Comedic icon, Amy Schumer, sits down to play a game of 'Smash or Pass.' She reveals what it's like inside the Met Gala, discusses her experience hosting her first SNL show, and shares the reason behind her wanting to be topless for an Annie Leibovitz shoot.
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00:00I have to say that the concept of smash or pass is very patriarchal, but I would love to play.
00:13Smash.
00:16You know, I've been getting called disgusting, ugly, fat, and beautiful, and wonderful for as long as I can remember,
00:24predating me on camera, and I just think they're all right. It's just about how you feel about yourself.
00:30I wanted to be topless, and
00:32Annie was very nervous about that. I was pushing her.
00:37She's a little more buttoned up than you would think, but it was really important to me.
00:42And then somebody posted after the comparison of my body to Aphrodite's body, and
00:48they were pretty similar, and that made me feel really good.
00:50In every actress's life, the media decides when you finally reach the point where you're not believably fuckable anymore.
00:57That would be a huge smash.
01:00I'm so proud of that sketch. The concept was pitched by Jessie Klein, an amazing writer. It's so
01:08incredibly relevant
01:11today, and it's it's something that it was
01:14brave of those ladies to bring light to, because it's an actual
01:20fear when you're on camera.
01:22God, you look familiar. Are you that girl from the television who talks about her pussy all the time?
01:28Yes! A lot of women passed on being in that skit. They were afraid that they would be seen as
01:35aged out of being the
01:38romantic lead, or you know, just they were afraid it would hurt their careers.
01:43But the women who are in that sketch are forever in the legends category.
01:53I'm gonna smash my dance sequence from Trainwreck.
01:57I originally just wrote that I put on like a mascot outfit,
02:01but Judd Apatow was like, what if she makes herself like a little more vulnerable and like dances? I rehearsed
02:10that dance sequence for three months every weekend.
02:13These dancers, a choreographer would just show them once and be like, and bah, bah, but it took me like many months to
02:21get it down, and it just was so fun, and it was so hard.
02:26Shout out to dancers.
02:31I want to smash. I'm very proud of
02:34getting arrested in the Capitol that day.
02:37I know I did whatever I could. The writing was on the wall that we were gonna lose our rights
02:42to choose what we do with our bodies. If Kavanaugh was seated, and
02:47I can sleep at night knowing I did everything I can, even though I was pregnant.
02:52Emily and I met for the first time on the set of I Feel Pretty. I didn't know that,
02:57you know, we were gonna get along so well.
03:00I called Emily, or I think I texted her like a day or two before and just said, do you want to come get arrested with
03:07me in DC? And she said,
03:09hell yeah. When you get arrested for protesting,
03:13you have to bring $20
03:16so you can bail yourself out.
03:18They, I think, usually put you in some kind of plastic zip tie situation. If it's a lot of people at once,
03:25they're pretty nice to me. I can't say that I, you know, can speak for a lot of protesters who,
03:30you know, have seen some violence and real jail time. I had a pretty gentle arrest
03:37experience, other than the fact that I was vomiting and pregnant because of my hyperemesis, but
03:42it's worth it,
03:44you know, to be a disrupter if you are really passionate about it and have gotten your information from real sources
03:51other than, I don't know,
03:54TikTok?
03:56Ooh, get it girl!
03:58Oh my gosh.
04:00Okay.
04:02Definitely smashing my kiss with Amber Rose.
04:04I want to pass on how much I forgot the cameras were rolling because,
04:11you know, you're not used to kissing someone.
04:14It's not like a normal thing.
04:16So I just kind of forgot and just was like kissing her and I feel like you could tell that and I just hope I
04:22didn't make her uncomfortable. I don't think I did because we're still friends.
04:25It's very vulnerable to kiss someone and so vulnerable that I forgot that they were filming and I just, and she's a great kisser,
04:32obviously.
04:37Smash
04:38Milk Milk Lemonade, the video. I love, I don't know, de-stigmatizing women, if that's a thing.
04:48I don't even know the last time I saw a music video, you know?
04:51So I hate to say that, but actually my last season of my sketch show was like all music videos with one of the writers, Ron Weiner.
04:59So we got to keep music videos going, even if we're not like the biggest pop stars, right?
05:06And then I walked away and I was like, am I dating Bradley Cooper?
05:11Okay.
05:14Smash. Smash, my first monologue for SNL.
05:17That was just such a dream come true to get to host that show. It was like so fun.
05:21I don't really remember hearing I was gonna host, but I remember the feeling of
05:26standing out there at the front of the stage delivering the monologue and looking up and seeing my family and all my friends.
05:33Just in awe. I think that they felt like I had made it. Hosting SNL is such an insane rush.
05:41It's
05:42stand-up, you know, you work on it for like a year or years,
05:47perfecting it, and then that show you rehearse
05:51once, full out, and then it's like, okay, here's a permanent record forever of you in these insane situations.
05:59I do remember the wrap party. I remember
06:03sitting in a booth just
06:05thinking I was so cool. I think I smoked pot in the restaurant.
06:10I don't know who I thought I was, but you know, like your first burst of fame,
06:15everybody kind of loses their mind a little bit and
06:19you got to forgive people of that. If anything, embrace it that they gave you something to write about.
06:27I'm gonna smash that look from Gabby Hurst. It's just
06:32sunglasses at the Met Gala are the only way to go to have a full experience.
06:38I have gone to the Met Gala three times and I have never known the theme. The Met Gala is
06:45mad weird, but it's fun. There's an energy to it. It's like every famous person you've ever heard of and
06:53you know, we all are just filing inside from such a
06:58stressful
07:00environment that's so not natural
07:03to a human being, so I feel like we're all in there kind of recovering. I learned at the Met Gala, it's like
07:10everybody's just a
07:12person.
07:15Oh my god.
07:17Oh, Chris, I got a pass on that picture. I love him and he's an amazing artist and chef.
07:22I love his artwork. That wasn't the most flattering rendering I've ever seen.
07:27Has he drawn me since then? I might have retired him from drawing me.
07:32He's actually a really good artist. That's the thing with that picture. It's like I started going like, oh my god,
07:36I think this might be really good actually.
07:41I'm gonna smash talking about endometriosis
07:45because
07:46it takes
07:48women on an average of
07:5015 years to get diagnosed and they think having a painful period is normal, but it's actually not.
07:58The studies in it are still so few and far between.
08:02There's no way so far of being diagnosed unless you get surgery.
08:06They saw that I had it during my c-section, but I think slowly they're developing maybe ways to test for that, which is amazing.
08:13I've heard from so many women with endometriosis. My mom, who is 75, was just
08:21diagnosed with it and that's really sad to me because I just grew up and she would be on the floor writhing in pain
08:26and then that's what I also inherited and
08:29she definitely always just thought it was normal and I think if anything she felt ashamed by it and I think as women
08:38we're taught to be ashamed for things that we
08:42have no control over.
08:44Women have a tough road.
08:47They really do.
08:50It's come to my attention that I have a vagina that I know very little about. I'll smash my partnership with Tampax.
08:56I hope that they hire me again, I have to say. The only problem
09:01with my partnership with Tampax is that I had a hysterectomy
09:06so I don't get my period and
09:10I know that. I want to file a lawsuit against them if they don't hire me saying,
09:18oh, you have to
09:20get your period to use Tampax?
09:22What if you just want to shove one in there, you know?