Amy Schumer Calls Will Smith “Ali” During Stand-Up Show, Makes Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Joke
deadline.com“I don’t know if you saw this, but Will Smith slapped Chris Rock,” Amy Schumer told the crowd at her first post-Oscars stand-up gig over the weekend, shocking no one. “Did you read that in your newsfeed?”The comic and Oscar co-host did little to hide her disappointment in Smith, whom she referred to as “Ali” during her show, according to Vanity Fair.
Smith starred in a 2001 Muhammad Ali biopic Ali.Appearing Saturday at Las Vegas’s Mirage Theatre, Schumer said, “I was kind of feeling myself…and then all of a sudden, Ali was making his way up.
And it was just a f*cking bummer. All I can say is that it was really sad, and I think it says so much about toxic masculinity.
It 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.”Schumer then launched into a series of jokes that, she said by way of comic set-up, she had been forbidden by lawyers to tell during the Oscar broadcast.
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