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Oct. 10, 2015 / 7:38 AM

Amy Schumer to receive Hollywood Comedy Award

Amy Schumer holds her Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for 'Inside Amy Schumer' at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 20, 2015. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Schumer is to receive the Hollywood Comedy Award on Nov. 1.

Amy Schumer holds her Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for 'Inside Amy Schumer' at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 20, 2015. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Schumer is to receive the Hollywood Comedy Award on Nov. 1. | License Photo

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Comedian Amy Schumer is to be honored at the Hollywood Film Awards on Nov. 1 in Beverly Hills, dick clark productions announced.

The Emmy Award-winner will be presented with the Hollywood Comedy Award for writing and starring in her first feature film, Trainwreck.

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Schumer, 34, is also in her fourth season of the sketch-comedy series Inside Amy Schumer.

Other Hollywood Film Awards honorees previously announced include Robert De Niro, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth, Tom Hooper, Benicio Del Toro, Saoirse Ronan and Alicia Vikander.

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