In the new trailer for her upcoming Hulu comedy series, Jewish superstar Amy Schumer politely tells a doctor that she has had 30,000 drinks, doesn’t chew her food properly, and is barreling towards 40. While the doctor simply wanted to know if there were any changes in her medical since her last visit, Schumer’s Beth gave him the unfiltered take. That’s her style.

“Life & Beth” is just one of the big moves the comedian-turned-actress entertainer is making this year. In addition to producing, starring, and writing the spring Hulu television series, Schumer will co-host next month’s Oscars with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes.

It will be the first time three women have hosted the Academy Awards together and the first time in 35 years for three people to do the honors. It was Schumer who made the official announcement on “Good Morning America” Monday, saying she wasn’t sure whose idea it was to have the three hosts take the gig on, but that she has some movies to watch.

Amy at the Oscars

The fancy annual Hollywood show could use different energy though. Coming off its lowest-rated show in its history last year with the pandemic-afflicted presentation, a shakeup was in order. Schumer taking the lead this week with the announcement fits in her style of go-for-broke humor with the worry happening later.

Schumer came to the city of angels in the early 2000s with a knack and desire to do stand-up comedy, but eventually found her way into acting. A series of small roles on shows including “30 Rock” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” turned into small roles in film. It wasn’t until 2015 that her explosion onto the Hollywood scene took place with Jewish director Judd Apatow’s “Trainwreck.”

Schumer wrote the movie as well as filling the lead role of a character named Amy, who is blazing through her 20s and 30s partying before she meets a good doctor (Bill Hader). In any other set of filmmaking hands with another star, the movie doesn’t work as well. Her best work comes with her at the helm.

Dating Amy Schumer

It helps that Schumer’s style of comedy is its own thing; brazen and rebellious without being recycled from older comics. Her brand of humor is direct and relentless, carrying just the right amount of relatable raunch and overwhelming sincerity that makes you think her characters on the screen don’t exist too far from her real self. So much so that she had a TV show called “Inside Amy Schumer” and a short called “Dating Amy Schumer.” But it’s not uncommon for an entertainer to lean on their own persona in order to produce comedy; it’s basically a rite of passage at this point.

Schumer’s Jewishness is more unusual. Her father Gordon was born to a Jewish family from Ukraine and Poland while her mother Sandy was born with English and German ancestry among other ethnic backgrounds. Sandy eventually converted to Judaism, and Amy went to Hebrew school and celebrated a bat mitzvah. She hasn’t gotten too many opportunities to show off her Jewish family background, but did so briefly in last year’s drama, “The Humans.” If that serious role was somewhat of a departure for the entertainer, her new role fits easily into her wheelhouse.

Life & Beth

“Life & Beth,” which co-stars Michael Cera, does carry some “Trainwreck” vibes–as if Amy from the Apatow film is now in her 30s wondering what happened to the past 10 to 15 years. After a freak incident, Beth starts to have weird flashbacks to her childhood, moments that attempt to remind her who she was and where she needs to be. It’s the exact style of meta existentialism, with a heavy dose of Schumer humor, that one could see her taking on after the big success and motherhood (her son, Gene, with husband Chris Fischer, is now 2½). If anything, she has become fascinated with the idea of how women are looked at and judged in society as they age. But that doesn’t make it any less exciting and hilarious.

The 10-episode series premieres March 18 on Hulu just as the actress turns 41.