Ever since Dave Chappelle got attacked on stage during a performance last year, people have apparently been asking Amy Schumer whether it’s a “dangerous” time for comedians.
Schumer’s brash charisma shines through each knowing grin and comical pout, like the one she puts on as she mimics a man who doesn’t, who opened his most recent Netflix special by picking out a young audience member and speaking directly to them for comedic effect sporadically throughout the night, Schumer selects a 27-year-old named Libby, whom she’ll occasionally tease with the horrors of aging.
At the same time, some of Schumer’s material can feel dated, either spiritually or as a cultural reference. For instance: Viewers arrive at the Chappelle discussion through a story about Schumer’s visit to the home of a “secret” blind millionaire—meaning, he is blind, but as someone supposedly explained to Schumer, “everyone around him acts like it’s not happening.
Throughout the night, Schumer says, she found herself bringing up vision by accident: “Is anyone watching“I don't think it's cool to make fun of blind people,” Schumer says. “I just don’t think that you can be a secret blind. And if there’s gonna be one group of people that’s really mad at me, that feels like a safe one.”
By the end, Schumer acknowledges that she’s been “baiting” her audience. She does it again when she discusses , saying that the faux Spaniard and her husband Alec named their children “all very Spanish names, like
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