October 20 (2022-10-20) – November 10, 2022 (2022-11-10)
Inside Amy Schumer is an American sketch comedy television series created and hosted by Amy Schumer. The series aired on Comedy Central from April 30, 2013, to June 16, 2016, and was revived in 2022 for a fifth season on Paramount+.[1] Schumer and Daniel Powell served as the show's executive producers. The show received a Peabody Award and has been nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two.
Inside Amy Schumer completed its second season on June 3, 2014, and was renewed for a third season a week later.[2] The third season premiered on April 21, 2015, with a fourth season ordered the same day,[3] which premiered one year later on April 21, 2016.[4] On January 6, 2016, the show was renewed for a fifth season.[5] In August 2016, there was speculation though that the show had been cancelled despite the earlier announcement of renewal. Schumer denied the reports via social media, stating that production of the show was going on hiatus while she focused on touring. However, she also stated that she was "not making the show anymore".[6] According to a March 2019 interview by The New York Times, Schumer was under contract to produce another season of the show, leading to its eventual return.[7]
On February 24, 2021, it was announced that the show would be revived with five specials by Paramount+.[8] On September 20, 2022, it was reported that the five installments were no longer called specials but instead would be the five episodes of the fifth season: two episodes debuting on October 20, with the rest releasing weekly.[9] The series was canceled on June 26, 2023, and removed from Paramount+, while plans to air the fifth season were subsequently dropped on Comedy Central.[10][11] The complete series library was acquired by Hulu.[12]
Structure
Each episode is divided into several segments of varying length – sketches, short excerpts of stand-up comedy and street interviews with members of the public. The majority of episodes finish with an interview of an unusual figure, often regarding sexuality or gender roles. Amy Schumer is the only person featured in every episode and each segment. For its fifth season, the show scrapped all stand-up and interview segments, and added partly animated musical numbers.
Amy plays a mother in a television advertisement for a finger-shaped snack called Fingerblasters.
Amy's boyfriend is playing a military video game. She tries it - and quickly dislikes it.
Amy has lunch with her friends. She and most of the group push a waiter to the ground and eat his face.
A small group of men, including Amy's husband, talk to each other about their sex lives. Amy's husband's stories about sex with her are badly received by the rest. Amy comes in and details to her husband the sex acts she wants to engage in with him.
Amy arrives at a prom in a horse-drawn carriage and wearing a tiara. She attempts to become the date of a teenage boy. She has wrongly assumed that he does not have a date and expects to receive cunnilingus from him. Her plan does not succeed, because he is there with his girlfriend. She leaves, riding the horse. The incident receives negative press coverage.
Amy hides in a giant cake in order to surprise her boyfriend of seven years on his birthday. She is horrified to overhear him say to one of his guests that he is not really into her. She breaks out of the cake, then angrily breaks up with him and walks off, saying that she has met somebody else.
A group of male friends in a bar talk about how much they like tomboys.
Amy spends hours on the phone speaking to staff at a call center in order to try to solve her Internet connection problem. She rows to India, where she shoots one of the call center's workers andherself in their heads. Her partner solves the problem by restarting the router.
Amy interviews a woman who used to be a phone sex operator.
Amy is on a television advertisement using her own phone number to invite men who have priapism to visit her to have their penises softened.
Amy stays at a fancy hotel where the staff are very servile to her. However, when she is a few minutes late checking out, they turn hostile and a member of staff picks her up then carries her out.
In a parody of 12 Angry Men, a jury of 12 men must determine if Amy Schumer is hot enough to be on TV. Initially, only one juror thinks that she is hot enough - but the others are gradually persuaded that she is.
Women are visited by a group of four women (including Amy) called the 80s Ladies. One at her office, another at home and another in a clothes shop, where they have Richard Gere's credit card which they stole.
Amy defends the actions of Bill Cosby in court by promoting his comedy and likable public persona.
Amy is very disappointed to be divorced at 33 and having recently moved back in with her mother. Two friends of Amy's help her to create a man in a 'Weird Science' way, but the result is a severely mutated being.
Amy is a stripper on her first job - going to a house where she strips for a dog's bachelor party while she is dressed as a police officer. Another stripper, dressed as a nurse, goes upstairs with the groom. The bride arrives, and goes upstairs with a gun. Amy flees with the printer.
Amy accompanies her partner on a shopping trip for a new shirt.
