Althouse: "My mom was like, 'Amy’s called her son "genital."' And I was like, 'What are you talking about?'"

April 15, 2020

"My mom was like, 'Amy’s called her son "genital."' And I was like, 'What are you talking about?'"

Said Amy Schumer, explaining why she had to change the name she and her husband had given their baby son, The Independent reports.

The original name was Gene Attell Fischer. Attell was in honor of the comedian David Attell. Apparently, it took them months to notice the unfortunate near homophone, "genital." They changed the middle name to David.

By the way, does Ron DeSantis notice that his name sounds like Rhonda Santis? Apparently not, since he could easily call himself by his full name Ronald DeSantis (or Ronald Dion DeSantis or R. Dion DeSantis or Dion DeSantis).

ADDED: Meade observes that R. Dion DeSantis sounds like "Hard On DeSantis."

AND: I was looking for... I forget what... and I ran across this Amy-and-children video:

That really bothered me. I get the humor, but I don't think children should have been used in making the video. I started out being bothered just by the adult "bob" hair (wig?) on the one little girl. I ended up being quite upset that the girls were talking about sex.

52 comments:

rehajm said...: There was that guy Enormous Genitals from Kentucky Fried Movie...; 4/15/20, 8:10 AM
rehajm said...: Interestingly autocomplete can't for the life of it figure out that you're trying to type Kentucky Fried...; 4/15/20, 8:11 AM
Darrell said...: Let me channel her son at age 3--"Mom, you're not fucking funny!"; 4/15/20, 8:11 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: Anna Leigh King could not be reached for comment.; 4/15/20, 8:12 AM
Lucid-Ideas said...: "As a tribute to comedian Dave Attell"

Is this supposed to be the joke? What obese trash. I hope her spawn gets the gist of how mommy is solipsistic unfunny cunt and manages to be both a disappoint and/or ruin her career.

NY/LA really are there own countries, filled with the utterly vile if for no other reason than they can recognize each other.; 4/15/20, 8:19 AM
Bob Boyd said...: That's Osweepay; 4/15/20, 8:23 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Had a schoolmate in the 70s last name Blow. He blew his mind out in a car as the saying goes.; 4/15/20, 8:23 AM
Lurker21 said...: Gaby & Alex are cute. Mom is cute. Their house is fantastic. The star of the show. Real estate porn.

Those kids are going to have real problems some day.; 4/15/20, 8:24 AM
GatorNavy said...: I do find Amy Schumer to be amusing when she is performing her stand up routine. Off stage she is a typical totalitarian leftist, espousing the usual garbage talking points. However, bringing your kids into a comedy bit as lame as a play on words involving another c list comedian is completely unfunny; 4/15/20, 8:26 AM
Ralph L said...: Attell's Insomniac show had its moments. A bit different from Michael Portillo's train rides.; 4/15/20, 8:31 AM
MadisonMan said...: Filed under: Worth a chuckle, let's move on.; 4/15/20, 8:41 AM
Wince said...: I ended up being quite upset that the girls were talking about sex.

Not sure the girls talked about sex in a way discernable to them.

"No wrappers on the floor, time for Plan-B" and "birth control"?

Don't they teach that stuff in grammar schools now?; 4/15/20, 8:53 AM
Mark said...: Parents need to take more care to sound out the entirety of a baby's proposed name before deciding. Not just the first, but the first and last, the first and middle, the first, middle and last. I know of what I speak.; 4/15/20, 8:55 AM
Gunner said...: It's too bad how she is now. I remember back around 2010 when she appeared on Red Eye, she seemed comfortable making fun of Leftism. Maybe she was just pretending in order to get on Fox News.; 4/15/20, 9:00 AM
Wince said...: Mr. Burns: And, uh, incidentally, thanks for not making fun of my genitalia.

