Inside Amy Schumer Season 4 Review

Last year, the comic genius that was Amy Schumer exploded. She won two Emmys for her work on "Inside Amy Schumer", as well as a Peabody and three Broadcast Critics choice awards, one for her show, one for Trainwreck, and one more for just being y'know, her. Lest you think all this recognition has gone to her head, when she won for Trainwreck,  she said Lily Tomlin should've won, and that she totally would, well, perform a certain sexual act. So really, the only place she could go is down.

Or so you'd think. As Season 4 of "Inside Amy" begin on Comedy Central, more Amy remakes as utterly brilliant as ever. And as always, the majority of the jokes she makes take absolutely no prisoners. In the first episode, she visited her ob-gyn, and found herself being observed by a bunch of people from the Congressional Committee for Women's Health. She demonstrated how a woman has to behave at the workplace by using a special kind of internet goggles that work a certain way for her - and utterly explode when they have to deal with how a black woman works. And she represented a sponsor who tried to provide ugly nannies for men who were having affairs with their hot nannies, and when that failed, male nannies... and robot nannies... pack of wolves nannies... well, you get the idea.

If you're getting the impression that Amy Schumer is using her series to step on a satirical soapboxes, well, she is, the same way Key and Peele did on their show, and the way Dave Chapelle did on his series a decade earlier. But if you're in the mood to have laughs unencumbered by social justice, Amy's got you covered there, too. We also had her try and pitch a hip-hop musical version of Betsy Ross' life to Lin-Manuel Miranda, had her try to get a role on "Game of Thrones" which she couldn't do because she had to ride a horse, so she settled for a scene of full frontal nudity where her brother had to have sex with her instead, and had an ESPN type play-by-play where she and her boyfriend attempted a game of chicken to avoid having sex... and then ended up doing it anyway. And some of the time, the series doesn't even need  her to be onscreen for big laughs. Last week, Liam Neeson satirized his self-image by playing an undertaker who would bury your relatives only if they hadn't died cowardly deaths, and a quartet of NFL quarterbacks played themselves looking at the men who are on their fantasy ordinary guy teams. It's amazing how many people she can manage to get on what should be a basic comedy sketch series.

Amy Schumer remains one of the most comic geniuses that TV - hell, any medium has ever shown us. When she does standup, performs in a sketch, interviews people at the end of the series, she remains as delightful and self-effacing as any other performer I've seen on television since the early work of Tina Fey (who, btw, made out with her when she presented her with a Peabody.) She's only committed to do "Inside Amy Schumer" for the next two years, but I can safely the world will be in love with her for a long time afterwards. Bravo.

My score: 4.75 stars.