During an April 13 appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show,” Amy Schumer got candid about her experience hosting the 2022 Oscars, reiterating that she went out of her way to respect the butt of her jokes. “I did reach out to people I was going to joke about before and make sure it was OK with them because I’ve been burned too many times,” she said. Translation: Kirsten Dunst was in on the “seat filler” bit.
Sadly, Schumer’s most-vocal critics didn’t receive the memo, assuming the diss was real. And they took their frustration to the next level. “I got death threats. … They were so bad that the Secret Service reached out to me about that bit,” Schumer said. Using The Slap as a reference for the hypocrisy, she quipped, “I’m like, ‘I think you have the wrong number. This is Amy, not Will [Smith]. She concluded, “The misogyny is unbelievable.”
During the interview with Stern, Schumer also addressed the backlash she received for her comments on the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock. “People made fun of me for saying it was traumatizing,” she told Stern. Adding, “I don’t think it was traumatizing for me. I think it was traumatizing for all of us.”
Nicki
