Amy Schumer could join Joan Rivers, Betty White, Gilda Radner with Grammy win
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Amy Schumer received two Grammy nominations Tuesday morning — one for best comedy album for Live at the Apollo and another for best spoken word album for the audio version of her memoir, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo.
Should Schumer walk away with the latter prize on Feb. 12, she would join legendary funny females like Gilda Radner (It's Always Something, 1989), Betty White (If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't), 2011) and Joan Rivers (Diary of a Mad Diva, 2014).
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The comedy album category, however, has been more of a boys club. Kathy Griffith took home the prize in 2013 for Calm Down Gurrl, the first female to win since Whoopi Goldberg in 1985 for Whoopi Goldberg - Original Broadway Show Recording.
Male comics like Jon Stewart (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook), 2010) and Stephen Colbert (America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't, 2013) have also had success in the spoken word category, a fruitful one for politicians as well, including Schumer's pick for POTUS, Hillary Clinton (It Takes A Village, 1996).
If the Inside Amy Schumer star, who is in talks to play Barbie in Sony's live-action movie, wins in both categories, she'll be in the same club with Stewart (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents...America: A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction, 2004) and Colbert (A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!, 2009).
