It's hard to tell if the totally unfunny, boring, overlong material of Amy Schumer's latest act is just an anomaly, or if talented, edgy Schumer is no more. This was awful. I really wanted to like The Leather Special. I think Amy Schumer is funny, having seen her previous stand up acts and that Bill Hader movie. She told clever jokes. The Leather Special has no jokes. I didn't laugh once. My wife didn't laugh once. Amy describes gross subjects while making gross faces. That's it. That's the whole special - or I assume it is. I quit watching with about fifteen minutes left, but I saw enough to be assured that it wasn't going to get any more funny. I'm not making fun of her weight because being heavy doesn't matter in comedy, but I think her appearance merits a mention. She wears a smallish, tight leather dress that along with a bad hairdo choice and horrible make-up creates an unflattering, swollen look that is a negative distraction. I don't think an entertainer's political views matter, so I don't hold it against them, but political comedy tends to be tedious at best. Schumer is politically active, which is her business. I appreciate that she didn't overload this act with politics - some, not much. Two out of ten if for nothing more than a star's worth of encouragement for funny Amy to come back.
187 Reviews
I've Seen Her Funnier
zkonedog11 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This review is going to be short and sweet because, to be completely honest, I don't have much experience in judging comedy specials. Usually, standup comedy isn't really "my thing", but if something catches my eye I'll watch from time to time.
A few years back, I watched what I think was Amy Schumer's first comedy routine to be put to film, and I remember thinking it was hilarious. She isn't for everyone, but I'm not too prudish when it comes to humor, so I enjoyed it.
As such, I saw this "Leather Special" and decided to give it a try. What I found, unfortunately, is that it didn't make me chuckle more than a couple of times in an hour. Her previous satire of male/female relationships has seemingly now turned into all raunchy sex comedy. Like I said, I realize that approach has its place, but all humor needs to have some heart/truth behind it to work. This one most certainly does not have either.
So, my final verdict is that "Leather Special" can easily be skipped even if you are a Schumer fan. I've generally found her funny, but this one was a major disappointment.
A few years back, I watched what I think was Amy Schumer's first comedy routine to be put to film, and I remember thinking it was hilarious. She isn't for everyone, but I'm not too prudish when it comes to humor, so I enjoyed it.
As such, I saw this "Leather Special" and decided to give it a try. What I found, unfortunately, is that it didn't make me chuckle more than a couple of times in an hour. Her previous satire of male/female relationships has seemingly now turned into all raunchy sex comedy. Like I said, I realize that approach has its place, but all humor needs to have some heart/truth behind it to work. This one most certainly does not have either.
So, my final verdict is that "Leather Special" can easily be skipped even if you are a Schumer fan. I've generally found her funny, but this one was a major disappointment.
Embarrassingly not funny. Maybe she was pressured into doing a special before really working her bits and jokes live
rugusto20 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I wont even touch her material, I believe a great comedian could work on that to make it passable, but she was so out of timing that it was embarrassing. It seems someone wrote that for her and she never worked on it to gather the reaction of the audience and learn the timing of the bits... Not sure what's the truth, but it was not funny at all.
It's Not a Matter of Politics, This Just Isn't Funny
Michael_Elliott27 March 2017
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.
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.
Swing and a miss!
rbni-8748513 March 2017
I enjoyed her shows before, but Schumer was neither funny nor insightful in this special. A huge swing and a miss. With the exception of the gun riff, she relied on old material focused mainly on her smelly body parts. Maybe that is why none of the big premier pay channels picked up this special. Netflix will have to do better in the future choosing streaming material.
Ah Amy....
flyingthor15 March 2017
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.
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.
57 mins of Amy making sure everyone knows she is a slut.
iolio116 March 2017
A lot of comedians do have a recurring joke between specials that they may talk about for 5 minutes or so, but Amy Schumer does this for the entire special. Its no wonder she resorts to stealing jokes, her only original joke is that she is a gross slut (her words). Hard to give this a good rating when these are also the same jokes during her other performances.... For a person working in a creative field i see no creativity, she has given her critics so much ammo with this special.