Marge Simpson: I thought I did.; 4/15/20, 9:01 AM
Ann Althouse said...: When I have to do deletions, I don't accept additional comments asking about the deletions. The problem is threadjacking and going off topic and the challenge to the deletions is more threadjacking!; 4/15/20, 9:02 AM
MayBee said...: I had a friend who had a name chosen for her baby until her mom pointed out that without the middle name (just the first and last) it sounded like Erection. Luckily this happened prior to birth.; 4/15/20, 9:02 AM
Lurker21 said...: Between Gaby and Alex, Greta Thunberg, and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, people may start to wonder about Scandinavian parenting skills.; 4/15/20, 9:03 AM
tim in vermont said...: I always felt that way about the kid in Two and a Half Men. But hopefully he’s richer than Croesus right now.; 4/15/20, 9:05 AM
tim in vermont said...: Schumer was funny ’til she got woke. Kind of like Margaret Cho.; 4/15/20, 9:07 AM
Lurker21 said...: Dion DeSantis, Governor of Doo-wop? They call him "The Wanderer."

Before he was with the Belmonts, Dion DiMucci was with a group called the Del-Satins. Dion DeSantis and the Del-Satins?; 4/15/20, 9:12 AM
JAORE said...: I had a friend years ago that named his daughter Amanda Lynn. They never thought about whether she had musical talent at birth.; 4/15/20, 9:16 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Dion is a great old name. I was reading about the mythological king Dion of Laconia, who had a daughter Carya:

"In Greek mythology, Carya was a daughter of the Laconian king Dion and Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. Her sisters were Lyco and Orphe. Apollo, in reward for Dion and Amphithea receiving him with great reverence and hospitality, bestowed a gift of prophecy upon their daughters, but imposed a restriction that they should not betray gods nor search after forbidden lore. Later, Dionysus also paid a visit to Dion's house and was received with equal hospitality; during his stay, he fell in love with Carya and lay with her secretly. He then left but, missing Carya, soon returned under pretext of consecrating a temple which Dion had built for him. But Lyco and Orphe, suspecting a love affair between Dionysus and their sister, guarded Carya to prevent her from having intercourse with the god. By doing so they committed a violation of the restrictions imposed by Apollo, so Dionysus, after several warnings and threats, drove the two sisters mad, in which state they ran off to Mount Taygetus, where they were transformed into rocks. Carya was changed by Dionysus into a walnut tree (Greek karya)."; 4/15/20, 9:37 AM
J. Farmer said...: Amy Schumer doesn't do herself any favors by reminding people about Dave Attell, a truly masterful comic who never got the career he deserved. He had a show in the early 2000s called Insomniac with Dave Attell that was hilarious, but otherwise he has mostly been confined to the comedy club circuit. Schumer is a notorious joke thief whose whole act was playing up how promiscuous and raunchy she is. She is one of countless female comedians who think it's supposed to be edgy when a woman gets on stage and talks about blowjobs and farting. Never mind that Roseanne was doing that material 40 years ago.; 4/15/20, 9:39 AM
Temujin said...: Amy Schumer bothers me completely. She was funny for a minute and then decided her bit had to be all about body parts, words about body parts, and how unsexually sexy she is. I was an early unadaptor.

Half-assed comedians who get the spotlight being unimaginative always bother me because there are so many truly funny people out there who cannot get a light shone on them.; 4/15/20, 9:53 AM
Money Manger said...: Growing up, the neighbors were the Hunts. Youngest boy named Mike. I thought about it much later. Poor kid.; 4/15/20, 9:54 AM
J. Farmer said...: Anything is better than Jacob, Liam, or Noah.; 4/15/20, 10:05 AM
rcocean said...: What is amy schumer famous for, other than being a Weirdo? I'm constantly amazed at how often we're told that so-and-so is doing something odd, and the whole USA is supposed to care.; 4/15/20, 10:23 AM
rcocean said...: Dion Sanders was a great running back.; 4/15/20, 10:24 AM
rcocean said...: What's more amazing about amy schumer, her physical ugliness, her vulgarity, or her stupidity?; 4/15/20, 10:25 AM
Maillard Reactionary said...: Lockdown's affecting you pretty bad, eh Althouse?; 4/15/20, 10:25 AM
Scott Patton said...: When using voice recognition on Android to send a text to my sister, asking the question:
"Is canned asparagus any good"?
It was converted as:
"Is Candice Paragus any good"; 4/15/20, 10:38 AM
tcrosse said...: Dion Boucicault, né Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, was a renowned Irish-American plawright in the 19th century.; 4/15/20, 10:41 AM
doctrev said...: J. Farmer said...
Never mind that Roseanne was doing that material 40 years ago.

