Amy Schumer Reveals the *Real* Joke She Wasn’t Allowed to Say at the Oscars (Video)
thewrap.comclip on Instagram, right before she launches into the joke that utilized the titles of a bunch of Oscar-nominated films.“So my husband was going down on me… or as he calls it, ‘Squid Game,'” she said. “So… he’s in my ‘Nightmare Alley,’ my ‘House of Gucci,’ and I say ‘C’mon C’mon,’ you know?” she continued, name-checking some of the past year’s awards circuit films. “He goes ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’ He ‘Belfast.’ I say, Get off my ‘Dune!’ And that’s how our son was born.”“What do you think?” she asked the cheering audience. “Can you believe they said no to that?
Can you even believe it?”Check out the clip below.A post shared by Netflix Comedy (@netflixisajoke)Earlier, Schumer had shared a handful of other jokes the show’s producers (and her lawyer) had vetoed, including ones about podcast personality Joe Rogan and actor James Franco’s sexual misconduct allegations.
The most inflammatory of the cut jokes, which she performed at a stand-up show in Las Vegas last month, involved the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by “Rust” producer Alec Baldwin.“‘Don’t Look Up’ is the name of a movie?
More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun,” she said. “I wasn’t allowed to say any of that [at the Oscars], but you can just come up and [slap] someone.” Schumer was, of course, referencing Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, an incident that she called “a f—ing bummer” and “really upsetting” later in her stand-up set.
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