Amy Schumer was banned from telling this joke at the Oscars

Let me start by saying that I was never really the biggest fan of Amy Schumer, but since today I am even further removed from that. I have never found her really funny, and the times I did chuckle a bit, she had stolen the jokes. Awkward.

Amy Schumer is now just a household name in Hollywood, so no one was surprised that she was one of the hosts at the Oscars. That evening she made a joke about Kirsten Dunst that went down pretty well with the audience: she was sitting next to her husband Jesse Plemons when Amy asked her to stand up for a moment. Schumer mistook her for a seat filler (which, let's be honest, is really the coolest side job ever) and wanted to chat with the actor she actually knew: her husband.

Amy Schumer received quite a bit of criticism for that and the next day she released a statement saying that both Plemons and Dunst were aware of the joke and were just playing along very well. Thank goodness.

But Amy had more to say about the Oscars, which of course were mainly focused on The Slap from Will Smith. Because yes, that certainly didn't escape her notice. After the awards, she said in a now-deleted Instagram post that she was ‘triggered and traumatized’ by the whole incident.

But hey, the show must go on, and so do Amy Schumer's normal activities like her stand-up comedy shows this weekend. There she also discussed the incident, referred to Will Smith as ‘Ali’ (after his role as boxer Muhammed Ali) and told a joke on stage that she claimed she wasn't allowed to tell at the Oscars: that was forbidden for her.

‘It [The Slap from Will Smith, ed.] was really upsetting, but I think the best way to comfort ourselves would be for me to say the Oscar jokes that I wasn’t allowed to say on TV,’ she began. ‘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 continued. Side note: if you have to ask your audience not to get mad, maybe you shouldn't tell the joke, right?

Well, the joke was as follows: ‘Don’t Look Up is the name of a movie? More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun.’ Wow. Okay. ‘I wasn’t allowed to say any of that, but you can just come up and slap someone.’

That Will Smith used violence in response to a misplaced joke, I think the majority disapproves of that. But this joke? I find that quite disgusting, you know. In case you missed it: Alec Baldwin shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his new film Rust, who later died from her injuries. Everyone on set thought it was not a real gun, but it turned out to be otherwise.

As far as I'm concerned, it was a good move by Schumer's lawyer to boycott this joke, but it's not very smart to tell it a week later anyway. I'm curious if anyone in the audience laughed at it, but I guess not.