Amy Schumer made her point during sketches on Saturday Night Live. Picture / AP
Amy Schumer made her point during sketches on Saturday Night Live. Picture / AP
Comedian gets laughs as she lays into reality TV stars and fangirls over Clinton.
This is undoubtedly the year of Amy Schumer. There was her hit movie Trainwreck, an Emmy for her Comedy Central show, the chance to open for Madonna, a multi-million dollar book deal, an upcoming HBO special and, finally, an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Schumer probably could have flopped and still be loved as the Hollywood best friend you wish you had. But of course, she didn't.
She began her opening monologue, "People keep asking me, they say, Amy, is it an exciting time for women in Hollywood?
"And I'm like, NO!"
Schumer told the audience that the little girl who played her character in flashbacks in Trainwreck already had a problem with the size of her own cheeks.
"We have to be a role model for these little girls, because who do they have? All they have, literally, is the Kardashians. She doesn't have a Malala poster in her room, trust me. And is that a great message for little girls? A whole family of women who take the faces they were born with as like, a light suggestion?"
Schumer noted that there are some good role models out there, like Hillary Clinton, who she recently met. She said Clinton's name like a celebrity that everyone loves: "I just met Hillary. Clinton."
The cheers for Clinton, who appeared on SNL last week, were mild.
Hillary Clinton.
"A little discouraging, the amount of applause," Schumer cracked. "Come on, Hil'."
According to Schumer, their conversation went like this:
Schumer: Do you drink?
Clinton: Yeah, I do, but it's hard because I'm busy.
Schumer, sarcastically: Me too, I get it. What do you drink?
Clinton: Oh, vodka. And I like beer and wine.
Schumer: Well, what about tequila?
Clinton: Oh, I don't really like tequila, I only drink it when my friends make me.
"Make you?" Schumer joked. "Who is hazing Hillary Clinton? Like with a rail shot of tequila, 'Take this shot, you b****'. Who is doing that?"
Schumer took another moment to get political later in the show with a sketch about guns. In between her comedy success marathon this year, Schumer was faced with how to respond to a tragedy when two people were killed and nine injured while watching Trainwreck in a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theatre.
Soon after, Schumer appeared in a press conference with her cousin, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, to call on Congress to end gun violence. And on SNL, she somehow found a way to mock America's dependence on guns.
