Amy Schumer: The Leather Special

Jaysus that was awful. I've sat through some pretty bad comedy before, on screen and in person, just to find the few nuggets of gold scattered throughout it, something to laugh along with. There was nothing here. Not a thing.

Time to rethink the direction you're going in Amy, unless you want to only cater for a tiny minority of people who both agree with you and enjoy seeing these things mocked. And that number is getting smaller every year.

I have never given anything at IMDb a score of one in my life, until now. I thought Trainwreck was a decent film so when I stumbled upon her stand-up special on Netflix, I thought I'd giver it a spin. Now (to use a worn out cliché) I feel like I've lost 57 minutes and 2 seconds of my life I'll never get back. I sat and watched, and kept watching hoping it would get better but it never did. I never even smiled. Nothing funny here at all. Now I realize that there was a reason for the low rating by Netflix users (not to mention a pretty low score on IMDb too). History is made... and I would have given it a zero rating on the IMDb if they would have let me.

Amy Schumer: The Leather Special (2017)

1/2 (out of 4)

Amy Schumer and this Netflix special has been at the center of a controversy due to its low scores. Schumer blames certain types for not liking the film and of course this led to a political battle. Was all of that really needed?

I personally don't' care what political stands any celebrity wants to make and I'd never be shallow enough to bash their work just because I don't believe in their politics. With that said, THE LEATHER SPECIAL is just flat out awful. There's really no other way around it. It's nothing political but instead this is just an incredibly unfunny and extremely flat comedy special.

The majority of the 57-minute running time are the same type of jokes done over and over. Of course, these jokes include Schumer talking about her vagina and various body fluids as well as various poop stories. I have nothing against that type of subject matter but it's just not funny here. In fact, I honestly only laughed two times during this special and that's just not good at all.

I'm not going to judge Schumer by this one performance. I'm not sure what your typical routine is as this is the first one I've seen but I just didn't find the material to be all that funny and the delivery wasn't any better.

So i have not found her funny in a long time, early on in her career she was new and funny. But as she has gotten older, I just don't get it. I like a lot of shows on Netflix but this is one of the worst. Netflix touts this as "Amy Schumer riffs on sex, dating and the absurdities of fame". It is not cutting edge funny just sad. As for the "absurdities of fame" well at this point her career looks more like infamous! Stay away from this trash, i am done with watching anymore of her stuff.

You know how when you see a show and it's so bad, it makes you squirm and feel embarrassed for the actor? I used to get laughs from her material, but this is just crude and boring. All of the material is really stale and has been used by Comedians for generations. If I have to see a sweaty fat person in a leather jumper, I'd rather it be a hairy drag queen- they would be more attractive. I'm not sure if she took a page out of Andrew Dice's playbook, but it's the same kind of vulgar and immature "comedy".