Who is Amy Schumer’s autistic husband, author-chef Chris Fischer, whose Martha’s Vineyard restaurant later became a favourite of the Obamas?

In a January appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Amy Schumer had this to say about her husband of almost seven years: “I love him, I’m married, Chris is his name,” the stand-up comedian told the audience, before hilariously adding, “he’s a rescue.”

In her 2019 Netflix special, Growing, Schumer talks about her husband’s diagnosis. “I knew from the beginning that my husband’s brain was a little different than mine,” she says. “And once he was diagnosed, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all of the characteristics that make it clear that he’s on the spectrum are all of the reasons that I fell madly in love with him.”

Here’s everything to know about the Kinda Pregnant star’s husband, Chris Fischer.

Chris Fischer is primarily a chef

Fischer also took over running his family’s Beetlebung Farm when his aunt retired in 2010.

“I got into farming partly because I came back from NYC broke and I realised that it only made sense to start using what I was growing,” he said in an interview with Esquire in 2013.

In 2015 Fischer co-wrote The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, which won the 2016 James Beard Award.