Pretty, and Trainwreck. She is the creator of Comedy Central's Emmy Award-winning Inside Amy Schumer.Reviews
"Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm, and more on emotional resonance." —Vogue, on the English-language edition
"The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo is an alternatingly meditative, sexually explicit, side-splittingly hilarious, heart-wrenching, disturbing, passionately political, and always staggeringly authentic ride through the highs and lows of the comedic powerhouse's life to date." —Harper's Bazaar, on the English-language editionAuthor Biography
Amy Schumer is an influential American comedian, actor, director, and producer. Her bombastic television program, Inside Amy Schumer, has won a Peabody Award, a Critics' Choice Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. She starred in Snatched and Trainwreck, the latter of which she also co-wrote. As a comedian, she won a 2016 Pollstar Award for the comedy tour of the year. Trainwreck was nominated for a Golden Globe and earned Schumer a Critics' Choice Award for best actress in a comedy and a Hollywood Film Award for comedy of the year.