Amy Schumer reveals the controversial Alec Baldwin 'Rust' shooting joke she wasn't allowed to make at the Oscars
"I wasn't allowed to say any of that [at the Oscars], but you can just come up and [slap] someone," she reportedly said at an April 2 comedy show.
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- Amy Schumer shared a controversial "Rust" joke she said her lawyer told her not to say at the Oscars.
- She had written a joke about the accidental on-set shooting that left one person dead.
- She told it at an April 2 standup comedy show in Las Vegas, which The Hollywood Reporter covered.
Amy Schumer revealed she wasn't allowed to make a controversial joke about the "Rust" shooting during the Oscars last month, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
In an April 2 standup comedy show in Las Vegas that The Hollywood Reporter covered, Schumer said her lawyer advised her not to say a list of jokes at the 94th annual Academy Awards, which she cohosted alongside Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall.
"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 said before running through the jokes for a live crowd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"'Don't Look Up' is the name of a movie? More like don't look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin's shotgun," Schumer said, according to the magazine. "I wasn't allowed to say any of that, but you can just come up and [clock] someone."
Schumer was referring to an incident on the set of the movie "Rust" last year, when Baldwin fired a gun that he didn't know contained live ammo while rehearsing a scene, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.
Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars stage after the comedian made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith's bald head. Pinkett Smith was diagnosed with alopecia, a hair loss condition, and has been open about how it's affected her.
"It was just a fucking bummer," Schumer said of the slapping incident, The Hollywood Reporter said. "All I can say is that it was really sad, and I think it says so much about toxic masculinity."
As previously reported by Insider, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launched a formal investigation after the slapping incident and later sent a letter to its members that its leadership was "upset and outraged" over Smith slapping Rock during the Oscars.
Amid the Academy's disciplinary investigation, Smith resigned from the Academy. The actor, who also took home the best actor trophy during the awards ceremony, apologized to Rock, the Academy, his fellow nominees, and the Williams family, whose story he helped portray in his Oscar-winning role in "King Richard."
Meanwhile, Rock hasn't spoken openly about the incident, only mentioning in a stand-up comedy show in Boston that he's "still processing" what happened to him on Oscars Sunday.
"So at some point, I'll talk about that shit," he said last week. "It'll be serious. It'll be funny, but right now I'm going to tell some jokes."