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Thereturn ofInside Amy Schumeroften tries to reflect that alarming world, to greater and lesser success.
Schumers sketch series is at its best, though, when its reaffirming that some thingsarestill reliable.
Some truths do still exist.
Namely: Farts are funny.
The joy ofSchumers sketch comedywas always in its distillation of familiar cultural tropes.
They nod and smile and say Gratitude!
with inflections unmistakably full of smug self-confidence.
As a stand-up routine, that idea on its own could so easily feel stale.
This doesnt have to be Schumer talking as herself.
This can be more obvious as a character shes playing.
Even if the idea of it is familiar, the depiction can still be fun.
(SurelyBridget Joness Diaryis over 20 years old now??)
I cannot deny that these sketches do at least some of what theyre aiming to do.
Most of Schumers sketches imply the existence of the real world.
Gratitude is about an immediately recognizable phenomenon from contemporary American life.
Flatuda is a mimicry of inescapable pharmaceutical ads.
(Which is just absurd.
Obviously theyre describing the same experience!)
But the political sketches are not about implication.
The Colorado tourism ad sketch isbarelya joke.
For the most part, they perform the same call-and-response function that Schumer depicts in that Gratitude sketch.
Abortion, one Schumer character might as well be intoning.
Abortion, a like-minded audience might reply, sad and serious.
But its not the most exciting sketch comedy.
They dont particularly fit with anything else aboutInside Amy Schumer.
But theyre fun and unexpected, and just weird enough to be a palate cleanser from the other sketches.
It devolves from there, but thats the idea.
It would be nice if there were a few more farts to help the medicine go down.
