Amy Schumer
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Compliments
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The setup
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The premise
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Meeting up on a city street, Bree and Carol praise each other's hair and outfits, and each answers by swatting the compliment away with a grotesque insult about herself. As Amy and more friends arrive, including the newly promoted Jessica and the pregnant Lindsay, every kind word sets off an even more extreme round of self-loathing. Then the group spots their acquaintance Amanda and admires her jacket, and she simply says thank you. Unable to cope with such confidence, the friends kill themselves on the spot in a rapid string of violent ways, while Amanda strolls past the bodies looking at her phone. The sketch satirizes the social pressure on women to reject praise.
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Highly quotable.
I tried to look like Kate Hudson, but ended up looking like a golden retriever's dingleberry.
Excuse me, when did you start working for NASA? You're weightless.
Indian people are trying to worship me. I sleep standing up in a field.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Flavorwire called Compliments the most talked-about sketch of the show's first season.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:05
Carol
Oh My god God, Brit, you dyed your hair. It looks amazing.
- 00:09
Bree
Oh, no, you're just being nice.
- 00:11
Carol
No, seriously, it looks great.
- 00:12
Bree
No, I tried to look like Kate Hudson, but ended up looking like a golden retriever's dingleberry. But you, look at your cute little dress.
- 00:19
Carol
Little? I'm, like, a size 100 now. Anyway, I paid, like, $2 for it. It's probably made out of old Burger King crowns. I look like a whore locked out of her apartment.
- 00:28
Amy
Hi.
- 00:28
Bree
Amy, I got a hat.
- 00:32
Amy
Are you drunk? I look like an Armenian man. People are trying to buy carpets from me.
- 00:36
Carol
Excuse me? When did you start working for NASA? You're weightless.
- 00:40
Amy
Fuck you. I'm a fucking cow. Indian people are trying to worship me. I sleep standing up in a field.
- 00:46
Jessica
Fancy meeting you girls here.
- 00:48
Ali
Of course I see everyone when I look like Susan Boyle's toothbrush.
- 00:52
Ew.
- 00:53
Carol
You look so pretty. Miss Jessica, congrats on your big promotion, biatch.
- 00:57
Jessica
I'm gonna get fired in, like, two seconds.
- 00:59
No.
- 01:00
Jessica
I'm legally retarded.
- 01:01
Ali
On my SATs, I just drew a picture of a house on the first page and ate the rest.
- 01:06
Lindsay! Congratulations!
- 01:09
Lindsay
Please, come on, guys. It bothers anybody's guess and I'm 1,000 years old. I mean, I bet this thing is gonna fall out and be an old cobweb.
- 01:15
Amy
You are gonna be the best mom ever. I just want to, like, crawl in your pussy and have you give birth to me.
- 01:21
Lindsay
Good luck joining a nurse on this shriveled-up spaghetti squash. Ugh.
- 01:25
Amy
Your tits make Katy Perry's look like the Holocaust.
- 01:28
That's so true. They do. Her feet, too. What?
- 01:31
Lindsay
Is that Amanda? Amanda! Hi!
- 01:34
Amy
Amanda! I love your jacket.
- 01:38
Amanda
Thank you.
- 01:40
One
- 01:49
Oh, my God!
- 01:52
Oh, no!
- 01:58
Yay!
- 02:05
Amanda
One new Twitter follower.
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