--- title: Amy Schumer is 'Taking Responsibility' For Controversial Joke description: She took to Twitter to clarify canonical: https://time.com/3947265/amy-schumer-responsibility/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-06T21:53:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:00:13.319Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Amy Schumer Is 'Taking Responsibility' For Controversial Joke og:description: She took to Twitter to clarify og:url: https://time.com/3947265/amy-schumer-responsibility/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte58fde890cb88530/698853bd524fc0c8ccdf306b/470881358-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Amy Schumer at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas on April 23, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amy Schumer Is 'Taking Responsibility' For Controversial Joke twitter:description: She took to Twitter to clarify twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte58fde890cb88530/698853bd524fc0c8ccdf306b/470881358-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Amy Schumer Is 'Taking Responsibility' for Controversial Joke by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Jul 6, 2015 9:53 PM UTC  Amy Schumer at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas on April 23, 2015. Amy Schumer at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas on April 23, 2015.Michael Buckner—Getty Images for CinemaCon by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Jul 6, 2015 9:53 PM UTC Just over a week ago, [Amy Schumer defended her self-described “dumb jokes involving race”](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/28/amy-schumer-twitter-jokes-race) after [a _Guardian_ writer wrote](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jun/28/amy-schumer-comedys-viral-queen) that the comic “has a shockingly large blind spot around race.” “I will joke about things you like and I will joke about things you aren’t comfortable with,” Schumer [wrote in a lengthy response on Twitter](https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/615182173570633728/photo/1). “And that’s ok.” She expanded on the topic Monday when a Twitter user brought up one of the jokes _The Guardian_ cited (“I used to date Latino guys, now I prefer consensual”) and asked, “What is your responsibility/value system as a storyteller?” Schumer [started off her reply](https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/618134290136702976) by clarifying that she sometimes plays a “dumb white girl character on stage” and that she wrote the joke in question two years ago. “Once I realized I had more eyes and ears on me and had an influence I stopped telling jokes like that onstage,” Schumer said. “I am evolving as any artist.” She went on to say that she’s “taking responsibility” and hopes she hasn’t “hurt anyone.” “And I apologize \[if\] I did.” See the full exchange below. > [](https://twitter.com/amyschumer/status/618134290136702976) _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/06/amy-schumer-apology-jokes) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3947265/amy-schumer-responsibility/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3947265/amy-schumer-responsibility/"},"headline":"Amy Schumer Is 'Taking Responsibility' for Controversial Joke","datePublished":"2015-07-06T21:53:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:00:13.319Z","description":"She took to Twitter to clarify","url":"https://time.com/3947265/amy-schumer-responsibility/","keywords":["Television","Comedy","Amy Schumer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte58fde890cb88530/698853bd524fc0c8ccdf306b/470881358-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte58fde890cb88530/698853bd524fc0c8ccdf306b/470881358-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Amy Schumer at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas on April 23, 2015.","caption":"Amy Schumer at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas on April 23, 2015.","creditText":"Michael Buckner—Getty Images for CinemaCon","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3947265/amy-schumer-responsibility/","name":"Amy Schumer Is 'Taking Responsibility' for Controversial Joke"}}]}] ```