DoubleX Gabfest: The Inside Inside Amy Schumer Edition
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On this week’s Gabfest, Hanna Rosin, June Thomas, and Jessica Winter of Slate join New York editor Noreen Malone to talk about the Broadway musical Fun Home, Instagram envy, and the third season of Inside Amy Schumer’s not-so-sneaky feminism.
Links to items discussed in the show:
- The graphic memoir, Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
- Fun Home on Broadway
- Bechdel’s “Dykes to Watch Out For”
- Jessica Winter’s article on Instagram envy in Slate
- “FOGO Is the New FOMO” in New York magazine
- Cindy Sherman
- Jessica’s favorite sketch from the third season of Inside Amy Schumer, Milk Milk Lemonade, and Noreen’s, Football Town Nights
- Inside Amy Schumer sketches Focus Group, Compliments, Amy Schumer Doll, and Last F--kable Day
- Willa Paskin’s review of Inside Amy Schumer’s second season
DoubleX recommendations:
Hanna recommends New York magazine’s new podcast, Sex Lives.
Jessica recommends Agata Pyzik’s essay “In Praise of Vulgar Feminism” in n+1.
DoubleX plugs:
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