I have no more words, you will know what I mean if you watch it.
I have no more words, you will know what I mean if you watch it.
Can never get that time back
infowarsrocks15 March 2017
She used to be funny but this "special" is beyond awful. I was at one point embarrassed for this young lady as it was so unfunny and at times very awkward. She has had shows that were funny but this is not one of those. If you want to watch a good comedy special SKIP this one because that is time you'll never get back!!
Just awful (overstatement)
dittohelp15 March 2017
Amy needs to rethink her career choice of stand-up comedy and stick with material that somebody else wrote for her. This stand-up is not funny or entertaining at all. There are some female comics I really enjoy that can pull off raunchy comedy with a lot of humor. Amy was just raunchy to be raunchy and not funny at all. After watching this I felt like Ace Ventura after he found out Einhorn was a man. Had to vomit, burn the clothes I was wearing, try to plunger the show out of my head, and just sat in the shower trying to wash this show away. So bad. So awful. Doesn't even deserve 1 star.
Not her best, that's for sure.
deloudelouvain3 July 2018
After Mostly Sex Stuff (2012) and Live At The Apollo (2015) The Leather Special is the third show I saw from stand-up-comedian Amy Schumer. Sadly it wasn't her best performance. This one was the one I didn't like very much. There were okay jokes but in general we are used to get better from Amy Schumer. That she talks alot about sex is not a problem, that's what she's known for, but it wasn't just as funny as her Live At The Apollo show. Not only her jokes were not on top, but also her story telling contained too much pausing, like she wasn't totally in there. I don't know, maybe she should turn her comedy career by coming with something completely new. I'm sure she can do that, there are other funny subjects than sex.
Really what a waste of time
abzockekunstler15 March 2017
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.
Fun!
jannicka-3786520 March 2017
For a long time I thought amy was a bit overrated and mainly funny just in the sense that she had a lot of shock value. When this special was released the reviews I saw (netflix and here) made it sound terrible. However, I gave it a chance, and it was a fun special. Her routine is like talking to an honest, vulgar and informed friend. None of it was boring, she is animated in an engaging and of course self-deprecating way, and the whole thing was a joy to watch :) keep it up!
Good but not as good as her HBO special
carinwhitaker18 March 2017
This was pretty solid and I found pieces of this special funny but it was not of the caliber of her HBO special produced by Chris Rock. I thought even her first one hour future on Comedy Central Stand Up was better....I would like to see Amy work on her consistency. Chris Eock is the master of this. In his HBO specials they will literally clip and cutaway two different locations where he's performing the exact same bit and you do not even notice that they've changed his clothes his costume he's not in the same location because every night he does it the same.
Poor Effort
pudjammer14 March 2017
This was painful to watch. Save yourself the time and don't bother watching this train wreck (that lame pun was better than anything in this special). I have never been a big fan of Amy but she was better when she was stealing other people's jokes. Maybe she should search some old comedy tapes for new material. 1 star is generous for this slop.
Edit: Apparently, she included bits that she copied from Dave Attell and Dave Chappelle in her Leather Special. She is a chronic offender. Even that wasn't enough to save her act.
Edit: Apparently, she included bits that she copied from Dave Attell and Dave Chappelle in her Leather Special. She is a chronic offender. Even that wasn't enough to save her act.
The most un-funny stand up I have ever seen
jimbo70028 March 2017
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.
We get it, your vagina stinks
Chris_Mac_2519 April 2018
Awful
harleycanadiangirl15 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
That is 57 minutes of my life I cannot get back. There was no humor and certainly no comedy. It was more desperation in her act. She rambled, tried to be more crude than funny, almost seemed lost at times and finally just gave up mentally. I kept hoping she would get better but never happened. If this was "unplugged"...please pull the cord. Just awful.
