Amy Schumer's 'Toddlers and Tiaras' Parody is Perfect

Amy Schumer skewers child pagaents in her new sketch, "Babies and Bustiers."

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Amy Schumer can do no wrong. She's absolutely killing it this year, with hilarious parodies on beer adstalk shows, and football. Her latest work of art is "Babies and Bustiers," a two-part spoof of Toddlers and Tiaras; if you've ever seen the actual child pageantry reality TV show, you'll know that Schumer's bit is pitch perfect. 

The sketch centers around a beauty competition called "Little Miss Hot as Balls," where Schumer competes among young girls as Amy Merryweather Sherman, a six-year-old who ages five time faster than normal. Doctors have said they don't care how long she lives, but that doesn't stop Amy from twirling and dipping and throwing temper tantrums onstage.

The best part of the sketch, though, is Jennifer Coolidge, who plays Amy's dedicated and aloof mother. "My daughter, I'm sure you've noticed, is much more beautiful, and has more heft than the other girls," she tells the viewers in a confessional cam moment.

Schumer told Entertainment Weekly that she's wanted to do this sketch for years: "I wrote this sketch the first season,” said Schumer. "It just seemed like it would be such a pain in the ass to shoot—the sets, the production, the children. But then this turned into the year we’re just living all our dreams, so I was like, let’s do it."

Watch the clip on EW here.

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