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Comedians, video accuse Amy Schumer of stealing jokes

Amy Schumer had an unusually exciting and extraordinarily successful 2015 — so it naturally follows that she’s now being hit with accusations of joke theft

On Wednesday, a video surfaced on Vimeo titled “Amy Schumer is a Joke Thief.” The almost six-and-a-half-minute compilation splices together footage from Schumer’s HBO special, her Emmy-award-winning sketch show Inside Amy Schumer and her film Trainwreck with jokes performed by other standup comedians

Some of the claims seem baseless — the poster for Trainwreck, for instance, would’ve been designed by the studio’s marketing team rather than Schumer herself. Read more…