Hungry for new content, the Food Network gives Amy Schumer a quarantine cooking show
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A lot of people are using any downtime they have during the coronavirus pandemic and quarantine to learn new skills, and being a famous celebrity, Amy Schumer has evidently decided that she might as well generate some content and get paid for the new skill she’s learning. According to Yahoo!, Schumer is teaming up with the Food Network for a new quarantine-inspired eight-episode series called Amy Schumer Learns To Cook. Each episode will involve her working with her husband—who happens to be professional chef Chris Fischer—to create meals based on “themes” like “tacos, pasta night, fridge cleanup, and more.”
It seems like a reasonable idea, since a lot more people are presumably cooking these days instead of going out, and a lot of cooking shows are already about a married couple making stuff in either their real kitchen or some kitchen-like set, but we noticed a little wrinkle in the premise. Yahoo!’s story says that “Fischer will do most of the cooking using farm fresh ingredients, while Schumer will mix cocktails,” so… it’s less Amy Schumer Learns To Cook and more Chris Fischer Cooks While Amy Schumer Mixes Cocktails. That doesn’t seem quite as fun as watching someone who doesn’t know what she’s doing try and make food, but maybe Yahoo! is underselling that work that Schumer will do. Or maybe the title is ironic and she doesn’t end up learning anything at all. Either way, the show is expected to premiere this spring, which makes sense since we’re still social distancing and all that.
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So, does this mean that Schumer will be stealing recipes from Kathleen Madigan, Tammy Piscatelli, Daniel Tosh, and the estate of Patrice O’Neal?
You’re a MISOGYNIST!!!(it’s a well known fact: Anyone who rightly points out that Amy Schumer is a plagiarist is automatically labelled a misogynist. Even the women she plagiarised. They both hate women and don’t want women to succeed! I know, I don’t understand that logic either …)
I once called out the horrible writing of Jar-Jar-esque character Finn from Star Wars. Take a wild guess what I was called? /smh
Calm down there buddy.
It’s so tiresome.
You know I was just wondering what had happened to Amy. Haven’t heard from her since I Feel Pretty. And no, being quarantined with her is not high on my list.
She’ll be devastated to hear that, I’m sure.
When did you feel pretty?!
Id have to look in the mirror and think pretty hard.
I look forward to hearing her talk about her vagina while husband cooks. That’s an intersection I would not have expected!
No you misheard, she’ll be talking about her veg.
Well, tacos is first on the list.
Perhaps some figs, clams, peaches.
Milk, lemonade, and fudge.
Rug . . . yeah, you know
She’s going to try the South Park eat with your anus thing isn’t she?
So she is going to get paid to get drunk while her husband cooks? Is it possible that Amy Schumer is a god-damned genius?
I’d be great at that. Unfair!
And in other Amy news – what is Amy Acker up to these days? Why doesn’t she have a cooking show on the Food Network? I’d watch the hell out of: Amy Acker’s Southern Cooking Challenge, where in each ep she has two guests compete to make a dish following her Texan grandma’s recipe … All the while engaging in friendly rivalry and banter. With Memaw Acker on hand to declare the winner at the endEpisode 1: David Boreanaz vs James MarstersEpisode 2: Alexis Denisof vs J. August Richards …
Boreanaz would never participate in anything that fun these days…
If I’m in the mood for a Bitch Casserole, or a Bitch Lasagna, or a Bitch Sandwich, I’ll be sure to tune in.
Whoa, I just spit out my amuse bitch bouche!
I expected this to be announcing Worst Cooks In America Celebrity Edition and am disappointed somehow.
I am guessing that wine will figure prominently…..
This seems like it would be better done as an online show rather than the cable channel thay shows nsfw porn during the day time.
I wonder if she’ll fall down.