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Its Relationship With Bill Cosby.” Earlier in Amy Schumer’ s stand-up
career, she told this joke: “I used to date Hispanic guys, but now I prefer
consensual.” She has since been accused of racist comedy. “I used to do
a lot of short dumb joke like that,” she responded.” I played a dumb
white girl onstage. I am evolving as an artist. I am taking responsibility and
hope I haven’ t hurt anyone. I apologize if I did.”

Indeed, in an episode of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central, a
sketch--Football Town Nights parodying Friday Night Lights--featured a
Texas town’ s new high school football coach. He informs his teenage
squad that he’ s going to be doing things differently. There’ s going to
be a no-huddle offense. Two-a-day practices are mandatory. And there will
be no raping. “But we play football!,” one player cries. The rest of the
team chimes in: “But we play football!” “What if she thinks it’ s rape,
but I don’ t?” “What about at-away games?” “What if my mom is the
DA and won’ t prosecute, can I rape?” The whole town bullies this coach
for taking something away from the players that they obviously need.

In another sketch, Schumer plays a flirtatious lawyer ironically
defending Cosby by bedazzling the judge as well as the jury. In a one-
woman show about rape, Asking For It, responding to Daniel Tosh, award-
winning British comic Adrienne Truscott performs with her bare vagina

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