--- title: Inside Amy Schumer Disney Princess Sketch: Comedy Central Video description: Incest, beheadings, misogyny... canonical: https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-25T16:27:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:28.744Z og:title: Amy Schumer Shows Why Girls Should Stop Aspiring to Become Princesses og:description: Incest, beheadings, misogyny... og:url: https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amy Schumer Shows Why Girls Should Stop Aspiring to Become Princesses twitter:description: Incest, beheadings, misogyny... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Amy Schumer Shows Why Girls Should Stop Aspiring to Become Princesses ## Video: Amy Schumer Bows Down to Kim and Kanye at the TIME 100 Gala [Watch (HLS stream): Amy Schumer Bows Down to Kim and Kanye at the TIME 100 Gala](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/pbfu0JGw.m3u8) (0:25)  _Published 2015-04-22. Amy Schumer bows down to Kimye_T100 Gala_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 25, 2015 4:27 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 25, 2015 4:27 PM UTC On the latest episode of _Inside Amy Schumer_, we were treated to this fake trailer for a movie called _Princess Amy_, which stars Schumer as a “rancid peasant girl” who learns that she’s actually royalty. Princess Amy _thinks_ her life is going to become totally perfect and wonderful, but she soon learns that being a Disney-style princess isn’t as great as so many young girls think it is. For example: she is forced to marry her weird, creepy cousin. She’s only 14\. Her one job is to produce male heirs. When that doesn’t happen, well, there are extreme consequences. Maybe it’s finally time for girls to grow up dreaming about becoming lawyers or PR professionals instead. _Read next:_ [_Why It Matters That Inside Out’s Protagonist Is a Girl — Not a Princess_](http://time.com/3930081/inside-out-female-protagonist/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/"},"headline":"Amy Schumer Shows Why Girls Should Stop Aspiring to Become Princesses","datePublished":"2015-06-25T16:27:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:28.744Z","description":"Incest, beheadings, misogyny...","url":"https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/","name":"Amy Schumer Shows Why Girls Should Stop Aspiring to Become Princesses"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Amy Schumer Bows Down to Kim and Kanye at the TIME 100 Gala","description":"Amy Schumer bows down to Kimye_T100 Gala","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/pbfu0JGw/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-22T01:39:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/pbfu0JGw.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/","duration":"PT25S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3935682/inside-amy-schumer-disney-princess/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```