Amy Schumer said Will Smith‘s Oscars slap is ‘Just a f***ing bummer’ in her first public appearance since last weekend’s awards show shock.
Schumer was doing stand-up Saturday night at the Mirage Theater in Las Vegas as part of the club’s Aces of Comedy series.
The ‘Trainwreck’ star, 40, said she had been feeling good about how the ceremony was going up to that point.
Schumer said: ‘I was kind of like, feeling myself. I was like, ‘Oooh, somebody’s monologue went well.
Schumer, pictured during the Oscars opening monologue, said she had been feeling confident‘And then all of a sudden Ali [the boxer Smith played in 2001] was making his way up.
‘And it was just a f***ing bummer. All I can say is that it was really sad, and I think it says so much about race, about toxic masculinity. It’s just everything.’
She first joked: ‘I don’t know if you saw this but Will Smith slapped. Did you read that in your news feed?’, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In an Instagram post days after the Oscars, Schumer said she was ‘triggered and traumatized’
And Schumer added more seriously: ‘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 went on to target James Franco and Joe Rogan in jokes she said she wasn’t allowed to tell during the Oscars ceremony itself.
She also sniped Alec Baldwin: ”Don’t Look Up’ is the name of a movie, more like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun.’
A few days after the Oscars, Schumer had said she still felt ‘triggered and traumatized’ by the slap.
In an Instagram post Wednesday morning she joked people should watch her new Hulu show Life and Beth in order to ‘unpack what happened’, before sharing a more serious perspective.
Schumer wrote: ‘Still triggered and traumatized. I love my friend @chrisrock and believe he handled it like a pro. Stayed up there and gave an Oscar to his friend @questlove and the whole thing was so disturbing.
‘So much pain in @willsmith anyway I’m still in shock and stunned and sad.
‘I’m proud of myself and my cohosts. But yeah. Waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed.’
Meanwhile co-host Wanda Sykes told Ellen she wanted Will Smith to be kicked out.
Sykes said: ‘For them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award…. I was like, ‘How gross is this?’ she said.
‘This is just the wrong message. You assault somebody, you get escorted out of the building, and that’s it.
‘But for them to let him continue, I thought it was gross. I wanted to be able run out after he won and say, ‘Unfortunately, Will couldn’t be here tonight…’
Regina Hall still hasn’t weighed in on the incident in the eight days since.
After days of heated conversation, Will Smith resigned from the Academy last Friday.
Smith said: ‘The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home.
‘I betrayed the trust of the Academy. I deprived other nominees and winners of their opportunity to celebrate and be celebrated for their extraordinary work. I am heartbroken.’
The Academy said it has accepted Smith’s ‘immediate resignation’ and will ‘continue to move forward’ with its disciplinary proceedings against him for violations of the group’s standards of conduct.
Smith’s resignation came two days after the organization met to initiate the disciplinary hearings.
The Best Actor winner is set for a ‘D-Day’ hearing with the Academy on April 18 where he will find out ‘if he still has an Oscar – and a career’, an insider said.
Chris Rock has not made any public comment about the slap, saying he is ‘still processing’ the incident.
He told a Boston crowd during a stand-up gig: ‘So, how was your weekend?’
Rock continued: ‘I don’t have a bunch of s*** to say about that, so if you came here for that…
‘I’m still processing what happened, so at some point I’ll talk about that s***. It’ll be serious. It’ll be funny, but right now I’m going to tell some jokes.’
Straight after the incident, actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner tweeted: ‘Will Smith owes Chris Rock a huge apology. There is no excuse for what he did.
‘He’s lucky Chris is not filing assault charges. The excuses he made tonight were bulls**t.’
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill dubbed it the ‘ugliest Oscar moment ever’ and Alec Baldwin tweeted a message of support for Rock, saying: ‘I’m sorry the Oscars turned into the Jerry Springer show.’
