--- title: WATCH: Amy Schumer on Her Funniest Sketch of the Season description: Amy Schumer on why this episode's "Acting Off-Camera" sketch is her favorite of the whole season, and how she and her team came up with it. canonical: https://time.com/81760/watch-amy-schumer-says-this-is-the-funniest-sketch-of-the-season/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-30T03:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:12.807Z og:title: WATCH: Amy Schumer Says This is Her Funniest Sketch of the Season og:description: Amy Schumer on why this episode's "Acting Off-Camera" sketch is her favorite of the whole season, and how she and her team came up with it. og:url: https://time.com/81760/watch-amy-schumer-says-this-is-the-funniest-sketch-of-the-season/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Amy Schumer Says This is Her Funniest Sketch of the Season twitter:description: Amy Schumer on why this episode's "Acting Off-Camera" sketch is her favorite of the whole season, and how she and her team came up with it. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # WATCH: Amy Schumer Says This is the Funniest Sketch of the Season  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Apr 30, 2014 3:00 AM CUT  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Apr 30, 2014 3:00 AM CUT Amy Schumer says this sketch from Episode 5 (which just aired Tuesday night) is her favorite of the whole second season of her Comedy Central Show, [_Inside Amy Schumer_](http://www.cc.com/shows/inside-amy-schumer "undefined")_._ It doesn’t hurt that her comedian friends Scott Adsit, Parker Posey, and Jim Norton guest-star, and her sister Kim Caramele helped her come up with the most memorable sketch. When you see “Acting Off-Camera,” you’ll see why. “It was my sister’s idea,” Schumer says of the scene. “Because of union rules or whatever, my sister \[Kim Caramele\] couldn’t be an official writer this season. But she helped produce this scene. She’s the funniest person I know. And she’s also a producer on the movie I’m making with Judd Apatow.” At first, Schumer and her team weren’t sure Comedy Central was going to let them put a meerkat vagina on the air. “We wrote it and pictured it but then to see the animation, it was just… AHHH!” “We were like, ‘okay I have to say that my character has a pussy. It’s an exposed vagina. How can we get them to not blur this animated meerkat vagina?'” she said. “Then we remembered that Tosh \[who also has a Comedy Central show\] had a bare vagina on one of his episodes.” BOOM! Equality! Once you’ve gotten over the vision of Amy Schumer as a grotesque meerkat, the scene is actually pretty spot-on about how some women tend to be overly optimistic when they rationalize the way they look. “Everybody is so ready to think that they’ve made it and they’re gorgeous. I feel like I always think ‘oh maybe I’m really beautiful I just haven’t found the right hairstyle,'” she said. “And so when they’re like ‘it’s you, Jessica Alba, and Megan Fox’ of course I’d be like ‘oh yeah! I could see myself running with those two.'” For more of Amy Schumer’s thoughts on sex jokes, joking while dating, and her fight over vagina-naming rights, check out the rest of our interview [here.](http://time.com/81141/heres-what-amy-schumer-thinks-about-everything/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/81760/watch-amy-schumer-says-this-is-the-funniest-sketch-of-the-season/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/81760/watch-amy-schumer-says-this-is-the-funniest-sketch-of-the-season/"},"headline":"WATCH: Amy Schumer Says This is the Funniest Sketch of the Season","datePublished":"2014-04-30T03:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:12.807Z","description":"Warning: don't drink water while you watch this scene.","url":"https://time.com/81760/watch-amy-schumer-says-this-is-the-funniest-sketch-of-the-season/","keywords":["Living","Humor","comedy central","Amy Schumer","jessica alba"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/81760/watch-amy-schumer-says-this-is-the-funniest-sketch-of-the-season/","name":"WATCH: Amy Schumer Says This is the Funniest Sketch of the Season"}}]}] ```