A major update in the Rust shooting case has been made, and it seems to be a huge victory for Alec Baldwin. That’s certainly how he’s treating it anyway.
13.04.2022 - 20:21 / perezhilton.com
It seems like Amy Schumer has done more post-Oscars damage control than Will Smith has!
Seriously, The Slap may be the most talked-about event of this year’s Oscars (or…any Oscars), yet we’ve heard much more from Amy, as one of the three hosts, than from the people actually involved in the drama. Yes, she’s weighed in on the Will/Chris Rock debacle, but over the last few weeks she’s also defended multiple jokes from the ceremony as well as filled us in on the jokes she didn’t get to tell.
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Regarding the latter, at the comedian’s own show earlier this month, she told the audience that “the best way to comfort ourselves” after The Slap “would be for me to say the Oscar jokes that I wasn’t allowed to say on TV,” per The Hollywood Reporter. Warning that her “lawyer said not to say these,” she made quips about James Franco, Joe Rogan, and Alec Baldwin, including:
Well, the would-be barb raised a lot of eyebrows, but now she’s walking it back… sort of. On Tuesday, the Trainwreck star posted on Instagram about some fake news going around, specifically highlighting a headline about purchasing a Montecito mansion. She captioned her post:
Sooo… basically, she was joking about wanting to make a joke on Oscars night? It’s getting a little confusing! It’s not really “fake news” if she’s literally the one who told us she “wasn’t allowed” to make that joke, right?
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When it comes to comedy, this much joke-explaining is not usually a good sign. But while the 40-year-old has been gearing up for her “Whore Tour” telling jokes, she’s basically been on a press tour clarifying them as
A major update in the Rust shooting case has been made, and it seems to be a huge victory for Alec Baldwin. That’s certainly how he’s treating it anyway.
An attorney for Alec Baldwin said today that Wednesday’s report by the New Mexico safety regulators “exonerates” his client. The report cites “serious management failures” by the Rust production company in its investigation of the on-set shooting that killed DP Halyna Hutchins and badly injured director Joel Souza last year.
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Will Smith past him before this year’s Oscars.The comedian, who co-hosted the event with Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall, has now explained that she double-checked the people she was poking fun at could approve of her jokes ahead of time.“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,” Schumer said in an interview on SiriuxXM’s The Howard Stern Show (per The Independent), adding that she “didn’t want the camera to cut to somebody looking sad”.She added “I told the Williams sisters, I told Will, I told Leo,” of the jokes she made about Serena and Venus Williams, Will Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio.On stage, Schumer discussed Smith’s film King Richard, which tells the story of Serena and Venus Williams’ father Richard, saying: “After years of Hollywood ignoring women’s stories, this year we finally got a movie about the incredible Williams sisters’ dad.”Amy Schumer recently revealed she received death threats after a joke she made about Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons at the Oscars.Schumer had pretended to mistake Kirsten Dunst, nominated for her performance in The Power in the Dog, for a seat-filler, who is a person hired to sit in a guest’s chair if they briefly leave the room.Fans of Dunst and her husband Jesse Plemons, who engaged with Schumer after the joke, took aim at Schumer on social media. She then said in a statement on Twitter: “Hey I appreciate the love for Kirsten Dunst.
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Oscars.The comedian, who co-hosted this year’s Academy Awards ceremony with Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall, revealed on The Howard Stern Show (per The Guardian) that she’d received a number of threats.Schumer had pretended to mistake Kirsten Dunst, nominated for her performance in The Power in the Dog, for a seat-filler, who is a person hired to sit in a guest’s chair if they briefly leave the room.Fans of Dunst and her husband Jesse Plemons, who engaged with Schumer after the joke, took aim at Schumer on social media. She then said in a statement on Twitter: “Hey I appreciate the love for Kirsten Dunst.
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Amy Schumer revealed she received death threats over a joke she told at the 94th Academy Awards. Schumer's pretending that Kirsten Dunst was a seat-filler at the Oscars led to death threats "so bad" the Secret Service got involved, the comedian told Howard Stern on his radio show. "I got death threats," she explained.
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Oscars about Alec Baldwin and the fatal shooting on the set of Rust.The comedian, who hosted this year’s ceremony with Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall, discussed the Oscars during a stand-up set at the Mirage Theater in Las Vegas on Saturday (April 2).According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schumer tackled Will Smith’s altercation with Chris Rock, referring to the actor as ‘Ali’.“I was kind of feeling myself… and then all of a sudden Ali was making his way up,” Schumer said. “And it was just a fucking bummer.
In a parallel universe, we might have been talking about this controversial joke instead of the Will Smith slap all last week!
Amy Schumer is still processing Will Smith’s infamous slap of Chris Rock during the Oscars, but is turning to humour to move forward.