Oscars co-host Amy Schumer says she “wasn’t allowed” to make jokes about actor Alec Baldwin at the Academy Awards but actor Will Smith was …
Oscars co-host Amy Schumer says she “wasn’t allowed” to make jokes about actor Alec Baldwin at the Academy Awards but actor Will Smith was able to assault the show’s presenter, comedian Chris Rock. Schumer, who co-hosted this year’s Oscars alongside Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall, chimed in on Smith’s infamous slap while performing standup at the Aces of Comedy series at the Mirage Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, according to a report by Yahoo! Entertainment. During her set, Schumer claimed that the “best way to comfort” everyone was to tell the jokes she was prohibited from telling at the Oscars — which included jokes about podcaster Joe Rogan and actor James Franco’s sexual misconduct allegations. But one of the jokes Schumer says she wasn’t allowed to make involved actor Alec Baldwin holding the gun that fired, resulting in the death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins late last year. The joke reportedly went something along the lines of, “Don’t Look Up is the name of a movie, more like don’t look down the barrel of [Baldwin’s] shotgun.” Schumer’s lawyer told her not to quip about that, she says. “I wasn’t allowed to say any of that but you can just come up and [clock] someone,” the Oscars co-host said. Schumer also described how Smith — who she called as “Ali” in reference to the actor’s role as late boxer Muhammad Ali in the 2001 film Ali — stormed the Oscars stage and slapped Rock over a “G.
