Amy Schumer Skewers Oscar-Winning Roles For Women With Some A-List Pals
Worth it just to hear Maggie Gyllenhaal's ocker accent.
The latest episode of Inside Amy Schumer features a sketch whose target will be familiar to anyone who has seen a worthy, Oscar-nominated drama in the last, well, forever. It’s the role of the doting wife who waits anxiously by the phone for her three token scenes in which she does something domestic while getting upset about whatever important business her partner is out there tackling in the actual plot of the movie.
Schumer is assisted by Julianne Moore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Hudson, and Laura Linney, who each perform variations on the role in clips from fictional movies with titles like Canadian Sniper, The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband, and The Wallaby Whisperer – that one gives us the gift of hearing Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Australian accent, which you really need to experience. Schumer concludes by thanking all the writers who make this diverse variety of variations on the same role possible.
NOVEL TITLES:
The Taxidermist's Niece
The Puppetmaker's Daughter
The Worried Suburban Mother's Son Who Is Doing Totally Fine as a Writer
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Watch the clip, in the form of an Oscar Awards ceremony being hosted by Steve Buscemi, below.