Amy Schumer pulled a raunchy stunt to get a laugh from Jimmy Buffett’s grieving widow at his memorial dinner.
The tropical rocker died of skin cancer last September at the age of 76, leaving behind his wife Jane, whom he had been married to for 45 years.
When Jane walked into her late husband’s memorial dinner, Amy approached her to offer her condolences – but with a jaw-dropping twist.
Jerry Seinfeld’s daughter Sascha, who is a writer on Amy’s show Life & Beth, told the wild anecdote at the Variety Power Of Women Event this week, per Page Six.
Introducing Amy onstage, Sascha revealed Amy’s saucy prank – and said it successfully ‘cut right through the darkness and made everyone smile.’
Amy Schumer pulled a riotously raunchy stunt to get a laugh from Jimmy Buffett’s grieving widow at his memorial dinner; pictured behind the scenes of her film Unfrosted
The tropical rocker died of skin cancer last September at the age of 76, leaving behind his wife Jane, whom he had been married to for 45 years; the couple are pictured in 2016
Sascha shared: ‘Last summer at a memorial dinner for the late, great Jimmy Buffett, when his widow Jane Buffett entered the room of grieving guests, Amy took one of her t**s out, walked right up to Jane, and gave her a huge hug,’
The 23-year-old noted: ‘It cut right through the darkness and made everyone smile. If that isn’t a celebration of life, I don’t know what is.’
Amy then approached Jimmy’s 31-year-old daughter Delaney and said by way of consolation: ‘If it makes you feel any better, I wish my dad was dead.’
Thrown this Thursday in New York, the Power Of Women event featured Amy amid a string of honorees including Shonda Rhimes, Anitta and Mariska Hargitay.
The fete comes after Amy addressed the comments she received about her ‘puffy face,’ which was caused by the hormonal disorder Cushing’s syndrome.
Amy, 42, announced her diagnosis in February, after fans raised concerns about her appearance and made her realize ‘something was wrong.’
Her condition means that her body has been producing too much cortisol – also known as the stress hormone – over an extended period of time.
Now she has spoken candidly about overcoming her self-consciousness after social media users pointed out the changes to her face.
Jerry Seinfeld’s daughter Sascha (right), who is a writer on Amy’s show Life & Beth, told the wild anecdote at the Variety Power Of Women Event this week (pictured), per Page Six
Introducing Amy onstage, Sascha revealed Amy’s saucy prank – and said it successfully ‘cut right through the darkness and made everyone smile’
Amy also told Jimmy’s 31-year-old daughter Delaney: ‘If it makes you feel any better, I wish my dad was dead’; Delaney is pictured with her parents in 2018
‘The people who like me are not going to care if my face is puffy. Everyone has moments of self-doubt. I rose up and was like: “F*** it, let’s go,”‘ she told Variety.
Amy faced a deluge of social media comments about her looks in February, after she made multiple public appearances with her face appearing swollen.
In response to the remarks she received, she decided to disclose that she had been diagnosed with Cushing’s syndrome.
‘It has been a crazy couple weeks for me and my family,’ she told journalist Jessica Yellin on her Substack page News Not Noise.
‘Aside from fears about my health, I also had to be on camera having the internet chime in. But thank God for that. Because that’s how I realized something was wrong,’ the I Feel Pretty star noted.
Amy recently addressed the comments she received about her ‘puffy face,’ caused by the hormonal disorder Cushing’s syndrome; pictured on the Tonight Show in February
‘While I was doing press on camera for my Hulu show, I was also in MRI machines four hours at a time, having my veins shut down from the amount of blood drawn and thinking I may not be around to see my son grow up.’
Amy shares a four-year-old son called David with her husband, chef Chris Fischer, whom she has been married to since 2018.
‘So finding out I have the kind of Cushing that will just work itself out and I’m healthy was the greatest news imaginable,’ she said.
She decided to go public with her illness in order to be an ‘advocate for women’s health,’ and because the ‘shaming and criticism of our ever-changing bodies is something I have dealt with and witnessed for a long time.’
The Trainwreck star pointed out that her Cushing’s syndrome could serve as ‘a good example of the fact that we never know what is going on with someone.’
