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This past August, the Television Critics Association showered Amy Schumer with love. Not only did the members of the TCA vote her show, "Inside Amy Schumer," as the season's top comedy, but Schumer took home the award for individual achievement in comedy — the best comedy performer, male or female, for the 2014-15 TV season.

Well, she didn't actually take it home. Schumer was too busy to show up and accept the awards herself.

"Amy wanted to be here," said "Inside Amy Schumer" writer Christine Nagle, accepting on her behalf. "But, unfortunately, she couldn't. She's being treated for overexposure."

It's a continuing theme for the suddenly huge Schumer, who's been around for years but burst on the scene, sort of, in 2015. Well, burst into the mainstream, anyway.

Not only did her Comedy Central series take home a pair of TCA Awards, it also won a Peabody and an Emmy as outstanding variety sketch series (one of five Emmy categories in which it was nominated).

She headlined an HBO comedy special — "Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo" which was directed by Chris Rock (and was nominated for a Writers Guild Association Award as best comedy/variety special).

She wrote and starred in the movie "Trainwreck," which grossed $110 million domestically and an additional $30 million overseas, earning a Golden Globe nomination as best actress in a comedy or musical and a WGA nomination for best original screenplay.

She signed a big book deal and co-wrote another movie comedy with Jennifer Lawrence. And she's in the midst of a national tour, which brings her to Utah on Thursday, April 14, for a performance at the Maverik Center in West Valley City.

Last year marked a big turnaround for Schumer, 34, who's been performing standup comedy for more than a decade; who made her first appearance on Comedy Central (on "Live at Gotham") in 2007; who finished fourth on NBC's "Last Comic Standing" that same year.

At the recent Comedy Central upfront in New York City, the comedian joked that the widespread acclaim she achieved in the past 12 months isn't sustainable.

"Do you guys know that I'm really famous now?" Schumer said. "I think it's gonna last another six months."

Well, that seems unlikely. Season 4 of "Inside Amy Schumer" debuts April 21, and Comedy Central has already ordered Season 7. In addition to that book deal and the upcoming movie, her company is producing a couple of pilots for Comedy Central.

Schumer sounded somewhat ambivalent about her newfound megafame.

"I didn't know what being famous would be like," she told advertisers and journalists at Comedy Central's upfront presentation. "It actually really blows. … Now, I get to have things like — if I walk down the street in New York, people going, 'Oh my God, I never do this, but would you [expletive] my brother?' "

But she's having fun with the whole overexposure thing, playing it up in a promo for the new season of "Inside Amy Schumer."

"Amy, the test came back positive," she's told by a faux doctor. "I'm sorry to tell you this, but you've been overexposed. … You're everywhere."

Told that the cure involves quitting "Inside Amy Schumer," she demurs.

"No can do, Doc," she says. "Got to follow my heart. Keep exposing myself."

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Amy Schumer in Utah

When • Thursday, April 14, 8 p.m.

Where • The Maverik Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City

Tickets • $39-$99, available at the box office, at smithtix.com and at all Smith's Tix locations