Amy Schumer Reached Out to Leonardo DiCaprio For Oscars Joke, Received Death Threats Over Kirsten Dunst Bit | THR News - video Dailymotion

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During her Wednesday appearance on 'The Howard Stern Show,' the Academy Awards co-host revealed the stories behind some of her memorable moments during the ceremony.

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00:00I did reach out to people that I was going to joke about before and make sure it was okay with them.

00:05Amy Schumer says stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Venus and Serena Williams, and Kirsten Dunst

00:10approved her Oscars jokes about them ahead of time.

00:12During an interview on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show,

00:15the comedian in 2022 Oscars co-host revealed why she cleared her jokes with their targets before the show.

00:21I've been burned too many times, and I didn't want the camera to cut to somebody looking sad,

00:26so I told the Williams sisters, told Will.

00:29Here's the King Richard joke Schumer is referring to.

00:43DiCaprio was another subject of one of the co-host's punchlines.

00:46Schumer told radio host Howard Stern she also cleared that comment with the actor.

00:59She went on to open up to Stern about the bit she did with Jesse Plemons and Dunst,

01:14where she pretended not to recognize the actress and called her a seat filler.

01:17We all worked that out together.

01:20I got death threats.

01:22I got the Secret Service reached out to me.

01:25They were so bad that the Secret Service reached out to me.

01:28Dunst took to social media to confirm that the whole thing was a bit she was in on

01:32due to the amount of threats Schumer received from angry viewers.

01:35For more on this story, go to THR.com.

01:37For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

01:40For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

01:44For The Hollywood Reporter News.

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