Fresh off snagging the MVP and the Best Actress in a Comedy awards at the Critics Choice Awards, Amy Schumer has addressed three comics who claim she's stolen their jokes.
Charges by the comedians -- Wendy Liebman, Tammy Pescatelli, and Kathleen Madigan -- surfaced on Twitter over the weekend. Liebman tweeted: "Between Amy Schumer doing 1 of my best jokes on her HBO special and this meme of my joke, I'm done with social media."
That tweet has since been deleted, but comedian Chuck Martin told Liebman to talk to Pescatelli and Madigan about her frustrations. The trio volleyed accusations and posted clips of their jokes they claim were stolen and recycled by Schumer, according to Refinery 29.
Today Schumer finally responded:
On my life, I have never and would never steal a joke.
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) January 20, 2016
Schumer then went on The Jim Norton Advice Show and offered to take a lie detector test, according to The Wrap.
The tweets by Liebman, Pescatelli and Madigan have been deleted, but Schumer isn't backing down. "I'm literally going to take a polygraph test and put it on my show this season," Schumer told Norton. "And I promise whatever the results are -- I won't let them cut."
Liebman has since backpedaled and tweeted:
I never said @amyschumer stole my joke.I just said it was the same.It's possible we both wrote it.I just wanted you to know I wrote it 1st. — Wendy Liebman (@WendyLiebman) January 20, 2016