4/15/20, 9:39 AM

The less I think about this fact, the better. I've never seen Roseanne as anything younger than a middle-aged liberal, and later an elderly quasi-nationalist.; 4/15/20, 10:55 AM
MadisonMan said...: You never know how others will view your kids' names. When we named my son, my brother immediately noticed that the son/daughter combination matched a then-famous couple. A couple months later it occurred to me that my kid had the same first name as a close family friend. Neither thing crossed my mind when son got named.; 4/15/20, 11:01 AM
Yancey Ward said...: That was hilarious. Even more hilarious is they didn't figure it out before being told by someone else.; 4/15/20, 11:13 AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: 'GenItalia' would be ok for an Italian reproductive medicine lab

we nicknamed a kid "Peanutbutter". His last name was Angeli; 4/15/20, 11:21 AM
madAsHell said...: Why do I suspect this was a publicity stunt?

Is she really that stupid?; 4/15/20, 11:21 AM
William said...: I can see changing the kid's name, but I don't understand why she would publicize doing this....As masAsHell notes, the probability of a publicity stunt is very high.....She made one good movie, but she's no Mary McCarthy.; 4/15/20, 11:28 AM
William said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/15/20, 11:28 AM
tim maguire said...: Gene Attell doesn't sound very much like genital, especially given that, on those rare occasions that his full name is used, it will be pronounced distinctly.; 4/15/20, 11:37 AM
mikee said...: Well, if that upset you, Althouse, never google the 1980s film from SNL called "Babies in Makeup."; 4/15/20, 11:39 AM
Kyjo said...: Ronalda Santis
Diondre Santis

My youngest brother is named Patrick Michael. Unfortunately our surname begins with an S.; 4/15/20, 11:46 AM
Curious George said...: If you think that Schumer skit was bad, check out this.; 4/15/20, 11:59 AM
Maillard Reactionary said...: In 8th grade one of my schoolmates' last name was Archibald. You can guess what his nickname was (it involved something being itchy).; 4/15/20, 12:01 PM
J. Farmer said...: @doctrev:

The less I think about this fact, the better. I've never seen Roseanne as anything younger than a middle-aged liberal, and later an elderly quasi-nationalist.

She was a pretty decent stand up, and I loved the Roseanne sitcom, though it definitely went off a cliff in its later seasons. "People say to me, 'You’re not very feminine.' Well, they can just suck my dick" was one of her more famous quips. Her and Tom Arnold's coke-fueled knock-down, drag-outs on the set were apparently the stuff of legend.; 4/15/20, 1:11 PM
stevew said...: The mother of the comedian that liberally refers to female body parts In her act says that Gene Attel reminds her of the word genital? Im throwing the bs flag on that one.; 4/15/20, 2:51 PM
stevew said...: Biggus Dickus, he has a wife you know... Incontinentia Buttocks.; 4/15/20, 2:53 PM
RobinGoodfellow said...: Who the hell names his kid after a comedian? When I was in high school I listened to a lot of Richard Pryor, but I sure wouldn’t name my kid after him.

I mean, seriously, who does that?; 4/15/20, 3:05 PM
RobinGoodfellow said...: Blogger BUMBLE BEE said...
Had a schoolmate in the 70s last name Blow. He blew his mind out in a car ...

He didn’t notice that the lights had changed?; 4/15/20, 3:06 PM
RobinGoodfellow said...: Blogger GatorNavy said...
I do find Amy Schumer to be amusing when she is performing her stand up routine.

As a child, Amy Schumer said she wanted to be a comedian. Everybody laughed! But no one’s laughing now! Well, almost no one.; 4/15/20, 3:08 PM
Josephbleau said...: Much better are the old click and clack car talk guys with the credit names:

Limo driver Pikov Andropov.
Customer complaint director Wayward U. Bussoff.
Statistician Marge Inovera.
Staff Cosmetic Surgeon Zbigniew Kuptz.
Seat tester. Willma Butfit.
Tax Record Accounting firm Douse and Burnham.
And the law firm of Dewy, Cheatham, and Howe.; 4/15/20, 4:02 PM