Amy narrates at The Museum of Boyfriend Wardrobe Atrocities.
Amy's Russianmail-order husband Vlad arrives at her apartment. She does not remember ordering him, but warms to him and they fall in love.
Amy trains men to use feminine fighting techniques.
Amy interviews a couple whose relationship has been open for all of the seven years that they have been together.
A television advertisement for hair dye for women who are on the run.
Amy goes to a cocktail party with her boyfriend. She has separate conversations with two men who criticize her for 'being arrogant' by bringing up early in each conversation the fact that she has a boyfriend. When talking to another partygoer, she decides not to mention it and stays with him until his death four decades later. He tells her on his deathbed that he only wanted her as a beard.
Amy develops an intense silent romance with her barista via patterns that he draws in the foam of her coffee.
Amy becomes a princess, but finds the job harder than she thought. She has to marry her first cousin when she is 14. Her cousin-husband is killed by his own guards, and she is beheaded.
Amy has an uncomfortable session with her counsellor. The session is of no use to Amy, because the counsellor is emotional because her parents were recently killed in a fire.
Amy is an employee of a company called ListenAlert, who are hired by people for $100,000 per month to listen to them.
Amy introduces her brother and her boyfriend to each other. When Amy leaves the room, her brother repeatedly tells her boyfriend not have anal sex with her. Her brother's girlfriend is in a wheelchair as a result of anal sex with him.
Amy tries to improve her smile with the help of a coach.
Amy has three buttholes, which her boyfriend and friends are puzzled and disgusted by. Her friends walk out, giving a fake excuse. Her boyfriend splits up with her.
Bridget Everett performs a song in which she repeatedly tells men to put their dick away.
Amy sings about achieving closeness with her partner by doing various things.
Amy wears Guy-gles at her office, after being given them by an Australian colleague. They are a type of goggles which give the wearer information about her male co-workers when she looks at them - enabling her to work out what type of woman each one wants.
Amy appears on television advertisement, promoting to mothers a company which provides nannies that their partners will not want to have sex with - including ugly women, men, robots, a pack of wolves, a team of improvisers and family members.
Amily Schinton has her period on her first day as President.
Amy plays an office worker in a television advertisement for Tampo, a saxophone for carrying a tampon at work.
Amy is in a clothes store, where she attempts to purchase a top. She is treated with hostility by the saleswoman because Amy is a size 12. Amy is shown the part of the shop which is for customers who are not slim. It is a field in which the other customers are Lena Dunham and a cow. Amy is sold a tarpaulin.
A television advertisement for a sponge wall attachment called Punchables, which enable angry people to punch a wall without damaging it or their hand much.
Amy has lost her nose. A group of children who carry out surgery badly attach her arm to her face.
Amy and her friends complain to each other about how long it has been since they have had sex.
Amy and her friend go on a Sex and the City bus tour. They see another SATC bus tour which is much better and more popular.
Amy has trouble figuring out which persona to adopt in bed with a new lover.
Amy is part of a group of four women who sing in a karaoke bar about various bad things, then rob a sperm bank.
Amy is an actress on a terrible sitcom. She breaks character and expresses her disapproval of it, so is taken off set and replaced with another actress.
Amy plays a cute character in a TV commercial for a phone company.
Pregnant Amy compares birth plans with other mothers-to-be.
A television advertisement for potato chips which do not make a noise when eaten.
Amy sees her gynecologist, who refers to Amy's vagina using several slang terms.
Amy is pregnant and she and her partner - as well as other expectant parents in the room - talk about their fears about what their babies will be like.
The Inside Amy Schumer team comes together for a "Real Housewives"-style reunion hosted by Andy Cohen. Many clips of scenes from various episodes are shown.
Amy Schumer with the crew of Inside Amy Schumer at the 74th Annual Peabody Awards
The show has been met with generally positive reviews.[58][59] The first season received a weighted average score of 66 out of 100 on Metacritic based on eight critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[60] Critics were even more positive towards the second and third seasons, which received Metascores of 74 and 71 respectively.[61][62] The third season also received a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 10 critics, with an average rating of 10 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states, "Edgy and thought-provoking, Inside Amy Schumer's third season delivers more of the social relevance and self-deprecating wit that fans of the series have come to expect."[63] The series was honored with a Peabody Award in 2015.[64] The fourth season of the series received a score of 62 on Metacritic.[65]
