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Amy Schumer brings the noise in a tight stand-up monologue, and Weekend Update is finding its groove, but the rest is kind of limp. Considering that the host is a sketch artiste in her own right with plenty to say on her own show, the sketches are depressingly generic. Virtually any female guest host could have served as the overbearing friend at someone else's wedding shower, or a badly improv-ing Mary Todd Lincoln re-enactor, or even one of the flight attendants who fall out of the plane. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Oct 11, 2015 - 7 comments

Amy goes below the belt in skits about her cavernous vagina, extra anuses (ani?), Cockblock, and the traditional season-closing raucous Bridget Everett performance. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Jul 8, 2015 - 9 comments

A solid episode, with Amy as a first-time stripper for dogs in a bit that gets gloriously weirder and weirder; getting a mail-order husband thanks to Ambien; and running a dojo for emotional combat training. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Jun 3, 2015 - 8 comments