Amy Schumer Roasted After Bemoaning She Couldn't Deliver Alec Baldwin Joke At Oscars

It's been a rough 10 days for Amy Schumer after her turn as co-host at the 2022 Academy Awards. Even before the slap dominated the post-Oscars discussion, Schumer was reportedly in hot water for calling Kirsten Dunst a "seat-filler" in an uncomfortable moment. She also faced allegations that she plagiarized some of her jokes from Twitter, adding to her long history of alleged joke plagiarism.

Apparently not content to put the Oscars behind her, Schumer returned to the standup comedy world with more jokes about the ceremony, earning her a fresh round of backlash from her critics.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schumer addressed the slap by saying, "I was kind of feeling myself … and then all of a sudden Ali was making his way up,” referencing Smith's role as Muhammad Ali in the 2001 film Ali. "And it was just a fucking 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."

Though referring to Will Smith as the boxer Muhammad Ali would have almost certainly caused controversy, it was her "cut" jokes that caused her to trend on Twitter, particularly one referring to Alec Baldwin's accidental fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchens on the set of Rust.

"Don’t Look Up is the name of a movie? More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun," went Schumer's joke. "I wasn’t allowed to say any of that [at the Oscars], but you can just come up and [slap] someone."

After the joke was singled out by the Twitter account for Discussing Film, many on Twitter expressed their extreme disgust at Schumer's joke about the tragedy.

While the subject matter of the joke was deemed unfit for the Academy Awards, others noted that on its own, Schumer's joke is not particularly funny, as Don't Look Up and the Halyna Hutchins tragedy have nothing to do with each other. Schumer merely said two things that happened in the past year in the same sentence.

Instead, the joke was punched up to mock the tepid response to Don't Look Up, ultimately reading, "Don’t Look Up is nominated. I guess the Academy members don’t look up reviews!"