Joke stealing is without doubt one of the worst offenses attainable within the comedy world, however would Amy Schumer actually be so daring to do it on the Oscars stage?
As a matter of reality, joke stealing allegations have adopted Amy as her star has risen through the years. She’s at all times been adamant that her work is authentic — however on this case, her protection seems to be that this joke wasn’t authentic (in that it didn’t originate from her). Right here’s the quip that’s come beneath query, a roast of Leonardo DiCaprio:
“He has completed a lot to combat local weather change and go away behind a cleaner, greener planet for his girlfriends.”
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The dig intently resembles a viral tweet from 2021 (though we must always level out, even in that case, one of many replies included a TikTok of one other extraordinarily comparable Leo joke).
— gabbi “gabbi boyd” boyd (@GabbiBoyd) December 24, 2021
Throughout a latest look on Watch What Occurs Stay, the comic shut down any suggestion that she’d lifted the joke from social media. She mentioned:
“OK. Nicely, I wish to say, I haven’t personally been on Twitter. I’ve had my assistant do it, simply so I can stay alive and never kill myself. And in addition, that joke was written by Suli McCullough.”
Tough stuff to be throwing one other author beneath the bus, but it surely’s additionally no shock that she didn’t write it herself. It’s frequent follow to have a workforce of writers offering materials for the Oscars hosts. (The jokes she did write for the present have been much more controversial, and in the end minimize.) The presenters get a script too, after all, though typically they might go off e-book… to combined outcomes.
The 40-year-old then defended her popularity basically, saying:
“However I thanks guys, at all times, for ensuring that I don’t begin thievery. I simply obtained to do a lie-detector take a look at on Self-importance Truthful and yhey requested me, thank God, ‘Have you ever ever stolen a joke?’ and I mentioned no, and it was ‘that’s true.’ So, everyone simply chill. It’s loopy. I’m humorous sufficient, I don’t must steal s**t.”
Amy truly pledged to take a polygraph on joke stealing manner again in 2016, when accusations of stealing jokes from fellow feminine comics made headlines. (For the document, lie detector checks are literally notoriously unreliable, however that’s a dialog for a unique day!)
We will’t converse to Amy’s full profession, however the Leo joke is fairly run-of-the-mill, so we’re undoubtedly keen to offer her a cross on that one. Host Andy Cohen actually held her toes to the hearth on some controversial topics, nevertheless, occurring to ask her about Louis C.Ok.’s latest Grammy win. She replied:
“I don’t suppose it feels good. It doesn’t really feel good. I feel it doesn’t really feel good.”
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In fact, she additionally dished on the notorious Will Smith/Chris Rock slap, sharing:
“I’ll simply say, I used to be backstage, and I knew I needed to exit… and it actually felt just like the State of affairs Room of comedy. We have been all simply watching the monitor, after which he gained… Everybody was simply type of floored – the entire thing. And I used to be simply considering, what am I going to do once I go on the market? … It actually modified the air within the room!”
The momma of 1 additionally revealed that she had donated her (apparently meager) $15,000 earnings for the internet hosting gig to Deliberate Parenthood. We’ve to offer her props for that!
Ch-ch-check out extra of her WWHL look (under):
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