Paying someone to slap food out of your hand
Amy Schumer , compared with Kathleen Madigan
A rich person hires someone to physically slap food away from them as a diet strategy.
A sketch about a service whose employee slaps food out of Amy's mouth to keep her on her diet. (paraphrase)
Inside Amy Schumer, "Slap Chef" sketch (S1E6), 2013find on YouTube ↗
“But Oprah, you're a billionaire; you have enough money to pay a man to stand there and literally slap s*** out of your hand before you put it in your mouth”
Stand-up actquote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
Both pay someone to slap food out of your hand; Madigan's is a quick Oprah one-liner, Schumer's a whole sketch built on it.
- Premise 32/40
- Structure 14/30
- Punchline 14/30
- Premise32/40Same image: paying someone to physically slap food away as a diet strategy.
- Structure14/30Madigan's is a one-line aside about Oprah; Schumer's is a full sketch about a service.
- Punchline14/30Both land on food being slapped out of the hand; Schumer acts it out rather than says it.
Setup
A service offers a private chef to keep her dieting.
Setup
Oprah is a billionaire who struggles with food.
Turn
The chef is employed to stop her eating.
Turn
She could pay a man to stand guard.
Punchline
He violently smacks food out of her hands and mouth.
Punchline
He literally slaps food out of her hand.
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Context
When and where
Madigan's Oprah bit is from her stand-up act. Schumer's 'Slap Chef' sketch aired on Inside Amy Schumer in 2013 (Comedy Central's description: 'a private chef who violently smacks food out of your hands').
What followed
Madigan's tweets came during the January 2016 pile-on and were later deleted. Schumer said she had never seen Madigan's Oprah bit, and Madigan also put the overlap down to parallel thinking.
Receipts
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Amy Schumer by Mario Santor, CC BY-SA 3.0; Kathleen Madigan by Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Singsank, Public domain