2015 was the year of Amy Schumer. She rocked it all from TV to movies to pulling one of the biggest pranks of 2015 on none other than Kimye. So naturally, the Critics’ Choice Awards was happy to give Schumer the floor last night when she took home both the MVP award and Best Actress in a Comedy for Trainwreck.
In her MVP award acceptance speech, Schumer tackled a little bit of everything, including a very important topic—gun violence.
Schumer started her speech by introducing herself as “plus, plus-sized actress Amy Schumer.” Already seven seconds into her speech and she is making an important statement about body image.
She then goes into the story of being a struggling comedian and how, upon meeting Judd Apatow, he bought her an omelet and the two discussed working together, which is how Trainwreck came into being.
After thanking the people she needed to thank, Schumer says the thing no one in Hollywood ever says.
“If you’re an actress and you have (a stomach), you have to write your own stuff if you wanna get it made,” she says.
As if that wasn’t crowning moment enough, she launches into how everyone called her brave after her nude Annie Leibovitz photo came out.
“That’s what you want everyone to say when a naked photo of you goes viral… you want them to say like… ‘What a brave photo.’ You’re like thanks. Wow, thank you,” she says.
She continues to thank everyone else who was involved with the movie, when at the very end of her speech, she drops a very poignant bombshell in reference to the shooting that took place at a showing of Trainwreck back in July.
“And I want to thank Mayci Breaux and Jillian Johnson who died in Lafayette because a mentally ill person got their hands on a gun. But we can end gun violence together.”
Amy Schumer is kicking ass on a whole new level.