Amy Schumer Says She's Often Mistaken for Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy: 'BridesmaidsChanged My Life!'

Mar. 15, 2025

Amy Schumer, Rebel Wilson, Melissa McCarthy.Photo:Mike Coppola/Getty; Jeff Spicer/Getty; Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

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“People come up to me and even though … 100% of the time they are sure that I’m Melissa McCarthy, or Rebel Wilson … I don’t correct them I just go, ‘Yeah,Bridesmaidstotally changed my life,” she said on the show while promoting her new comedyKinda Pregnant.

Schumer said earlier of being mistaken for the two fellow actresses, “I should be so lucky, those are beautiful women.”

Ellie Kemper, McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Wendi Mclendon-Covey in the 2011 film ‘Bridesmaids’.Suzanne Hanover/Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock

McCarthy recalled while visiting the show in 2020 that during the stunt, which was performed a year earlier, a person thought she was the blonde comedian after she pretended to faint.

“What I heard right before [they called] 911 was: ‘Amy Schumer’s gone down! Amy Schumer’s on the ground!'” said McCarthy on the show. “And I was like, ‘Hey!’ "

“She called me Amy Schumer — which to me was my favorite part, what a compliment — but she called me Amy Schumer four or five times,” she added.

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“Bradley CooperI ran into this week … and he said, ‘You know I turned 50 this year.’ And he goes, ‘You 50?’ ” Schumer recalled as the audience laughed.

She said she tried to “recover” from the awkward moment, saying, “Because whatever I’m 43 but, you know, I will be 50 but … I’m not 50 yet. I was just like, ‘um, yeah no I’m not Bradley, you know, I’m not. But thank you for thinking of me.’ ”

source: people.com