Amy Adams demonstrated one of the first rules of comedy: know your audience.
Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Seth Meyers joins fellow “SNL” alums Andy Samberg, Akiva Shafer and Jorma Taccone on “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast” Take your time, break The song is from a 2008 episode hosted by Adams.
While discussing the song, Samberg revealed that he originally had other ideas for the week's digital short, but Adams declined to participate.
“I won't go into details, but it was a song that could have been a duet between me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty,” he explained.
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Amy Adams turned down a “very dirty” music sketch with Andy Samberg when she hosted SNL in 2008. (Kevin Winter/Georgia/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)
“I won't say what the premise was, but basically it was like we're both very old and we're having a picnic. [an] A couple of elderly people, and one of us got stung by a scorpion. And I'm dying, and the thing I mourn on my death bed is that we didn't explore more sexual things in our lives, and this is this huge anthem about that. ”
He continued, “We played the beginning of the song for her and read a lot of the lyrics, and she thought it was very funny, and as usual she It was so kind. We love Amy. She's a genius, and she was like, 'That's really funny. Little girls are into Enchanted right now, and it's going to hurt them, and you can't mix that right now. ”
Instead, the team came up with a sketch “Hero Song” Samberg is featured as a would-be vigilante hero similar to Batman in The Dark Knight. As the sketch progresses, he stops Adams' character from being robbed, but is then beaten by the robber.
Samberg said Adams thought the skit was “really funny,” but had to turn it down out of respect for young fans of “Enchanted,” which was released a few months before the show he hosted on “SNL.” He said he didn't get it. (Jesse Grant/Kar-wai Tan)
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“When I went out to film 'Hero Song,' within five minutes, a mother and a little girl walked up to me, and I saw the look on that little girl's face when she saw Amy Adams, and I was like, 'Oh! She was absolutely right,''' Samberg said.
“She said, 'That's really funny. I can't do it. Little girls are obsessed with Enchanted right now.'
“And that was very educational for me. I never thought about that in our work. You know what I mean? I mean, she actually has those things. She had a duty and a responsibility to her children, and she took that really seriously.'' I remember being really touched by that. ”
Samberg said he “remembers being really impressed” with Adams' decision to omit the sketch out of “responsibility” to young “Enchanted” fans. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
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Representatives for Adams did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the proposed sketch.
Adams, seen here with Kristen Wiig, hosted the show again in 2014. (Dana Edelson/NBCU Photobank/NBCUniversal, via Getty Images, via Getty Images)
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Adams returned to host the show in 2014.
