When she was a kid, Amy Schumer was given a nickname by her classmates in school. As she told Entertainment Weekly, it wasn't a particularly good one. "The kids would call me Amy Shoemaker instead of Schumer, because kids are, like, really creative," she quipped. Admitting the nickname "made me mad," she recalled a point when her parents were contemplating opening a shoe store, "and I was like, 'You can't do this to me! Nooo!' I begged them and whined my way out of it."
Interviewed by Vanity Fair, Schumer revealed another nickname, recalling her high school volleyball teammates called her "Shroomer." Even though she didn't indulge in psychedelic mushrooms, she "kind of thought it was cool."
Schumer nearly gave her son, Gene, an unintentionally hilarious nickname thanks to his middle name, Attell, a tribute to longtime friend and fellow comedian Dave Attell. During an episode of her podcast, reported USA Today, she revealed her son's name had been changed. "It's now Gene David Fischer," Schumer said. "It was Gene Attell Fischer, but we realized that we, by accident, named our son 'genital.' Gene Attell sounds like genital."
