“You know, it means something different to everyone,” Amy Schumer says pensively. We’re not talking about activism (though we do talk about that), or parenting (we talk about that too). She’s talking about Fart Park.

That’s the name of one of the sketches in an early episode of the fifth season of her absurdist sketch show, Inside Amy Schumer. It does what it says on the box: It’s about a park where you go to fart. But in classic Schumer style, there’s a twist that I won’t spoil—but rest assured that despite the six-year hiatus between the fourth and fifth seasons of the show, and the fact that it’s made the leap from Comedy Central to Paramount+, if you liked it before, you’ll still like it now.

“I feel really disheartened about how much of our show holds up,” Schumer says of her more politically pointed sketches from the show’s past, like one in that most recent 2016 season where an all-male congressional committee stands in as gynecologist for a horrified Schumer. “Some of those sketches feel extra relevant in a way that is so deeply disturbing.”

But there are only so many times you can feel good about being so on the nose about the world being on fire. “The truth is, the [2016] election and everything that followed it has just been so disheartening that I have felt completely helpless and lost and didn’t want to pretend like I had some message that I wasn’t actually sure could be in any way helpful or actually funny to me,” Schumer says.

In those years of political turmoil, Schumer has been busy. She was arrested at a rally protesting the confirmation of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh. She was outspoken about gun control, working closely with her second cousin (once removed, but who’s counting), Senator Chuck Schumer. She released movies and a critically acclaimed TV show, Life After Beth. She’s up a husband (Chris) and kid (Gene), and down a uterus (endometriosis) and an appendix (ditto). She did stand-up and she was out there ripping on Donald Trump and using her celebrity status to raise awareness, even burying her pregnancy announcement at the bottom of an Instagram caption listing her midterm voting picks. “So many people, including myself, did everything they could possibly think of to be helpful,” she says. And still, here come “the political decisions that are leading to the ultimate destruction of the human race, women first.”

The decision to return to Inside Amy Schumer isn’t quite as epic as the sky opening and a beam of light speaking to Schumer to tell her it was time for her to return to the sketch-comedy fold—the opportunity arose with Paramount+ and Schumer was up for it. She calls making this season “one of the most satisfying things that I have ever done,” and says, “I really hope they want to make more.”

This season, expect a healthy mix of strong political takes and fart jokes, like the two sketches exclusively debuting here. Inside Amy Schumer will stream on Paramount+ beginning October 20.

In “Colorado,” Schumer plays tourism booster for—wink, wink—Colorado, where you can enjoy amenities that aren’t legally available in surrounding states. No, not that amenity. Listen up, ladies.

In “Home Spanx,” the tyranny of shapewear is skewered with an ad for a product that’ll make you look sleek while you’re hanging out, because why should your couch have to be subjected to your muffin top? (And for those wondering, no, Schumer did not wear Spanx under her Home Spanx for the sketch, like Beyoncé and her mythical quadruple layer of tights. “Thank you for asking.”)

This season, expect to see an array of the show’s writers in the interstitials between sketches, slots previously occupied by man-on-the-street interview segments. Schumer wants to highlight her staff and their varying perspectives, letting them unpack jokes and make new ones of their own. Another difference is the fearlessness that comes with years of experience and success. Inside Amy Schumer is no longer the follow-up to Tosh.0, and Schumer isn’t clawing to keep viewers interested. “I’m not worried about that much at all,” she says. “I just want it to be funny.”

She’s also not afraid of people being rude on the internet, even though “it doesn’t feel good when there’s a controversy and a lot of the internet is mad at you.” But time has brought perspective. “I’m not beyond like, being educated and I know that I will still get so many things wrong, but I’m trying to be more and more aware and become a better everything,” she says.

She wants to bring that vibe to viewers too, maybe make “a light bulb go off,” as she puts it. But really, “All I can hope is that when they’re looking at their phones and they are texting all throughout it but when they look up once in a while, they laugh.”