Critic Reviews

There’s something communal about Schumer’s approach to comedy. It’s not just about punchlines. It’s about conversations. And she makes the women around her seem funnier, just by letting them in on the joke. Some of the best moments happen when she’s interviewing people, inspiring the type of real talk you don’t often get to hear once you’ve outgrown the girls’ locker room.

When Inside Amy Schumer commits fully to that work, it’s television unlike almost anything else on the air today.

Fans will be happy, but you newbies have been warned--the vulgarity will blow your hair back, or right off.

Her shrewd, straightforward perspective and her semisweet, offhand attitude make her reflections fresh and relatable.

While not all of the ensuing skits work as well, plenty of gags land, ahem, hard. [18/25 Apr 2014, p.102]

Between Seasons 3 and 4, Schumer became a bonafide movie star, but instead of treating "Inside" like a day job, she's continuing to use it as a platform. Sometimes she strikes out, but she's still got a hell of a swing.

Not everything works in the two episodes made available for review, but even the ones that miss elicit a few chuckles. You can't ask for more from sketch comedy than that — except maybe the chance to hear Jon Glaser say the words "monthly drippy-drips."

Inside Amy Schumer is triumphantly raunchy as it toggles between stand-up vignettes, person-on-the-street interviews and barbed sketches with a gamy sting.

In this third season, Inside Amy Schumer’s satire is sharper than ever, taking the contradictions of our world’s approach to gender and pushing them to the farthest logical extent.

At its best--and the first three episodes of the season among the show’s best--Amy Schumer’s comedy is often intensely about herself.