Amy Schumer says she received death threats after Oscars

Comedy star Amy Schumer, targeted on social media because of a comedy bit she did at the Oscars ceremony she co-hosted last month, says that both the U.S. Secret Service and the Los Angeles Police Department have warned her that she has received death threats.

"I did a bit with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons that was completely orchestrated," the Rockville Centre-raised Schumer, 40, said Wednesday on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show. "We talked beforehand," she assured of herself and the two Oscar-nominated stars of "The Power of the Dog."

Schumer had gone into the audience to pretend Dunst was one of the seat fillers who momentarily occupy a seat when a star steps away. When Schumer took Dunst's place, Plemons leaned over and told her, "You know that was my wife?" Responded Schumer, "You're married to that seat filler?" (Dunst and Plemons, who became engaged in 2017 and have two children together, have not publicly revealed whether they have married.)

"The joke was that I was pretending like I thought she was a seat filler, and we all worked that out together," Schumer told Stern. Yet while apparently obvious to most viewers, the routine sparked a backlash against the comic for seemingly disrespecting Dunst — to the point, Schumer said, that, "I got death threats. The Secret Service reached out to me. They [the threats] were so bad that the Secret Service reached out to ... [me] about that bit. I'm, like, 'Oh, I think you have the wrong number … .' 'No. You are getting death threats.' "

The Roosevelt and Rockville Centre-raised Stern, 68, seemed incredulous. "Really? The Secret Service?" he asked.

"The Secret Service, the LAPD, because they were that serious and that many," Schumer continued. "And they called me and they were, like, 'Did you make fun of Kirsten Dunst at the Oscars?' I was, like, 'Yes, Kirsten [and I], we worked that out.' "  Schumer soon after the Oscars ceremony already had explained on Instagram Stories, where posts cycle out after 24 hours, "Hey I appreciate the love for Kirsten Dunst. I love her too! That was a choreographed bit she was in on. Wouldn't disrespect that queen like that."

The Los Angeles Police Department did not respond to a Newsday request for confirmation. The Secret Service would not respond on the record, but steered an inquiry to 18 U.S. Code § 3056. It delineates the agency's duties and powers and makes no provisions for warning anyone of such threats other than designated individuals such as the president and other political leaders and their families.

'LIFE' GOES ON Schumer's semiautobiographical Hulu series "Life & Beth" has been renewed for a second 10-episode season, the streaming service announced Wednesday. Written and directed primarily by Schumer, who also serves as an executive producer, the seriocomedy follows a Manhattan wine distributor (Schumer) who falls for an autistic farmer (Michael Cera). Michael Rapaport also stars.

As well on Wednesday, Schumer announced on social media that the previously announced season 5 of her 2013-16 Comedy Central sketch-comedy series "Inside Amy Schumer" had begun filming for its new home, the streamer Paramount+.