Rose how so . Well, i was really doing a character when i started. Sort of this irreverent. Rose how would you define the character. Irreverent. Irrev ent, just like white idiot. A kind of stepfordy Sorority Girl who didnt know any better. With like a lot of oneliners. You know, cuz you start out and you just getting stage time however you can. And most joes are open mics which means you are performing in front of only other comedians waiting to form who paid to be there. It is an ugly its productive but its a rough a rough thing to do and theres not great energy in the room. So i would have to actually surprise people into laughing. If you get a laugh at those, its not easy. So that. Rose and they would be surprised that they were laughing. Yeah, cuz everyone is looking at their notebook waiting to go up so you had to Say Something that caught them off guard to Pay Attention so there was a little more of a shock factor. And then as time has gone on, i have moved further and further away from that. I still love a good oneliner. Or something that has a twist. Rose and what have you moved to . More storytelling and more of who i really am. I think, you know, we have different versions of ourselve. Who i would be at a party with my best friends really saying what i think, and being kind of on. Rose an encore presentation of amy schumer for the hour. , when we continue. Funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Amy schumer is here. She is an actor, writer, producer and now author. As a standup comedian she plays to sold out audiences around the world. Her 2016 tour was voteed pollsters comedy tour of the year. Well, i showed up to film this movie and i was like, i think im a model now. Like i was seriously, i think a lot of girls are like this. We have a sneaking suspicion in the back of our heads like, am i maybe gorgeous . laughter i think im gorgeous. cheers and applause right . Im gorgeous but i just havent stumbled on the right hairdo, you know . One day on a whim i will just cut bangs and everybody will be like yeah, and ill be like oh my god, you guys. And theyre like we cant, were too hard. And im like i get it. But then, but then my stunt double was a guy. laughter just in case you have never been to l. A. , it is filled with the most Beautiful People from all over the world. So picture the most beautiful girl in your high school, like the one that you wanted to be, okay, im talking to the guys right now. laughter and everybody was like youre too pretty for buffalo, britney, go to l. A go. Everyone is hot there. Every body, okay. I saw a guy cleaning up a pizza hut bathroom. I would have paid this guy to [bleep] me. I would have paid him goods money. I dont people dont even see me there. Like theyre just like is that a fat tumble weed, like what my body type there, my arms register as legs there. Theyre just laughter theyre like is that an october pus, i octopus, i dont understand. And my legs register as fire wood. Theyre just like, like why is the bfg on sunset . And like thats the secret, i found out. Thats hollywoods secret. They dont put food in their faces. And thats not an option for me. Like i dont know how it was, in your house growing up but in my house it was like, you would eat until you were in a lot of pain. laughter and then you take like a little breather, and you get yourself back in even more pain. Right . Like i was born weighing 150. Like i just came out swinging like give me ling winnie, mom. applause thats how its been. I have never in my life ive never said this sentence in my life, i have never said oh my god, i forgot to have lunch today. Like never in my life. If anything, ive been like oh, [bleep], i had two lunches today. Rose she has a hit Television Show called inside amy schumer which plays on comedy central. According to the Washington Post the show is slated for a fifth season but not in the fore seeable future in 2015 she received a peabody for outstanding sketch series and a critics choice award. Amy, are you not nothing, you are not nothing. Are you not overweight. Okay. How does the woman who does not know how to sew, learn to sew and then go on to sew a flag for her country. And if so. What could her name be. Snoavment oh i no for sure, her name, b, like be, t, yes, shes meant to sew your flag, that will be just like this. Trying to prove that her state exists, and country. And that is act one. That is in act one. As i just said, that is act one. Okay. And then act two is more like, im so bet see. I better have my its getting flag in here. So wave it off, wave it off. I heard you call to have your flag sewn. Called to have your flag sewn. Rose last year we wrote and starred in her first film called train quek. That film made more than 140 million worldwide. Are you feeling better, is this more comfortable. I can feel it. Im still getting like a little bit of a whim. Jesus. And if that wasnt enough she has now written her first book. It is called the girl with the lower back ta too. Entertainment we cannily writes that the book is laugh out loud funny when schumer wants it to be. But more often is surprisingly honest and raw. It is a series of essays that range in subject matter from being a member of new money to which she wants people to say at her funeral. Like her comedy and her life, the book received high praise for its rawness and for its insight. All of that makes me very pleased to have amy schumer at this table for the first time. Welcome. Its an honor to be here. Rose its about time, my dear. I know, hard to get all these years. Rose we longed for you. I really wanted to make you wait. Rose did you really . Why now to write this book . Cuz it really is revealing. Yeah. Yeah, i think, well, ive been working on it for like four to five years, actually. And kind of since i was 13, cuz i wrote journals from age 13 to 23. And i kept very detailed log of my life. And. Rose in anticipation of being famous and wanting to write a book. No, i think just like every other kid, i read the diary of anne frank and it seemed appealing and therapeutic to just keep, you know, to keep a record and kind of express myself. And it made life feel more real to me it made it feel like i was actually existed, to write down things that happened. And so there are excerpts