Amy Schumer Is Upset She Couldn’t Joke About The Time Alec Baldwin Fatally Shot Someone
Schumer complained that her jokes were banned at the Oscars but Will Smith's slap was allowed to happen.
Amy Schumer has revealed the joke she wasn’t allowed to make while hosting the Oscars last week and honestly, how did she think this would’ve passed the vibe check?
During a stand-up comedy set in Las Vegas on Saturday, Schumer continued to drag out the Oscars controversy, making countless jokes about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock — a joke that was completely exhausted and should’ve been laid to rest by Tuesday morning.
Throughout her set, she also shared the jokes that she wasn’t allowed to say during her hosting duties.
“I want to preface these Oscar jokes by saying that my lawyer said not to say these. Don’t tell anybody and don’t get mad at me,” she prefaced the joke.
“Don’t Look Up is the name of a movie? More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun.
“I wasn’t allowed to say any of that [at the Oscars], but you can just come up and [slap] someone.”
For those unfamiliar, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally wounded in a freak accident on the set of the film Rust last October, after actor and director Alec Baldwin accidentally fired a prop gun.
Hutchins was a well-respected cinematographer who likely worked alongside a number of those in attendance at the Academy Awards. The incident was a tragedy and those who knew her are likely still mourning her loss.
Schumer’s decision to still make the jokes — despite them being banned from her Oscars speech, likely due to their insensitive nature — comes after saying she was “still triggered and traumatised” by the slapping incident.
“It was just a fucking bummer. All I can say is that it was really sad, and I think it says so much about toxic masculinity. It was really upsetting, but I think the best way to comfort ourselves would be for me to say the Oscar jokes that I wasn’t allowed to say on TV,” she said in her stand-up set, shortly before making jokes at the expense of a woman who died under tragic circumstances.
Other jokes that were reportedly banned from her set included bits about James Franco, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, and controversial podcaster Joe Rogan.