Amy Schumer isn’t here to make friends in her Netflix special.
In “Emergency Contact” (now streaming), the comic declares her liposuction to be “the laziest thing” she’s ever done. She makes fun of herself for stuffing her face with fillers and turning to a laser treatment that rendered her skin “blood red,” only to “look exactly the same.” But it’s the comic’s jokes about Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, toward the end of the 51-minute special, that hit hardest.
“Do you guys know who Hilaria Baldwin is?” Schumer asks coyly. “I’m saying it wrong. I’m sorry,” she says, adopting a Spanish accent. “Hilaria Baldwin. I just can’t wrap my head around this story.”
Schumer says she met Hilaria “years ago,” backstage at “Saturday Night Live,” where Hilaria told Schumer she was “’from España,’ (with) a very thick Spanish accent.”
“They have a von Trapp amount of children, and they named them all ― I’m not sure, but very Spanish names like Jamón, Croqueta and Flamenco,” Schumer continues. “And all of this would be fine and beautiful, except that ‘Hilaria from España’ is actually Hillary from Boston. This woman is in no way Spanish. Her parents are not from Spain. No one in her life is from Spain. You’re going, ‘What?!’ Did you think I was just doing a really racist Spanish impression?
“So, I’m not trying to bully a sociopath. I have a point, OK?” Schumer continues. “I think what had happened was she went to Spain. And I’ve been lucky enough to go to Spain. Some of you have been. It’s great, right? Don’t you love it? I loved it, too. But Hillary from Boston … loooved it!” Schumer reverts to the Spanish accent before declaring “I am going to be from it!”
Hilaria, born Hillary Thomas, apologized in February 2021 on Instagram for a lack of transparency about her upbringing and giving the impression she was Spanish.
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“My point is that all evidence points to this woman, since she met her husband, has straight up pretended to be from Spain,” Schumer says in her special. “And her husband shot someone.” Schumer’s point: Neither cares about the other’s transgressions in their marriage, so “find someone who can stand you.”
Alec, 65, faced criminal charges in the fatal prop gun shooting of Hutchins on the set of “Rust.” The actor was pointing a pistol at Hutchins during a rehearsal for the Western film in October 2021 when the gun discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Charges against Alec were dropped in April, but special prosecutors Kari T. Morrissey and Jason J. Lewis said their decision to drop the charges “does not absolve Mr. Baldwin of criminal culpability and charges may be refiled.”
Contributing: Naledi Ushe and The Associated Press
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