from the journal, actual excerpts of footnotes and annotationsment and yeah, but ive really been working on this book for years. This wasnt a, you know, now is the time and i can make some money. Let me throw it together. Rose this is how you start. A note to my readers, hey, its me, amy. I wrote a book there is something i wanted to do for a long time because i lovemaking people laugh and feel better. Some of the stories will be funny like the time i [bleep] myself in austin and some will make you feel a little blue, the time my sister and i were also sold into sex slavery in italy. J. K. , neither of those stories are in this book even though both actually happened. Unfortunately. Speaking of everything in this book really happened, its all true and nothing but the truth so help me god but it isnt the whole truth. Believe it or not, i dont tell you guys everything. You do tell us a lot though. I do tell you a lot. Rose and you say you didnt tell stories about anybody that you didnt first say to them, im going to tell this story. Right, nobody whose actual name is in the book. I checked with everybody. And they read what was going to be written about them and they approved of it. Rose what do you call these, essays . I guess, yeah. Rose how you felt about things at the moment. Yeah, and just what happened. The thing that is good about keeping journals is you have the records of what actually happened. Rose but what is interesting to me, you say are you not nora ephron. Rose. Right, you dont feel that way. Yes, i dont feel that way. I feel that if i am going to Say Something that might hurt someones feelings or they might be embarrassed by, i want to make sure, have i people say please dont write about me. Or i have written things and they say im not comfortable with, that and i wont put it out. But everything that is said on tv or in interviews or anything, i spoke to the people in my life first. And they said it was okay. Cuz when i was first starting out i would make a joke and i friend would get upset. I mean this is, 13 years ago, that i learned that lesson. Its not worth it to hurt anybody that you care about for a joke. So everything is not copy to me. Rose for a joke or to sell a book. For a joke, definitely not to sell a book. Rose whats different in terms of the book and standup for you . This is the most personal thing ive ever been a part of. Its just literally what happened and how i felt about it and there are still jokes in there because even at the time i found the humor in it. But its, yeah, its just completely raw there is no fa ds sade it is stand stillup. I feel like my standup is getting more and more pernal but this book is me. And its all true. Rose people like seinfeld an others have come to this table. And what they in essence are, they say, are standup comedians. Yeah. Rose thats what they are. That is how they would define themselves. Yeah. Rose you . A model. Rose a model. No, i i feel very much like a standup comic. That feels but i first think of myself as a woman. Rose well, i think they think that too. They think that they are women as well. Rose well, no, but in terms of not thinking of themselves as a writer or thinking of themselves as an actor or thinking themselves of, you know, a sketch comedian. I understand. I thought of my sech as a comic for the last, 13 plus years. And now i feel like im evolving. So i dont know, i would still say that im a comic but i dont know if maybe in another 13 years no, im really more of a writer and that is how i identify. But i identify as a come ed yen. Rose has this turned out how you anticipated. Writing a book . Rose no, the whole life. Life . Yeah. Rose it was the dream. This is sur passioned my dreams. I always knew that i would perform in some capacity. But i wasnt sure how. But i always believed that things were going to work out. Rose did you have a comedic voice. Always, yeah. Rose and you knew that early on. Yeah, even as young as i can remember. I was making people laugh. Hearing myself say that, i want to throw up. Rose that kind of defines you, doesnt it. You can do that, it separates you. Yeah, it does. You either have it or you dont. And it is a little bit of a superpower as a kid cuz you can get yourself out of some trouble or into a lot of trouble. But it does separate you. And i always think of this thing that chris rock said. In actually a pbs documentary, make em laugh. He said if ignorance is bliss, then what is the opposite of that. So comedians, i feel like we observe so much that it kind of is like a living hell. So it feels like this thing that you are kind of blessed with you but it is also a curse. Rose so that means comedians see life with maybe a different eye than the rest of us. Definitelyz. Rose we see the humaner in things or the absurdity in things . I think both of i think all of that. Rose yeah. Yeah. Rose and you knew that early. Yeah. Yeah. Rose and that is a comedic voice. And how do you how did you then go about since honing it and making it what is became. Is it just. I think just being open to evolving and so what was funny to me and how i was doing standup ten years ago, is very different than how it is now. Rose how so . Well, i was really doing a character when i started. Sort of this irreverent. Rose irreverent. Irreverent, just like white idiot. Just like a kind of stepfordy sor yority girl, who didnt know any better. With like a lot of oneliners. You know, cuz you start out and you are just getting stage time however you canment and most shows are open mics which means you are performing in front of only other comedians waiting to perform who paid to be there. Its kind of, its an ugly its productive but its a rough a rough thing to do. And there is not a great energy in the room. So i would have to actually surprise people into laughing. If you get a laugh at those, its not easy. So that. Rose and they would be surprised that they were laughing yeah, cuz everyone is looking at their notebook waiting to go up so you had to Say Something that kind of caught them off guard to Pay Attention so there was a little bit more of a shock factorment and then as time has gone on, i have moved further and further away from that. I still love a good oneliner. Or something that has a twist. Rose and what have