Dressing your man badly on purpose
Amy Schumer , compared with Tammy Pescatelli
A woman deliberately makes her partner look unattractive so other women won't be interested in him.
“You dress him like that so no one else wants to have sex with him?”
Trainwreck, 2015quote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
“Men, if we love you, we dress you for other women . . . that's why we dress you stupid.”
Comedy Central Presents, 2006quote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
Same observation that women dress partners badly to keep others away, delivered in different forms: a film question versus a stand-up confession.
- Premise 34/40
- Structure 10/30
- Punchline 12/30
- Premise34/40Same idea: a man is dressed badly on purpose so other women won't want him.
- Structure10/30Schumer's is film dialogue questioning her sister; Pescatelli's is a stand-up address to men.
- Punchline12/30Both land on deliberate bad dressing to repel other women; wording and angle differ.
Setup
On screen, she eyes her sister's poorly dressed husband.
Setup
She addresses men about how women dress them.
Turn
She asks whether the bad clothes are deliberate.
Turn
Women who love you dress you for other women.
Punchline
He's dressed badly so no one else wants sex with him.
Punchline
That is why women dress men stupid.
In the words themselves
10% of the meaningful words are shared. Shared words are highlighted in the quotes above.
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Context
When and where
Pescatelli did the joke on her 2006 Comedy Central special. Schumer's line is in the 2015 film Trainwreck, spoken to her on-screen sister about the sister's husband.
What followed
Pescatelli made the accusation in a burst of tweets, then deleted them. She went on Jim Norton's SiriusXM show to apologize, said "I went too far," and agreed parallel thinking happens.
Receipts
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Amy Schumer by Mario Santor, CC BY-SA 3.0; Tammy Pescatelli by JennyMatthews - Nancy's Tree, CC BY-SA 2.0