The domestication of Amy Schumer may be, perhaps, my favorite new TV genre of 2020. The truth-telling stand-up was a doyenne of edgelord club comedy before breaking out with her primo feminist satire sketch show Inside Amy Schumer and her screenwriting/starring role debut in hit movie Trainwreck, one of 2015's best films.
In a polemical career spanning more than fifteen years, she's experimented with identities ranging from "bigoted boy's club blowhard" to "brash pussy-centric sex comedian" — and faced criticism for both — but Schumer's mutability is part of her charm. "Comics say we used to be able to say this, and it was funny," she toldthe TheNew York Times last year.
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