“What can I even say about him?” she asked. “He’s done so much to fight climate change and leave behind a cleaner, greener planet for his girlfriends. Because he’s older. And they’re younger. OK, you get it.”
star as a “legendary comedian with something I don’t have called charisma.” And while Schumer can certainly be divisive, she was able to deliver some undeniably hard jokes at the expense of the Hollywood crowd, especially when she returned for her own solo monologue before the first awards were handed out.
“I’m Amy Schumer—or as they know me in Hollywood, ‘Melissa McCarthy said no,’” the comedian said. But after a few more self-deprecating jokes she turned her attention to some of the most powerful celebrities in the room. “After years of Hollywood ignoring women’s stories, this year we finally got a movie about the incredible Williams sisters’... dad,” she joked., she added, “I guess the Academy members don’t look up reviews.”
Then, after a quick dig at her good friend Jennifer Lawrence, Schumer highlighted the work of her co-star in that film, Leonardo DiCaprio. , Schumer praised writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s “innovation to make a movie about Lucille Ball without even a moment that’s funny,” adding, “It’s like making a biopic about Michael Jordan and just showing the bus trips between games.”finishing the bit by telling the audience, “My plan for tonight is to be present as hell… until I black out.
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