Crude and vulgar
mannin117 April 2017
Filthy, filthy dirty. Crude, vulgar and disgustingly unfunny. An insult to the viewer. What the hell was she thinking? Now that she's made a truckload of money from Trainwreck (which was delightfully inventive and charmingly funny) Schumer has taken a nosedive into the sewer and produced a special that needs to be flushed down the toilet. Every kind of bodily and sexual function is thrown haphazardly at the audience with no rhyme or reason except to prove that women can be foulmouthed skanks. The only thing Schumer misses out on is having a bowel movement onstage. I watched about fifteen minutes of this filth and switched it off. I used to like her as a comedian but if this is the best she can come up with then I'm outta here.
10 minutes was enough
georgiev-224-53544315 March 2017
This is as funny as an autopsy
as graphic and as funny as I would imagine a public beheading to be.This special made me want to spend the entire day outside. She represents everything that America has to flush down the toilet in the morning. This is not humor, its more like sacrificing your brain.
by far the most awful thing I've seen in a very long time.
julyannescarlett17 March 2017
What was that exactly? No one cares about your genitals and sad stories you have of them. Seriously. Why? Why on earth would someone really think that was funny? Why?
That was a disgrace for stand up history. It's not the misogynistic trolls that gave the bad reviews Amy. The reason for that was that it was horribly pointless and unfunny. As a woman who was unfortunate enough to born and live in a middle eastern fascist dystopia and as someone who tries to survive and protect my mental health by escapism on the internet -through vpn mostly-, I'd rather watch the usual censored propaganda news that are full of hatred, blood and pain than to endure this mess. At least they make me laugh hysterically by making me clinically insane.
Worst thing ever.
That was a disgrace for stand up history. It's not the misogynistic trolls that gave the bad reviews Amy. The reason for that was that it was horribly pointless and unfunny. As a woman who was unfortunate enough to born and live in a middle eastern fascist dystopia and as someone who tries to survive and protect my mental health by escapism on the internet -through vpn mostly-, I'd rather watch the usual censored propaganda news that are full of hatred, blood and pain than to endure this mess. At least they make me laugh hysterically by making me clinically insane.
Worst thing ever.
It made me embarrassed for her
drewriegel17 March 2017
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".
Just bad. Boring. Unfunny.
ryanxj900011 September 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Zero punchlines. Zero. I watched it a while ago on netflix and rated it there. They scrapped their whole review system because this special was so hated on by everyone. However, it deserved it. RIP Netflix review system. Amy dun ya wrong.
Cringe - worthy content (a first for netflix, bravo!)
ashu-6411218 March 2017
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Why would people put money in such classless person (cannot even call her a comedian), her writers had given her about 2-3 worthy punchlines and she managed to mistime even those, she doesn't carry a joke through, which is the defining thing about most of the comedians...
She isn't funny, doesn't have a stage personality, and I don't know how the audience even managed to look at her the whole time, at times the torture was unbearable and repetitive, 15 minutes in, I had to shut the laptop and just take the rest of the day off.
She isn't funny, doesn't have a stage personality, and I don't know how the audience even managed to look at her the whole time, at times the torture was unbearable and repetitive, 15 minutes in, I had to shut the laptop and just take the rest of the day off.
If this show was a smell, it would smell of fermented beans and disease.
hoenke-605-83406914 March 2017
She really isn't funny. I would have guessed she didn't have anything prepared, walked on stage thinking "I got this"...and all we got was a heaping pile of crap. Unimaginative, not funny, flat out lazy. She's not even pleasant to look at.
Game over dude.
Game over dude.
Garbage delivered to your TV screen!Avoid like plague!
dnvikram25 March 2017
absolutely disgusting content and the worst comedy show I have ever seen in my life.Now Amy is on my banned list.Even juveniles have better comedy skills.Watch at your own risk as you can feel getting restless as you keep watching it.i hated it.not funny at all.netflix should have never produced this and her blaming the alt right is hilarious and as a comedian total failure. she should take responsibility for the bad content.
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