Schumer says she listened to Buffett’s music growing up: “It made you feel like everything was going to be OK.” The comedian befriended Buffett, his wife Jane Slagsvoll and their daughter, Sarah “Delaney” Buffett about five years ago.
“At one point when we were hanging out, I said, ‘You know, we’re shooting in New Orleans,'” Schumer recalls, sitting next to her onscreen boyfriend Michael Cera for the series. “I said, ‘Oh my God, imagine you were on the show.’ He said, ‘I’ll do it!’ I thought, ‘No, he’s just saying that.’ But he did not waver.”