Amy Schumer is firing back at critics who claimed her comedy is racially insensitive. The "Inside Amy Schumer" star posted a message to her Twitter account Sunday night in which she addressed the claims made by The Guardian.
The article said her comedy "has a shockingly large blind spot around race," including "lazy jokes about Latina women being 'crazy'" told during her stint hosting this year's MTV Movie Awards. "'Gone Girl,' how good was 'Gone Girl'? Such a good movie," joked Schumer. "If you didn't see it, it's the story of what one crazed white woman, or all Latinas, do if you cheat on them. That's a fact."
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— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) June 28, 2015
"I am a comic," responded Schumer in a tweet. "I am so glad more people are laughing at me and with me all of a sudden. I will joke about things you like, and I will joke about things you aren't comfortable with. And that's OK. Stick with me and trust I am joking."
"I go in and out of playing an irreverent idiot," wrote Schumer on Sunday. "That includes making dumb jokes involving race. I enjoy playing the girl who time to time says the dumbest thing possible, and playing with race is a thing we are not supposed to do, which is what makes it so fun for comics.
"I've never done anything safe or to make money for that reason," she said. "So, you know, I said, 'I can't start now.'"
Schumer's feature film debut, the Judd Apatow-directed "Trainwreck," which she wrote and stars in along with "Saturday Night Live" alum Bill Hader, comes out July 17.
