“I don’t know if you saw that, but Will Smith slapped Chris Rock,” Amy Schumer told the crowd at her first post-Oscar stand-up gig over the weekend, shocking no one. “Did you read that in your newsfeed?”
The comic book and Oscars co-host did little to hide her disappointment with Smith, whom Vanity Fair said she referred to as “Ali” during her show. Smith played Ali in a 2001 Muhammad Ali biopic.
Schumer, who was performing at the Mirage Theater in Las Vegas on Saturday, said, “I kind of felt like myself … and then all of a sudden Ali made his way upstairs. And it was just a damn shame. 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 us would be if I said the Oscar jokes that I wasn’t allowed to say on TV.”
Schumer then began a series of jokes, which she said as a comic setup, had been banned by attorneys during the Oscars broadcast. The jokes, some of which referred to Joe Rogan and James Franco, included one about filming on the Rust set. “Don’t Look Up is the name of a movie? Better not look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun,” she said.
“I wasn’t allowed to say any of this, but you can just come up and [slap] someone,” she quipped.