Inside Amy Schumer - Season 3

Karin McKie READ TIME: 2 MIN.

Supported by a fearlessly feminist writing staff and fun cameos - Jerry Seinfeld, Rachel Dratch, Colin Quinn, Kathy Najimy, Tim Gunn, Dennis Quaid, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Giamatti, and Natasha Lyonne - the blonde comedian continues to push the envelope in her two-DVD set "Inside Amy Schumer Season 3."

Many of her most successful sketches have already made the rounds on social media, from "The Last Fuckable Day" starring Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Patricia Arquette celebrating the last moment the media deems them attractive (before they sail, or rather row, off into the sunset).

Her black-and-white adaptation "12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer" follows a similar theme, a debate over "is she hot enough for TV," can she cause the same "reasonable chub" also engendered by the Adam Levine/Blake Shelton "Garbage Dick" tour?

The boy band parody "Cool with It" encourages Schumer to remove her make-up, then quickly put it back on once they see her in her natural state. She also produces the rap video "Milk, Milk, Lemonade..." celebrating current culture's obsession with asses, even though "poop comes from there."

She doesn't pull any punches when mock defending Bill Cosby in a trial (in front of be-sweatered, pudding pop-eating jurists): "even if the statute of limitations has expired, if at least 50 women come forward, can he at least get community service?"

Bill Nye the Science Guy joins in to bemoan white women in their 20s invoking the actual universe as "cosmic guidance for their giant dream boards."

Among the sketches, Schumer mixes in appropriate stand-up snippets, real-person-in-the-street interviews, plus "Amy Goes Deep," also real, in-depth personal interviews in a Red Hook bar. The limited DVD bonus features include four more "Deep" interviews plus outtakes from most of the sketches.

But one of the most effective constants is her theme music and interstitial scenes of her bopping through various New York City cityscapes, as if she's both in charge of, yet buffeted by, the insane landmines of gender and relationship roles around her, which she continues to question and skewer.

Schumer's at once world-weary (and apparently Ambien-addicted) but still surprised by her own choices (showcased in a scene about highly learned women tripping over themselves to apologize for everything) as well as the dumb shit that surrounds and subsumes us.

"Inside Amy Schumer Season 3"
DVD
$14.99
http://www.cc.com/shows/inside-amy-schumer


by Karin McKie

Karin McKie is a writer, educator and activist at KarinMcKie.com

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