Open scene: Anna Wintour and Amy Schumer face to face in the Vogue office, somewhere near the top of One World Trade Center.
Schumer is Vogue‘s July cover star— her feature story is definitely worth setting aside half an hour for— and at the start of this video, they’re just talking business.
Inevitably, they get into a polite one-upsmanship. “I could never do what you do,” Wintour says insincerely to Schumer. It’s interesting— it must actually be a lot of fun to be Anna Wintour. She’s been in her role as editor-in-chief at Vogue for nearly 30 years, and is clearly yet to miss a beat. She’s the queen of the icy fashion stereotype, and she’s in on the joke. The woman is a genius at playing herself.
Anyway, “I could never do what you do,” Schumer replies equally insincerely. Because that’s the thing, no one thinks their job is easy. Are there exceptions to that? Sure. But they’re few and far between. Almost everybody thinks their job is harder than everyone else’s. But politely, we don’t mention it, and keep our eye-rolls internal when our friend tells us again about her scheduling dramas.
Schumer and Wintour, not so much. Within seconds, they’re throwing down. Then they challenge each other to swap lives.