This article has been reprinted with permission from InterfaithFamily
Amy Schumer: Trainwreck?
Amy Schumer’s name may not be household famous yet, but with the July 17 release of the buzzed-about comedy Trainwreck, which she wrote and in which she stars, that’s about to change. The standup comic and writer (Inside Amy Schumer) turned movie star grew up in an interfaith family in New York, the daughter of a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, and was raised in her father’s Jewish faith. Voted Class Clown and Teacher’s Worst Nightmare in high school, she was able to find comedy in a life that wasn’t always funny: Her father’s furniture business went bankrupt, he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and her parents divorced. “I love to laugh. I seek laughter all the time,” Schumer said on CBS Sunday Morning. “I think that’s something that also comes with having a sick parent. You don’t know what’s going to happen. I want to experience all I can and make as many memories as I can.”
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