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When Amy Schumer is hosting Saturday Night Live, there's very little room for it not to be fantastic. The Emmys (and the rest of the world) believe she's funnier than SNL on its best night and her best gal pal Jennifer Lawrence was in the audience, how could she not slay? So the episode was less about the "will-she-be-funny" hype and more about letting Amy do her thing with a crew of funny people and a quick cameo from Nikki Minaj (watch that happen here).
Her opening monologue summed up everything that was great about her as comedian and host. Meaning: it was pure stand-up with a side of Amy's brand of cool girl feminism that somehow manages to weave together the Kardashians and Hillary Clinton's drinking habits with roles for women in Hollywood.
And if you were wondering how weird it got after that, watch Amy turn a Spice Girls song into an in-flight announcement.