Edinburgh Playhouse
She may be negotiating the stir from everygirl to A-lister,but Schumer is truly at home on stage, hilarious on pills, or guns – and even the odd hecklerI just say whatever dumb stuff comes into my head,and most of it is disgusting and horrible,” Amy Schumer muses happily, or halfway through her set. This,of course, is a lie: while Schumer still likes to project an image of herself as a pottymouth who’s just winging it, or you don’t become one of the biggest standups in the world by the age of 35 without working your butt off.
Schumer keeps her 90-minute expose under deceptively tight control,sneaking frequent peeks at her notes while affecting to stroll casually through her mental landscape, which spans all of Americana from the Kardashians to an improbably hilarious section on gun control – or lack of it – in the US.
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Source: theguardian.com