Comedian Amy Schumer was married to her husband, Chris Fischer, for seven years before she announced their “difficult decision” to divorce after seven years of marriage. Without specifying the reasons behind their split, Amy shared an Instagram post in December 2025, which read, in part, “We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son.”
“Amicable and all love and respect! Family forever,” Amy concluded her post, which included snapshots of her and Chris over the years.
During their marriage, the couple have been through a lot together. Here’s everything you need to know about Chris.
Chris has worked in some major kitchens across the globe. He’s served as the personal chef to New York restaurateur Keith McNally, worked as a sous chef in Mario Batali’s Babbo restaurant in New York City, cooked at Ruth Rodgers’ River Café in London and worked at Alice Waters’ Sustainable Food Project in Rome, according to BU Today. In her 2019 special Growing, Amy joked about her husband’s profession, saying it was a perk to their marriage. “I married a chef because I’m a f**king genius,” she said.
Chris is the father to Amy’s only son. The comedian gave birth to Gene David Fischer in May 2019 via C-section. Their baby was originally named Gene Attell, after stand-up comedy legend Dave Attell, but Amy revealed that she changed her little boy’s name after she realized his name sounded like “genital” in an April 2020 episode of her podcast 3 Girls, 1 Keith. Regardless, Amy shared that Gene might follow in his dad’s footsteps that same month when she shared an adorable picture of him dressed as a “baby chef.” The couple may also try for baby number 2 in the near future! In January 2020, Amy opened up about some of her struggles with IVF, and she revealed that her and her husband were talking about a second child and “trying to figure it out” in an April 2021 interview on Ellen.
The whole family starred in the Food Network show Amy Schumer Learns to Cook, which premiered in May 2020. The series featured Chris teaching his wife everything that he knows about cooking. While Chris showed Amy the tools of his trade in the kitchen, Amy demonstrated her expert bartending skills with amazing cocktail recipes. The show’s second season premiered in August 2020. An uncensored version of the series was made available on Discovery+ in January 2021. Amy and Chris both served as executive producers on the series, and it received a Primetime Emmy Nomination in 2020 for “Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program.”
