"Inside Amy Schumer" is Coming Back after a 6 Year Hiatus

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"Inside Amy Schumer" is Coming Back after 6 Years
by Jessica Wang
September 20, 2022


Amy Schumer is ready to burn all remaining bridges.

After a six-year hiatus, the comedian and actress announced that her sketch comedy series "Inside Amy Schumer" will return for season 5. It'll be better than ever ("well, not as good as season 3") and make a move from Comedy Central to Paramount+, Schumer promises in a letter to fans on social media.

"I wanted to bring back Inside Amy Schumer to burn any remaining bridges," she says in the kooky letter, calling her new streaming network home "the hottest piece of ass."



Schumer continues, "So, sit down and open your pants (so you're comfortable, not in a sexual way) because we're not holding anything back."

"You won't want to miss the show that will finally get me forever cancelled," Schumer concludes, noting the new season will debut on Oct. 20. Don't miss it, as it's "what the Queen would have wanted," the comedian says. She signed the letter as Amy, the Duchess of Long Island.

https://ew.com/tv/inside-amy-schumer...aramount-plus/

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Amy talks about Rosh Hashanah, her sex life, living in Brooklyn when she was younger, her husband being a chef and farmer, someone in the audience having a seizure during one of her shows, a new season of “Inside Amy Schumer” after a break due to depressing news, seeing Top Gun: Maverick, how much social media has changed, whether or not she’d ever live in LA, and coming up with the name for her new “Whore Tour.”

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I watched this back in the Comedy Central days, but since I don’t have Paramount Plus, no go on the continuation.

Hey, are P+ shows uncensored? Can they say or do “anything”? Or are there limits?

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Inside Amy Schumer Just Wasn't Made for These Times

BY JUDY BERMAN OCTOBER 19, 2022 9:01 AM EDT

Inside Amy Schumer is the product of a world startlingly different from the one we’re living in today. Spanning from 2013 through 2016, the show’s original, four-season Comedy Central run didn’t just make Schumer a household name. It also became a touchstone of a pop-feminist decade ushered in by the mid-aughts blogosphere and abruptly extinguished at the exact instant that Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald Trump, just a few months after the show’s finale. Suddenly, Beyoncé performing in front of a giant Feminist sign at the 2014 VMAs called to mind George W. Bush speaking in front of a giant Mission Accomplished banner six weeks into the Iraq War. Ilana Glazer’s voracious Broad City character lost her sex drive and ended up in therapy.

As Schumer parlayed the success of Trainwreck, the 2015 rom-com that she starred in and scripted, into lead roles in big-screen comedies like I Feel Pretty and Snatched, the show that had rightly earned her so much attention aged overnight. Hilariously attuned to the confusing mix of privilege, oppression, narcissism, and empowerment that comprised straight, white, middle-class, American womanhood at the time, her sketches highlighted the small hypocrisies and self-delusions of a group that could afford to laugh at itself but never forgot that men were worse. Six years after its finale, one need only review the results of the most recent Supreme Court session to understand how much has changed. Which raises the questions of why, exactly, Inside Amy Schumer is returning for a fifth season (this time on Paramount+) and how its creator and star plans to meet a considerably dark, more delicate moment for feminism.

The first two episodes, which will both hit the streaming service on Oct. 20, suggest that Schumer is equally confused about how to proceed. There are some genuinely funny sketches in the vintage-Inside mold. The premiere opens with an amusing faux TV ad for a psoriasis drug that allows Schumer’s character to “get back to doing what I love”—making ugly, unusable ceramics for her family—followed by a confab of girlfriends whose apparent embrace of “gratitude” turns out to be an embrace of cosmetic surgery, featuring the original series’ frequent musical guest, Somebody Somewhere’s Bridget Everett. In episode 2, Schumer plays an eliminated Bachelor contestant recording audio pickups on her way out. As she re-records lines she’s well aware will paint her as a monster, the sketch becomes a shrewd commentary on reality stars’ complicity in their own humiliation.

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the funniest sketch of the bunch has no overt connection to feminism. “Fart Park” starts with the inherently funny concept of a dog-park-style enclosure in a public square for people who need a safe space to pass gas, escalates into a meet-cute (fart-cute?), and keeps taking wonderfully absurd turns from there. It’s over too soon—and if you’re a regular viewer of SNL’s interminable scenes, you know that’s a compliment.

[Chocolate Moose]

yes!!!!!