Amy Schumer headed for hills — and is still there
It didn’t take long for Amy Schumer to shut down her old life.
“The first day I heard the term ‘Wuhan market,’ that was it,” she said in a recent interview. “I was one of those people who was like: Pack your bags.”
Before long, she and her family had left New York and moved to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, where her husband, chef Chris Fischer, is from. Her stand-up has obviously ceased because of the coronavirus shutdown, and a Hulu show has been put on pause. But she has been active, adjusting to the new limitations. “Amy Schumer Learns to Cook,” a weekly cooking show with her and her husband on the Food Network, premiered last week, and in July, her documentary about being pregnant as she prepared to make a comedy special will run on HBO Max.
“If 10 is totally fine, I’m a 7,” she said. “I’m worried about my dad, who is in assisted living where 15 people have died. My mom is alone. It’s upsetting. And my friends who are nurses, a lot of them had it. But my dayto-day is nice. It’s nice to have a baby, because it gives you a routine, and he doesn’t know what’s going on.”
She also revealed why she had a change of heart about her son’s middle name, Attell, given in honor of comic Dave Attell.
“I was proud of that name. Then a month in, I’m looking on the computer at it and I started freaking out. Gene Attell.
We named our baby Genital. A month later, I’m like: We got to change it. You can’t name your son Genital. I didn’t want to “boy name Sue” him. So now it’s Gene David.”
Future lands a seventh No. 1 Billboard album
Hip-hop dominates the Billboard album chart once again, as Future reaches No. 1 with “High Off Life,” the seventh time in the past three months a rap album has held the top spot.
“High Off Life,” with guest spots by Drake, DaBaby, Lil Uzi Vert and Travis Scott, had the equivalent of 153,000 album sales in the United States, including 186 million streams, according to Nielsen Music. It also moved 16,000 copies as a complete package, with help from merchandise bundles on Future’s website.
“High Off Life” is Future’s seventh No. 1 album — the Atlanta rapper’s previous times at the perch have included “The Wizrd” in 2019, his back-to-back chart-toppers “Future” and “Hndrxx” in 2017 and “What a Time to Be Alive,” his 2015 mixtape with Drake.
For the past 12 weeks, the only non-hip-hop titles to reach No. 1 have been “Here and Now,” by country singer Kenny Chesney, and “After Hours,” by R&B-pop star the Weeknd, which held the top slot four times in a row.
Also this week, Chicago rapper Polo G opened at No. 2 with “The Goat,” whose song “Wishing for a Hero” is at least the 17th track to sample Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s 1986 piano ballad “The Way It Is.”
Lil Baby’s “My Turn” is No. 3, Drake’s “Dark Lane Demo Tapes” is No. 4 and DaBaby’s “Blame It on Baby” is in fifth place. “Good Intentions” by Canadian rapper Nav, last week’s chart-topper, fell to No. 10 in its second week out.
— From wire reports