This review first appeared in the London Evening Standard here on 5/9/16.

Last week in Stockholm Amy Schumer had a heckler ejected from her show. There were no such problems at her London debut last night. If anything the audience was too well-behaved. At one point the Trainwreck star compared their laughter to leafing through the pages of a book and smiling to themselves.

There was no such restraint from the 35-year-old Emmy Award-winner, who swigged intermittently from a wine bottle throughout a 90-minute set bookended by lengthy routines about sex that were very funny and very unprintable.

Schumer’s candid riffs on below-the-waist hygiene and modern bedroom etiquette would surely have had the late, uncensored Joan Rivers spiralling in her grave.

Elsewhere she took on the Kardashians. Easy targets, but the section included a memorably pithy line about the reality TV family: “they take the faces they were born with as a light suggestion.” Let’s hope Schumer never succumbs to surgery, she has an expressive face that adds a strong visual element to her verbal pay-offs.

While the show was low on truly big laughs it did not shy away from big subjects such as gun control. Schumer pointed out that even a blind person can buy firearms in America. Tighter regulation is a subject close to her heart. Two female audience members were shot dead at a screening of Trainwreck last year.

Further highlights included more smutty confessions and anecdotes about touring Europe. There are not many comedians who can move seamlessly from discussing ejaculation to recalling a visit to Anne Frank’s House in Amsterdam.