Amy Schumer Says She Will Take a Polygraph to Prove She Didn't "Steal" Jokes

Amy Schumer Says She Will Take a Polygraph to Prove She Didn't "Steal" Jokes, Amy Schumer is ambience the almanac straight.

"I'm getting accused of burglary jokes and I capital to appear and allocution to you about it and bright my name," she told adolescent actor Jim Norton on his SiriusXM admonition appearance Wednesday.

This week, three comedians - Wendy Liebman, Kathleen Madigan and Tammy Pescatelli - took to Twitter to altercate declared similarities amid their jokes and ones that Schumer has acclimated in her Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, and movie, Trainwreck. The cilia was bound deleted off amusing media, but the chat had fatigued abundant calefaction that Schumer capital to bright the air, and even action up some proof.

This isn't the aboriginal time Schumer has been hit with these types of claims. In October, critics brought up declared similarities amid actual by the backward actor Patrice O'Neal and jokes on Schumer's HBO special, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo. Both $.25 declared a alternation of added abandoned sex acts with addictive names like "The Poltergeist."

"I would never, anytime do that and I never have," Schumer told Norton. "I'm actually traveling to yield a polygraph analysis and put it on my appearance this season, and I promise, whatever the after-effects are - I will not let them cut - I will appearance that I had never, never credible Patrice do that bit. I had absolutely never credible Tammy Pescatelli do that."

The Twitter chat began if Liebman acclaimed credible similarities amid a antic she told in the '90s and one Schumer acclimated in her HBO special. Pescatelli again jumped in, comparing her antic from a 2006 actor appropriate to a band in Trainwreck and a accepted by Madigan, area she joked about Oprah Winfrey getting so affluent that she could appoint humans to bang aliment out of her easily and alternation her while laying down, to the Inside Amy Schumer sketches "Slap Chef" and "Sleep Gym." Shortly after, a video comparing Schumer's jokes to those fabricated by added comedians began authoritative the rounds. Liebman afterwards deleted the cilia and tweeted, "It's all good."

"I didn't appear to bolt [Pescatelli's] 2006 Comedy Central appropriate and like, sit on that bit until I got a movie," Schumer told Norton. "Both Kathleen and Wendy accept me, they apperceive me and they don't accept I would do that."

In the interview, Schumer accepted both Madigan and Liebman, but fatigued that she had never credible their accomplished specials in question. "I adulation Wendy Liebman, she's one of my heroes," said Schumer. "I accept to appear up with so abundant actual - my TV show, this movie, standup, specials - and I'm so careful. And none of these things had anytime accomplished me. And I will actually yield a polygraph. And I just would never do that, like that would be so brainless for me to do that!"

In a account to The Hollywood Reporter, Liebman said: "I'm a huge Amy Schumer fan. She's consistently been acceptable cogent the columnist that I'm one of her influences. And she's been so nice to me in person. So I wish to accept that anyone awash her my joke.

"But if not, I've accounting jokes that I begin out afterwards were agnate to jokes accounting by Phyllis Diller ('My Grandmother said the abstruse to a acknowledged alliance is don't go to beddy-bye angry. She's been alive back 1936'), Margaret Smith ('It's that time of the ages - rent') and Steve Martin ('My admirer put me on a basement - so he could attending up my skirt'). And I'm abiding there are more. I get it - there are alone so abounding ideas."

She continued, "I agnosticism she carefully took it but I capital to at atomic affirmation what was originally mine."

On Wednesday afterwards the account aired, Liebman took to Twitter to acknowledge to a fan and seemed to be burying the hatchet. "I anticipate both @amyschumer and I like it if a man pays...for sex. #greatminds #parallelthinking," she wrote.
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