Comedy star Amy Schumer is vehemently denying claims that she stole jokes from several other comedians - including Wendy Liebman, Tammy Pescatelli, Kathleen Madigan and the late Patrice O'Neal.
The accusations against the Emmy-winning comedian surfaced on Twitter over the weekend, prompted by a tweet from Liebman that said she was "done with social media" thanks in part to "Amy Schumer doing 1 of my best jokes on her HBO special."
It didn't take long for other comedians to weigh in. Comic Chuck Martin suggested that Liebman and Madigan "should talk" - implying that Schumer had stolen jokes from both women. Pescatelli tweeted a link to a joke she made in a Comedy Central special in 2006, about how women dress their men to be unappealing to other ladies: "Men, if we love you, we dress you for other women ... that's why we dress you stupid." She then compared this to a similar joke in Schumer's hit movie Trainwreck, wherein Schumer's character talks to her sister about her husband: "You dress him like that so no one else wants to have sex with him?"
The Twitterverse soon jumped on the bandwagon, and other comparisons began to circulate. There was a series of jokes from Patrice O'Neal's stand-up, featuring X-rated descriptions of various sex positions - some of which were very similar to those used by Schumer in her HBO stand-up special last year.
