Amy Schumer Wants to Be Our Stylist
Amy Schumer is all about women, and we’re all about Amy Schumer. Although Schumer’s jokes can be self-deprecating, she undoubtedly feels incredible while delivering them.
Speaking of the initiative, Amy gets emotional while discussing her own case. It airs after Schumer’s killer summer, and the timing places her on the verge of two different but related (and potentially awkward) positions.
Instead, the effect of Schumer’s increasing fame on her comedy is more implicit. (No jokester’s glass of water for this one.) Mostly, though, Schumer sticks rigidly to center stage, letting her acid tongue do the heavy lifting. After Schumer secured her Comedy Central show, she called Klein and asked her to work on the series. She begins with a terrific dissection of the atrocious talking animal comedy Zookeeper starring Kevin James (“the real King James”, Schumer quips) and the unreality of Rosario Dawson playing the smitten love interest. A male comic “could literally whip his dick out and people would be like, ‘He’s a thinker!'”, she cracks… right before tearing into twenty minutes of material on the merits of cum, the female orgasm, and humiliating sex positions. To her considerable credit, she did just that, in a digital short on this past weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”, which she hosted. And she didn’t have to do this, she just did.
There’s no doubt that this year has been a big one for comedian Amy Schumer. But it’s late in the Schumer Day and there are more Days to come.
The special includes Schumer’s usual riffs about body image, sex and dating.
‘I wake up in the morning and I look like Charlize Theron in Monster, ‘ the star joked to the women of her workshop in a quick clip. The result is that her media profile somewhat hovers in between successful comedian and outspoken activist.
But Schumer turns serious, her voice catching a little, when she relays how happy she was that Evans helped her sister pull together a chic outfit. No, she’s not bringing audiences a groundbreaking take on feminism – or is it next-wave feminism? – but she is giving a contemporary twist to social hypocrisies and discomforts that still exist.