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Who said Amy Schumer wasn’t a topical comedian?
On Saturday night at the sold-out Consol Energy Center, she addressed such pressing matters as gun control, racism and her support of Hillary Clinton.
OK, that added up to about five minutes of her 65-minute set. The other 60, give or take, was about her body and her favorite lady part in particular.
The star of “Inside Amy Schumer,” the semi-autobiographical hit “Trainwreck” and various Comedy Central roasts has become one of America’s hottest comics by simply talking dirty to us.
“I don’t want us to have any secrets,” she told the crowd, and she did offer some during the short evening, without going into much detail about her personal life.
This being the week she bared it all, just about, for the Pirelli calendar shoot, she addressed the Annie Leibovitz photo.
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“Here’s a word you don’t want to hear after a naked picture of you goes viral: brave!” (As an aside, despite the bluntness of that photo, there were no press photographers permitted into the show and no review tickets granted.)
On the way to making people feel good about themselves, she ripped on Women’s Health magazine (and recent cover girl Gwyneth Paltrow) for its stories about “how to trick your stomach into thinking you ate last week,” joked about her lack of intensity at the gym and had a laugh at herself for being the target of paparazzi.
“I am trash from Long Island. I have a back tattoo. I’m not going to start dressing nice,” she said, describing her typical workout gear as lesbian gym teacher shorts.
She looked nice Saturday, in a short black dress, her golden hair pulled back, on a stage with just a stool, a wine bottle she sipped from, some notes and a couple video screens. Pretty low overhead, considering that Springsteen has to share the gate with all those band members and crew, and Trans-Siberian Orchestra has to truck in all that pyro and lasers, just to name the next few shows.
Having played here in her club days, she had some working knowledge of Pittsburgh. With just a little help she was able to come up with the name of Eat ’N Park to talk about all the “pageant hair” you’ll find there. “If you ever want to feel like a Pittsburgh 10, go to Eat ’N Park!” she said.
She also mentioned Troy Polamalu’s hair, but I can’t tell you the context here (DM me on Twitter or something), and she mentioned wanting to get a Primanti’s sandwich after the show, but I can’t mention what she was going to do with it.
No one heckled her and she didn’t interact all that much with the fans, but there was one funny moment where she wondered what she was doing wrong to not be drawing any black people to her shows. After finally spotting one, she said, “OK, let’s stop this, because now people are pointing at black people, like ‘Here’s one!’ ”
As for those secrets, and other juicy stuff, at one point, she recalled an interview she did in Germany promoting “Trainwreck” where the interviewer asked “What’s it like to [have sex with] you?” Bill Hader, who was with her, said “You don’t have to answer that.” I said, ‘It’s OK, he has a right to know. He’s gonna find out anyway.’ ” A minute later, after making a questionable joke about how there used to be more German Jews (like her), she got back to the original question, saying, “I just lay there like I fell off a building.”
In a bit people probably heard before, she recalled an encounter with a religious zealot who approached her saying, “Have you hear the good news?” When she told her she was Jewish, the woman said, “Your people just haven’t found Jesus yet.” “I literally said, ‘Um, we found him… . Maybe you haven’t heard the ’bad’ news.”
Every time she went a little too far, taste-wise, she would joke about her having about two more minutes left of fame. “You’re seeing me during my 15 minutes of fame,” she said. “which I think is cool on your part.”
I don’t know if she had this set all sketched out or was just riffing off the top of her head, but there was a meandering quality to the hour and no great build to the climax. She’s not a masterful standup comedian or anything. She’s just her funny self and says what’s on her mind (and body) and seems to be doing her part to make people feel better in their own skin.
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