you moved to . More storytelling and more of who i really am. I think its you know, we have different versions of ourselve, who i would be at a party with my best friends really saying what i think. And being kind of on, you know, when you are in the mood to kind of be social and you are kind of feeling it. That is me on stage. So its very much me right now with maybe a oneliner or two thrown in, that is just something awful. But mostly its the closest to myself that i have ever been on stage. In your 20st you are so corrupt with pore with. Especially if you in love with your 20s. Number 20s love is so arrogant. Are you like were so lucky we found each other. What are these bad songs about . I think 20s love is the same as the tsunami because i read that in the tsunami the tide was way in, so fish were flopping around the shore. And people were like psyched. They were gathering them with baskets. Like i cant believe my luck. Look at all these fish. That is like 20s love. Youre like for me. And then youre like oh and it murders you. But yeah. But enjoy it. I dont like talking to really hot people. Im very grossed out being around someone gorgeous. But my friend talked to her and he was like she was actually really funny. And i was like you. cheers and applause no way. There is no way. We have such low expectations for hot people to be anything. Im like you are probably blown away she wane just sitting there playing with her and drooling im like what did she say that was so funny. And he was like well, we were talking about playing pool later and she was like get ready to lose. laughter i was like oh, a special coming on hbo what a great. Rose who has helped you shape it. Has chris rock helped you in a way . Chris helped me so much, just by agreeing to direct my special but Jerry Seinfeld really, david to you, jim norton. Rose you are talking about the best. The best. I get to be friends with the best and we help each other, you know. They i think its a lonely it seems like a lonely club at the top. And they were kind of excited, not that i am in their league but they were excitedded to have like someone new who could sort of understand the level that they are operating at, just in terms of the size of the venue and exposure and how if they Say Something, it becomes national news. And theyve really done their best to advise me, even though i dont i dont listen as much as i should. Rose what is the best advice they give . Well, louis and they all tell me just to like basically shut up and not respond to any of the any of the anything going on in the media. Rose yeah. But its hard. Rose its hard to do, especially in a world of twitter. And im a comic. Im a communicator by nature. I want people to understand what i am saying. Rose and you want to be part of the conversation. Yeah. And it just seems so unfair and unjust when the celebrity culture that has existed for so long where straight up lies are printed, i want to say hey, thats not true. And then that makes it a bigger story, even by responding. But theyre very they are like, amy, just stay off of there. Rose but i think many of them, louis, for example, i think he finds it irresistible. He said some things about the political race that he knew got him in trouble but he believed it and so he repeated it. Yeah, yeah, and then there is that moment where should i have, whatever. I personally felt very grateful that he did that. And. Rose because you agreed with him. I agreed with him, of course. But yeah, their advice is to just shut my yap. Rose so this controversy about metzger. Yeah. Curt miss ger, yes metzger wsh. Rose so what is that about . What is it about . Rose in other words, is that an example where you waded in even though you would rather just have not or i you fell compelled because it. Curt is one of the reasons he is such a great writer and such a great contributor to our Television Show is because his views are so different from that of mine and most of the other writers in the room, especially jesse klein who is the head writer of the show. We butt heads. We get in fights because he infuriates us. And the room is an interesting writers room because it has always been very diverse with the views in there. We dont want it to just be onesided. We dont want it jesse and i have such similar sensibilities that it is good it feels very positive to have someone in there saying well there is from the male perspective and not that curt is but is he the most male you know, like the most out there perspective possible. Curt is my friend. I love him. I am not on facebook so i dont read his crazy rants. Like he just he gets something from going after people making them mad, that is not representative of me at all. I and you know, ive asked him, can you just stop because it comes back to me. People, because he writes for the show it is a bigger story. Because of our connection so whatever taj ent he has gone off on i have not agreed with and it has been really upset to me seeing someone i care about hurt themselves like this. So right now there is no plans for the tv show to come back in any time in the near future. So nobody is on my staff. There are no writers. I think people you know, they want his head. They want to burn him at the stake. Rose and you want . I want them to not attach me to what he is writing. And i would love to refocus the energy and the attention on the real problem which is, i feel, people understanding. Rose about rape. Its about rape and what is consent all and whats not. Because they really the way that he has been gone. Because he baits bsh bsh baits people, is he the problem, no question. But the focus is on him, rather than on what the real main problem is. Rose you mean a smart, understanding of what rape has become and what we are now understanding about it. Yeah. Rose after what is happening on campuses am you look at the whole range of places. Right. Rose whereas people in 2016 are stepping forward bo did not step forward before. Yeah, i think its great that people are stepping forward. And if it is not done in a way that curt feels is right, you know, thats really upsetting to hear. Its like we all need to be empowering each other. And but to focus your energy onion line trolling, if i did that, i wouldnt get anything done.