COMEDIAN

Amy Schumer

1981 - Today

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Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. Schumer ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing in 2007. From 2013 to 2016, she was the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, for which she received a Peabody Award and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015. Schumer wrote and made her film debut in a starring role in Trainwreck (2015) earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amy Schumer has received more than 22,973,222 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Amy Schumer is the 68th most popular comedian (down from 65th in 2019), the 10,507th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,064th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Comedian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 23M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMEDIANS

Among comedians, Amy Schumer ranks 68 out of 98Before her are Dave Chappelle, Fred Armisen, Jemaine Clement, Bill Hicks, Bill Burr, and Janeane Garofalo. After her are Stephen Merchant, Kathy Griffin, Mindy Kaling, Jeff Dunham, Wanda Sykes, and Khaby Lame.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Amy Schumer ranks 195Before her are Giourkas Seitaridis, Nadiya Savchenko, Afonso Alves, Michael Mando, Louise Bourgoin, and Cecelia Ahern. After her are Tom Starke, Natalie Horler, Daniele Bonera, Mya Diamond, Dimitris Salpingidis, and Raúl Bravo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amy Schumer ranks 10,507 out of 20,380Before her are Melanie Martinez (1995), Marguerite Clayton (1891), Anthony Lake (1939), Barbara Mikulski (1936), Florence Turner (1885), and Lowell Sherman (1888). After her are Mary Woronov (1943), Ari Aster (1986), Napoleon Chagnon (1938), Tom Mankiewicz (1942), John Isner (1985), and C. Henry Gordon (1883).

Among COMEDIANS In United States

Among comedians born in United States, Amy Schumer ranks 55Before her are Sinbad (1956), Amy Sedaris (1961), Dave Chappelle (1973), Fred Armisen (1966), Bill Hicks (1961), and Janeane Garofalo (1964). After her are Kathy Griffin (1960), Mindy Kaling (1979), Jeff Dunham (1962), Wanda Sykes (1964), Gallagher (1946), and Dax Shepard (1975).