Amy Schumer skewers America's gun loopholes in hilarious home shopping sketch

Sometimes the best jokes don't even take embellishment. In Amy Schumer's latest sketch, she and Inside Amy Schumer regular Kyle Dunnigan portray two home-shopping hosts who are excited to push their newest ware: "just your regular run-of-the-mill, meat-and-potatoes handgun."

The episode — which gets fact-checked by Everytown For Gun Safety's Chief Strategy Officer Brina Milikowsky — puts a big hot spotlight on the bleak reality of how easy it is for anyone to get a gun using legal loopholes, be they a felon, terrorist, or child.

While the whole skit could have been at risk of coming across heavy-handed, the funniest jokes are in the subtle details, such as the thousands of guns sales recorded just minutes into Schumer and Dunnigan's spiel and the "mass shooting" alarm that Schumer comments will provoke conversations on gun violence, "which means the government could be coming for your guns soon, which they never have but always might!"

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But as this is a home shopping channel, the gun is a limited time offer, and Schumer and Dunnigan swiftly move on to hawking their next product: congressmen. Schumer swings for the fences, too — using actual congressmen's names.

Once again, Schumer walks the line between being hilarious and completely depressing — all while doing little more than telling the brutal truth. Watch below. Jeva Lange