--- title: Amy Schumer's New Boyfriend's Mother Had Never Heard of Her description: But she already approves canonical: https://time.com/4170040/amy-schumer-boyfriend-ben-hanisch/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-07T14:00:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:23.955Z og:title: Amy Schumer's New Boyfriend's Mother Had Never Heard of Her og:description: But she already approves og:url: https://time.com/4170040/amy-schumer-boyfriend-ben-hanisch/ 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's New Boyfriend's Mother Had Never Heard of Her twitter:description: But she already approves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Amy Schumer's New Boyfriend's Mother Had Never Heard of the _Trainwreck_ Actress > Sponsored content. 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[The comedian](http://time.com/3823137/amy-schumer-2015-time-100/) confirmed that she’s no longer single on Tuesday, posting a photograph on Twitter of herself with her family and her new boyfriend Ben Hanisch, 29, at the White House. “If they’re happy, I’m happy,” Deborah Hanisch, 57, told TIME. “That’s all a parent can ever ask for.” The retail organizer from Illinois said she “had never really heard of” Schumer before the _Trainwreck_ star began dating her son—but she already approves. “I think she’s terrific. She’s so sweet,” Deborah Hanisch said. “But I haven’t talked to her yet. I don’t know her at all, and I had never really heard of the name before all this.” “I haven’t really asked too many questions yet,” she added. “I haven’t talked to \[Ben\] much lately because it’s been so busy. It’s a very interesting thing going on. It’s very exciting for them.” Ben Hanisch bragged about his new girlfriend in an Instagram post late last week. “Sometimes in life you get extremely lucky, and the smartest, funniest, most beautiful woman comes along when you least expect it,” he wrote. “Here’s to what adventures 2016 brings!” He founded The Last Workshop, a Chicago-based custom furniture company, according to the company’s website. Schumer introduced him to her fans on Tuesday during her visit to the White House, where President Obama gave his emotional plea to end gun violence in the country. “Fam and man at the whitehizzy,” she tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/684469658112634881) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4170040/amy-schumer-boyfriend-ben-hanisch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4170040/amy-schumer-boyfriend-ben-hanisch/"},"headline":"Amy Schumer's New Boyfriend's Mother Had Never Heard of the Trainwreck Actress","datePublished":"2016-01-07T14:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:23.955Z","description":"But she already approves","url":"https://time.com/4170040/amy-schumer-boyfriend-ben-hanisch/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"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/4170040/amy-schumer-boyfriend-ben-hanisch/","name":"Amy Schumer's New Boyfriend's Mother Had Never Heard of the Trainwreck Actress"}}]}] ```