-One of my favorite couples is Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer.
He is a great chef.
She is a fantastic comedian, writer, and actor.
During isolation, they're making a new Food Network show
where Chris teaches Amy how to cook, and it's very fun.
Here's my conversation with Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer.
I am so happy that you guys are here.
Amy, you have been on my show before.
Chris, this is your first time,
but we've actually known each other for a very long time.
You've known my wife even longer.
So I'm going to ask you three things,
and you tell me which one of these things is not true.
You cooked at my wedding barefoot...
we shared custody of a goat named Raisin...
you wore Birkenstocks to my wife's bat mitzvah.
-I'm going to go with -- Can I answer?
And I think that it's "D" -- all of the above are true.
-Every one of those things is a true thing about your husband.
-That is all highly unsettling.
Well, Chris just told me, like,
the origin of the goat and why it's a rescue goat.
-Yeah. -The Ashe family rescued Raisin
from me because I was going eat him.
-Alexi's family -- Chris was planning on eating the goat.
-Yeah. -Because something that I've
learned about is that goat
is the most highly consumed meat in the world, right?
-That's true. -Sorry.
I know so much about food now,
but he was going to eat that goat.
But then you guys rescued Raisin the goat.
-I had nothing to do with it.
I would have been far happier if Chris had eaten that goat.
[ Laughter ]
But my father-in-law did fall in love with that goat,
and then Raisin was a family goat for almost a decade.
-Yeah, it's alarming. I'm so happy.
-He is no longer with us, Raisin.
No longer with us. He escaped.
-We just want to say, we are so sorry for your loss.
-[ Laughs ] Thank you.
But not a day goes by that I don't think about it.
How are -- Now, you guys are out of New York.
You're isolating together. How is it going?
-Um, you know, I think it's --
We do our best to avoid each other all day, but --
like most couples --
But, no, it's -- You know, New York, it was like --
It was tough being in New York, and Chris became a liability.
Because, you know, we would have, like, a pep talk
before we would leave.
It would be like, "Okay, we're about to go outside.
Masks, gloves. We're not going to touch."
And then we'd get...
And then we'd get in the elevator,
and Chris would just, like, bare-hand,
like, -- boop! Lobby.
And, like, lean against the door. I'm like, "What --
And then we're walking outside,
and he's like -- I'm like, "That was 3 feet!"
-There was a running commentary
of the distance between me and other people.
-"Oh, wait! That was 6 inches!"
So we got out of New York mostly because, like,
we were the problem and Chris was a liability.
-Yeah. You're spending time
with your beautiful boy, Gene, who's 11 months old.
-No. What a bad friend. -Wow.
-Did he turn one? -Yeah.
You know, we didn't actually get your birthday text or gift,
which is weird.
-No, I only want to give myself credit because --
I'm a good friend because I did watch the first episode
of your show, and you guys talk at length
about how he's 11 months old.
-Okay. -He's from live television.
-Yeah, Seth, there's something other than live television.
I know you don't know that.
But there's a whole other world out there.
-I just have never seen a pair of parents
who are prouder that their kid was 11 months old,
'cause you mentioned it a whole lot.
-Yeah. -Really? Eww.
-It was our first show. -It was your first show.
This is -- So, Chris, you are a talented chef.
Amy, you do not know how to cook.
And this is a genuinely, genuinely fun show to watch.
It's very low-fi. You are filming it during isolation.
And how did you come up with the idea,
and are you enjoying making it?
-Okay. That's very good questions.
We did not come up with the idea.
Food Network approached us. -Oh, wow.
-And we were like, "You know what?
We are tech avail. We are available right now."
We were like, "That sounds cool. Like, let's do it."
We want something to focus on. We don't do well with idle time.
-I think also, like,
I would have a terrible cooking show by myself.
Amy, as you mentioned, doesn't know how to cook.
So it has to -- You know, it has to be our strong suits.
And so -- -Yeah.
-You know, you add a lot of great commentary
and beautiful beverages.
-And I'm not -- I'm pretty easy on the eyes.
-That's true. -All of this is true.
I think, like a great marriage,
you complement each other very well.
-Yeah.
-We did mention that your son, Gene, makes a few appearances.
Gene, who's over a year old.
-Thank you, good friend. Former best friend.
-Gene -- I did know that Gene
had to recently have a name change.
Can you explain this real quick?
-Oh, we just thought it would be a better name.
What do you mean?
His middle name -- We just thought we'd honor my father.
Yeah, I mean, by accident, we named our son Genital.
I mean, look, a lot of people go through this.
-So you're --
You named him after the great comedian Dave Attell.
His middle name was Attell.
And it took you a full year
to realize that Gene Attell was "Genital."
-No, we realized it about a month in,
and to say I was alarmed is a pretty big understatement.
You know, after you have a baby,
like, a month in, you're not vulnerable or anything,
so that's a cool time to realize that you named your son after,
you know, the section where their penis is and vagina is.
It's great. -[ Laughs ]
-No, but we just officially changed it and --
Yeah, I mean, but to fail that hard right out the gate.
I think you texted me a couple of times
because I think you were really delighted by it.
-I mean, it was -- But also --
And also, like, Fischer.
Last name Fischer could be "Fissure."
-You caught that, did you? You did catch that.
Yes, that is true.
-Like, both sides of the Attell did not make it better.
-I mean, are you proud of every moment of your life, Seth?
-I also want to talk about this, which is very exciting.
Amy, you had a fantastic stand-up special
while you were pregnant with Gene.
-Yes, I did.
-But I also know that was also a difficult pregnancy.
-It was a difficult pregnancy. -And now you also --
You're making a documentary about that whole process.
Oh, you both look so good.
I also should note my favorite thing
and the most Chris thing about the first episode of your show
was that the way Chris gets his hair ready
is just putting olive oil in it.
So if you guys are watching at home right now saying, like,
"Hey, salons are closed. How does that guy look so good?"
-Well, actually I have been, you know, cutting everybody's hair,
and I'm actually pretty proud of it.
I gave myself this, even though nobody --
I mean, now that I'm seeing it on camera --
Wait. Look at it on camera. It's like real --
-Oh, yeah, it's way out. -I thought that was intentional.
-No it's not -- Why would that be intentional?
-It's the Rachel. -No, it's not the Rachel.
Look at this. -Can you lean?
Can you lean this way and we'll flatten it? There you go.
-Okay. -That's perfect.
[ Laughter ]
Wait. So you have a documentary called "Expecting Amy."
What can we -- What can we --
I was going to say, what can we expect from that?
Oh, there you go. Nice. Clean it up.
-So, well, first of all, we documented the pregnancy,
and making a special --
I loved Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedian" --
-Yes, great film. -...creating his special.
And so it's kind of like that if he had been pregnant.
And we don't know that he wasn't, actually.
-That's true. Alexander Hammer.
-Alexander Hammer. Yeah. He directed it and is editing it.
He edited Beyoncé's "Homecoming."
And he really is, like, creating it and shaping it.
And we're really proud of it, and we hope people like it.
-I can't wait to see that.
I can't -- Look at that. Just cleaning it up.
Just on a very high professional level.
-He's always been...
-And, hey, tell Gene happy 11-month birthday.
-You'll never see him again.
We were gonna make you the godfather.
-Love you, guys.
-Love you. Bye. Thank you. -Thank you.