After a video was posted online accusing Amy Schumer of being a "joke thief," the actress and comedian quickly denied the allegations.
"I would never, ever do that, and I never have," she said Wednesday on The Jim Norton Advice Show on Sirius XM. "I have to come up with so much material for my TV show, this movie, stand-up. And I'm so careful. I will literally take a polygraph. And I just would never do that. That would be so stupid for me to do that."
The video alleges Schumer took material from comedians Kathleen Madigan, Patrice O'Neal, Wendy Liebman, and Tammy Pescatelli, and Schumer told Norton she has her suspicions about who is behind it. "Both Kathleen and Wendy know me and they don't believe I would do that," she said. "I think this is Tammy trying to get something going. I think [Tammy] is upset I blocked her on Twitter a couple years ago because she was unkind to my best friend, Rachel Feinstein, and I didn't like how she treated Rachel. I don't think she's got much going on, this is my guess. I think people get upset by success."
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